Originally posted by dixiechick:
This is my understanding, yes you can eat at La Veranda on formal nights without being formal. But, after 6 pm, the rest of the ship is formal, including the lounges. So you need to sneek up to La Veranda in your informal/elegant casual wear and then back to your cabin after dinner, silly but true. This was my recent experience on Mariner.
I was under the impression that formal dress was only in the 3 restaurants after 6 pm and did not pertain to the lounges or casino. On the Mariner Alaskan cruise in Sept. '09, we did not have any formal nights but saw every kind of dress, esp. Prime 7, where we dined the first evening. Men were wearing turtleneck sweaters and, heaven forbid, "golf shirts". I was exhausted after a long airline trip and probably many others were as well but they were not asked to leave and it never bothers me what people choose to wear. Some folks in the lounges were wearing jeans and they were nicely dressed.... just my observation..
