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Must admit I always use a launderette when I'm away for a week or longer,as I try and not take mountains of clothes. Most campsites have a launderette and if they don't I just visit the nearest one to the campsite and get a service wash.

Like others I always try and take clothes which are quick drying like football shirts etc I wash my underwear in the showers and we always use the "travel" towels which are small to pack and quick to dry, although admittedly not the most comfortable to use.(secret is to pat dry and not rub!)

What I would not be without is my clothes airer as even in poor weather I can still dry towels etc in the tent.The travel towels dry overnight with no problem.

I often visit the local laundrette if away for a week or more.  I use travel towels too.

Towsure sell a range of washer from mini automatics to twin tub type ones.

We learnt  a lesson by not taking jeans because they take so long to dry if washed. Most of  our early days were camping on  a motor bike so space was at a limit. We bought Reggata or simalar trousers as they are light weight and easy to dry.Also used travel towels and also we washed under pants and socks in the shower.If still wet we layed them out on something ontop of the airbed and usauly dried out during the next day while we were out.

WG

So there's the spec then.

It must pack down to nothing, soak, wash, rinse and iron the clothes, and use virtually no elec. load.

 Easy peasy

I'd buy one!!

Gawd, this is an old thread come back from the dead......

But just to add my 2p...

If a campsite has laundry facilities, I`ll use them if I`m staying longer than about five days. I`ve got enough stuff to pack without carrying two weeks worth or more of clothes with me. Ditto I`m not going to get home from my nice relaxing holiday and have to get stuck into two weeks worth of filthy campsite washing, as well as to clean all the camping gear. It can be pricey, but  it`s part of the holiday budget as far as i`m concerned. Handwash? Am I not worth more than £4 or so for a load of washing and tumble drying?

Filthy? I have two kids, so it ALL gets filthy.But my other tip is to have a few sets of kids clothes just for camping...anything that`s about to be outgrown, any hand me downs, charity shop and jumble sale buys. It doesn`t have to look scruffy...I must be one of the few mums that dresses her kids in second hand Mini Boden on a campsite! And at the end of the holiday or season, you drop the lot into the bin. I do this every long french holiday (of 3 weeks or more)...leaves space to bring back some nice wine instead.

Quote: Originally posted by Mark Bearne on 06/10/2005

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Hi folks, just doing a we bit of research - does anyone have an opinion on washing clothes, tea towels etc whilst away camping. I know it makes a difference if you're on a large organised site or if you're doing you're own thing at a personally selected spot but is it important to have this facility?? Been looking for products currently available and not having much luck. Does anyone think that a compact washing device would be a desirable object?? for the general camper?? for parents of young children?? Or is going to the laundrette a less complicated/hassle free option that people are willing to pay for??

Any opinions at all folks would be greatly appreciated. Looking in to the desirability and possible design of such a product.

Regards, Mark

 

Post last edited on 07/10/2005 09:13:55

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Me personally, I prefer to be on a site that has a laundry room, this way we dont have to pack as many clothes (they take up so much room).  I used to get to the laundry room just before it opens, that way the laundry was washed and dried by 9.30am!! Also doing one days washing out of your holiday isnt going to ruin it!!

Total cost for washing & drying £3

           

If we're away for longer than a week then I use the campsite laundry.

My wish would be for campsites to offer a service wash facility, so that someone else can be putting our washing through the machines during the day when they (the machines!) are usually standing idle and we are out and about. MT

Wash clothes!!!!!!!!! We were only away a fortnight so I didnt even wash myself

Find it easier to wash small & light items in the shower whilst still wearing them,then take them off & give them a good trampling,refined this technique whilst back packing europe as a single man.   Laying T shirts flat under a mattress irons them over night as well.

Quote: Originally posted by Cliff n Pat on 13/9/2006

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Wash clothes!!!!!!!!! We were only away a fortnight so I didnt even wash myself

 

Find it easier to wash small & light items in the shower whilst still wearing them,then take them off & give them a good trampling,refined this technique whilst back packing europe as a single man.   Laying T shirts flat under a mattress irons them over night as well.

Cliff, you are a star!

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