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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.

"Say the secret woid and the duck will come down to give you $50 OBC."

On the next episode of This Old Cabana, we'll discuss how much to tip for getting a half-bath added to the back.

They are mostly free. They charge for Lambada lessons because, well... It is the Forbidden Dance, after all. 😆 (I'm sorry, I cannot resist pop culture references. Just ask @morpheusofthesea.)

Accordingly, for the next three weeks...

Yes, and it doesn't have enough seats. Three per go is not enough capacity.

I played the hell out of Robotron, back in the day!

The advantage is MSC's. When short on butlers, preselected pillows and alcohol saves time. As far as the "favorite drink" mentioned in the e-mail, I took that as a reference to one's bottle selection. The implication being that your selected alcohol will be waiting for you and you can make yourself a drink right away. On our last cruise, we had no interest in opening our included bottle. Instead, we collected staff signatures like a school yearbook in bottle form.

I've said it before, but since you asked so nicely... If I'm taking the trouble of going out to sea, I'm damn sure going to dress better than dinner at Olive Garden. I don't begrudge others their casualness. For myself, I'm in a tux at 6pm sharp, formal night or not.

Yes. It's the top-secret ship within a ship within a ship... The Ya-Yas Yacht Club.

Well, when I Lent, I always get soot.