No more wet towels stinking up the motorhome
I was on a motorhome Facebook group yesterday and someone asked about motorhome towels, or rather more specifically how do you dry towels in a motorhome because theirs were stinking up the place. That brought back memories. I popped a comment replying to their question with a link to this blog post which I wrote back in July 2017. That was when I discovered the perfect motorhome towel a micro-towel towel. It’s now almost four years later and I still say these are the best thing for motorhomes (we still have the same ones, so we now know they last well too).
I thought I’d dig out the post and re-share if you because there are loads of folks out there new to motorhome life and stocking up their vans for their first adventure. Hopefully it will stop their van stinking too!
The Perfect Motorhome Towel
I had was sick of damp and wet towels hanging around drying and stinking up our motorhome, so I set about find a solution to this problem. It lead me to the perfect motorhome towel!
Normal household towels aren’t great in the van as they take ages to dry. This means you end up with damp towels hung up which start to smell fusty after a while. I tried a micro-fibre towel, but I didn’t like the feel of it on my skin, it never felt dry. However, the micro-fibre towel dried so much faster than the normal towels, so it got used for drying my hair after a shower.
When we were back in the UK gearing up for a trip to the Alps, I was looking for a new ski jacket and spotted micro-towelling towels
Hoping they were as good as they looked, I bought a couple to try. After six weeks of use, and a few laundry washes, we think they’re great. UPDATE – We’ve now used these as our motorhome towel for over five years. One is starting to hole slightly in one place, which is easily repairable, but otherwise they are still working well.
They dry quickly, so they don’t get chance to smell fusty. The only downside we’ve found is that you can’t tumble dry them. This isn’t really a problem as we only tumble dry when we have to – ie winter or cold places. When we weren’t able to dry on the line, I’d simply remove the towels from the washing as I loaded the tumble dryer. Back at the van, I’d hang them up in the bathroom using extra loops I’ve sewn onto them for easy hanging and suction hooks so they can hang across the width of the bathroom, and even without the heating on they’re dry in a few hours – not bad from being soaking wet.
When writing this article I discovered that the towels were much cheaper from Amazon than direct from Mountain Warehouse. So I’d certainly recommend you grab a couple ahead of your next trip and banish fusty towels from motorhome too!
Cheers, Ju
Thanks for the tip – will investigate for our next m/home adventure!
I’m sold, have ordered 2 (through your link) One machine wash in 6 months use, sounds like you just knocked a couple of billion tonnes of CO2 off the worlds future forecast. We ALL need one!
Kindest, Wayne
I find that cotton sarongs make the perfect travel towels as they are cheap and also dry very quickly. They also double as a skirt, shawl, scarf, blanket, tablecloth, curtain and laundry bag!
We already use them and think they are brilliant! Agree with everything you say about them. Paul
Yup just ordered 2 as well and I hope that the link worked.
The controller is Thai and I’ve got some sarongs as well, don’t tell anyone !!!
Thanks for the info. Just ordered some. Also like the sarong idea. Love reading your daily report!!
Thank you, just ordered 2.
I have tried both and much prefer the pure Microfibre towels!
Each to their own Mike :) some how I just don’t feel like I am dry when using the microfibre ones – maybe they take some getting used to. Ju
Update: we bought some in a Decathalon store in Spain 2 weeks ago, the ‘Fluffy’ version, but the same thing. Finding them just as you decribed, but can not believe how heavy they are when wet. Very pleased with them, thanks for the tip.
Ju, we have the largest version and agree they are great. But I have tumble dried mine loads of times and they are still fine so you could risk it but they dry so quickly there isn’t really any need.
On your recommend I bought a large one, which I have tested at home and it’s very good. I am planning a couple of trips this year but the first one is a long weekend in France on my bicycle, so space definately limited. Thanks for the recommend.
Sweet!
Bought one of these to use on the pooch when we are motorhoming, now wish I had tried it on myself first!
Haha, fantastic! Cheers, Jay
Remember you getting these a while back and was going to ask, used your link and ordered 3 (one for Sam our dog) thanks for the info
Andy
Cheers Andy! Jay
Correction: The post & comments were from 2016, 5 years ago! :-)
We still use them too. They have been in several tumbling dryers with no harm. But I would say the don’t dry your skin as quickly and thoroughly as Terry-Towels.
Regards Wayne