Doing your laundry on a Scandinavia trip?

[MarcescaJacobs]

Three of us are travelling for almost a month by train/ferry in the summer. I’m trying to limit us to a medium wheeled case each at the most.

I’ve googled laundry services in the cities we’re going to be in and they seem to be non existent outside of hotels. I don’t want to be paying hotel prices if there’s another option.

Does anyone have any knowledge of this (boring) subject 😂please?

What kind of accommodation are you staying in?
We used apartments and holiday campsites and they usually had communal laundry facilities

Hotels.

Don't know if this is possible at this stage but your best bet is to add in some Airbnb with washing machines to your accommodation.

Copenghagen, stockholm, malmo, oslo, bergen: tricky to find launderettes. Are you able to swap to airbnbs or apartment hotels in some cities so that you can do laundry? And amazon sell washing machine laundry sheets which will take up no space in your luggage

Or do what I did on one trip, buy a travel washing line and soap and wash in the sink.

Everything is booked, including hotels. I guess I’ll have to suck up the cost. Good idea @wizzywig , we can hand wash our smalls at least.

I guess we could also take a cabin case each too, we have the baggage allowance but I wanted to travel as light as possible.

Yeah laundrettes aren’t very common, they’re are some in Stockholm, but you’ll be more successful prebooking a slot in a dry cleaner.

stockholm laundromat that we’ve previously used
https://elittvatten.com

@Simonjt holy moly that's expensive!

Thank you, 😳 yes it is expensive. I think we’ll have to think about taking more clothes, which I was hoping not to do.

Could you cancel one hotel booking and swap it out for an apartment with laundry facilities?
We tend to mix hotels with apartments for this exact reason when traveling.

If you are in Copemhagen, There's the Laundromat Cafe in Østerbro.

https://thelaundromatcafe.com/en/home

Where else are you going?

I like to stay in nice hotels where I don’t have to do anything, did lots of self catering when the kids were little and I’m past it.

I just wanted to prebook a laundry collection service but it doesn’t look like that’s possible in very many places. Helsinki is half way through our trip and it looks like it’s an option there. We just won’t be travelling as light as I’d hoped.

In Helsinki, take a look at the 24 Pesula chain- quite a few dotted around the city.

https://24pesula.fi/en/city/helsinki/

I only know of one in central Stockholm (pretty sure it is the only one...at least it used to be!)

Tvättomatten.se (Google should translate it).

Highly recommend the food.in the Laundromat Cafe in Copenhagen whilst waiting for washing, though!

🙏, Copenhagen is our last stop/flight home so we won’t need it there. Helsinki and Trondheim would be good timing wise. I can’t find anything in Trondheim.

I’ll probably just suck up the hotel charge and minimise our laundry, I just hadn’t planned on it being that tricky.

Welcome to Sweden!

What about ironing board and iron? We take easy to wash tops and hang them out in the shower. Then over towel rad! Then iron. Not huge amounts but we don't travel that light! T shirts wash out easily. Obviously undies too. Not sure if you wear easy dry travel clothes but they might be helpful. I like hotels too! Have a lovely trip.

I used to use these when I lived in Trondheim. Klesvask They will pick up and deliver too. They used to pick up my dry cleaning from my work, they were excellent.

Where are you staying in Trondheim? People here are really friendly and if you speak to the hotel, they'll often sort something for you.
When I lived in Stockholm, some friends stayed at Hobo hotel and Hobo sorted some laundry for them.

We're at the Raddison in Trondheim @IngenTing .

Now I've looked into it a bit more we will probably take enough clothes for ten days minimum and see how we get on.

Yes @TizerorFizz to a degree, I'll be wearing relatively quick dry clothes most of the time, I suspect that my young adults will be a different matter.

I don't mind washing the odd thing by hand, but I really am not up for doing much.

@MarcescaJacobs I never do much!

Get your young adults to do their own! I find soap in a bathroom good enough.

They definitely will be doing their own laundry @TizerorFizz , but we are sharing a suite for most of the trip and I really do not want to look at laundry hanging everywhere for a month in a relatively small space.

Take laundry sheets rather than powder, to save space.

Oh. I see. Not two bathrooms then. We would never wash out t shirts every day! We tend to do something every week! But we take enough luggage to permit that. We haven't been in with dc since they were under 10. They had their own tent on safari!

We do this kind of trip regularly, and whilst I prefer hotels, I always mix this up with at least one apartment with a washing machine every week, as laundry in the sink at a hotel is painful.
I don't do housework in the apartment, just like the space and facilities.