European Hotel Laundry Rooms

Travelling is one of my favorite things to do.

Domestically. Internationally. Air, Sea, Land trips are all aces in my book.

Professional curiosity follows me where I go and I can't resist looking in the guest and staff laundry rooms at the places I stay.

This year I've travelled to France, Belgium, and Germany.

I stayed at several different hotels and vacation houses on these trips.

At the houses none of them had laundry facilities.

The hotels were all similar setups, albeit with slightly different equipment. 

I was surprised to not find any large chassis equipment at the hotels I stayed at.

The staff laundry rooms had 2-4 small chassis washer/dryer combo units.

These were mostly used to wash towels and wash cloths.

Bedding and larger items were sent out to laundry service companies.

All of the laundry rooms I saw had automatic chemical dispensers. 

All of the washers were pump drains with small diameter drain pipes and hoses.

None of the dryers I saw were gas. All were electric heat.

There were no exhaust ducts leading to the outside. All of the dryers had a felt type screen on the back to catch lint. The rooms were not filled with lint so the screens did their job, however the machines were very warm to the touch especially the back.

People don't clean behind the dryers in Europe either.
Nice to know people are the same the world over!

None of the washers or dryers were on pedestals to lift them off the floor for easier access.

Most didn't have any "commercial" branding on them that was obvious to see to differentiate them from their more rugged built counterparts like you have here in the USA.

I'm sure that there are a vast number of different set ups all over. What I saw was not the only way to do laundry. There are also economic, geopolitical, and environmental reasons for the way these places were set up that we can go into long conversations about.

These were the common things I found in the hotels. Interesting.

Ev

A Heck of A Nice Guy