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Carnival Cruise reiterated its pool dress code after a customer controversy brewed on its Facebook page.
While the company technically bans men from wearing shorts and hats at its main dining room area, where dress code policy receives the most flack, it usually looks the other way.
Similarly, its only pool deck dress code rule is that it requires women to wear tops.
Carnival Brand Ambassador John Heald addressed the dress code in a recent Facebook post.
He wrote: “Yesterday was a fascinating day. There were complaints about the foghorn on Carnival Legend.
“A lady was upset at my ‘disrespect for Italians’ and a question about why we allow men to wear Speedo-type budgie smugglers on Lido deck when ‘there are families around,'” he shared.
In response to the Speedo controversy, he explained: “Now seeing some men wear these is I admit rather disturbing and I refer to myself of course.
“But for some men (sorry Grace but I have to include Italian men) these are the only thing they will wear.
“I know one Italian Captain who we, the crew, all jealously called ‘The Package’ who would only wear these and still does today,” he added.
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However, he says there are restrictions on where men are allowed to wear Speedos on the boat.
“Anyway, wearing them in the Lido buffet is not allowed,” he shared.
“I know the crew do all they can to tell people to cover up but with hundreds of guests coming and going they don’t always catch everyone.
“But complaining about a chap currently sailing on the Carnival Elation for wearing a pair of budgie smugglers by the swimming pool makes me simply want to respond by saying ‘Well then don’t look, then FFS.” But of course, I didn’t,” he said.
He continued to explain away the controversy as a result of social media making people less tolerant as well as making it easier to complain.
“Dealing with extreme guest situations can be exhausting I must admit, but it is vital for me to handle them with care and attention as they can have a big impact on Carnival’s reputation and your loyalty,” he wrote.
“However can I also say that in this age of instant social media reaction it is so easy to have a moan.
“This never used to happen anywhere near as much in the days when everyone didn’t walk around the ship with an eye phone in their hand.
“Before social media that lady who complained about the budgie smuggler would have most likely gone ‘yuck’ and carried on having fun instead of stopping her fun, pausing her own hard-earned cruise vacation to write a message to me asking ‘why Carnival allows this.'”
Some customers took to the comments to agree with his response to dress code complaints.
“I believe that some people just need something to complain about. They need to learn to ignore what they do not care for and not let the little things bother them. They will have a better cruise if they do,” Mabel Cartwright wrote.
Shawn Caccia echoed the sentiment: “Nowadays, I feel like people are more concerned with having their eye phones like a quick-draw pistol, ready to capture anything that they could deem wrong. If they spent half the time just relaxing and enjoying the fun times to be had, they would care a lot less about what another person was wearing to swim.”