Our research department came across a humorous item involving Carnival and Brits. The cruise line was looking for Britain's "funniest" family to sample its ships and on-board experiences, and report back.
It seems that British families have a misconception about the industry's "Fun Ships" as Carnival likes to call its fleet. The cruise line wants to make sure it delivers what that segment of its market is expecting.
The successful family "will love active, fun-filled holidays and be as comfortable relaxing by the pool as they are racing down waterslides” and it will help if the father tells good jokes. Funniest, right?
Our encounters with British friends is that they are meticulously clever, articulate and entertaining. But funny? Do you know anybody this side of Monty Python to inspire a belly laugh?
If you do, they can enter to win a 9-day Mediterranean cruise on the Carnival Sunshine, now that it has been refurbished by 3,500 workers and $155 million…and re-named. After delivering their "funny" file they can do the same thing on the Carnival Breeze when it sails from Miami to the Bahamas. Relax, teachers, the cruise is during school holidays.
It was about this time of writing that the research department checked in with an update. That should be Carnival is looking for Britain's "funnest" family. The "i" was in the research department's "eye."
However, Carnival's going to have a problem. Brits won't understand. In the Oxford Dictionary, to which all educated British people subscribe, there is no such word as "funnest."
Guess what word comes closest?
Funniest.
Carnival Valor
7 nights
August 25, 2013
San Juan (return): St. Thomas, Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, St. Maarten
Inside: $419
Cost per day: $59
www.carnival.com