Originally Posted by
TheBrownPrince
For the dress code discussion and about how what you wear affects others, let's take as an obvious example, the Venice-Simplon. Sure, you can wear jeans if you insist and feel that would make you comfortable but people choose that train in order to get a certain feel. Hopefully, if you sign-up for it, you respect this choice as well and even if it's not your preferred attire, you will dress the part so as not to spoil the experience for them. I don't think that's too much to ask for. It's a simple act of consideration. The same should ring true in varying degrees for certain properties and restaurants.
Thank you,
TheBrownPrince, this is excellent. I will not ruin your wonderful words with inappropriate code like the smiley or thumbs up.
You positively remind me of
Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate, in the book "People in hotels," Eichhorn Publishing 2006, pages 15 and 16:
"Let's face the gruesome reality: in the Salon of the Ritz, nowadays, there are not only men with naked necks, but also with short trousers. Yes, short trousers. I've tried to understand what motivates people to sit in the Ritz and pay a hefty bill, when the atmosphere they want to experience is of so little value to them, that they will thoughtlessy destroy it again with their appearance. It seems to me, those people relate to a Grand Hotel like to a King's Castle, that they visit: they know that they do not have the slightest in common with the culture here, yet they feel superior, because they think they can buy it. Of course, they are then the gullible ones."
This is my own translation, as part of the original text:
NRT - "Not Ritz Type" (in German).
I bet that those with only one outfit, understand only one language.