Laundry when traveling

[jcgatennismom]

My son will be traveling (flying) for almost 2 weeks with one suitcase of clothes and his tennis bag. At the first hotel, there will be self-service coin laundry facilities (he will bring pods), but the 2nd hotel is a full service hotel. Does anyone have tips about washing tennis shirts in a hotel sink? Is hotel shampoo OK to use for wash? Son goes through multiple shirts a day in the summer. If he washes at first hotel, I assume he will have enough shorts for the 2nd stay. However, he will need to wash his shirts at 2nd. He has been shown how to do laundry and done it a few times, and he and his dad managed to do laundry once or twice before during week long summer tournaments. I will give him the option of having the hotel do his laundry if he pays for it himself but with the limited $ he earned this summer between tournaments, I hope he will go for the sink option and not for the "wear stinky shirts again" option. I'm sure in college next year, there will be times he will have to do a "sink" wash when he has forgotten to do laundry and his uniforms are dirty. This will be a good trial run.

 

[Ronaldo]

Laundry is dri-fit poly, hang and dry?

 

[El Diablo]

Does anyone have tips about washing tennis shirts in a hotel sink?

have seen it all now

 

[QuadCam]

Tide makes a travel sink laundry soap. It's perfect for what you are looking to accomplish. About 25 years ago, I traveled for a month in Europe with friends and we did a lot of sink laundry.

 

[Deleted member 23235]

My son will be traveling (flying) for almost 2 weeks with one suitcase of clothes and his tennis bag. At the first hotel, there will be self-service coin laundry facilities (he will bring pods), but the 2nd hotel is a full service hotel. Does anyone have tips about washing tennis shirts in a hotel sink? Is hotel shampoo OK to use for wash? Son goes through multiple shirts a day in the summer. If he washes at first hotel, I assume he will have enough shorts for the 2nd stay. However, he will need to wash his shirts at 2nd. He has been shown how to do laundry and done it a few times, and he and his dad managed to do laundry once or twice before during week long summer tournaments. I will give him the option of having the hotel do his laundry if he pays for it himself but with the limited $ he earned this summer between tournaments, I hope he will go for the sink option and not for the "wear stinky shirts again" option. I'm sure in college next year, there will be times he will have to do a "sink" wash when he has forgotten to do laundry and his uniforms are dirty. This will be a good trial run.

i do sink washing when i travel (I like to travel lite, think only carry on)
i just use anti bacterial soap (will pick up a bar for like $.99 - but have used the hotel bar soap/shampoo)
i make sure none of my gear is cotton, all fairly thin (ie. faster to dry)
make sure i have triplicates of the thing i'm washing and waiting to dry (not everything dries fast... leaving the AC on makes things take longer to dry... i tend to leave the air vent in the bathroom on - i know anti-green).
i always make use of the clothes line thingy in the bathroom found at alot of hotels (clearly they expect sink/bathtub washing )

 

[tennisholic]

I used hotel soap to wash my T-shirts once, and leave it dry on clothes line in the bathroom. But the T-shirt will be smelled like soap. lucky if you like the fragrance of the soap since difference hotel soap smells different.

 

[tyu1314]

He can just hang dry them, or use hair blower.

 

[r2473]

Just have him bring a rock

 

[norcal]

have seen it all now

No, shine an ultraviolet black light on the hotel room, then you will have seen it all.

 

[onehandbh]

Sometimes when I am traveling to several countries within a short period, I will wash some of my clothes in the sink and hang dry if there is not a laundry machine or inexpensive laundry service on site. One of my favorite places was an apartment that had a combo washing machine/dryer in Taipei. It didn't dry it completely, but close enough.

I also like to bring my own soap and shampoo even though the hotels provide them for free because I like unscented soaps and shampoos that don't have ingredients I don't recognize. I use small bottles with a screw-on top that can fit in my carry-on bag. I use a mix with Dr. Bronner's liquid soap for shampoo and washing things.

TIP ON DRYING YOUR CLOTHES FASTER:

• I usually use the clothes hangers in the hotel closet to help hang dry my clothes instead of their clothes lines.
• Why? Because I hang my clothes on the A/C vent or in front of it so that it blows on the wet clothes. I found this dries it much faster.

 

[navigator]

I have generally always found laundromats somewhere in the vicinity and never had to resort to the sink, although there's nothing wrong with the sink, I suppose. I just did a load today at the St. John's Launderette in Tunbridge Wells although it seemed a bit expensive - 12GBP to wash and dry one load of darks... it would cost less than half that in the US. But I digress... again, laundromats are often an option.