If you were staying at a self catered cottage

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That says it supplies towels, what would you expect ,size and how many?

Depends how many guests and rooms.

One large and one small per person, plus hand towels.

And length of stay.

As Lottie said. Although depends on length of stay and if there's a washing machine

Bath towel and hand towel each.

I supply one bath sheet, one bath towel, one hand towel, one face cloth per person. I also leave two hand towels in each bathroom.

I would like a bath sheet and a bath towel per person plus several hand towels.

However, the norm seems to be to supply only one bath towel and one hand towel per person, meaning that you can't wrap yourself and your hair in lovely big towels and unless you are travelling with people who don't need hair towels, you need to multitask the hand washing towels.

It's one of those things on the long list of inadequacies on most holiday accomodation. It's not even like supply of sufficient towels needs to be expensive. You can get perfectly lovely towels for not very much in supermarkets or the likes of Ikea, Dunelm or Matalan. On a 'cost per person per day' basis, it will probably be fractions of pennies.

Sleeps 2 for 5 nights

Definitely a bath towel and hand towel each. Preferably a spare of each. In a nice place, a hair towel as well per person.

A bath towel and a smaller towel each. I take my own face cloths.

In that case

4 bath sheets, 4 bath towels and 4 hand towels, so they can alternate if needing to dry or not use the same towel 5 days in a row - some people will be fine with this, but many would find using a towel even more than once unimaginably grim.

One large, one small pp.

Bath towel and small towel per person. Any extra is a bonus

1 large and 1 hand towel each plus a couple of bathmat type towels.

how many did you find op?

One bath and one hand per person is the norm

plus a bath mat

This is not because of the outlay to buy the towels initially, but the logistics of washing and drying towels as well as storage of drying ones. Holiday cottages usually need to have 3 of everything to allow for same day check in and out and damage

If they promised towels, I would hope each of you got at least a bath towel and hand towel, not forgetting a couple of hand towels in the kitchen and bathroom.
Is there a washing machine?

Thing is, Barbara is suggesting 6 towels per person, my holiday cottage sleeps 5 so that would be 30 towels. Even providing 2 each is 10 towels for potentially a 2 night stay. It's not the cost of buying the towels that's the problem it's the washing! I don't provide towels for this reason.

1 bath towel & 1 hand towel pp plus at least one hand towel for the bathroom, one bath mat and 2-3 tea towels in the kitchen.

1 large, 1 small per person.

Towels in each bathroom/toilet/kitchen.

Spare hand towels.

Several kitchen towels.

Bath & hand towel pp and a hand towel and cloth in the kitchen.

I don't think I've ever stayed in a self-catering cottage which doesn't supply towels!

I'd expect a large and small towel per person as a minimum. With beach places it's also nice to have a stack of (not necessarily matching) cheap and cheerful beach towels.

Last place we stayed had one bath towel per person (plus hand towel, bath mat and one tea towel). I had at least thought to bring beach towels. It felt that we could have done with a few more!

I think its fair enough you provide own beach towels if I am honest - most folk already have them. But for the house for an up to 3 night stay one set bath and hand each plus one hand per bathroom, double that for a week OR provision of washer and dryer - happy to stick a load on and in the dryer - just not on the line as can't guarantee the weather etc.

If I ran a HC Business I would expect to have two sets of towels and alternate them for bookings. Running a business has overheads and if you are finding what customers want is expensive then you need to relook at your prices or make what they want an extras price e.g. change set of towels midweek £15 etc