Originally posted by RaroGirl: You can go to dinner in shorts almost anywhere in California--there are no doubt some posh places where it wouldn't be allowed, but it is fine at most restaurants.
This is true. I went to a very fine steak restaurant in California about 18 months ago with a few friends. It was a special occasion and quite an expensive restaurant. We were clearly overdressed as everybody else was very casual - not shorts, but lots of jeans/tshirts.
Jeannie A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Chris, Who said anything about SHORTS. I merely said a tie is not required to go to dinner on a generic river cruise tour. Fine dinner casual works spendidly. If it's a special occasion like Christmas or New Years, of course folks are not nit wits and will pack accordingly. To me, wearing just a tie, without a jacket, is no different than being tie-less. If you wear a tie, a jacket goes with it; or, you look like you work at K-Mart or are the manager at Mc Donalds. Very few restaurants remain in the tristate area which require jacket and tie; and certainly never just tie. A white or black tie event-another story. To each his own I suppose.
As far as "dress codes or guidelines" for dinner in general, it comes with experience. One just knows where you CANNOT wear shorts to dine.
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Posts: 4799 | Location: Connecticut, USA | Registered: 30 January 2003
I have been on a couple of river boat cruises and the dress was very much casualduring most days of the cruise. I should mention that we went in November so shorts were never a problem. We did, some of us, dress up for the Captain's Welcome aboard party - for me, a sparkly top and a long black skirt - neither of which took up very nuch room in my suitcase. I wore the same thing for the farewell party. My husband wore a sports coat with a sweater - no tie- the couple with whom we travelled, she pretty much the same as me and he with a sports coat and a tie. None of us were out of place for the events.
Posts: 637 | Location: Saratoga Springs, New York | Registered: 04 August 2002
Thanks to all for your replies... I think that I will take one decent pair of black pants and 2 or 3 pretty blouses for dinners. That should do the trick.
Leonie.
Posts: 254 | Location: Pretoria | Registered: 02 January 2004
Originally posted by Mamo: We're doing the river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest in June. What is the dress code for men and women at dinner? Would like to hear from someone who has taken a river cruise. We are hoping you will let us know about your River cruise as we are going on one in Sept. thanks
To me, wearing just a tie, without a jacket, is no different than being tie-less.
In many parts of Asia a shirt, often short sleeved, and tie is considered normal "business" dress. Not wearing a tie would certainly entail a loss of face.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Posts: 1198 | Location: Thailand | Registered: 19 October 2000
Any tour that has or requires a so called dress code is a part of the past. They are obsolete.
Naming no names, or John will have me, but one United Kingdom based small ship cruise company states on its web site “Dress on board is casual and relaxed and there will no ‘black tie’ evenings. During the voyage there will be an evening or two when a jacket and tie are requested.”
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Posts: 1198 | Location: Thailand | Registered: 19 October 2000
It is my experience too that many cruise companies request that gentlemen wear a jacket and tie for a couple of "formal" occasions during the cruise. I don't suppose you'd be thrown overboard if you didn't do so, but to my mind, when your hosts request it, it is nothing more than common courtesy to your fellow passengers to honour that request.
Chris
Posts: 12127 | Location: Warrington, UK | Registered: 16 July 2001
I recall my wife and I attending a Captain's Cocktail Party on a cruise ship where a fellow tour comanion was refused attendance because he didn't have a coat and tie.
Posts: 2210 | Location: Newcastle Australia | Registered: 18 April 2004
I think people enjoy getting dressed up every now and then. On my cruise to Alaska we had two formal night on a seven night cruise, I would say that 99.9% of people dressed up, I vividly remember a Texan man looking very debonair in this dinnr suit and 10 gallon hat.
Missie
Posts: 7573 | Location: Adelaide South Australia | Registered: 30 April 2004
This is a slightly different topic but I have been watching Wimbledon and noted that there were many men in the crowd wearing suits and ties and women wearing suits as well. I guess there are some traditions that haven't changed.
Jeannie A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
"It is my experience too that many cruise companies request that gentlemen wear a jacket and tie for a couple of "formal" occasions during the cruise. I don't suppose you'd be thrown overboard if you didn't do so, but to my mind, when your hosts request it, it is nothing more than common courtesy to your fellow passengers to honour that request."
Q: What about the missing passengers from some of the tour ships? Maybe some were thrown overboard, as some are somewhere?
Posts: 1701 | Location: Orange County, CA | Registered: 27 May 2001
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