We knew it would be time to do laundry once we arrived in Amsterdam, so after getting settled into our room at the Qbic Hotel, we went downstairs to find out where we could go. The very helpful guy at the front desk got on the computer and searched for a nearby laundromat and was excited to find one near where he lives so he could easily give us directions. Here's what he said:
Take the #50 train by the hotel headed towards Isolatorweg.
Get off at the Lelylaan station.
Walk down to the tram stop below the train station and take tram #17 headed towards Dyhgraafplein.
Get off at the Johan Huizingalaan stop.
Walk down to #100 Johan Huizingalaan and we would find the laundromat called “Wassery”.
Sounds easy enough, right?
Actually, it was just that easy. We dressed in the cleanest things we had, which by this point were our exercise pants (too cold to jog and besides, we are doing a LOT of walking these days!) and t shirts. Since it is rather chilly out, we bundled up in our jackets, scarves and gloves…..don’t you know we were a sight! We packed all our other clothes into our bags and off we went, rolling our dirty laundry behind us.
What the nice guy at the front desk didn’t tell us was that this place was sort of a place where people go to drop off their laundry, not necessarily to do it themselves. When we walked in, a fellow was working there with his younger employee in a small space with seven washing machines and three super giant dryers. His English wasn’t very good but he explained that it cost 10 euros for them to do our laundry for us and 8 euros if we did it ourselves. We explained that we would do it ourselves, which I don’t think made him too happy, but he went ahead and gave us two washers to use once the clothes that were in them were finished and we went to work. Fortunately, they provided the laundry soap so at least we didn’t have to worry about that!
So here we are sitting in two of only three chairs they have in the place, waiting for the clothes to dry (fortunately, all the laundry fit into one of the mondo dryers). Since we hadn’t had any breakfast yet, Jim was kind enough to walk to the bakery next door and get us a couple of ham and cheese croissants. Sadly, we had to make do with a Coke Light (Diet Coke in Euro speak) from the vending machine since the bakery didn’t have any coffee…..sigh. I guess we’ll just have to get our coffee fix later.
Oh, the glamorous life of travel, right????
Take the #50 train by the hotel headed towards Isolatorweg.
Get off at the Lelylaan station.
Walk down to the tram stop below the train station and take tram #17 headed towards Dyhgraafplein.
Get off at the Johan Huizingalaan stop.
Walk down to #100 Johan Huizingalaan and we would find the laundromat called “Wassery”.
Sounds easy enough, right?
Actually, it was just that easy. We dressed in the cleanest things we had, which by this point were our exercise pants (too cold to jog and besides, we are doing a LOT of walking these days!) and t shirts. Since it is rather chilly out, we bundled up in our jackets, scarves and gloves…..don’t you know we were a sight! We packed all our other clothes into our bags and off we went, rolling our dirty laundry behind us.
What the nice guy at the front desk didn’t tell us was that this place was sort of a place where people go to drop off their laundry, not necessarily to do it themselves. When we walked in, a fellow was working there with his younger employee in a small space with seven washing machines and three super giant dryers. His English wasn’t very good but he explained that it cost 10 euros for them to do our laundry for us and 8 euros if we did it ourselves. We explained that we would do it ourselves, which I don’t think made him too happy, but he went ahead and gave us two washers to use once the clothes that were in them were finished and we went to work. Fortunately, they provided the laundry soap so at least we didn’t have to worry about that!
So here we are sitting in two of only three chairs they have in the place, waiting for the clothes to dry (fortunately, all the laundry fit into one of the mondo dryers). Since we hadn’t had any breakfast yet, Jim was kind enough to walk to the bakery next door and get us a couple of ham and cheese croissants. Sadly, we had to make do with a Coke Light (Diet Coke in Euro speak) from the vending machine since the bakery didn’t have any coffee…..sigh. I guess we’ll just have to get our coffee fix later.
Oh, the glamorous life of travel, right????
P.S.: Since then, as we've walked the streets of the old city, we've come across two regular ole' laundromats......go figure......
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