“Dressy” Flip-Flops Stir Big Reactions in Carn...

As any fashionista is aware of, nice footwear could be the focus of an outfit and may make a considerable distinction for a way you feel and look when dressing to impress. Onboard a cruise ship, footwear ranges from easy flip-flops and sandals to sneakers, aqua footwear, loafers, pumps, wedges, stilettos, and extra.

However what footwear is acceptable throughout dinner service within the Important Eating Room eating places? One visitor is worried that their footwear may not be applicable.

“Are ‘dressier’ flip flops allowed within the eating room within the night? Not flip flops like these $2 rubber issues with a flower glued on it. I’m speaking $20 flip flops,” the visitor asked John Heald, Carnival Cruise Line’s model ambassador.

Heald isn’t precisely famend for his vogue sense, and even admits confusion over the query.

“I’m unsure the way you specify the distinction between a flip flop or sandal?” he famous. “That’s as a result of I’ve the style sense of a partially-sighted yak.”

That’s a good query that basically comes down to at least one’s particular person preferences. Completely different Carnival visitors have completely different private definitions of what makes a flip-flop versus a sandal.

“If there’s a ‘flip flop flapping’ noise when strolling, it’s a flip-flop,” defined one visitor. “If the only real makes no extra noise than a standard shoe—not a flip-flop.”

However, whether or not you name this footwear a flip-flop or a sandal, does it belong in the Main Dining Room?

Heald opened up the query to his Fb followers, with greater than 1,800 responses in a couple of hours.

The overwhelming response is that “Sure” fancier flip-flops are definitely allowed, or else most visitors are “Not bothered both means” with another person’s footwear decisions.

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Presumably, nobody is strolling throughout eating tables in any footwear, and subsequently, what’s on their ft shouldn’t make a distinction in eating room service, menu decisions, or which dessert to get pleasure from.

“What others put on doesn’t make my meal style any completely different,” one visitor famous.

Many commenters observe that between the potential for swollen ft and ankles, blisters from an excessive amount of shore tour strolling, and different foot concerns comparable to arthritis or surgical procedures, flip-flops or sandals stands out as the solely comfy footwear completely different vacationers can put on.

Moreover, Carnival Cruise Line’s dress code doesn’t make any point out of footwear kinds, and solely notes that naked ft are usually not permitted in eating places. What covers one’s ft is a private desire.

Footwear is outwardly a scorching subject this week as this isn’t the one shoe-related query Heald has taken steps to reply.

Another guest insists that “all of your room stewards needs to be made to put on overshoes when getting into our room[s]. They carry germs and dust from different folks’s rooms on their footwear.”

Most of these plastic slipcovers go over sneakers or different footwear to make sure there is no such thing as a dust or particles tracked into an area. That is one thing contractors will usually put on when engaged on a home venture or guests may be requested to put on at a luxurious open home occasion.

Heald notes that stateroom attendants is not going to be required to put on overshoes, however that it isn’t obligatory.

Even when cabin attendants had been to put on overshoes, it needs to be famous that if the visitor is worried about dust and germs spreading contamination on footwear, 1000’s of visitors put on all kinds of footwear (or typically no footwear in any respect) on each deck of each Carnival ship with out overshoes.

In Might 2025, Heald even addressed the idea of slippers when one visitor insisted that each one vacationers needs to be supplied with free slippers onboard as a result of “no one desires to stroll round cruise ship rooms bare-footed.”

Evidently, that request was not granted both, although Heald does observe that if visitors actually need slippers, they will ask their cabin attendant who might be able to procure them a pair.