Originally Posted by
mario
I like to travel very light (think back pack for a two week trip). With that comes the burden of having to do laundry downroute, which means I have to either pay extortionate laundry charges or set aside a few hours to find and use a laundromat.
I appreciate that usually lounges are used at the beginning or end of a trip, but today I was thinking that it would be great if airports/lounges offered this service. I'm on a multi-sector trip and I really could do with a laundromat at the airport.
Time at airports is dead time anyway, so using it to get laundry done would be fantastic. Would you use it if BA offered it? What other out of the box services could lounges offer that would be useful?
Even if offered, I wouldn't do my laundry at an airport. It appears to me as inconvenient. What happens if your flight gets cancelled and you have to rush to the transfer desk to be rerouted? "Sorry, I can't accept this rerouting, my laundry is not done yet" or something similar comes to mind. Another problem might be that clothes don't come out fully dry even when using a drying cycle.
I generally travel quite light too and have done laundry on multiple trips. Sometimes hotels have laundry machines that can be used by guests, or if no hotels with laundry machines are available it often pays to make a strategic airbnb booking mid-trip. A lot of countries have laundromats that offer laundry-by-weight. You essentially hand over your clothes in a bag and pick them up a few hours or a day later. Someone else takes care of the washing, so you won't have to wait like in a typical laundromat.
Agreed that laundy charges in hotels are ridiculous.