What are the small towels for?

[Towelhowl]

In a holiday let, you usually get a big towel and a small towel arranged artfully at the foot of the bed. What to do you consider the small towel for/what do you call it?

That's a flannel, a hand towel would carpet an entire Borrower ballroom I reckon.

I saw something on TV where they ran an ultraviolet light over hotel bedspreads and they were covered in body fluids.
Never sit on that thing!!

Since you asked, I've been using the bath towel, since my hair isn't of Rapunzel like proportions I find it all totally adequate.

I'm slightly overawed that OP has been taking her own hand towels on holidays etc instead of a hair turban thingie. Wouldn't that help?

Quite! First thing that ends up on the floor when I get to a hotel, if there's a bedspread or one of those horrible decorative runner type things. Yuk!

Yes those silly bed runners. What are they for?

I tend to sleep on a hand towel as my hair gets a bit hot and sticky and a towel helps with the menopausal night sweats.

But I’m agog at @Towelhowl assigning a single drying duty to each towel.

You are using your body towel for your hair? This is not acceptable

I only wash my hair once a week and rarely stay in a hotel for more than a night or two so don’t usually have to wash my hair whilst staying in a hotel.

But if I did need to wash it, I would use the large towel to wrap it in for five minutes before letting it dry naturally or blow drying it.

You realise you can use it as you wish though, right? 😂 No one is watching you.

Why is it ‘unacceptable’ to use a ‘body towel’ for your hair? 😂

Have you just arrived on Earth OP?

The thing that really confuses me is when you stay in a hotel where there is no bath, just a shower but they still supply bath towels. What are you supposed to do then?

They're for folding into the shape of a cygnet.

Spunk bucket (see penis beaker in Classics) 😂😂😂

I always take a microfibre hair wrap with me

I like a small towel as a hand towel and another as a face towel. At home I have a third for my hair.

It's a hand towel. Or to wrap your hair up in after washing. What I thought most people did...

Smaller than a hand towel is a guest towel.
They are good for drying hands but too small for hair or body.

Hang on OP.

you note two towels on the bed, large and small.

you think the small one is for hair drying and isn’t a hand towel for bathroom use?

What is the large towel used for?

My answer: The small towel is a hand towel (which can be used for hair) the large towel is a bath towel.

I cannot get my head around this

Are you joking? They are just towels... big enough to go around a person's body after washing, doesnt matter where they've done it!

wtf?! This requires further explanation…

Are you on glue ?

For me personally, the large one is for body and the smaller one is for hair. I don't use those sort of towels as hand towels.

In general people don't have personal hand towels do they? So I don't think it's that crazy that I wouldn't they they were for personal hand drying

I was only joking, I do use my towel at home for both purposes sometimes.

Oh phew. I am sure there are some on MN who would say that freshly washed hair is too gross to touch the body towel! Fwiw, I don’t wrap my hair up in a towel ever because I have a fringe and it makes it all wonky if I do.

So at home Dh and I have a hand towel each, either side of the sink. We also have a bath sheet each and I have an additional hand towel to use as a hair towel ( which I hang up with my bath sheet).