In Memory Of The Towel Art

[WEDWDW]

I'm still not sure exactly why they "retired" the Towel Art at the Resorts,but I thought we could pay our respects by posting our favorites and its Resort home.

I always though my Seahorse(All-Star Sports) was so creative.

 

[Jadyreen1282]

Looks like a scorpion to me. But I miss them too.

 

[WEDWDW]

Looks like a scorpion to me.

Seahorse-"think" The Little Mermaid.

 

[Fizban]

skinny manta ray to me.

 

[Ninja Mom]

We came back to our room at the Wilderness Lodge and found all the stuffed animals having a Hot Tub party!





~NM

 

[Happy_Haunt999]

We came back to our room at the Wilderness Lodge and found all the stuffed animals having a Hot Tub party!

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~NM

That is so cute!

 

[CT Disney]

We got this gem at the Yacht Club in 2013. It still cracks me up:

 

[buzznina]

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[patty57]

Even when my kids were young, we never got anything like this. I think a couple of three-ring Mickeys once or twice. We're just not living right.

 

[chicagogrl]

Those are so cute! We never got any. I even left tips hoping for one!

 

[disnut8]

I'm still not sure exactly why they "retired" the Towel Art at the Resorts,

The towel arts were retired because people expected them every night in every room and not all housekeepers had the time or the skills to make them. So, guests would go to Disney World thinking there would be something in their room every night and when there wasn't, some of those guests would complain.

Unfortunately, it was the internet and the outflow of information that kind of doomed this art.

It's like a post I saw on Facebook - "the good thing about being over the age of 40 is that we did all our stupid stuff before the internet".

 

[BlueStarryHat]

We got kissing swans in a boat one year at the All-Star Movies:

Since we're adults, my sister and I figured we never get a towel animal, but there it was in the window when we came back to the room one night.

 

[Happy_Haunt999]

The towel arts were retired because people expected them every night in every room and not all housekeepers had the time or the skills to make them. So, guests would go to Disney World thinking there would be something i their room every night and when there wasn't, some of those guests would complain.

Unfortunately, it was the internet and the outflow of information that kind of doomed this art.

It's like a post I saw on Facebook - "the good thing about being over the age of 40 is that we did all our stupid stuff before the internet".

People ruin everything.

 

[ElizabethB]

People don't ruin anything -- Disney cost cutting does. Every towel animal was an extra towel needling to be washed, dried, folded and transported.

I don't know when the towel animal thing started at the Disney hotels. It's really a cruise ship thing.

But, placing a moratorium on towel animals means rooms can get done quicker and housekeepers aren't using Disney's towels to try to increase their tips. Somebody at headquarters gets a nice year-end bonus for this.

 

[Mousemommy1]

 

[Mousemommy1]

 

[Mousemommy1]

Those were all during our stay at WL.

 

[tiggergal15]

The OP's pic looks like a lobster actually. A seahorse had a horse-like head. Cute anyway. I'll miss the towel animals. We have a cow. No pic tho.

 

[Xennia]

I was in Polynesian a few weeks ago and I got Mickey towel art on my bed.

 

[phillymummer]

It probably didn't help that people were taking the towels home. How many towels did they have to replace due to this? I think we got one mickey head towel on our first stay and it didn't occur to me to take it home. My parents brought home a snowman for my daughter. I'll have to find it post a pic.