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注意! 注意! 注意! 自從這篇文章在7月8日被發表了，名人更新了他們 網頁 去除詞「牛仔褲」從正式服裝他們的名單為聰明的偶然夜。 它似乎詞「牛仔褲」的包括是錯誤在網站部分。 名人在飯廳任何時候不會正式地允許牛仔褲。

正式詞現在來自名人關於對他們的食物和飲料節目和他們新的著裝條例的變動。 名人網頁 現在有張貼的新的著裝條例。

我們也附有了名人的拷貝介紹在那之下展開到一些他們的精華上尉的俱樂部會員關於變動或改進對食物和飲料節目的電源插座。

首先，我將評論對食物和飲料變動。 名人廢除他們的「午夜叮咬」服務在船中在午夜附近，并且用夜宵替換他們在Cova咖啡館。 他們也廢除改為投入在節目早午餐的節目午夜自助餐和意志。 他們增加一個特別食品供應招待會作為，在黨為新的「名人-之後擔任主角您」授予介紹。 他們在自助餐區域和水池旁邊格柵也宣佈了更多品種和駐地。 為更多細節在這些新的食物和飲料初次公開展出取樂以上附上名人電源插座介紹。

這些變動似乎是相當正面的。 盛大自助餐現在將是在天而不是午夜的一個更加容易接近的小時。 然而，當這頓盛大自助餐在正式夜被提出了，并且人們保持為事件正式穿戴，它給了它非常典雅的氣氛。 某些一頓盛大自助餐的氣氛將是移動丟失的位它向早午餐時間。 As for my opinions on the new regular buffet enhancements, I usually don’t eat at the buffet very often on Celebrity, perhaps because the cafeteria style lines made it inefficient. The stations should provide for better flow, much like what I’ve heard works well on sister line Royal Caribbean. They will also be offering more variety at the pool side grill, which interests me as I am not really big on burgers and fries. Perhaps the event that peaked my interest the most is the new “Starring You” after party. This sounds like a fun event and will add a new special evening experience on Celebrity.

Along with the food and beverage announcements, Celebrity also announced that they will start a new evening dress code through-out the ships beginning August 1st. Two big changes will be contained in the new dress code: No More “Informal Nights” and jeans will now be allowed in the dining room on casual night. They will still retain formal nights as “special” evenings on Celebrity.

Their announcement cited the following statistics as the reasons for their change to the dress codes. They only had about 30% compliance with the code on informal night. That number seems much lower than the the properly dressed passengers I have observed on my many Celebrity cruises. I would say that about 80% of the people were dressed according to the code on the informal nights on my cruises. Perhaps this was because most of my Celebrity cruises have been 11 days or longer. Longer cruises are said to have a higher percentage of passengers who conform to the dress code. Celebrity does say that they have about 80% of their passengers dressing up for formal nights. They have pledged to continue the tradition of these formal evenings and provide suitable alternatives for those who do not wish to dress up. However, the announcements seems to indicate that the formal dress code will only be in place in the dining room and not enforced in other areas of the ship where the “smart casual or better” dress code will be the prevailing dress code for the ship.

I won’t get to experience the new dress code in person until November, so I’ll reserve my final judgment on the changes until that time. My initial thoughts are that the change to the prevailing “smart casual or better” evening dress code won’t make too much difference. People were already changing into more casual clothes after dinner anyway. I never did understand that concept, but I’ve often seen people who change none the less. I prefer to enjoy all my formal night activities in my nice clothes. The allowance of jeans in the dining room did take me by surprise. Celebrity has never officially allowed jeans in the dining room at any time. I’d see a few here and there, but for the most part people dressed more elegantly even on the casual nights. I hate to say it, but I feel allowing jeans is lowering the standards on the ship and will make cruising a less special experience for our family.

For the most part, my family has enjoyed dressing-up more on a cruise than we do in our everyday life in rural Arizona. Buying special clothes for the kids has never broken the bank either. There are plenty of places like Walmart, Ebay and thrift stores where I’ve found nice kids clothes like khakis, blazers and dresses for very reasonable prices. We still plan to continue to dress up a bit on casual evenings, though now it won’t be strictly required. I am personally a bit disappointed at the addition of jeans to the acceptable evening attire list, but understand that many people will be relieved to not have to dress up so much. Just remember that lightweight slacks will take up less space and weigh less than a pair of jeans.

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