What do you do to save Hotel laundry charges?

[Hvr]

Re rotating the underwear and going commando, I find that there are some big issues to tackle. :mrgreen:

Therefore, I prefer to wash every day or two with fast drying (silk) boxers. T shirts/singlets and socks are easy enough to wash every day or two and just occasionally you find a hotel with a self service washing machine you can use.

 

[Sprucegoose]

I'm lazy, I pay the hotel to wash/dry/iron all my clothes!

I don't trust commercial laundries with my clothes. Work clothes yes, but my SR shirts and trousers, no.

 

[uzza]

I'll stretch shirts and pants as long as possible before I get them cleaned. Generally I take the hit and stump up for laundry at the hotel. If there's a guest laundry I'll also head there and do a load.

I'm also not adverse to the socks and scruds in the bath and then turn the room into one big clothesline, I always pack 5m or so of nylon string in my suitcase so I can do some smalls.

Word to wise: don't think you can get a wash cycle from a spa bath when its full of undies and socks. I turned on the spa at a hotel in Miami when it was full of dirty scruds, little did I realise I'd only quarter filled the bath with water and hadn't covered all the jets, and when the jets turned on.....WOOSH! There was dirty water everywhere! Thee roof, floor, walls, I couldn't have done a better job!

Suffice to say I got changed, called housekeeping and requested service, left a nice tip and "Sorry!" on piece of paper in the bathroom, and hit the bar for a good hour or so!

 

[Mal]

I once left a pair of trousers at a well known hotel in Bangkok. Remembered after I left, and actually was staying there about a week later. Didn't contact them about it, but asked when I checked in again. A phonecall was made, and my trousers were delivered to my room ... Washed, pressed and it was completely free!

 

[Princess Fiona]

I had some clothes laundered at the IC Seoul last month and one if my sweaters had a small ( ahem) ventilation hole in the underarm area The sweater appeared back sans ventilation area. Probably the first time I've received value for money from hotel laundry

 

[ckck]

A tip I picked up in my travels is I don't wring my clothes out and just smooth them out on an inflatable hanger and let them drip dry they tend to have fewer creases. If by chance the clothes are still damp in the morning I just dry them with the hair dryer and they dry very quickly (usually within a few minutes).



I don't do jetlag.

 

[JohnK]

A good girlfriend usually solves the need to pay for laundry charges.

But if you are not careful that method could end up costing way more than originally planned....

 

[TonyHancock]

A tip I picked up in my travels is I don't wring my clothes out and just smooth them out on an inflatable hanger and let them drip dry they tend to have fewer creases. If by chance the clothes are still damp in the morning I just dry them with the hair dryer and they dry very quickly (usually within a few minutes).

Same for me!

 

[Austman]

Tip: Never, never, never try to use your spa bath as a washing machine. It looks like a washing machine: with water and soap/bubbles agitating away. Don't be tempted!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Pretty simple in China - go to market and buy new shirts - cheaper then hotel laundry fees.

 

[Hvr]

Tip: Never, never, never try to use your spa bath as a washing machine. It looks like a washing machine: with water and soap/bubbles agitating away. Don't be tempted!

Were you more agitated than your clothes when it all went wrong?

 

[Deleted member]

Polo shirts save on ironing.
In Asia, I generally find laundry costs are reasonable. Europe is IMHO poisonous , can't recall what the US is like , its been a while since I was there.


It is I, Leclerc !

 

[coolumbla]

there is WAY too much info in some of these posts

FAmily C
in vietnam laundry opposite the hotel
China laundry opposite the hotel .The look on the poor ladies face as 5 peoples worth of clothes for a week arrived when it was 2 degrees outside and raining was priceless
Italy washing machine in the apartments ( poor sign meant all clothes were shrunk due to hot cycle)
Japan Mr ans Mrs C in a laundrette
Sri lanka colombo used teh free pressing as part of the room
kandy super cheap hotel that i just sent everything !
France as part of apartment in paris

Otherwise on my own enough for a week then new stuff!

C

 

[JessicaTam]

A good girlfriend usually solves the need to pay for laundry charges.

But if you are not careful that method could end up costing way more than originally planned....

Za Za Gabor claimed she was a good housekeeper - everytime she got a divorce she kept the house.

 

[JohnK]

Za Za Gabor claimed she was a good housekeeper - everytime she got a divorce she kept the house.

No one has been that lucky with me yet. But plenty of time....