Originally Posted by
Lore
Ah, what a shame! I'm sure we saw each other once or twice at the Boathouse if you also had the platinum breakfast!
You know, now that you pointed it out, this also stuck out in my mind. The hosts/managers were typically the ones with the white dress shirts, right? I noticed the same thing - they generally ran around to welcome and seat people but we didn't notice them do anything useful. There was one lunch towards the end of our stay that was absolutely a catastrophe. Everyone came at the same time and they had a real problem getting the orders right. The next morning, I noticed right away that there were new hosts/managers in place, although I wasn't really sure what they'd be able to do.
Although it was kind of a pain to change into pants, I was able to wear polo shirts (and observed many people with t-..... even) without an issue. Was it more that you wanted to wear shorts?
It doesn't surprise me that you had that problem at lunch, though my bigger problem was with the host/managers' attitudes. (I believe that they were wearing white shirts, but don't recall for sure. They did stick out in terms of being somewhat older than the wait staff and clearly supervisory.) For one of the seven days we were there we had a much nicer fellow as host; he stuck out simply be being smiling, helpful, welcoming - in other words, just acting as a host normally does. The other two I mentioned were far from that.
As for the dress code, I don't want to make too much of it since it was just one of a variety of factors that led us to select room service or to eat elsewhere. And I realize it's not a great imposition to have to don long pants. But yeah, in that climate I much preferred shorts.