Kilted on Queen Mary 2 Cruise

**Grizzly** · 16th November 11, 03:53 PM

Does the same still apply for a safety sgian? Am looking at Alaskan cruises for 2013 and would like to be formally kilted for the dinners.

**McClef** · 16th November 11, 04:35 PM

If there is nothing clear in any of the literature it would be best to contact them for a direct answer in writing.

**Sir William** · 17th November 11, 05:51 AM

Originally Posted by Grizzly

Does the same still apply for a safety sgian? Am looking at Alaskan cruises for 2013 and would like to be formally kilted for the dinners.

McClef is correct - contact the cruise line you're sailing with and ask. If the answer is yes, be sure to get the name, department of the person who gives you the answer, and the date and time as well, and take it with you in cas and security has another opinion. Most cruise lines x-ray all bags and if they find anything prohibited or questionable they'll have you come down to security.

However, the little caveat in the Cunard contract, which is similar to that used by other cruise lines, "any other item Carrier deems in its sole discretion to be detrimental to the safety or comfort of any person", especially the "comfort" part, gives them a lot of interpretive leeway.

That said, you can still be formally kilted without the sgian on your cruise. Few, if any, would even notice it's absence.

**McClef** · 17th November 11, 06:28 AM

I do remember that with Fred Olsen the policy was laid out in print but cannot find it on their on line site. It must have come through with the welcome pack after booking and I no longer have it.

So always check if nothing is received in print that directly covers it before you take a sgian with you. With an airline you can take it in your hold luggage and get it back at reclaim - with a cruise line it could lose it for at least the whole voyage or even longer.

And believe me if it is not clearly mentioned by the cruise line it does not mean that security will let it through. I had with me a brand new can of lighter fluid for my cigarette lighter - security confiscated it and there was nothing in the cruise line literature I had received that said I couldn't. The lighter itself went through OK but when it ran out of fuel I had to buy matches which were quite happily sold on board. Go figure.