While cruises are generally getting more casual in terms of dress codes, and all ships offer some sort of casual dining option nightly, there is still opportunity to show off your finery. Those who love dressing up will especially enjoy formal nights — when men are encouraged to wear tuxes and women equally fancy attire.
Dress to impress on these cruise lines.
Voyages of Discovery: Anglophile passengers on the 540-passenger mv Voyager like formality. Even on less formal nights you'll find men wearing jackets and ties to dinner. During much-anticipated cocktail parties and galas on formal nights you'll find most women in ball gowns and men in tuxes.
Crystal: This luxury line recently relaxed its dress code, but the Crystal crowd likes glitz and it shows on Black Tie Optional nights (one on 7- to 10-day cruises) when men wear dark suits or tuxedos and women get glammed up in fancy cocktail dresses or gowns. Men also wear jackets on nights deemed casually elegant (ties optional).
Seabourn: On any night, even casual ones, the well-heeled crowd is apt to display designer-wear and impressive jewelry. On Formal Optional nights (one per 7- to 13-day cruise) the finery quotient is upped a notch. Many men wear tuxes and women formal cocktail attire. On "elegantly casual" nights men are asked to wear a jacket; jeans (even good designer ones) are not appropriate in The Restaurant.
Celebrity , Holland America , Princess: These premium lines all have two formal nights on weeklong cruises. The level of formality depends on where you are cruising — Alaska tends to be more casual, Europe more formal — but on all of these lines you're likely in the main restaurant to see most ladies in cocktail dresses or nice pantsuits and men in dark suits with ties. Do pack the gown or tux for these lines if you have one.
Cunard: After surveying past passengers, Cunard last year came to the conclusion that this is a crowd that gleefully anticipates dressing up. The ships host three formal nights on weeklong transatlantic crossings, two on other 7-day itineraries. Sparkling cocktail dresses and ball gowns and tuxes or white dinner jackets are the order of the day (though dark suits are acceptable). Other nights of the cruise are "informal," with men required to wear jackets, ties optional.
Disney: Disney Cruise Line recently relaxed its dress code to allow shorts in dining rooms on casual nights. But that doesn't mean families don't dress up onboard. There's one formal night and one semi-formal night on 7-day cruises and a popular activity is getting a family portrait while everyone is looking nice and presentable — men/boys in dress pants with a jacket or suit and women/girls in party dresses or nice pantsuit outfits.
Fred Olsen Cruise Lines: Passengers on this British line "dress to impress" on formal nights, according to the line's website. Men opt for a dinner jacket or dark suit and tie, while women wear cocktail attire or gowns. On other evenings the dress code is loose, but many men opt for a jacket and tie.
Hapag-Lloyd: The highbrow crowd on this German line's Europa and Hanseatic dresses for dinner, men wearing a jacket even on casual nights and nearly everyone doing black tie on formal nights and gala events. On the new Europa 2, where the dress code is always smart casual, men are encouraged to wear jackets at night, and women corresponding attire.
P&O Cruises: Black-tie is taken seriously by passengers of this British cruise line. During formal balls (up to four on a 14-day cruise) men wear white dinner jackets or tuxes or military uniforms and women tend towards gowns. Men are required to wear a jacket on "smart" dress evenings and some will wear a jacket on casual nights as well.
Silversea: On formal nights (one on cruises of less than 10 days) on this ultra-luxury line, fancy cocktail dresses or gowns, sparkly jewelry and tuxes and dinner jackets are on full display. On casual evenings the crowd loosens up a bit (while still remaining posh). On "informal" evenings, women usually wear dresses or nice pantsuit outfits while men wear jackets (tie optional).
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