Comparing 2 Types of Hospitality Towels: White and Colorful

One of the most difficult parts of being a property manager is deciding the property’s style and decorative options. Not everyone agrees on what is best, and these types of choices are often a matter of opinion. Some of these tough choices can be made for bed linens, furniture, paint colors, and carpet choices. The bathroom is no exception to style options. A frequently pondered question is what color the towels should be. Does your property have white or colored towels? Each types comes with their own advantages and disadvantages. Most standard hotels provide them in the color white, but colored towels still have their place and may be able to help your property stand out.

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Terry Towels are Important for the Hospitality

Towels are arguably the most important linen to a property manager that doesn’t belong on the bed. Finding the right terry towel for your property doesn’t have to be difficult. There is a wide selection of towels to choose from to best fit the needs of your property. There is quite an extensive process involved in making high-quality towels. One of the most common construction designs of a towel is with terry fabric. This blog will explain what a terry towel is, how it is made, and how to properly care for towels.

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4 Simple Ways to Care for and Clean of Pool Towels

Pool towels are exposed to a wide range of substances and liquids like sand, salt water, chlorine, sunscreen, sweat, and grass. Sand can get caught in the pool towels, and grass and other liquids like spilled drinks can cause stains. That is why the pool towel laundering process is so important. This blog will explain the proper steps to launder pool towels and the impact chlorine can have on the quality and durability of them. The following is a list of steps to properly wash pool towels.

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3 Qualities that Make a Great Hospitality Towel

Property managers and innkeepers constantly need to order supplies to keep their guests satisfied and their properties running smoothly. One of the most popular products that customers contact InnStyle about is hospitality towels. Properties make it a top priority to offer guests high-quality, plush towels to help make their stay more enjoyable. This blog will highlight important information about hospitality towels to help you make the best decision when purchasing. The main areas of focus will be on the density of towels, how they are developed, and the materials they are designed with.

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How to Buy the Best Bath Towel

Here’s a point that has been made before, and will most likely make again.

That’s because it’s an important one: Guests want three things from their stay with you — a clean room, clean bedding, and clean bath towels.

But that’s the bare minimum. Of course, the towels should be clean, but they should leave your guests feeling warm, dry and comforted. Here’s some advice on how to buy the best bath towel.

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Comparing 2 Great Towels- Egyptian and MicroCotton

In the world of hotels, there are big luxuries, like the white sand beaches at the $3 billion Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi or world-class golf courses in the middle of the desert at Arizona’s The Boulders.

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Guests Want Clean Sheets and Towels (And No Bed Bugs)

After almost 30 years of serving the hospitality industry, I have seen many changes, but one thing has remained the same:

Whether people are on vacation or traveling for business, they want to stay in a clean room with clean sheets, clean towels and clean bedding.

Guests have become even more conscious of room cleanliness in recent years thanks to some high-profile and widespread beg bug invasions.

We’ve written blog posts in the past about protecting a room and a bed against bed bugs. If guest finds – or worse, is bitten by – a bed bug, it can be an expensive proposition.

That’s why protection is your best prevention. Be vigilant in checking your room each time a guest checks in our checks out.

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The Difference Between Bath Rugs and Bath Mats

Q. How does a bath rug differ from a tub/bath mat?

A. A tub mat or bath mat is usually an extension of a towel program, and used specifically right outside the tub to absorb water following a shower or bath.

A bath rug, however, serves multiple purposes. From a design standpoint, a bath rug can make a significant difference in the look of your bathroom. It can complement the overall color scheme of the bathroom or coordinate with the bath towels.

Available in various colors, textures and sizes, you have the option of changing out the bath rug when you need a new look.

Functionally, a bath rug, like a tub mat, helps absorb water from your body when you are stepping out of the shower or bath—it keeps excess water off the floor and prevents slipping on wet tiles. A 100% cotton bath rug is the best alternative, as cotton absorbs many times its weight in water and dries fast.

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Understanding Low Twist Yarn

Q: What exactly is “low twist” yarn?

A: In the spinning process, yarn is twisted to add strength and provide greater uniformity, aiding the weaving process. The greater the twist, the more durable and substantial the yarn.

To create a low twist, the yarn is actually untwisted. Only longer staple cotton fibers—with their inherent strength—can be used in constructing low-twist yarns. The de-twisting action creates more air and space between the fibers, which yields a terrycloth fabric that’s especially soft and absorbent. This feature also decreases the time it takes the towel to dry after use or washing.

Q. What’s the difference between low-twist cotton towels and the more standard ringspun cotton towels?

A. You’re probably familiar with single-ply, 2-ply and 3-ply yarn. What you might not know is that while a single is, of course, a single strand a yard, “single” is also a term used to describe yarn that’s twisted in a single direction. Tecnically speaking, then, multiple strands of yarn can still be correctly described as a “single” if they’re all twisted in the same direction.

As far as 2-ply and 3-ply yarn is concerned, they consist of multiple strands of spun yarn that are twisted in the opposite direction from which they were originally twisted. This is done because twists add considerable strength to cotton fibers, and each multiple direction of a twist adds even more strength. That’s why a 3-ply towel is generally stronger than a 2-ply, and a 2-ply towel will tend to be stronger than a single-ply.

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Monogramming Your Robes, Towels, Bed, Bath and Table Linens

Monogramming for Innkeepers

Many of our bed-and-breakfast, country inn and upscale hotel customers provide monogrammed robes in every guest room. Innkeepers find their guests love these robes and quite often want to purchase them. Simply putting a small tag on the robe hanger can explain to the guest that if they wish to purchase the robes, new robes are available for sale at the front desk.

Some innkeepers have little shops or a few shelves behind the front desk where they show inventory of many of the monogrammed items used in the rooms. Monogramming your robes not only reminds guests where they stayed but also brings back the many fond memories they made while staying at your property.

Crests, logos and initials can be monogrammed on all bath and bedding items. All monogrammed orders must be approved before work can be completed.

We use a two-step approval process:

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