On a 10 day HAL cruise, when is the special price laundry day?

Does the all the clothes you can stuff in a bag laundered for one price occur once or more than once on a 10 day cruise? Is this offered near the beginning, towards the middle, or towards the end of the cruise?

Specifically, we are on the Noordam for an Eastern Mediterranean cruise in case this makes a difference in answering the questions.

Laundry was $20/bag everyday on Maasdam in April.

You select the day you want to get the entire bag of laundry done.

On the Noordam they will tell you when the last day is that you can send out laundry.

Laundry was $20/bag everyday on Maasdam in April.

This was the cost for me to send a bag out just this month on the Noordam.

When you send all you can stuff in a bag laundry, how does it come back? Folded, ironed, stuffed, what? Thanks

All ironed. Folded or on hangers - your call.

You have the choice of having your clothes folded or hung. Everthing comes back very neat and pressed. I think they do a very nice job.

Never having laundry done on a ship before I am curious as to just how much you can stuff into this bag. What is an approximate amount?

We had never used laundry service before, either, but planned to on our HAL cruise last year. We had some clothes messed up in an accident, and managed to put them with a lot of other clothes in a bag. Roll clothes tight and stuff the bag.

Results were great!!:D Wish we could find a similar service at home for the same price!

Great job HAL:)

We find that we can stuff about 3-days worth of clothing into the blue cloth bag. If you are smaller or larger, YMMV

My DH can stuff an amazing amount of stuff into one of those blue bags. At least 6 dress shirts, 2 walking shorts, 2 bras, 6 undies, 1 capris, 6 tee shirts, 2 slacks, and some mis'c small stuff.

I would guess that they put everything in the dryer. Has anyone had something shrink. I would like to use this service but would you suggest that I leave things I would normally hang to dry? Marie

We have been using this service for years and have never had anything damaged, however, I would not put anything in there that you take extra special care with at home. And yes, you can fit alot in the bag!

Yes, we have had garments shrink in length. I no longer send out anything I dry on low at home. Certainly not an item that requires line drying. Packing is harder as I have to avoid some favorite clothing. This is why we avoid sailing on ships (and cruise lines) that don't have passenger self-laundry. We do use the ship's laundry, but only for limited items. Being able to wash a few things ourselves makes life SO much easier.

We were on the E'dam for 23 days last summer. I found that I actually had to pack more clothes because we weren't able to do our own wash. As an example, I had to pack two sets of nightclothes due to the turnaround time. We also needed to count on not getting our laundry back for 3 days, sometimes this was less, but we had to plan on having clothing for 3 days. I'd much rather be able to have clean clothes in a few hours, rather than wait days.

I can't imagine sending bras to the ship's laundry. At home they go in the wash and hang dry. Very easy. It isn't a "luxury" having to hand wash on vacation when I don't at home. This isn't pampering.

I suppose ship self-laundry is the way to go for me. Thanks. Marie

On the Rotterdam is was $12 and was offered early in the cruise, like after the second day. BTW, the Rotterdam's self-service laundry area were in pretty bad shape, with broken machines sidelined while waiting on parts.

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I can't imagine sending bras to the ship's laundry. At home they go in the wash and hang dry. Very easy. It isn't a "luxury" having to hand wash on vacation when I don't at home. This isn't pampering.

what about if you put your bras and panites in a lingerie bag and zip it shut, then stuff it into the blue bag? will they leave them in the mesh lingerie bag or remove them from the bag to wash and dry them??:confused:

what about if you put your bras and panites in a lingerie bag and zip it shut, then stuff it into the blue bag? will they leave them in the mesh lingerie bag or remove them from the bag to wash and dry them??:confused:

Does the special price laundry day happen on the Oosterdam?

The wife needs to know.

Thanks,

JCH

JCH - The 'all you can cram' bag price is one of the options available any day - up until the point there isn't enough time at the end of the cruise to return your laundry (about 2-3 days prior to disembarkation).

Thank You Mary Ellen.

JCH

I would guess that they put everything in the dryer. Has anyone had something shrink. I would like to use this service but would you suggest that I leave things I would normally hang to dry? Marie

Our tablemates had 2 bad experiences with laundry. The man had 2 or 3 silk Tommy Bahama shirts shrunk and the woman had a long gown w/ knife pleats from under the bust to the floor ironed flat. We never heard how they were going to handle this.

We have never had any issues but I'm careful as to what I send out. I would never send bras and panties out since they can be washed by hand in a manor of minutes in the sink.

You select the day you want to get the entire bag of laundry done.

 

On the Noordam they will tell you when the last day is that you can send out laundry.

When does the laundry come back?

On the Rotterdam is was $12 and was offered early in the cruise, like after the second day. BTW, the Rotterdam's self-service laundry area were in pretty bad shape, with broken machines sidelined while waiting on parts.

Any laundry bag specials anymore, or is this a thing of distant memory?

When does the laundry come back?

On both the Zuiderdam & the Maasdam, we received ours the next afternoon. The cost on a European cruise was $30 per bag.