I have wooden towel hooks and love them. Towels never fall off and towels dry just fine. So much easier to hang up.

We decided to do both, and I'm glad we did. We added hooks right outside the shower, so we can just grab a towel quickly when we're inside the shower and need to dry off. Use of hooks near our shower was also a space issue...we just didn't have room for a long towel bar. We haven't had any problems with the towels slipping off or anything like that. We have towel bars at the vanity, and over our tub, mostly for the look. It think it's all personal preference.

We converted from bars to hooks in our remodel and love the hooks so much more.

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Towel bars can look lovely --
But towel hooks are great to use. I'm a 'towel hooker'...

I know that people who've posted about renos in the past that switched to hooks love that you don't have to neatly fold the towels, and that if you have two towels of different size, it's less obvious on hooks rather than bars. I'm planning more hooks than bars personally for those reasons.

In a former home, I had a hook outside the shower door, mainly because of space limitations. I did not like the towel hook. I use towels more than once. The towel on the hook did not dry as quickly and began to smell funky.

I personally prefer hooks to towel bars - they use up way less space and it is easier just to throw the towel on the hook. My husband does not, however, so in our remodel we've decided to just have 2 of each.

Switched to hooks, after making sure that the towels would clear the wall altogether and not be touching it while wet. Completely fine with the hooks. They take up less space and the towels dry fine, for us.

flyleft, I never thought of that! (finding hooks that make the towels clear the wall). Neat idea.

I'm with bbstx. And, being clumsy, I worry about slipping and falling into a hook.

Hooks work better with my kids. They would never fold and hang a towel but at least the younger one hangs his up on a hook. Older DS just throws it on the floor with his dirty clothes. Nasty! There's a reason that I haven't visited his dorm room since he moved in! In addition when we have guests and they use the hall bath, there are more places to hang towels on hooks than bars (there were only two b4 I replaced them with hooks).

My DH has a double towel bar and I have hooks. Dragonfly hooks, looks lovely and works great!

Have 2 hooks behind our bathroom door and one by the shower. There is a towel ring on the wall next to each his/her vanity for hand towels. The only rack we have is the one on the bathtub sliding glass door in our guestroom where I put decorative hand towels. There are 2 hooks behind the door there as well for bath towels.

i like the bar to display pretty towels that enhance the decor of the room and to soften up the hardscape. for the towels that get everyday use, though, i'm thinking of a ring or hook. gotta figure out where to put it... probably somewhere close to the vanity for handwashing. for showers, i take a clean towel from the linen closet and throw it in the hamper when i'm done.

I personally love towel rings but I'd rather be able to just throw the towel on the darn thing. So when I remodeled my bathroom all by myself (SO PROUD to say so) It took me quite a while to find the right bath accessory but found the one below.
Jado Towel Ring Bath Accessory

This one is unique so I can throw the towel on it or hang it up easily.

I searched a little more and was savvy enough to find coupons for this site!

Here is a link that might be useful: Bath Towel Ring

Timely- We are nearing the end of 2 bathroom remodels (and they are the 2 that really get used). In each, there is a nice new towel bar,that will display pretty towels that may get used for hand wiping etc. But the REAL deal will be towel hooks(robe hooks?) on the back of the door to hang our wet bathsheets.
(Before the remodel- in one bath we were using hooks and the other,just draping it over the shower door.

I, too, vote for towel hooks. We are in the middle (nearing end) of a master suite remodel. Although our new master bath is not very large, it is much bigger than our old one. Because of the size restraints, we have chosen towel hooks. Our other full bath has bars, and I agree with the others... it is a pain to neatly fold the towels.
Thanks to flyleft, I will make sure the towels clear the wall!

I have to vote for bars or at least a mix. They do take up more space, but I haven't found a hook that holds our towels very well. After picking it up off the floor a few times, I'm irritated! We have over the door hooks, but those do better for robes and things with a tag that can be used as a loop.

I also vote for hooks. It's what we did on the back of our small bathroom door and it's nice to have one for each of us. The towels stay up and they look better. I will say though that I prefer the double hook. I can spread the towel over both sides to spread it out a bit more. And in the morning when I shower I move the towel to one side and hang my robe on the other while I'm in there. So for our new bathroom, I've limited my search to double hooks that look like they'd really hook into the towel - some are interesting, but look like the towel would easily slip off.

I went with the Moen Kingsley hooks.

We switched to all hooks in our recent remodel.
One outside the shower - it actually holds two towels, which is good since I use one for hair and one for body.
There is one hook at each of the two sinks for hand towels.
And we have a "train rack" which has three hooks where we hang the towels when we're not in the midst of showering, plus the rack part holds several extra towels.

I love having just hooks - the ones I've got work great, and the towels do not fall off the hooks.

I couldn't decide so I did both :)