How do people who change clothes often manage when packing for holidays?

[ApolloandDaphne]

I often see people on here who say they change pyjamas daily and same with bras or each all outer wear after one wear. Same with people who change clothes when they come home and won't sit on a bed in outdoor clothes. How do you manage on holiday?

I only ask as I like to change my pyjamas after every two nights and I'm going on holiday for almost three weeks soon. we have an apartment with a washing machine half way through the holiday. I can wash undies by hand but not pyjamas. I won't be able to get them dry.

Do people who change clothes a lot do a lot of washing on holiday or just lower their standards?

I know someone who literally takes all the clothes they think they’ll need, no washing. Usually new! Pays extra for hold luggage.

I take about 4 outfits, but more underwear, have wash soap.

I will have hold luggage. I'm going business class and can take masses of luggage but that would be ridiculous. I have one large suitcase and need to take clothes to suit a variety of activities and weathers. I won't have it full of pyjamas that's for sure.

We don’t take clothes changing anywhere near to MN extremes but for longer stays we always choose accommodation with laundry facilities.

Perhaps they're staying somewhere with a washer/dryer? Lots of holiday flats have these so you only need a few day's worth of clothes if you're prepared to do a few loads of laundry whilst there.
Otherwise, most hotels will do laundry for an exorbitant rate or there are launderettes in big cities.
Or maybe they do have loads and loads of luggage.

On holiday , I tend to sleep in vest tops and knickers- so wear the vest top as part of a outfit , then, assuming it’s clean enough, just wear it top sleep in for a couple of nights.
I might take a couple of nighties, but no more, unless I have a washing machine in the accommodation.

I generally stay somewhere that either has a washing machine or access to a laundrette.

i prefer Airbnb and aparthotels to standard hotels anyway because I am disabled. I do wash less on holiday than I would at home.

Why couldn't you get pajamas dry? Just hang them up after washing.

I guess if you have an apartment and are staying put for a few weeks you can easily do washing. That makes sense. We are doing a road trip and moving on every 2/3 days and as far as I am aware we only have one place with a washing machine half way through. I guess I will have to lower my standards and do three nights in my pyjamas. I run very warm at night and they get a bit sweaty though.

That wouldn't really work. Cotton pyjamas take an age to dry if hand washed and we are moving every few days. This isn't a hot country holiday so no drying outside in the sun.

This is an obvious question but why, if you get warm at night, do you wear pyjamas?

Yes I realise it might seem mad but I feel weird in less clothing. I have short sleeved tops and long bottoms. I do have some short ones for very hot holidays. I'm less keen on them. I feel the cotton pyjamas absorb some sweatiness and I am not always sweaty. Basically it's my preference.

I think these are the people whinging about how the airport queues are so long because they have two cases to check for a weeklong holiday.

Meanwhile, we just took a family holiday with nothing more than the free Ryanair under seat bags that are like the size of a lunchbox and it was totally fine. Even had room to bring a few things back!

Even worse though, Dh will pack every single item of clothing he owns for a holiday (he did not come on aforementioned Ryanair small bag holiday). Like a huge bag with literally something for every possible eventuality. Then never wears any of it! He will stay in the clothes he wore there the entire holiday, occasionally changing into shorts or swim trunks, but then back into original clothes. It fries my brain every time. All the effort of packing. All the crap spread all over the room, because he definitely unpacks it all and dumps it in piles on the floor everywhere. The huge bag. Same clothes for 7 bloody days. Every time. He’s not neurodiverse btw, before anyone suggests it. He’s just really annoying.

I wear fresh pajamas every day and won’t wear any clothes twice without washing. Never had an issue on holiday as we tend to only go for a week. Last time we did two weeks, it was in a villa so had a washing machine. Usually take a full size suitcase and a cabin bag, as does my partner. He often lets me put a few bits in his bag if I need to.

I take extra knickers and put a clean pair on before bed, on a hot holiday I will mainly sleep in knickers and vests so they don't take up much room. A standard size case is plenty big enough for a week off clothing without having to wash or rewear things

I either take enough things to last me, use the washing machine if staying in an apartment/villa, or use laundry service if in a hotel.

I recently went away for 7 nights and so took 10 pairs of knickers - a clean pair for each day plus spares. We're about to go away for 10 days to a villa with a washing machine - I will take 4-5 pairs of PJs for my kids, and expect to do some washing half way through the holiday,

You don't need to change pyjamas every two days. It's time to unlearn this habit.

You couldn't put them on a radiator?

The sheer illogicality of that would annoy me, never mind the mess, the wasted effort and potentially the extra baggage fees.

For a 14 night holiday I take 7 day and 7 night outfits and mix/match. Plus a coming home outfit, 14 pairs of socks as tend to wear trainers when we go for a walk, 28 pairs of pants as I shower before dinner.

I try and pack as many old/faded pants/socks as possible and bin them before coming home!

That would depend if any of our accommodation was heated by radiators and if it was cold enough to have them on. I have no idea about this.

We are going on a road trip mid May in Canada taking in city, lakes, wine areas and mountains. I will have no idea of the weather until nearer the time and I think there will be a lot of variation depending on where we are.

Yes I always wonder how people who insist on clean towels daily cope with things like camping. Perhaps they don't camp.

I usually find hand washing on holiday is absolutely fine. Stuff dries on the line in the UK in October after all, and a lot of bathrooms have heated towel rails these days. You can finish things off a bit with a hairdryer if need be, or pack them in a plastic bag nearly-dry and finish off at your next stop. We've even driven with towels spread on the parcel shelf to dry when we had toddlers.

I'd take maybe a handful of vest tops and shortie PJ bottoms or boxers. I do think small, thin cotton things like this will dry fine overnight. You can even layer with one or rwo bigger PJs in the evenings if you like. But if you pack light I do think you can handwash and figure something out.

I don't own 28 pairs of pants!

How and why with the RyanAir bags?
We just went for a weekend away my under seat bag which was exact measurements had trainers, hairdryer, purse, scarf, gloves, kindle, phone, chargers, medication, passport and water bottle. There was barely any room for the crisps and mints I bought at the airport!

This made me think of my gran, who used to start the day in housework clothes (house was thoroughly cleaned by 730am every day) then change into just house clothes, if she was going to the shops, that meant a change into something nicer, and back into house clothes on return, and then if she went to mass, (which she often did) that was another change! She never really went on holiday and this might be why!

We recently spent a month away in winter, starting and ending at my parents so we had access to a washing machine there but we had 3 weeks touring and moving between hotels. I took layers and just took PJ bottoms, some of the day layers became Pj tops.

I can go for over a week with a Kipling duffle bag that sits under plane seats

I don't wear pajamas

Pants - one for every day plus 2 spare.

Summer holidays I don't wear socks.

Skirts and shorts can be worn several times.

If you want to take jeans wear them to travel in.