Carnival Cruise Lines’ towel animals are back, this time with a new holiday edition of Towel Animal Theatre at www.carnival.com/holidayfun.

            The link also features a mechanism for visitors to forward the e-card and spread some holiday fun to their friends and family.

            Towel Animal Theatre is featured on Carnival’s “Funville” web site and encompasses a series of short whimsical video vignettes depicting the line’s signature towel animals engaged in amusing conversations while the stateroom’s occupants are away.

            Since its debut last month, Towel Animal Theatre has become extremely popular with several million views on various on-line channels and social networking sites. 

The 3,006-passenger Carnival Splendor isn’t just the largest “Fun Ship” ever constructed – it’s a true “floating resort” offering a host of innovative on-board amenities and facilities. Here’s a look at some of the many amazing facts associated with this massive vessel. In the first year of service alone:

• Carnival Splendor’s photographers will snap more than 1.5 million digital images and portraits
• Guests will devour 200,000 servings of Carnival’s signature dessert, the Chocolate Melting Cake, along with 286,000 pizzas and 120,000 cappuccinos
• Carnival Splendor will visit 61 ports of call in 29 countries across three continents
• Approximately 22,000 meals will be served in the elegant reservations-only supper club, The Pinnacle
• Chefs in the vessel’s galley will use of nearly 18,000 pounds of flour
• Nearly 90 metric tons of pineapples will be consumed, mostly in frothy tropical drinks!
• Stateroom stewards will place more than 2 million individual pieces of chocolate on guests’ pillows and create more than 548,000 of Carnival’s wildly popular “towel animals”
• Guests will indulge in 15,000-plus massages, nearly 8,000 facials, more than 5,000 slimming treatments, and some 2,000 personal fitness consultations in the Carnival Splendor’s luxurious “Cloud 9 Spa”