Key Aspects:
- A recent guest of Carnival Adventure discovered pre-made towel animals under his bed, which ruins the magic in a hilarious way.
- It makes sense for the housekeeping team to pre-make the beloved animals, as they would need to make hundreds to thousands every day to place one in every stateroom.
- The guest made light of the situation and decided to display the towel animals as a surprise for his room steward.
Aside from its reputation as the Fun Ships, Carnival Cruise Line is perhaps most famous for its loveable towel animals.
In addition to leaving the animals in staterooms, most Carnival sailings feature a towel animal zoo on the Lido Deck and classes where guests can learn how to make their own towel creations.
In fact, these creatures are so popular that the cruise line even has a towel animal mascot named Ellie the Elephant.
However, one recent guest of Carnival Adventure who was recently on a Sydney-based sailing to Moreton Island has discovered a secret that has put a damper on the magic.
Matt Kortelainen, who goes by @mynamesmattt on TikTok, discovered a bag of pre-made towel animals under his bed in his cruise cabin.
They weren’t made with love by the room stewards during the daily cleans or turn down service, but were rather just ready and waiting to be placed in the cabin for cruise guests to discover.
“It’s like finding out Santa’s not real. Oh my God,” Kortelainen exclaimed in a TikTok where he revealed the bag.
During my own Carnival cruise onboard Carnival Radiance at the end of last year, I can confirm that I did not find any towel animals under my bed, so this shocking discovery may have been an accident.
Instead, I actually found an old, smelly sock (which our room steward quickly removed and cleaned), but that’s a story for another time.
However, I would not be surprised if towel animals were pre-made and stored elsewhere onboard for the sake of efficiency.
If the cruise ships are at capacity, crew members could potentially have thousands of towel animals to make and leave for guests every single day, which is certainly a daunting task.
Guests React to Towel Animal Discovery
Just like the TikToker, other guests reacted to the pre-made towel animals with a mix of good humor and at least feigned shock and disappointment.
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“Oh that’s worse than finding out the tooth fairy was my mum” one commenter joked.
“MY IMMERSION NOOO,” another exclaimed with crying face emojis.
Other past Carnival cruise guests confirmed that they’ve also found pre-made animals hidden in their staterooms.
“I was on a cruise several years ago and I found all the towel animals in a hidden cupboard beneath the port hole window. Yep. Spoilt that immediately,” one person recounted.
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Of course, Kortelainen’s TikTok was posted because he found the discovery to be funny and he was not actually upset.
“I’m not mad, this video is pure sarcasm but I didn’t know they do this lol,” he clarified in the comments section.
In a subsequent TikTok, the cruise guest revealed that he had actually unpacked the animals and displayed them in his cabin as an “uno reverse” surprise for his room steward.
