The use of Euro's in many of Europe's street laundries

Euros. It' not an issue of popularity, for many countries the Euro is the legal tender. The old currencies are no longer valid.

It is all Euro. It is not an option. Not sure why you thought laundries would be different. Most laundries are staffed so someone will be glad to give the necessary change.

It depends on where exactly you are travelling to. 21 European countries have introduced the Euro to date and there no other currency is accepted. Great Britain, Switzerland, most of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe still use local currency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro

There is neven an option to use one or the other.

The issue the poster is mentioning was indeed an issue just after the 2002 introduction of the Euro, basically coin operated machines that had not yet been converted over. There may be issues now in countries that have recently went to to the euro, notably Slovakia and Slovenia, but in my travels in the early days of the euro, even coin op laundries were staffed, and to use the machines effectively meant paying an attendant in euros and getting the old currency as "tokens" to use in the machines. Given almost 8 years of the euro in most countries, this is not an issue anymore.

I remember using a Paris laundromat and a few others as well. In none were there attendants but in all there were helpful local patrons. As in the US and Canada, there are often change machines and detergent dispensers, from which one can also get change. There is no option to use anything but the Euro.

To all of you that answered my initial query, thankyou very much for your input. It appears now, that if we have a handful of Euros in our pockets when attending a laundry mat, we should be ok. Otherwise we'll just have see the attendant for tokens. Again many thanks.
Colin.