What's your biggest pet peeve when cruising?

"LeeNY" wrote in message
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On Sep 22, 1:10 pm, "Tobie Gerbrandt" wrote:
How about the photographers set up all over the ship. The
set-ups and the
lines waiting to have their pictures done block the flow of
traffic. This
is particularly bad when a person is in a wheelchair.

I find it annoying that you have to go through the photographer
gauntlet each time you disembark in port. They should have two
lines -
one for those that would like to have their picture taken, and one
for
those that would rather get going on whatever they've planned for
their day in port, without delay!

Lee

Amen to this Lee! I have absolutely no desire to have my picture
taken again standing behind a sign saying "Welcome to St. Thomas", or
wherever. All that does is slow down the process for the rest. Just
let me get off of the ship!

Dean in Peoria

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:45:38 -0500, "Jr." wrote:

My pet peeve: (and I guess this is minor to others) Not dressing for formal
nights. We see people being admitted to the dining room in Dockers and
pull-over shirts. No jacket, no tie, no nothing.


How does what other people wear to dinner have any impact on your
cruise experience?

In article , Cathy
wrote:

How does what other people wear to dinner have any impact on your
cruise experience?

What people wear does affect the ambiance.

I think people should wear the requested formal dress on formal nights
but it is not a peeve of mine if they don't. It does not set off any
strong emotion to me if they are not wearing formal dress. Nor does it
matter to me if people are admitted to the dining room or refused entry
to the dining room that are wearing less than formal dress.

--
Charles

If you can't dress for dinner, you have no class and should be doing a bus
tour of the Osarks!
"Charles" wrote in message
d...
In article , Cathy
wrote:

How does what other people wear to dinner have any impact on your
cruise experience?

What people wear does affect the ambiance.

I think people should wear the requested formal dress on formal nights
but it is not a peeve of mine if they don't. It does not set off any
strong emotion to me if they are not wearing formal dress. Nor does it
matter to me if people are admitted to the dining room or refused entry
to the dining room that are wearing less than formal dress.

--
Charles

On Sep 29, 10:11 am, "clint" wrote:
If you can't dress for dinner, you have no class and should be doing a bus
tour of the Osarks!"

or here ..

http://www.oursunhome.com/nude_cruise.html

I wonder how they dress for formal night ...

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:09:42 -0400, Charles
wrote:

In article , Cathy
wrote:

How does what other people wear to dinner have any impact on your
cruise experience?

What people wear does affect the ambiance.

I think people should wear the requested formal dress on formal nights
but it is not a peeve of mine if they don't. It does not set off any
strong emotion to me if they are not wearing formal dress. Nor does it
matter to me if people are admitted to the dining room or refused entry
to the dining room that are wearing less than formal dress.

I would think that "other people" disapproving of what people wear
affects the ambiance more than the choice of clothing does. I just
don't understand why anyone would let what someone else wears have any
impact whatsoever on their enjoyment of dinner or the cruise. It has
no direct affect on the fashionista, who is also free to make clothing
choices that others may or may not care for.

I would rather dine with a well-groomed, clean, well-mannered,
intelligent person in jeans and a t-shirt, than a smelly, drunk,
obnoxious cigar-smoking bore in his tux, accompanied by his perfumed,
botoxed, bleached, lifted and tucked bimbo wife with her implants
spilling over the top of her strapless Valentino! But hey...as long as
they dressed up!

I guess that's why I don't vacation with my in-laws

We don't dress in true formal attire as we don't own any. But we do
wear very dressy clothes, dark suit for my husband and long black skirt
& fancy top for me. I don't judge others and hope they don't judge me.
However on our last cruise it bothered me to see two young men in their
20's and sitting at different tables wear their baseball caps into the
dining room and keep them on throughout dinner. This took place every
night including formal nights. I felt sorry for these young men since
it appeared they had not been taught or didn't learn good manners. A
man should never wear his hat while seated at the table. Just MHO


~~DORY~~
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Standing in for Jean O'Boyle while she is on her Azamara cruise.

Wearing your hat in the dining room will "make the Blessed Virgin weep!"

Tobieon an Island in the Pacific

"Dory Samuels" wrote in message
...
We don't dress in true formal attire as we don't own any. But we do
wear very dressy clothes, dark suit for my husband and long black skirt
& fancy top for me. I don't judge others and hope they don't judge me.
However on our last cruise it bothered me to see two young men in their
20's and sitting at different tables wear their baseball caps into the
dining room and keep them on throughout dinner. This took place every
night including formal nights. I felt sorry for these young men since
it appeared they had not been taught or didn't learn good manners. A
man should never wear his hat while seated at the table. Just MHO


~~DORY~~
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Thought the same thing about a gentlman at our table,until we found out
that from cancer treatments his head was not nice to look at,so all was
forgiven


cruise lover

On 9/29/2007 9:08 AM Dean Worrell consulted a Magic 8 Ball and declared:
"LeeNY" wrote in message
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On Sep 22, 1:10 pm, "Tobie Gerbrandt" wrote:

How about the photographers set up all over the ship. The
set-ups and the
lines waiting to have their pictures done block the flow of
traffic. This
is particularly bad when a person is in a wheelchair.

I find it annoying that you have to go through the photographer
gauntlet each time you disembark in port. They should have two
lines -
one for those that would like to have their picture taken, and one
for
those that would rather get going on whatever they've planned for
their day in port, without delay!

Lee


Amen to this Lee! I have absolutely no desire to have my picture
taken again standing behind a sign saying "Welcome to St. Thomas", or
wherever. All that does is slow down the process for the rest. Just
let me get off of the ship!

Dean in Peoria



What's to stop you from saying "No Pictures Please..." and just walking
ahead? I've done it upon boarding, leaving the ship and other
situations where there is a line. If you say it with a smile, they
can't stop you and force you to be photographed against your will.

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