Towels made for hotels are different than the ones purchased in retail stores. Hotel towels are made to last the repeated laundering that they are subjected too. We carry a variety of towels for different uses and at different price ranges.We carry a wide range of bathroom towels, pool/ beach towels, and kitchen towels from the most economic to the more luxurious towel.
How long will hotel towels last ?
This is one of the most common questions and the answer is almost impossible to answer. The 3 key factors that determine the life of a hotel towel are 1) Occupancy Rates, a property at 40% is not putting the same use on towels as a property at 90%. 2) Washing chemicals, anything with an acid will damage the cotton. Bleach is an acid and so are some other types of products. 3) Laundry machinery, the new high efficiency washers are especially damaging to towels. The very high revolutions during the final extraction cycle put a huge amount of stress on the cotton. In addition newer washers that use less water do not remove all of the detergent in the towels. They push the detergents that are left after the rinse cycle to the edges of the towels during the extraction cycle. On the edges of the towels they become concentrated causing the towels to eventually rip on the edges.
Why is the weight so important ?
The weight is the main factor in determining price. Cotton is a commodity traded by the pound. Imagine purchasing a pound of cheese at your local deli and being given 3/4 of a pound but being charged for 1 pound. You would not stand for it. In the highly competitive hotel towel market many sellers will tell you you are buying a certain weight towel and deliver a lower weight towel. This is a dirty industry secret. We will never knowingly cheat a customer and actually spot check the weights of our towels. we allow no more than a 5% variance.
What does GSM mean ? It means grams per square meter. This is the standard used to judge towels in most of Europe and parts of Latin America. The higher the gsm, the thicker the towel.