Milan Apartments With A Washer and Dryer

On a line out the window or a drying rack indoors. Electricity is very expensive in Italy, so most people choose not to spend it running a dryer. I've only seen a dryer at one or two of the multiple apartments and villas we've rented or exchanged for. It works fine as long as you plan ahead to allow adequate drying time.

Edit: if you do find one with a dryer, be aware that it may not vent outside. Condensation dryers are used where the walls are too thick to put in a vent. They stop working when the water catchment is full.
You need to pull out the tray and empty it manually, like a lint trap. Took us a while to figure that out at a place in France.

You will find dryers only in laundromats, as a rule. As Nelly said, hang-to-dry is the norm.

You should have seen me trying to dry sheets indoors in the winter in Rome! It took two days to do a set of queen-size sheets and pillowcases. In summer, we had a terrace which helped speed along the drying.

what's your date, how many people and budget?

I was staying at the Hotel California on an RS tour and around the corner there is a large laundromat with plenty of washers and dryers. I did everything at once and that was all I needed for the rest of the trip.
Sorry I don't know the name of the laundromat - but got directions from the hotel desk.

In addition to using dryer racks and clotheslines, I carry a few plastic coathangers and pants hangers. The water extraction cycle on washers is very effective, and most items can dry over 24 hours.

For jeans, it's probably a good idea to find a laundromat with dryer unless you have several days.

Thank you all for replying

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Demi, it's usually pretty easy to find coin laundries in the cities, and having access to a dryer is really nice if you have a couple of loads to do.

Have never had a dryer, it shrinks all my cloths and gives me double the ironing!!!

Eco friendly Italian clothes dryer

https://www.terragalleria.com/europe/italy/venice/picture.ital7076.html

Have seen many posts where people want to 'immerse' themselves with the locals. Perfect way to do so. :-)

My mother took a lot of photos like that, Joe. She couldn't get over how life still went on, in neighborhoods full of historic buildings.

Hot dry breeze does a great job, and the environmental footprint is much smaller.

Nigel, I don't know if you have similar in England but some of us here in the U.S. live in HOAs (Homeowner Associations) with restrictions regarding what can do outside your house/unit. We've lived in two (currently live in one of them) that didn't allow clotheslines or hanging laundry outside. That's a very common rule for these sorts of neighborhood/condo/townhome associations.

Have never had a dryer, it shrinks all my cloths and gives me double
the ironing!!!

Interesting as we need to do far LESS ironing of our machine-dried clothes. Takes most of the wrinkles out. :O)

Thanks to all who responded-appreciate it!

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Over the years I've rented a total of 11 apartments all over Europe. 8 of them had a washer, but lines out the windows or folding racks for drying. 1 had a washer and a dryer. 2 had neither in the apartment but there were laundry facilities in the building or very close by.

When I lived in Germany, I had a washing machine that hooked up to the kitchen faucet. There were lines outside, but only one summer was dry enough to use them. Like Laurel, I rigged up a line in my 2nd bedroom and many things like sheets and towels did take 2 days to dry.

I've had B&Bs and small hotels do our laundry for us for free or very cheap when we asked where to take it to do it ourselves or have it done. The key to having it done cheaply is for them to do it all together in their big linen laundry, not use the form where a pair of underwear costs 2 Euro! I've done it in self-service laundromats and had it done for us by the staff in them. No matter where or how it was done, if it wasn't free, the price was consistently about 1 Euro per kilo. In those situations, we typically had about 8 kilos to be done.

And of course, I've done the dreaded sink washing and hanging in the room or apartment to dry. It's not so bad if you keep up with stuff and do a little each time you have 2 nights or more in the same place. This travel clothesline goes with me on every trip. I use it pretty often.

Many people say they don't want to take the time to do laundry because it takes away from the trip. My husband and I find it a relaxing way to take a break for awhile. If we hadn't been doing laundry in Annecy we wouldn't have met the cotton farming couple from Australia who had been to Lubbock for a cotton conference. My grandfather and uncle grew cotton in that area. In Germany we expected help from the fresh faced young fraulein that was also doing her laundry, but it was the tattooed and multi-pierced guy who actually translated the signs for us. If I hadn't been doing laundry in Edinburgh I would've missed the young kids coming in after school for a wee biscuit from the manager. It was fun seeing that and talking to her about this daily ritual.

FWIW, I have an umbrella type outdoor drying rack here at home. It goes into and out of a tube in concrete that my husband created. The rack is very light and manageable even for 72-year old me. I love drying clothes outside and they dry very quickly in the dry heat of Tucson. I also have a dryer for those times when it's not so hot and dry.

You'll get the hang of it as your trip progresses.

It may be the case of no hanging rules somewhere around the UK, maybe some fancy particular building in London or Manchester say, but everybody I know hangs out their clothes. Or drapes them in the house when the rain comes... Some of us have tumble dryers but they are expensive to run and only used (by me anyway) when it is too wet or frozen outside.