Hello Bobbie, I enjoyed reading your MSC review and do feel slightly better about going in August next year. There have been many awful reviews but you seemed to have written a factual review. I have just returned from P&O Ventura and we had 2 formal nights, on the other nights most people made an effort to dress up and you would not be overdressed in a cocktail dress, we have also cruised Carnival and this again I found to be less formal on the non formal nights with people even wearing shorts in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Royal Caribbean was more formal again. I will take some less formal dresses now having read your review and am not now so worried about the price of water etc. Thank you