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Can you explain to me why doing laundry is not a thing for many people on vacation? Why hurl a giant suitcase of clothing instead of a few pieces you wash every couple of days? Never made sense to me.
Because vacation is often camping or staying in a hotel. And there aren't reasonably-priced laundry facilities in either place
But sure, if you have a washing machine in the place you're staying... Even then, washing every couple of days feels excessive.
But I'm not the one packing 32 shirts either
I'm busy doing shit I don't wanna wait around for laundry. Plus I've only once had access to a laundry room I trusted to not have stuff stolen out of it; we specifically planned for it because it was three weeks and we needed somewhere to do laundry at the halfway mark
Longer trips, yes. A week? You don't want to spend all that money just to spend half a day near a public Laundromat.
You also don't know the area, don't know the laundry places, gamble on a lot of things not even knowing it works like how you think it does there.
Costs? In most hotels, doing laundry is really expensive per piece. In some apartments having a washing machine, you have to pay per load and sometimes the washer/energy, too.
So, packing for a few days extra mostly is just question of cost vs. comfort?
But yeah, asked myself the same question packing a big suitcase for the last vacation...
Seeking out a nearby laundry sounds awful.
I do laundry on travel when the location has it as an option.