I see in my brochure that I can send my clotehs out to get pressed (for a big cost). Do I have to iron my clothes each night before dinner or should I just wear the stuff wrinkled?<BR><BR>Will I be out of place wearing wrinkled clothes or will others also do the same?

Doug,<BR> I pack a small travel iron- but what I've found that works better than anything is Downy Wrinkle release. Just spray it on your garment,hang, let dry and voila. Stuff is amazing. Never took the iron out of my luggage.

Linda must either wear cheap clothing or she is unaware that her clothes will still appear to be wrinkled.<BR><BR>Spend some time ironing.

Linda does not wear cheap clothing- GASP! I (we) wear Tommy Bahama almost exclusively while cruising. It is expensive but worth it, because all the wrinkles come out with DOWNY wrinkle release. I do not wear linen, it looks like s*** all the time. If you pack your dress shirts in dry cleaner bags, they will not wrinkle.The stuff even worked on my husband's tux. Try it Chuckie!

I may not buy cruise pics or lots of booze, but the one thing I ALWAYS do the once first boarding is send my formal wear to be pressed. It is really inexpensive. My pressing bill on the Destiny was $6.00 - about the same as an expensive cocktail. I send formal night clothes to be pressed on every cruise and my total bill has never been more than $16.00 for several pieces, including an evening dress.<BR>One thing I don't want to spend my vacation time on is ironing. I will use Downy wrinkle release on t-shirts and khakis. Casual clothes are ok wrinkled, but wrinkled formal wear will make you look tacky.

Doug, it all depends on which cruise line you are sailing on. If it's Carnival or Royal Caribbean, heck don't worry about wrinkles--you will fit right in. Hard to wrinkle cut off blue jeans, tank tops and baseball caps.<BR>If it's Princess, Holland America or Celebrity, take a small travel iron.

Doug:<BR><BR>I'd say take along a small Braun type steamer for your clothes. You don't need an ironing board and you can steam where needed on your clothing. Just fill the steamer with water, plug in and wait for 10 minutes.

I agree with Stephanie. An inexpensive light weight steamer is the best. It also will not blow the circuit breaker in the cabin.<BR><BR>Also, if you purchase a quality tux the wrinkles will fall out within a day. Dinner jackets will take a few days.<BR><BR>Another trick is to hang the wrinkled garment in the bathroom when you take a shower.<BR><BR>Paul<BR>

I send the wrinkled garments to the ship's cleaners. Very fast and not expensive.

Just returned from RCCL cruise. Yeh, the book says you can't take iron so I didn't and had better things pressed. But talking to new friends on board, they took the iron anyway and used it.

We always take a small travel iron. Its great for touch ups. We sailed the NCL Sun in April and if you sent your clothes to the cleaners for pressing only, it was an additional 50% off if you did it before Monday 6pm. (Sat sailing) We sent 6 items out and the bill was less than $10.00.

Doug, as soon as I arrive on board I hang everything up. I take extra wire hangers from home so that I have enough and then throw them away at the end of the cruise. Slightly wrinkled clothing will be ok the next day, can be steamed when you take a shower or you can use the wrinkle remover spray. I take anything badly wrinkled to the ship's self-service laundry where I use their ironing facilities; no need to haul your own.<BR><BR>I prefer to take care of all this within the first couple days so that I can take whatever I want out of the closet and have it ready. Most of my cruises have had a sea day the second day and so I can get everything squared away.<BR><BR>I don't mind touching up a few pieces, and I leave at home clothing that doesn't travel well.

Don't agree with one of you, not one. If you like a fashion show spray, iron or do as you like. We never do anything except hang up the clothes brought along and dress as we feel. More and more the dinner clothes are becoming less and less and a traveler might actually enjoy his trip without the need to impress. We, an older couple, have been a lot of places and observe only one rule. That is to not dress or behave in a way that is rude in the country you are visiting. Be a polite visitor and you will always enjoy your trip. There are shoulderchips on this forum here and there.

What a dumb posting! Sorry- but do you really need to ask this question as pertaining to a cruise?? What do you do in everday life at home? Follow the same on vacation!