Do ADULTS REALLY dress up for Pirate Night?

[Lisa F]

I wore something pirate-ish but not full out costume and my kiddo wore a jack sparrow costume. I did not feel like going full out (for the expense) but I had a black top that was pirateish and added a few cheap accessories I picked up after halloween. It was just enough as I was cheap, comfortable and the pics are still cute.

So it doesn't have to be all or nothing!

 

[disruptor32]

My wife and I always dress up on Pirate Night...........in our formal wear, since our tradition is eating in Palo on Pirate Night

 

[mmouse37]

You should how many adults dress up in costume for the Halloween on the High Seas cruises....its incredible!!!

MJ

 

[DCLCrazy64622]

We did for a while in full costume but dragging all of that heavy paraphernalia around in a suitcase got old quickly. We are not big fans of the pirate night menu so we go to Palo that night now

 

[lorimay]

We don't dress up, we have in the past. If we travel with the grandkids, they dress and we eat in the MDR.
But when we sail alone, we make Pirate night our Palo night.

 

[AusDan]

We did on our first cruise and it was fun but we haven’t since. It’s hard bringing extra clothing for just one night when you’re coming from Australia. We’re away from home for 5 weeks on our next trip and I’m already scared about the amount of Christmas mercy we will buy!

 

[DisneyKrayzie2]

Not sure you really call it dressing up, but i just wear a pirate tshirt and put on the pirate bandana that they give you in your cabin.

 

[Ronneeaght]

Not sure you really call it dressing up, but i just wear a pirate tshirt and put on the pirate bandana that they give you in your cabin.

We'll be on our first DCL cruise in October and this is our plan. DH and I have pirate T-shirts from Woot that we'll accessorize with the bandana. Not sure if DD4 will get a T-shirt as well or a costume. I'm going to wait until closer to the cruise to have her decide.

 

[Dug720]

I do more of a “pirate bounding” type thing - bandanna (my own), striped shirt, boots - though I have done a costume a couple of times (just Halloween-type).

But some go ALL OUT. Our first cruise, there was another all-adult family in Concierge and the parents were in full, theatrical-type costume in the lounge at the start of happy hour. Their daughter (looked to be around my sister or my age) rolled her eyes and said something like “They are TOO into this...” A little while later, my sister and I went back for a second drink and discovered her in the hall being laced into an over-theatrical-quality dress corset by her mother and she looked at us and mouthed “Help. Me.” Haha!!

 

[squirk]

I'm not one for dressing up, but I certainly don't begrudge anyone else their fun. It's all good.

We usually take 7-night cruises, and we are a family of five. That in and of itself is a lot of "normal clothes" to organize and pack. To throw five full-blown pirate costumes into the mix - costumes that might be worn once for three hours max on the cruise - just doesn't seem (to us) to be worth the time and effort.

It's the same reason we don't do formal night, either. Going through the logistical hassle, time and expense of packing a formal suit, or arranging and paying for a tux rental - again, for something that will get a single three-hour chunk of use across seven days - just seems impractical and unnecessary (again, to us, for our situation).

I do nonetheless enjoy seeing people in super-extravagant and intricately-detailed pirate costumes. Fun to watch.

 

[CastawayCharlette]

I made us Pirate Mickey Ears!

 

[joegiro]

We all dressed up, I would say more people dress up then people who don't dress up!!! it is all in the name of fun for the kids!!

 

[CT Yankee]

We went along with the pirate theme but just barely. I wore a nautical-looking striped shirt and capri shorts. We also wore the pirate bandanas they gave us - I wore mine loosely around my neck like a scarf. We did notice that some adults dressed in their pirate-themed team gear, like jerseys for the Pittsburgh Pirates. My older daughter goes to Seton Hall University and their mascot is the pirate, so next time around we will all wear Seton Hall swag.

 

[YawningDodo]

I'm not one for dressing up, but I certainly don't begrudge anyone else their fun. It's all good.

We usually take 7-night cruises, and we are a family of five. That in and of itself is a lot of "normal clothes" to organize and pack. To throw five full-blown pirate costumes into the mix - costumes that might be worn once for three hours max on the cruise - just doesn't seem (to us) to be worth the time and effort.

It's the same reason we don't do formal night, either. Going through the logistical hassle, time and expense of packing a formal suit, or arranging and paying for a tux rental - again, for something that will get a single three-hour chunk of use across seven days - just seems impractical and unnecessary (again, to us, for our situation).

I do nonetheless enjoy seeing people in super-extravagant and intricately-detailed pirate costumes. Fun to watch.

I get that. When I did my MDAS cruise I brought a costume both for MDAS and for Pirate Night. My nod to formal night (might have been only a semi-formal night??) was a sundress; I don't own any truly formal clothing and wasn't going to buy or rent something to haul all the way to Miami for, as you say, three hours out of a week's trip. The two costumes were worth it to me, especially on a first trip, but I swear they increased the volume and weight of my luggage by at least a third. I'm normally a light packer (I recently did two weeks in Europe with carry-on only) but for the cruise it was a full duffle and a full backpack because of all the extra clothing and the giant boots I brought to wear with it. I don't even know where you'd put all that kind of stuff if you had an entire family (and an entire family's worth of luggage) in the stateroom.

 

[squirk]

...but I swear they increased the volume and weight of my luggage by at least a third. I'm normally a light packer (I recently did two weeks in Europe with carry-on only) but for the cruise it was a full duffle and a full backpack because of all the extra clothing and the giant boots I brought to wear with it. I don't even know where you'd put all that kind of stuff if you had an entire family (and an entire family's worth of luggage) in the stateroom.

Witness! That's what I'm sayin'!

 

[JPTexan82]

My wife and I can’t have kids. But we regularly travel to Disney Destinations worldwide. People look at us weird when we tell the we are going on/ just got back from a Disney Cruise. I get to show my inner child on Pirate night and Halloween night, so we always dress up.

 

[DWillowBay]

These sure do!

 

[Spiffy MacSpiff]

Our teen boys go all-out pirate, DH and I do pirate-themed shirts and the freebie bandannas. But there are plenty of adults in full costume.

 

[Keyser]

I'm not one who likes to dress in costume for anything - though I will put on the bandana they give you when I go to dinner. That said, Pirate Night you will not feel out of place no matter how much or how little you go - every cruise we've been on there are adults at basically every level of costume you can imagine, from no costume at all to something that must have taken hours of work and lots of $...

 

[JoeFromSeoul]

I understand how you might feel self conscious, but if dressing the part is something you think you would enjoy, I offer the same advice I gave my daughter about meeting new people in the clubs. You are not likely to meet most of your fellow cruisers ever again unless you chose to...so what does their opinion of you matter? We dressed to the hilt for pirate night and came away with great photos and memories.