Laundry in Paris

We both adhered to the traveler’s principle of packing light, but since a week has transpired, it was time to do our laundry. The hotel was willing to oblige and we, being naïve, decided it might be expensive but worth the extra expense. At the last minute, however, AM receive a price list and we discovered that the cost of laundering would amount to twice the cost of the goods we had to launder. It was MM who suggested we hit the internet, and with the help of someone’s online finding-a-laundry-in-Paris how-to (since misplaced, sadly), AM was able to locate a wash-and-fold service within five blocks of the hotel.

The owner, Claude, was bemused that two guests from the Royal St. Michel (with that name, perhaps he thought it was a 5-star hotel) would walk five blocks to his small shop, but the price was much better and we left our one-load bag with him and in broken French/English arranged to pick it up in the evening–much better than hassling with our hotel’s exorbitant itemized laundry list.