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  1. 5 hours ago, margsipie said:

    "It’s our first time on MSC, so just trying to get a handle on things!"

    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.

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  2. 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...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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.


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  6. 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.

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