or, as a previous poster mentioned, you will be taken to the cleaners. I usually wash things in the sink, wring them, carefully place them on a towel, roll up the towel, place on the floor, step all over the towel (thus "pressing" the clean items), hang up to dry using your blow-up hangers or clothespin hangers. This works great for my casual travel clothes, might not be so good for a man's business shirt or such.

Easiest cheap laundry locations are cities and towns in Asia. At the BKK Shangri-La you can let the hotel do your laundry for about $6 per item, or you can be a cheapskate like me. Walk out the front door, head down the sloping driveway and around to the right, 90 seconds later you come to the streetside door of the hotel's laundry in the basement. The price list is 1/3 the cost of the ticket in your room. Of course, you bought your room at the Shangri-La on PriceLine for about $79 a nite... ^

In Chiang Mai there are laundry signs everywhere. I took my duds to a beauty shop where they did laundry, I got my clothes washed and ironed with same-day service for about 20 cents per item.

In Luang Prabang, Laos, there are even more laundry signs all over town. There I took my laundry to a restaurant, with next day delivery for $1 per kilo. Same price all over town. By noon the whole town is festooned with tourists' laundry on drying racks in the sun. The laundry lady didn't get my name or write anything down, when I came to retrieve my clothes she looked at me, smiled, and went to get my bagful.

In Bali I use the commercial laundries out in the ricefields outside the main towns. You see a large warehouse-looking building out in the boonies, it's probably a laundry. Prices are 10 to 20 cents per item, next day service. Be sure to tell them, "no smell," or they put some kind of strong fragrance in the clothes.

In Siem Reap, Cambodia, my hotel, the wonderful Villa Loti, had a basket in the room for laundry. Fifty cents per item, in by 8am, back by 8pm (usually).