DID SOME MORE CHECKING TO DAY SO CHANGING THIS POST UP A LITTLE.

I was looking at my escorted cruises dress codes last night. My shortest cruise is TUT at 14 days the longest being LLAMA at 30 days.

My 14 night TUT and my 30 night LLAMA both have 3 formal nights and all the rest are casual.

So obviously the Welcome Aboard, Society Night, Farewell nights are FORMAL now and every other night is CASUAL. At least this is a consistent situation where you know what you can count on with each cruise. The Welcome Aboard is the second night out unless the itinerary makes that impossible, the Society night is in the middle of the cruise, and the Farewell is the second to last night.

It appears that the 7 night cruises are all casual and the 10 and 12 night cruises only have 2 Formals, with the society night being casual.

I want MORE casual LESS formal and to me this new dress code is doing JUST that. The informal was silly - just another night you had to wear a jacket.

It helps with packing. One suit or tux if you like and no other jacket required.

Those that like FORMAL night you get to dress up THREE nights - the same SPECIAL nights on each cruise 14 nights or more and TWO nights on 10 and 12 night cruises.

For all those casual night lovers you can count on all the other nights being your way - CASUAL.

Personally I still think it is heading in the MORE CASUAL mode rather than in a more FORMAL mode.