The Ultimate Bath Towel Thread

[Paul Sandhu]

**This thread is for high turnover hosts.  This is for bath towels, let’s not get off topic! 

At any one time, I have 75-100 bath towels in all my STRs.  My biggest house with 9 beds had 9 towels in it until this morning.  Someone with sticky fingers decided to take them when they packed up their belongings.

I've been using the $2.74 towels from Wal Mart.  I wondered if anyone has found anything more economical than Wal Mart.  My clientèle doesn't really care about luxury or high thread count, they just want to dry off after a shower and drink beer.

[Luke Carl]

We do have to be somewhat concerned with quality. Our guests compliment us on our towels and we need to keep it that way as we are extremely review driven. 

I have purchased from both Sams and Target. Target I've purchased both the Performance and the Threshold (per @Julie McCoy recommendation). The performance is terrible I won't buy them again. They cover you in lint and they're already falling apart. I can't speak for the threshold as they're at a property I haven't visited since I bought them but it was $500 to set that house up so I'm hoping they're decent. 

My go to is Sam's club Hotel Premier Collection. They are very soft, get tons of compliments, and seem to last about a year of high turnover. 

Sam's Towels

I'll check in to Julie's JCPenny gag but for me, being able to ship quickly and inexpensively to my cleaners  is a big part of it since my properties are 4 hours each way and I have 5 of them which each need 3 sets of towels so my truck would constantly be filled with towels. Which it seems like it is anyway. 

@Avery Carl and my towel formula is as follows. 

Per Bathroom x3*

4 Bath Sheets  (I'm 6'4" regular towels don't cut it for me or my guests) 

2 Hand Towels

4 Wash Cloths 

1-2 Make-Up Wash Cloths found Here to avoid stains on the other towels 

*Each bathroom needs 3 sets of the above. One for the current guest, one for the turn when the current guests leaves and the new guest comes in, and one set for back up in case we get a last minute one nighter and both of the other two sets are dirty. If you don't do one nighters you'll only need 2 sets of each per bathroom. 

If it's a honeymoon or an anniversary the cleaners put two towels in the shape of swans kissing on the bed to look like a heart or some cheesy equivalent.