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5 hours ago, Morgsmom said:
"If you are escorted by a butler you look like either 1) a convict or 2) lost little birdie..."
Or: Get dressed up, follow the butler, and stroll to dinner like you own the place. 😉
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31 minutes ago, Hlitner said:
What makes this a "no brainer" for me is not only do I get a professional to deal with the cruise lines, but these agencies actually pay me!
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1 hour ago, JAGR said:
Oh, God!
NIAGARA FALLS!!
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29 minutes ago, Morgsmom said:
"Not sure where the "other side" is."
This topic has more directional controversy than an episode of "The Mystery of Oak Island."
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38 minutes ago, spinnaker2 said:
"...why baseball caps are permitted and was told it’s the fashion..."
Tony Soprano did not put up with this. 😆
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31 minutes ago, rkacruiser said:
"Insects are an extremely adaptable..."
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.
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17 minutes ago, morpheusofthesea said:
"...they look for ways to identify which customers will reward them the most for their service."
Having spent a good many years in the hospitality business, I can verify this assertion.
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3 hours ago, rkacruiser said:
"...that will replace us?"
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1 hour ago, Stockjock said:
"...tour of Lisbon and wine tasting tomorrow."
I'm a bit envious. The fortified wines of the Iberian Peninsula are high on my list of adult beverages. I hope the tasting inclues Madeiras and ports. Cheers!- 1
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1 hour ago, rigs32 said:
"...clothing/shoes that I would only wear for a few hours."
All the more reason to dress for dinner every evening! 😁
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57 minutes ago, rkacruiser said:
"...wearing spots of my dinner, I never thought it to be practical."
When dressed in this manner, I find myself more circumspect in my dining. 😁
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1 hour ago, morpheusofthesea said:
"Not required BUT..."
Not required, true.
No worries if we're on board, though, Morpheus. We're happy to "wreck the curve" for the dining room. 🤪- 5
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1 hour ago, morpheusofthesea said:
"Nemo me impune lacessit !"
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43 minutes ago, Hlitner said:
The MSC website has never accepted any of our cards
Can confirm. No luck preregistering on the website, but a piece of cake once onboard.
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2 hours ago, morpheusofthesea said:
"...first come first serve, and there are chair hogs here as well."
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...- 3
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2 hours ago, rkacruiser said:
"Disco remains good music, particularly for dancing."
Disco Stu... agrees with you!
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21 minutes ago, JAGR said:
"...booked a YC suite, and it was taken away from you by a nasty charter..."
NIAGARA FALLS!!
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43 minutes ago, morpheusofthesea said:
"Does anyone know what the character with the face and no body in Mystic Forest represents?"
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! 😆
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3 hours ago, morpheusofthesea said:
"...then Thanksgiving..."
Here's some leaked footage from years back, of Morpheus catching sea turkeys for the big MDR feast. 🙂
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3 hours ago, morpheusofthesea said:
"Perhaps Harry Truman, whose famous last words were "I got no place to go" just before Mt. ST. Helens blew up would be alive today..."
Well, he would be 125 years old, so that would be something. 😉
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4 hours ago, perakcruiser said:
Portugues speakers can communicate with Spanish speakers
"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.- 1
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16 minutes ago, perakcruiser said:
Wow, that is brutal that Spanish is not enough for the staff.
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.
Restaurant Tipping
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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.