Very Important HAL Customer Survey

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What is your favorite towel animal.

[jtl513]

Check my avatar. :)

[Happy HALer]

Check my avatar. :)

I don't see your vote for the ever popular hanger monkey.

[Cruising-along]

I was going to vote for elephant, but after looking again at John's avatar, monkey definitely would be my choice. We have never had a monkey yet!! :eek: :(

[sail7seas]

I'm not fond of the towel animals. I wish our steward did not have to spend his time making them. While they are certainly harmless enough they do not enhance my cruise in any way. Actually, just about the opposite. I don't want to leave them cluttering our room, so I take them apart and fold up the towels and feel bad the steward might be insulted I didn't care for them.

For rooms with children......great.
For cabins without, I suggest they ask if we want to have them or not so stewards won't be bothering for people who don't care about them.

I certainly don't want to hurt their feelings or make them think I don't appredciate their efforts.

[Cruising-along]

For rooms with children......great.
For cabins without, I suggest they ask if we want to have them or not so stewards won't be bothering for people who don't care about them.

I certainly don't want to hurt their feelings or make them think I don't appredciate their efforts.


That's a good point Sail. I never thought about it before, probably because we're still new to cruising and LOVE those towel animals. Each evening after dinner we can't wait to open our cabin door, whip out the camera, and take a picture of our towel animal of the night :p It also is worth seeing the smile on our steward's face when we compliment him on his work. :) Maybe we'll change our point of view after years of cruising.....you brought up a good point though, maybe the stewards could ask PAX without children what they would prefer.

[jtl513]

I don't see your vote for the ever popular hanger monkey.I forgot to vote at first, then went back. Mine was the first vote, making it 100% pro-monkey at that point. BTW, I was told that it's a chimpanzee, not a monkey, since it has no tail. Maybe it's a HALkey. :confused:
IWe have never had a monkey yet!! :eek: :(We've only gotten them on the 8th or 9th days of our two 10-day cruises.

[Cruising-along]

We've only gotten them on the 8th or 9th days of our two 10-day cruises.

(LOL) AH HA! That's IT! We've never sailed a 10-day cruise! :D :p

[sail7seas]

We got a monkey on the next to last night of our 7 day Maasdam cruises in June. That thing nearly freaked me out. :D

[May4]

My heart belongs to the elephant. Absolutely! But, he does tend to take up a lot of room in the cabin, though. And it's SO hard to keep enough peanuts around.

I'm afraid I've been badly freaked out by the monkey a time or two. You come into the cabin and there he is just hanging there from the ceiling.
I told the cabin steward so and it really cracked him up.

[haligonian37]

We got a monkey on the next to last night of our 7 day Maasdam cruises in June. That thing nearly freaked me out. :D



I'm with you there Sail. My friends got one the 5th day (I think) of our 7-day Caribbean cruise.....they called me to quickly come take a picture so they could take it down as it was creeping them out. :)


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[Sea King]

We got a monkey on the next to last night of our 7 day Maasdam cruises in June. That thing nearly freaked me out. :D



imagine had it been a live monkey:eek::eek::eek:

and we were all worried about a dress code:rolleyes:

[sail7seas]

I never make a comment about the towel animals to our stewards but chat with them all the time about this or that. Seeing as I always fold the towels up, I hope he'll get the message he can skip leaving them in our cabin but they never do.

I keep thinking they'll get the message in a 'subtle' manner but they don't and I don't want to say anything to them.......so I'll just keep folding up the towels. :)

[Cruising-along]

I'm with you there Sail. My friends got one the 5th day (I think) of our 7-day Caribbean cruise.....they called me to quickly come take a picture so they could take it down as it was creeping them out. :)


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:eek: :eek: YIKES! That IS creepy!
We've had 7 and 12-day cruises, so I guess it's just the luck of the draw what animal(s) you get. Maybe on our 15-day in May we'll get one. :)

[Lynne Myrna]

Love the Lobster!!!!!:)

[sail7seas]

imagine had it been a live monkey



and we were all worried about a dress code



:D There would have been a crazy woman running down Navigation Deck screaming her fool head off!!! And can't guarantee what I would have been wearing. :D :eek:

[camrosegirl]

I have told various cabin stewards that I do not want the animals--in a nice way of course. Nobody has listened yet!!!

[waiting2retire]

Boy, was I glad I had seen jtl513's avatar before my mother and I went on our Zaandam cruise in January!

The night the monkey arrived in our cabin, it was hanging from the ceiling about 10 feet inside the cabin door :eek: . Thankfully, I went in first, flicked on the light and started to laugh. I think I would have had to call sick bay if my mom had gone in ahead of me :o

I still thought it was creepy, and after taking the mandatory picture, I took it down right away.

