So hopefully Tschild or other German dopers pop in:
I am looking for a laundromat (place where I can wash my own clothes) in or near Kirchheim unter Teck. Several of us are on a three weeks business trip there, and might need to do a bit of laundry in that period. I know that laundromats exist in Germany, even if they’re a bit scarce, but the only one that I know of is in Frankfurt and I’d prefer not to have to go there to do the washing.
Is this something that more American style hotels might have?
It’s entirely possible that there is no laundromat in Kirchheim unter Teck - those people who don’t have a washing machine in their own apartment do have a communal one in the basement, as a rule. I have never seen one in a hotel in Germany (too small a customer base I guess - the ones I know are in larger towns, frequented by university students and the like). Some hotels offer laundry services (usually sending the clothes to the laundry that does their general washing).
The staff at your hotel or your colleagues at work should be able to give you pointers. (if you drop stuff at a laundry or a dry cleaners be sure to ask upfront how long it takes - e.g. the dry cleaners that I patronize dry-clean pants within 2 days but they also take my shirts to be washed and ironed at a laundry in another town and that takes a week - YMMV, very much so.)
The nearest Waschsalon that I found at gelbeseiten.de is TROMMEL at Neuffener Strasse 1, Nürtingen (9 km distant), ph. (07022) 37663 (caution: we Germans are not really into 24/7); in Kirchheim unter Teck there is at least one laundry (Edelweiss, Untere Steinstrasse 24) and one dry cleaners (Rauner Textilpflege, Neuffenstrasse 5).
I found the site of TROMMEL: http://www.waschsalon-trommel.de/ - they are open 8-22 except Sundays. Terms used on the site: Waschen: wash; Trocknen: tumble dry. Coin operated i.e. take coins.
Finally found a wireless signal in Philly airport. Almost as tough as getting a Waschsalon in Kirchheim. Thanks for the help; I think that will work. There is actually a Wascherei two doors down from our hotel, but it is never open when I’m at the hotel. I can have the hotel clean stuff but it gets prohibitively expensive and they don’t, afaik, reimburse for that at my firm. I can wash all of my stuff at the Waschsalon in Frankfurt for about 10 Euro. One shirt at the hotel is EU 5. Ouch!
I’d also be wary of any cleaning process that is mangling. I could swear that there is an old Stephen King short story called “The Mangler” that was about a laundry device run amok.
Hah…my ninth grade German textbook used “mangeln” (with a fifteen year old photo illustration) in one of the first chapters, much to my classes delight… “Marianne mangelt die Wäsche!” = an inside joke that lasted until senior year…
Just got a chance to look at that site. I think that’s in Nuertingen (one of my favorite place names, for some reason), if my GoogleMapFu is correct, which is close enough. It’s a lot pricier than the Waschsalon I’ve used in Stuttgart (3,70 Euro) for one load of wash, but still cheaper than the Waschereis and laundry service.
I’ll swing down there and check it out in the next couple of days. Is there a school down there, or is that place targeting GIs stationed at the base in Boeblingen? I’m just kind of curious why they put their website in German, English and French.
