Carnival Offers Expanded "Towel Creations" Book

Above: "Swans" greet guests at a Jamaica hotel room.

How many times have you returned to your resort guest room or your cruise stateroom and found a towel "animal" awaiting...then tried to recreate it on your own with no luck? That dilemma is now solved: Carnival Cruise Lines has issued a new book offering step-by-step instructions and photos for creating the line's incredibly popular "towel animals" that greet guests when they arrive in their "Fun Ship" staterooms each evening.

The book is titled "Carnival Towel Creations with Freddy" and it features easy-to-follow directions and diagrams for creating more than 80 different creatures, including new variations such as a snail, bat, cow, stingray and goat.

The new 90-page book expands upon Carnival's original towel creations book published two years ago which featured instructions for 40 animals and sold 100,000 copies.

It is estimated that each year Carnival stateroom stewards create nine million towel animals which are featured within the line's more than 25,000 staterooms fleetwide. Stateroom stewards also often incorporate guests' sunglasses, hats and other accessories to create custom-designed towel animals for guests' enjoyment and amusement.

Miniature "towel pal" plush toys of several popular creations are available in the line's gift shops fleetwide or on-line at www.carnivaltowelpals.com.

"Carnival Towel Creations with Freddy" is sold in the Formalities gift shops throughout the line's 22-vessel fleet. The cost is $14.95.