If you’ve never cruised before, one of the things you’ll discover waiting for you each night in your room are towel animals. Your stateroom steward takes any towels you’ve used during the day to create them.
Sometimes we don’t always know what they’re supposed to be. (Depends on how seasoned at towel animal making our stateroom steward is.) Like the towel animal pictured above. Is it a swan or a cobra? Could be either to some extent really.
Or this next one. We’re at a loss what it’s supposed to be.
Wayne said it was our Ghost in the Bed. That could work!
But then you get some that are amazing. You definitely know what they’re trying to represent.
I decided to put some of the towel creatures we’ve found in our staterooms into a movie to help promote the cruise. How many can you identify? How many leave you with furrowed brows wondering, “I have no idea what that might be?”
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.
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You certainly know a lot more about ‘movie making’ than I do. The towel creatures are so cute, regardless to what they represent. Inventive chamber maids doo them too in some more exotic 5 star hotels, but they seem to be a cruise speciality. The art is called origami (I think).
LOL! I don’t know anything about making movies, Inka. I just put stuff together and see what turns out! But I would love to stay in an exotic 5 star hotel sometime where the chambermaids create origami towels. (I didn’t know if it was origami or if that only applied to paper, but I like the sound of it! 😉
These are sooo cute! (adds to the excitement of staying somewhere) I like the elephant one the best!
A waitor made the monkey one before at my table, but he presented as the chicken o_O
A chicken??!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s funny. How could a monkey look like a chicken? I love when waiters (or anyone for that matter) has a sense of humor like that. How fun!
Thanks for looking Cole!
As someone who hasn’t cruised yet, this is news to me! Cute & fun video. I like the swinging monkey.
I love towel animals but I have never seen them with eyes before, kinda creepy!
Oh, thank you so much, Cathy! I hope if you ever do get to cruise, you have a bunch of cool towel animals waiting for you each night!
LOL! I never thought of it like that, Ayngelina. Eyes are new. They didn’t used to do that. And now I will always think of your comment when I see a towel animal with eyes!