Oh Those Towel Animals!

On our holiday cruise, our stateroom attendants provided us with a different towel animal every night. I am always amazed at how they can put them together so quickly and still get the room serviced quickly. These two were quite a team.

A couple of the animals needed a little imagination but most of them were cute and each night I would carefully move the animal from the bed to the desk where it would stay until it was replaced the next night with another.




The only one that got moved to the closet however, was the monkey hanging from a pants hanger that was hung over the wall hook next to our bed. As long as the light was on, I could see that it was a towel monkey but my concern was that waking up in the middle of the night and with just a little light coming in under our door to illuminate the white towel, I might imagine it as something a little more demonic. I do have a nasty imagination that works overtime on occasion.

I took it out the next morning and hung it back where it was so they wouldn't know. Thankfully they never make towel snakes.

Oh Those Towel Critters!

Love 'em or hate 'em towel animals have been around for a long time aboard the cruise ships of almost every line you travel. I don't mind them. I can take them or leave them but some people are really entranced by them. So much so that there are now towel animal demonstrations on many sea day schedules.

If you are not able to cruise and learn the art though, there is a solution--how-to books. Three of them pop up in an Amazon search: Carnival Towel Creations (published by Carnival Cruises of course), Towel Folding 101, and How To Make A Towel Monkey And Other Cruise Ship Favorites.

Imagine the look on the face of your family and/or friends when you host them overnight for the holidays and on their bed they find a clever towel animal. Just be careful though. They may begin to expect the other amenities that come with cruising like room service.

While we've enjoyed hanging monkeys, lobsters and bunnies with sunglasses (ours) on the bed, the most unusual towel creation however was a full body on the bed. Yup. Towel arms and legs, my sandals for the feet, a shawl wrap, and a straw hat sitting just above eyeglasses. I almost screamed when I opened the door to our room but luckily realized it was all towels and not a stranger in our bed.

There is always an interesting discussion on the Cruise Critic and there is an article on their blog that talks about towel creatures and the author's attempt to create them.

For me, I'll just continue to be amused by the efforts of others.