North Point Sleep Master Jacquard Velour Hotel Cabana Stripe Beach Towel, 30 by 60″, Red
- Classic 30×60 – Inch Size
- 100% Soft Twist Cotton Yarns
- Ultra Soft and Absorbent
- Fun and Elegant Colors
- Machine wash and dry for easy care
Our sleep master towel collection features fun and elegant colorful strips, woven from premium soft twist cotton yarns to achieve an ultra-absorbent and durable finish. These beach towels are the perfect companion for any getaway.
List Price: $ 10.99
Price:
Soft, Thin, and Smaller After Washing,
To begin with the good; it’s reasonably priced, 100% cotton, made in India, soft velour on one side and looped terry on the other, the seams are stitched well, and it’s pretty, with colorful stripes of white and your color of choice. I got the sky blue.
Now the bad. My towel was 29 inches by 59 1/2 inches before washing, about an inch smaller than what’s stated in length and width. The towel hanging in the picture looks more like two towels of the size I received. After washing, it shrunk to 27″ x 53 1/2″, a HUGE change in length! I washed it in warm water on regular setting and dried it on permanent press/low wrinkle setting. I didn’t over-dry it. It came with two different washing instructions. The sewn on tag stated to machine wash and tumble dry, wash colors separately before use, do not bleach. An attached cardboard tag stated to machine wash in cold water on gentle cycle with like colors, and wash dark colors separately. Tumble dry low. Do not bleach. My treatment may have caused some of the shrinkage but, the instructions were unclear and conflicting. It also faded into some other white cotton items that I washed it with, so DO be careful about that! None of the other items were valuable so I wasn’t terribly upset but it could have been bad. There were a few, small pulls in the terry but they were small and far between. My lint filter was full of blue lint, which surprised me for one large-average sized towel.
All this noted, for the price one can’t really expect a big, thick, luxury towel. What I have is a relatively thin, soft, pretty beach towel that isn’t much larger than a regular bath towel. It’s adequate for kids to take to the pool or beach if they aren’t too large or wet.
I will update if I have problems with it as more time passes.
edit- I’m adding a couple pictures to compare this towel to a regular, plush bath towel and another, unwashed beach towel that I purchased on sale for around the same price. In the folded picture, all towels were folded in like fashion.
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|Be forewarned the towel in the picture is not the towel you will receive.,
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|But what if you wash it in hot water?,
Here are my results:
– Fresh out of the package: The towel measures 29.5 x 59.5 inches. The blue stripes and edges are very bold, and the white is white. The terrycloth loops on the non-velour side of the towel are very easy to snag and pull (I created a small run just taking the towel out of its plastic bag and unfolding it). No lint.
– After washing in my front-loader, on “Sanitize”: The towel measures roughly 27 x 57 inches. Lots of lint. White strips are now very pale blue, as is a sacrificial t-shirt I washed with the towel.
– After drying, on “Normal”: The towel measures roughly 25 x 55. The terrycloth loops have shortened, and the weave has tightened up, and the towel feels like a typical towel (with one terrycloth side and one softer velour side). The short edges look a tiny bit contracted, perhaps because of differential shrinkage. There is more lint, and the white stripes are still a very pale blue.
Overall, I think this is a decent towel for the price. Despite the tag there’s no need to wash it on cold. (The hang tag says cold, but the sewn-on cloth tag just says “machine wash.” It’s possible they got complaints about shrinkage and this was the fix.) If other towels are any indication, the lint problem will resolve after the first few washings. I note that the towel is hemmed on all four sides, which I do consider to be a sign of a quality towel.
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