To expect high-end, family-friendly self-catering accommodation to have a wahing machine?!

[Maffy]

We have booked a week's holiday in Cornwall at a high-end family-friendly self-catering cottage, run by a large heritage organisation. It cost well over £1k for the week.

We have just found out it does not have a washing machine...

Its website say their kitchens and bathrooms are 'equipped to a high and modern standard', so surely that should include a washing machine?

The property is advertised as child- and dog-friendly, provides a cot for a baby, and is on the coast for days at the beach.

The nearest laundrette would be c. 15 miles away too. It is not an option to bring enough clothes, towels and bedding for five people due to space in the car.

AIBU, please?

Landmark trust?
I don't think they have washing machines in many/any of their properties.
If towels, sheets etc are provided then it's just clothes. You (or DH!) could go to a laundrette (that does it all for you!) Near home on the way back and count it as part of your holiday!

Why on earth would you do any laundry on a holiday in the first place? Just take 7 days worth of clothes and wash when you are back home.

Whyare you taking bedding surely bedding is provided you are only going for a week do you need to do a washing a few towels few changes of clothes each doing washing on holiday isnt a holiday i could see the point if it was a fortnight

I feel such a slob now. Clothes brought home in a black bag for washing. Towels just put out to dry in the sun, if we are lucky enough to have nice weather. No bedding just sleeping bags. Wanders off thread feeling very grubby . Have a lovely holiday Op, Cornwall is lovely.

In fact, you can search the landmark trust website by washing machine availability (but there are only 27) I have stayed in several Landmark trust properties and have never needed to bring sheets and towels. (Their FAQs are here: www.landmarktrust.org.uk/faqs/)

Landmark properties always have bedding and towels in my experience. A few have had washing machines too. Most have dishwashers.

Can't you just take your washing home with you? I've never heard of anyone taking bedding with them and doing laundry while on holiday.

Im slobby too we have a dirty bag and a clean bag for coming home and we dry towels off

MrsJayy, sounds like my kind of holiday. The children think the dirtier they get the more fun they've had.

YANBU. That would p*ss me right off. I hate knowing that if clothes have gotten completely mucky that they are festering and staining permanently for a few days before we can get home.

I don't expect to bring my own sheets and towels other than beach towels to SC accommodation though it's nice to have your own sheets rather than polyester crap if you get unlucky.

Are you sure there isn't access to one on site somewhere?

If there's no joy then I'd be out buying cheap leggings and waterproof trousers for the kids to trash for the week.

Yanbu! Funnily enough, having read your post I just checked our self catering place this summer and we don't have a washing machine either !! It never occurred to me to check! We've always had one in other cottages and I don't think I ever checked then either. I always just expected it. Oh well, looks like we'll be washing by hand. At least I'll be prepared for it now thanks to your post. I don't think it would have put me off booking it, but it has surprised me.

Sometimes the Heritage self catering companies do not have all modern appliances. I think some Landmark Trust properties do not even have tvs, but correct me if I am wrong.

When paying top prices for self catering, they should have a washing machine, after all they are supposedly catering to the family market. Some companies/letting agents avoid this by having an "on-site" washing facility and this is not good enough either. Who the hell wants to queue to use washing facilities and have to pull someone elses washing out of the machine.

I think you have been caught out, not unreasonably, by expecting the basics. However, £1000 per week in Cornwall isn't even top price now. Have a look at Unique Homestays in the summer holiday weeks.

We are lucky enough to have a sc cottage and when we refurbed the kitchen/utility room a year or two after we bought it, I made sure there was enough room to keep the washing machine but also to put a drier in. I don't want to look at dripping pants on the radiator on my holidays , and I'm happy for the folk who are using the house to have that too.

YABU to expect it. Nothing luxurious about doing washing!

I don't think OP has to take her own towels and bedding? Sounds like she is saying it's just not an option to fill up the car with a load extra. (Don't do that, that's a terrible idea!)

No washing machine?! Surely not! I shan't believe it! What if you all get a bug and spend all week shitting yourselves?

(I sincerely hope that does not happen).

On the other hand, provided you don't have to wash Poo out of sheets, it might be nice to have the excuse of not being able to do the washing.

But I think it's a mistake, I think it's such an obvious thing to have at a self catering place they haven't bothered mentioning it. It's probably included in the 'modern kitchen'.

Otherwise it's bit like them saying

"Oh yeah, it's self catering so bring your own food......oh, one other thing, there's no oven or anything, so don't bring anything you'll need to cook".

They are probably on a shared septic tank and washing machine used incorrectly stuff up septic tanks quickly, so they tend to be removed from properties where guests will not understand the implications of using bio washing powders.