COTTON CRAFT Hooded Hotel Towel Oversized Extra Large 40 x 80 - Heavyweight 700 GSM Towel with Hood

All right, so I have a weakness for bath products, including towels. I have a collection of towels that barely fits in the linen closet, including picks from luxury brands like Coyuchi, Frette, and Graccioza. I have ordered towels from Turkey, Japan, Italy, and France. I have spent a frankly irresponsible amount of money on towels over the course of my life. I wish that I had found these towels first. Ok, so, point the first. I'm a giant woman. I'm tall, and I'm fat. I have never been able to do 'the towel thing' with normal towels. You know, the thing where you securely wrap a towel around your chest, thus having the freedom to wander around searching for whatever clothes you want, or grab a glass of water without scandalising your roommates or any poor sod outside who happens to glance at your window as they're walking their dog? I CAN DO THE TOWEL THING NOW. And not just a little bit. It's wide enough to FULLY wrap around me and tuck in without it feeling precarious, and it's long enough that I'm not worried about any cheeky cheeks poking out of the bottom either. I fully sat down in my towel-thinged towel, it stayed tucked in, and nothing popped out. Roommates relieved. Passers-by unscandalised. Point the second. I have about four feet of thick, luxurious hair. It's the kind of hair that makes my salon appointments take four times as long as everyone else's and cost twice as much, and the kind of hair that makes stylists go "Ooooh, so much hair!" It's also the kind of hair that can soak through a normal towel when I dry it out of the shower, and when I try to do the OTHER towel thing - you know, the one where you put your head upside down and twist your hair up into a towel - about a foot and a half of hair pokes out of the bottom. I can do the other towel thing now too! Not only does it contain all four feet of my hair, it actually absorbs a LOT of the water from it without soaking the towel and making it feel damp and disgusting on my head. Now, it's a heavy towel to do the other towel thing with, but I figure if you're lugging around four feet of thick hair like me, your neck is probably up to the challenge of supporting it. My hair air dried in only two hours after ten minutes in this towel, instead of taking all day. So let's get to the cons, because yes, there are some. Not many. First, these bad boys shed. A lot. Even more than usual, but that's because they're so thick and soft. You're going to want to wash and dry them AT LEAST twice before you put them into rotation, unless you want lint in your hair and all over your bathroom floor. You'll need to empty the lint trap a few times during their dry cycle, or they're not going to dry properly in the dryer, and I expect that'll be the case for their lifespan. Mildly annoying, but a small price to pay for their absorbency and plushness. Second, the colours on offer at the time of this review are boring. It's a problem with most home textile brands, to be honest. I don't know when or where someone decided that bright colours and patterns are only for children, but good luck finding things of quality that aren't white, ecru, 'natural', black, grey, or any other variety of boring. I bought the black ones because they'll at least provide dark contrast with some of my more colourful towels and bathroom products. I would normally knock a star off for those two cons, but I won't this time, because the positives so vastly outweigh the negatives. Genuinely better than a good number of luxury brands. Just get yourself some, you won't regret it. Read more

I wanted extra large bath sheets, and that’s exactly what these are. I underestimated the weight, though. They’re quite heavy. These are more like high end beach or pool towels. I followed the instructions and washed / dried 3 times before use. While this did yield A TON of lint (a lot less on the third dry), the towels didn’t shrink and actually fluffed up a little. They aren’t super soft, but they didn’t bother my very sensitive skin and are quite absorbent. Also per instructions (and since they’re dark), I avoided using hot water. Both are color consistent and look just as dark as when they arrived. Ultimately, I’m very happy with them. Next time, though, I’ll look for dimensions between this size and a standard bath sheet. Read more

My husband loves these towels. They are huge and absorbent. He has also commented how heavy they are. One small negative is that they shed. He dries off in our shower and it leaves all this little black lint on the shower floor. I’m hoping this will stop after a few more washes. Read more

The hooded towel is very big and heavy, in a good way. It’s not a cheap made towel. Read more

It's not like I didn't know the measurements of the towels before I bought them--it's the reason I bought them, in fact--but I was still bowled over by the size. I have to be careful when I get out of the shower not to allow it to drag on the floor, which sometimes gets wet when I get out and makes the end of the towel wet and that's no bueno. Are they the softest towels I've ever used? Nah, those are the Restoration Hardware towels a friend has in her house, but those cost ~$70 each. For less than half that, these are a fine second choice. Read more

They do shed quite a bit at first. Do NOT throw anything else in with them until they stop leaving lint behind. That said, they are perfect once all the lint is washed out. Soft. Absorbent. Very heavy if saturated. Color doesn’t seem to fade in the wash. Works very well on my long hair. A friend who is a rather large gentleman uses these after showering and pool time. They wrap around him easily with a few inches to spare. They wrap around me about 2 times. He’s used them for years and they seem to be holding up fine. Read more

Luxurious and extra large, soft and absorbent! My only issue is that the material pulls very often and I find myself cutting threads off a lot. Read more

Very nice and soft Read more