Should I expect visitors to bring their own towels?

[xcurlyluciex]

Ok, so scenario got me thinking - not entirely sure what is right or wrong here, so just asking for opinions.
PIL visit us every couple of months. They travel 200 miles each way and usually only stay one night. They don't bring their own towels, so I provide them with a clean one each.
My DM & DF also visit same number of times but always bring their own towels to use.
BIL visits, never brings a towel (or much else for that matter)
It's got me thinking - if you go visit family/friends do you take your own towels? I don't usually, but now I'm thinking I should. I know you get towels if you stay in a hotel, but if you went to say a holiday you might not. Is there some towel etiquette?

I always supply towels for guests - and always take my own towel when I go to stay with anyone! Basically, I do whatever I think will make the other person's life easier.

I provide towels for my guests, more than one if they'd like. And I put a stack of dark coloured face flannels & hand towels by the sink for washing off makeup.

I take my own pillows as I’m so often uncomfortable with the horrid pillows so many people give their guests. Towels no, unless we were going to an event where some poor sod has ended up having hoards of people to stay.

Blimey - I’d think a host strange if they didn’t provide towels.

We leave a pile in the room - and they’re pristine ‘guest’ towels, too

It would be a cold day in hell before my husband brought his washing home to me, particularly if he was the owner of a washing machine in his flat.

I have a family member that used to bring everything including towels, they did it because they thought we had enough washing to do with changing beds so brought their own towels. I have now convinced them to pack light and not bring their own towels but took about 2 years!

I’d be horrified if my guests brought their own towels.

I don't take towels when I visit friends and always provide them when people visit me.

I supply towels to guests. However, when I go to my brothers I take my own as his are 30 year old, thin as carboard and smell as he doesn’t dry them properly. He doesn’t know I take my own.

I would never expect guests to bring towels.

Nope i supply towels and expect to recieve towels when i visit.
I used to take my own shower gel/shampoo when i stayed at my sisters but stopped doing that as she always had standard stuff out..... she does the same when coming to mine.
We also borrow each others hair dryers and straghteners....... so much less to pack

I supply towels for guests. I used to take my own when I went to stay with my parent but only because they didn;t have enough big towels for if we (me and my dsis) wanted to take all the kids to the beach or the swimming pool. Other than that I'd expect host to provide towels for the usual everyday stuff.

I take towels and bedding to my aged parents’ to save them the trouble of washing and making up beds.

Often my sister ‘s too. But I am kind of ‘staying at my sister’s house ‘ rather than ‘guest’.

I take my own towels. Not everyone has room to have "guest towels" for baths and showers available and stored I do offer towels and use of toiletries to pvisitors who are staying (which tbh is only close family and friends) if only a couple but draw the line at when we have 8 family members descend in a rabble and sleep on blow up mattress as I don't have that many spare towels!

I guess if not going to have spare available, it might be worth a mention to the visitor, can you bring your own towels..

It would be a cold day in hell before my husband brought his washing home to me, particularly if he was the owner of a washing machine in his flat.

This x 1,000

My husband's life wouldn't be worth living if he had a washing machine yet brought his dirty laundry home for me to do.

I usually offer to bring or in case of dm always take to save her washing.

I always thought DH's friends were a bit skanky as they never seemed to shower when they stayed over and the towel I'd put out for them remained unused. It got washed anyway, just in case... He did suggest that they'd brought their own, but why?! We've plenty towels & we're decades past being students.

I take my super absorbent hairtowel with me. Partly because it is super absorbent and partly because if my hair is newly dyed some of the colour comes out on the towel. I also take beach/pool towels if going somewhere I’d need them.

I had some guests bring their own towels once and was quite shocked. My friend explained that they like their towels really hard and scratchy and most people make them soft so they preferred to bring their own!

The word 'towel' is now not looking like a real word anymore... Towel. Towel. Towel.

My parents bring towels to save me the washing (sweet). I might start asking them to bring their own bedding too

I always provide towels.
My late MIL always bought new expensive Christie towels from John Lewis when we visited, then sent them home with us. Bless her, she always made sure they matched my bathroom too. 😃

Pil bring theirs even though I'd be happy to provide them but I am pleased to not have to.

I provide them. I sometimes take them if I know friends have a lot on and don’t need extra washing. I take DS single duvet for the same reason.

I provide them for guests and have always had them provided when I've been a guest. Mil brings her own which I was a bit huffy about until she mentioned her fake tan habit. I wouldn't mind her tanning our towels but if it makes her feel more comfortable that's fine.