Laundry at the resorts

[solstice621]

How do you pay for the self serve laundry? Cash? Magic bands? Pixie dust? Something else? TIA!

 

[buckeyeguy1]

If you are staying in a DVC room, even when booking through Disney, laundry access is included (free). The studio rooms are the only rooms that do not have in room washer/dryer units in them. 1 bedroom and up have them in the room.

All Disney non-DVC resorts have laundry that takes credit cards. I think all laundry facilities have been “upgraded” to where they don’t accept change/cash. There is sually a box with a touchscreen on it where you select what units you are using and pay for them using your credit card.

The most recent ones we used were in Gran Destino Tower at CSR and those you paid via credit card or Apple Pay at the unit itself.

THIS website is great to tell what units are available before you decide to go to the laundry room. Just enter the resort you are staying in. You will need your Magic Band to gain access to the room.

If there are other people in the laundry room, you may want to ask what units they are using. We have been chewed out by other people in there. One time we put all of our clothes on two washers and then went to pay only to have a lady complain that we should have purchased the units first. Another time we purchased the units first and another gal chewed us out for not putting our clothes in first. We can’t win. I guess there should have been a laundry room etiquette class in school so we would have been more prepared for the real world.

 

[solstice621]

Thank you so much! We usually get a 1BR so we haven’t had to use the laundry facilities. This helps, thank you! And thank you for the tips. People can be awful!

 

[Deb & Bill]

If you go to a DVC laundry room (for the studio stays) and you find washers or dryers no longer operating and the clothes are washed or dried already, feel free to move them from the washer or dryer to the table in the room. If you aren't in the laundry room when your laundry finishes, it may be moved to allow another guest to use the washers and dryers. The area with the biggest problem has to be the Polynesian DVC laundry room since there are 360 studios and not nearly that many washers or dryer.

 

[gharter]

Most of the time, we have a 1BR DVC so we have laundry. We just bring laundry soap.
When we have stayed in a studio, we have paid with credit card.

 

[MomOTwins]

If you go to a DVC laundry room (for the studio stays) and you find washers or dryers no longer operating and the clothes are washed or dried already, feel free to move them from the washer or dryer to the table in the room. If you aren't in the laundry room when your laundry finishes, it may be moved to allow another guest to use the washers and dryers. The area with the biggest problem has to be the Polynesian DVC laundry room since there are 360 studios and not nearly that many washers or dryer.

Not to be a contrarian, but I expect doing this would very controversial from a laundry room etiquette standpoint in a pandemic when people may be washing their face masks and not want someone else (potentially a carrier of the virus) handling and breathing all over them. This may have made sense pre-pandemic, but not a polite thing now. We can quibble about how they should have been there the minute their laundry was done, but if you really feel you MUST move other people's things, I think it would at least be appropriate to give folks a 15 minute grace period to come pick up their stuff before you touch it.

 

[Deb & Bill]

Not to be a contrarian, but I expect doing this would very controversial from a laundry room etiquette standpoint in a pandemic when people may be washing their face masks and not want someone else (potentially a carrier of the virus) handling and breathing all over them. This may have made sense pre-pandemic, but not a polite thing now. We can quibble about how they should have been there the minute their laundry was done, but if you really feel you MUST move other people's things, I think it would at least be appropriate to give folks a 15 minute grace period to come pick up their stuff before you touch it.

If you don't want anyone handling your laundry, you need to be there when the load is finished. Otherwise, expect it to be unloaded for you. You can use the laundry website to determine how much time you have left. Sometimes you don't have 15 minutes to wait for an inconsiderate guest to unload their stuff.

I take it you are not a DVC member. The DVC laundry rooms can be very small for the number of villas needing them.

 

[MomOTwins]

If you don't want anyone handling your laundry, you need to be there when the load is finished. Otherwise, expect it to be unloaded for you. You can use the laundry website to determine how much time you have left. Sometimes you don't have 15 minutes to wait for an inconsiderate guest to unload their stuff.

I take it you are not a DVC member. The DVC laundry rooms can be very small for the number of villas needing them.

No, but I shared a tiny laundry room in an apartment building several years. And I can tell you sometimes the baby has an accident, or you get a phone call right as you're leaving, or life just happens and you need an extra minute to get down to the laundry room. I gave others a grace period because I'd want it done to me--it's just good karma, and in a pandemic, I wouldn't dream of touching other people's things--I'd just wait and come back later to do my laundry.