Rick Steves Travel Clothes Line

Rick's clothesline is great -- I've used it a lot.

I have used mine on the last three trips to Europe - even last summer on the balcony of my hotel in Nice! There were hooks on the west-facing balcony so that I could hang the clothesline low so that my drying clothes couldn't be seen from the street, yet could dry quickly in the hot sun.

Thanks for the feedback, I think I'll go ahead and get it!

Well, I have one, not one of Rick's but a similar one. I don't usually use it. I don't usually find conveniently placed object from which to attach it. Some years ago, I went out a found (Target, I think) a "pop-openable" drying rack, one of those sold for sweaters. It has a warped circular frame with mesh in between. It weighs almost nothing, and I can set it up anywhere on the floor to dry my underwear overnight. Works great.

Only line we have used for years. However, we do carry a couple of different size S hooks. Have always found a way to make it work.,

I noticed that Rick's new clothesline also has velcro loops at each end. I thought that was a great idea since I have on occasion had a difficult time finding a way to attach the loops. So I put velcro loops on each end of my older version...works great. We each use our clotheslines several times each trip.

Purchased one - took it to Europe - worked great except a few places where it was too short to reach - returned to US - purchased another one - now take two wherever we travel and use them alot - not more "too short" problems - like the suggestion for using "S" hooks with them - will purchase a few - happy travels

Great ideas about the S hooks and using two lines for longer reaches. Thanks everybody!

I have a RS clothesline, I've used it many times. It still holds things and stretches well. It seems like it has many more years of life in it.

The suction cups (bought mine before the current velcro version) are hit and miss. Since I usually don't wait to watch my clothes dry, I now tie the cord to something rather than rely on the suction cups to hold the weight.

I wash socks, underwear and maby a T-shirt daily in my room. I try to make at least one self-serve laundry stop per trip to wash everything.

I don't use Rick's but a similar one - it's far lighter and smaller, though still rubber and braided and very strong.

What I also did was purchase a set of small keychain-like carabiners to be able to hook the loops at the end onto the line itself - kind of like the s-hook idea. I think you'll find using the clotheslines much easier if you have something like that.

My wife and I use a plain old clothsline.We take a 15foot piece and several clothspins.For us this works well.

Have used ours on several trips and it works great.
I usually take along 4 pinch-type clothespins anyway, 'just in case', but don't always need them.

The RS liquid laundry soap is really good also.
A couple of squirts will do you when you do sink laundry.

You might consider some inflatable hangers also--we took 2 this last time and they proved very handy.

I carry an RS clothesline and a bungee cord. If one doesn't work, the other one does. Actually, I used to only carry a bungee cord, then one of our sporting goods stores went out of business and had RS clotheslines on sale for almost nothing. Really glad I bought it.

I would agree with Margaret on the inflatable hangers - they are indispensable.

We took 2 clotheslines and lots of small carabiner clips (small versions of what rock climbers use) to hold them together. I found 5-packs of the clips in the camping section of our outdoor store. We also used them to 'lock' our bags, clip keys onto things--they were really useful and lightweight. I still use them everyday.