Amazon Basics100% Cotton Terry Cabana Stripe Pool & Beach Towel, Soft & Absorbant, 2-Pack, Navy Blue, 76 x 152 cm

These towels are great. Lovely and thick without being too bulky to take on holiday and a nice big size. The colours are bright and they've washed well.

It makes me laugh that these are classed as 'basics'. They may be a staple of the new Amazon range, but they're anything but basic. Generously sized and plumped up wonderfully, our pair of towels survived a fortnight trip to Egypt and endured poolside and beach use without any loss of luxuriance. At most they got a rinse through - and still retained their softness and absorbency throughout. Even on return after a hot spin in the washing machine, they plumped up once again and felt soft to the touch. No loss of colour, vibrancy and despite the dryer filter being quite fluffy, there was no noticeable loss on the towels. Very absorbent, it was lovely to have these towels to lie down on after a soak in the pool - the hire towels just couldn't compete. Great value, excellent quality and perfectly sized for adults - highly recommended.

The good: These towels are exceptionally thick and soft when new. They are super absorbant and just really lovely, thick, cozy large towels. They stayed that way after washing as well, for a time.The bad: After about two years of moderate use (I have no idea how long towels usually last but I have other towels that are still nice that are MUCH older), they really started to fall apart.Every time they go through my dryer, the lint catch is beyond full, and there are huge clumps of lint floating around in with the towels, as well. And it shows in the towels, as they are quickly becoming thin and not nearly what they were just a few months ago. So I would say we got a good two years out of them, and then when they started to "age" with use, they rapidly declined, over a period of just a few weeks.The price is okay, but I would rather not be replacing my towels every two years, so I am not sure if I would recommend them. I would say they would be great for beach/swimming towels that see only occasional use, but not for regular/daily use.

I bought these as they were being used in our hotel, and we loved them.They're extremely large, very absorbent, lovely and fluffy and nice and thick.The only drawback is that you have to wash them a few times first and a little bit runs (we bought the dye catchers after the first wash to prevent it). They lose A LOT of fluff in the tumble dryer on the first few washes (we could've stuffed a few teddies!) , but they still remained nice and thick and fluffy.

Bought these for a one week sailing holiday in Croatia. They were fabulous. A good large size and thicker/fluffier than your usual beach towels, a bit more like bath towels. Comfy to sit on / lie on while on the yacht. Also love the striped look - although it was a little silly of me to buy two of the same colour, meant my boyfriend and I effectively shared the two towels for the trip rather than each having our own. But, I wanted navy and they were only selling the set of 2 at the time...!A note of caution, we only washed them once before we left and I don't think that was enough - for the first few days we were both getting covered in little bits of blue fluff. Would suggest washing twice at least before taking them away anywhere.

Lovely Beach Towels

Thicker than I thought they'd be, but not too heavy for packing. Soft and big!!Very pleased.....

the fabric is OK but it does fray quickly