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Don't let others talk you out of tipping. If you want to tip, go right ahead and do so. YC staff graciously accept tips and you can get envelopes for tips from the YC concierge desk. If tipping is as taboo as some like to imply, MSC would be unlikely to provide tip envelopes upon request.

Or: Get dressed up, follow the butler, and stroll to dinner like you own the place. 😉

NIAGARA FALLS!! 🤣

This topic has more directional controversy than an episode of "The Mystery of Oak Island." 🧐

It would have to be, really. One requires the whole front end of the cruise to catch enough for everybody.

Tony Soprano did not put up with this. 😆

Quite so. We're lucky exoskeletons are such a drag on advancement. If they had been the first land animals with internal skeletons, we would never have arrived on the scene.

Having spent a good many years in the hospitality business, I can verify this assertion.

All the more reason to dress for dinner every evening! 😁

When dressed in this manner, I find myself more circumspect in my dining. 😁

Not required, true. No worries if we're on board, though, Morpheus. We're happy to "wreck the curve" for the dining room. 🤪

Can confirm. No luck preregistering on the website, but a piece of cake once onboard.

Anyone who hogs a pergola on a cruise with Morpheus takes their life in their hands. Given his knack for pergola remodeling, he'll slip the deck crew a few bills and faster than you can say, "Amontillado," no one will see the pergola hogs (or the pergola) again...

Disco Stu... agrees with you!

I have seen beach wheelchairs on Ocean Cay, but I don't know the details for securing one. They are not self-propelled, though.

NIAGARA FALLS!!

I viewed some clips from the show, posted by other cruisers on YouTube. My $0.02... The character is clearly head-to-toe steampunk in design, starting with the de rigueur begoggled top hat, down to the Victorian spats. A common theme in steampunk lierature is travel to a primordial place or time by elites from the world of industry and science. Such travel provides the plot in some well-known works by H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and other authors in the steampunk canon. Therefore, I propose the character is meant to be an observer from the "real world" who has come to the Mystic Forest to see the sights. Why? Who the hell knows! 😆

Here's some leaked footage from years back, of Morpheus catching sea turkeys for the big MDR feast. 🙂

Well, he would be 125 years old, so that would be something. 😉

"Spoken Spanish and Portuguese are less mutually intelligible than their written forms. In other words, on paper, the two languages look very similar and speakers of either language can generally read the other language without too much struggle. But when it comes to the spoken forms, or the phonology, things get a bit more complicated as the pronunciation is more different than you’d expect." -- Diana Lăpușneanu, European languages blogger at Mondly.com This being the case, I vote they stick with Spanish-speaking crew and just issue note pads to all of them, as well as the passengers. There would be so many written notes flying about, it would look like an oceangoing ticker-tape parade.

If cruise itineraries are going to be predominantly bought by passengers from Brazil, MSC is correct to go heavy on Portuguese. Brazil is not a bastion of multilingualism. You have to staff based on passengers' communication abilities.