A dark suit is fine, but I would say 75% of men wore a Tux.

Also, what about the balcony cabins whithin the hull?

I recently had a hull-hole on deck six, and though it was fine! There was no real disadvatage. The cabin was very nice. I would book one again.

The Kings Court buffet on the QM2 is a casual dining area which you can drop into each evening, it has open seating - no dress code.

Dressing up for dinner is part of the Ocean Liner ‘Tradition’. Cunard are a more formal cruise line than many. In fact they are all about ‘Tradition’.

If you are not interested in dressing for dinner and maritime history, you have probably selected the wrong ship and wrong cruise line.

Although Cunard attract a variety of age groups, the average age must be over 50, I would guess. One again if you want a younger party crowd, and a mega-ship, best pick one of RCI’s ‘Voyager’ class ships.

Hope this helps?

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Originally posted by thevern:
Regardless of the restaurant 75% of men wore a tux?

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Sorry, no I was talking about the main dining room on formal nights. Some nights are not so formal:

For men:-
Casual = No jacket required, collared shirt with slacks is appropriate.

Formal = Tux [Alternatively a dark suit].

Informal = Jacket [tie optional] over a collared shirt.

Optional Formal = Tux [Alternatively a dark suit], or jacket [tie optional] over a collared shirt.

Dress codes are enforced in Britannia & Grill restaurants. By far the majority of people remained in their formal gear all evening, but as in the alternative restaurants the dress code is relaxed, there were some not in tuxes or dark suits on formal nights, but they were still smartly dressed.

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Originally posted by Sky Room:
I'd love to share some photos of my cabin that had a balcony cabin within the hull. The only problem is I do not know how to post them to the site. Can anyone help me out

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Sure, first thing is to create an album in the Photo Gallery. Then all you have to do is follow the instructions to upload the photo's from your PC to the photo gallery server. Feel free to e-mail if you have questions.

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I have loaded a gallery of our cabin
here. A 4 berth inside, and would not recommend this for 4.

Not enough storage space [for 2 it would have been fine], but the worst part was 'desk' area. Those bedside tables were useless with the lamp fixed in the middle, they [the lamps] should have been out the way afixed on the wall imo. The tiny area with the plugs & the loose table which upturned in the storm a couple of times.

Nice tissue dispenser, for something as trivial they sure made a nice finished solution. I bet if Cunard made special QM2 tissue boxes they would end up as “free” souvenirs. Btw what is written on the gold coloured bed covering, I can’t make it out exactly?

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Nice pictures Skyroom, I see you had a nice view of Maxim’s funnel from out your “hull hole”

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[qb] I would say book a cabin in one of these "hull hole" cabins because my guess is that CUNARD will get rid of them on QM2's first refit.

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Very unlikely, indeed! Balconies are very popular these days and command a higher price. The QM2 was built with a dual role of crossings and cruises, the balconies are mainly to satisfy the latter usage.

More importantly, the cabins are modular (built elsewhere and installed) so extending them into the hull would be very costly and counter productive.

I had the same thought when I saw that hudge TV on our desk!. But during our trip we vistited some friends that had a cabin on the 9th deck and they had a real nice thin flat screen TV mounted to the wall over the desk.

Cunard must have just installed these on the upper decks and suites

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Cunard must have just installed these on the upper decks and suites.

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Most Suites on modern ships have the big Plasma Screens installed. However, they are very expensive to buy, costing thousands of pounds here in the UK.

The smaller flat panel Monitors are coming down in price, but can still cost twice the price of a standard TV.