on the theme of holiday packing...

NO, got better things to do on holiday than wash clothes (unless we are away so long, that there is no choice)

We usually go for a week at a time and take enough clothes with us for the week plus a plastic bag to put dirty clothes in so that they go straight into the washing machine when we get home. Washing on holiday - not unless absolutely desperate!

I do if we are in a holiday cottage in Britain. Means we take less stuff. Whenever we arrive back from a plane flight I am always wide awake so get the washing on before the cases go upstairs. Everyone else has gone to bed by this point.

No it all the dirty stuff goes in one case so no sorting out when I unpack. I wouldn't waste precious holiday time washing clothes.

No!!!!But yes I do if we are in a cottage but then its because we are walking and getting muddy and wet- Pembrokeshire for us in September - be lovely never been there before.

No!! There is plenty of time for washing clothes when I get back. I do sometimes wonder how I would feel if I am stopped and my luggage searched and the customs officer has to deal with my plastic bag of dirty knickers! (Not happened yet thank goodness)

Yes, I hate getting home with a pile of dirty washing. It's dreadful enough for a holiday to have to end. I'll always try do a load on the last day. It doesn't take long. Pop it on first thing, hang it up/pop in dryer after breakfast and you're done.

Normally, no. A holiday is a holiday. However, if we stay with DD I wash everything and pack it all clean to bring home. What doesn't get washed we leave behind and DD kindly washes it ready for the next time we go.

No however I have been known to order an online shop to be delivered when I get home

sunseeker that has happened to me! French airport, no privacy just on a counter in the very small departure lounge.

I unpack beside the washing machine and throw everything in. Life's to short for doing laundry on holiday - with the exception of caravanning with the family!

Yes. We usually go self-catering and I wouldn't consider a cottage or villa without a washing machine. I usually wash twice during our stay - well I am paying for the electricity!
It doesn't take long and occasionally I iron it too.

Like others, I throw all the used stuff into one case then tip it straight into the machine when we get back. The only time I've washed clothes on holiday was when we travelled across Canada then had an Alaskan cruise. We needed so much hot weather, cold weather, formal stuff with us that I had to do one load in a laundrette. I can remember bitterly resenting wasting precious holiday time on chores. And I lost my favourite Summer frock - presumably flattened to a washer or dryer drum!

No except if I need to wear it again on holiday . Why spend your time doing mundane things when there are much more interesting things to do ?

Not usually, but where we stayed very recently, there was a lovely habit of putting out books, magazines, papers, on a little wall, for others to read and pass on. One morning there was a bottle of washing liquid, so I took it and washed all our undies, treading them in the bath. Next morning, on the way to breakfast, I put the bottle back on the wall. It was gone by the time we next passed by. Result, as when we got home, the washing machine still had to be on full pelt nearly all day, and it was pouring with rain all day. , and it was hell trying to dry everything indoors.

Never wash on holiday, I just bung it all in a laundry bag and do it when I get home.
I did witness someone's case burst open on the carousel in an airport, I don't know what she felt but my toes were curling. The most lurid coloured underwear I have ever seen, bras and obviously worn G strings, some of the garments went round the carousel several times before she could grab them all.

Umm, how can you tell if G strings have been worn! No probably better not answer that one

not all but I have a habit of running out of clean clothes (usually tops) and have to rinse through,

Absolutely not, unless I run out, usually pants as, however little space they take I need that space for other things when I travelling hand luggage only as is my custom.

I do take a little travel bottle of wash just in case have i an accident and spill my dinner down a fave top (or on their lovely starched white tablecloth this time...chocolate ganache too!), or something like that, but this is HOLIDAY, and precious and limited time, so I simply regard everything we take as requiring washing, and start loading the machine as soon as we get home, and keep doing washes for as long as it takes! I do order a shopping delivery for first thing the next morning to stock back up with fresh produce, dairy, meats and fish for the week ahead.

Yes unless we are staying in a hotel. Gîtes and villas always have washers so I bung stuff in and peg it out last day. It's always hotter than in UK so soon dry ready to pack. It goes to be ironed the day we get back and arrives back hung on hangers ready to put away. Bliss

Where we stay in Spain, lovely Maria Jose washes and irons anything we want. We came home one year with all DH's shirts beautifully ironed, what a bonus! Of course something leaked in his case and I had to do them all again.

No way. Packing to go home is so much easier when you can just stuff all the dirties in without worrying about how creased they're going to get.

Having said that, I am happy to wash things while away if necessary. I was once positively pleased to stay in a service flat in Australia after we'd been in hotels where laundry costs were utterly extortionate - €9 just for a pair of OH's socks! For about the first time in my life I was actually happy to be able to wash and iron. OH will only ever take hand baggage no matter how long we're going for, and was too used to business trips where he sent everything to the laundry first thing every morning, and the company paid.

That should have been $9, not €, dhurr...