So I voted for the much more innocuous elephant :D

Bonnie

[jhannah]

While cute, I don't sail Holland America ships for cute. Leave that to Disney. I think the towel creations are a waste of time. As sail7seas noted, they're fine in staterooms where kids are. Otherwise, save that construction time and take a well-deserved break.

[Copper10-8]

Didn't see it as one of your choices but I liked the hanging poultry with sunglasses we got on Prinsendam last year;)

[catl331]

Didn't see it as one of your choices but I liked the hanging poultry with sunglasses we got on Prinsendam last year;) I think that's the monkey/chimp. Wasn't there eye dots behind the glasses?

For you elephant fans, here's RCCL's two-tone version:

[bobpatj]

I love the elephant! If we get one, it gets to sit in our "outside cabin" window, for the remainder of the cruise. :)

[RevNeal]

I love the elephant! If we get one, it gets to sit in our "outside cabin" window, for the remainder of the cruise. :)

Pat, we/I do much the same thing! :D
My favorite is the Elephant ... they're really cute.

[Solstice]

Could there really be a platypus or was that just thrown in for fun? I would love to see one if it's real!

[esther e]

Where do they find the extra hangers? Certainly not in my closet:D !!!!

[Krazy Kruizers]

I couldn't vote as my favorite one wasn't there. I can't remember which ship it was on but one of our cabin stewards make a pair of love swans - their necks and bills were shaped to form a heart.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Some of our stewards are real artists at making the towel animals, others have been just so-so.

[cruznon]

Our stewards usually discard them the next morning so they don't clutter the cabin. I watched the stewards make the animals in a demo one day. It usually takes then about a minute ti make the animals. We enjoy the critters. The stewards started this a few years ago.

[catl331]

extra hangers are those that passengers bring along with them for extras and leave behind because they buy too much!

[Wild Thing ~T]

That is funny, I tought the monkey was hanging poultry the first time I saw it too!

Here are some animals from our last cruise! Our cabin steward was a whizz at these things. My husband wanted a lesson and he whipped these out in no time!;)

~T

[Oceanwench]

I couldn't vote as my favorite one wasn't there. I can't remember which ship it was on but one of our cabin stewards make a pair of love swans - their necks and bills were shaped to form a heart.

That's what I was thinking of when I cast a vote for the swan.

(We've had towel animals in our rooms at Disney World too!)

For the small amount of time it takes the stewards to make one, I don't think it's a huge deal. I'm not about to micromanage their time! :p

[jtl513]

Many of the stewards have probably learned that this little extra effort often leads to extra tips! :)

[Wild Thing ~T]

Many of the stewards have probably learned that this little extra effort often leads to extra tips! :)

B-I-N-G-O!!!:D

It sure worked for our last steward on the Oosterdam!
Plus he was just to great not to tip very well!

Same with Antonio in the Martini Bar!;)

[TwinFriend]

Wow! Thats the largest towel animal I've ever seen. We usually leave tips in the animals hand/paw, mouth or other body part. Anything to bring a smile to a sweet face.:)

[Wild Thing ~T]

Wow! Thats the largest towel animal I've ever seen. We usually leave tips in the animals hand/paw, mouth or other body part. Anything to bring a smile to a sweet face.:)

That is an excellent idea! Can I steal it?
The idea that is!

I love the smiles that go with the tips! I like to leave personal notes behind on disembarkment day:o with extra for those that treated us a little EXTRA! Love the paw idea!
~T

[serendipity1499]

I'm a child at heart and an Animal Lover to boot! ;) The Monkey is my favorite..:)

Have always enjoyed all the towel animals & try to keep them if DH doesn't get to them first..Make sure he takes pics of them..


Betty

[kryos]

We got a monkey on the next to last night of our 7 day Maasdam cruises in June. That thing nearly freaked me out. :D


LOL ... especially if you come back to the cabin after dark ... leaving only a night light on before you went out ... and that thing is hanging over the bed. Can put the scare of the devil into ya, that's for sure. :)

Blue skies ...

--rita

[NoNoNanette]

That is an excellent idea! Can I steal it?
The idea that is

I'll "second that"!!! :)

What a delightful idea.... we always leave our guys a few bucks on our pillow in the morning, but incorporating the animal towels is a WONDERFUL idea. :D

[WISCruiser]

I don't care for those towell creatures... and to ensure I don't get them, when I see my Steward for the first time and exchange pleasantries, I slip him something to NOT do them and he says, No Problem.:D Works for me!

[sail7seas]

Many of the stewards have probably learned that this little extra effort often leads to extra tips! :)

:) Maybe that plus they may also have been instructed it is now 'part of their job description'. I don't know but my sense is they are now a mandatory part of cabin care and maintenance for all stewards.

[SharonN]

My recent Alaskan cruise was the first one that I got towel animals. I thought they were cute but the absolute best part was that my steward used chocolates for the eyes so I got 2 chocolates instead of 1 every night :D :D My parents were in a suite but they had paper eyes on theirs!

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