Packing clothing - do you wash or bring enough?

[ChristusG]

We'll be staying for 8 nights and have a pop up. We're doing three park days (maybe possibly four) so we'll have some downtime in the campground. I should have time to wash clothes if necessary. I'm wondering if I should pack enough clothes, plus extras "in case".....which would mean about 10 outfits per person, plus socks, undergarments, etc (times four people, in a pop up camper). Or should I pack half of that and just wash clothes? What does everyone else do?

And a totally unrelated question.....is there wireless internet at the Fort? Will we be able to bring our laptop and use it?

 

[mnsprk]

Laundry rooms are extremely nice. A/C $2.00 to wash and $2.00 to dry. So it boils down to how much do you want to pack. As to WI/FI it's there but expensive. If I remember correctly it's $9.95 a day(at the hot-spots). You can get service right at you site throught the cable but I don't know how much that is. I personally use broadband when at the FORT or other places without free WI/FI.

 

[LONE-STAR]

We stay a little over 2 weeks and we just bring enough clothes for the trip.

 

[TinkerKim]

I did laundry the last 2 trips while my son swam in the pool in the afternoons. Think I just did it once and used 2 washers. I took my own detergent and dryer sheets, tho, as Disneys is expensive. Just took me a roll of quarters and I was set. Was nice to come home and not have the mound of dirty laundry to do.

 

[Judy in Texas]

Select clothes that you can mix and match. Bring several pairs of pants and lots of t-shirts. No sense in wearing a pair of pants just one day unless you spill something on them or it is extremely hot. It would be easy enough to wash a load or two part way through the trip.

 

[clkelley]

I do laundry every couple of days. We have such limited storage in our camper that it is impossible to bring more than 3-4 days worth of clothing. Plus, whenever possible, I wash everything while breaking camp on the last day. Nothing worse than having lots of laundry and only one washer and dryer at home where it takes all day or a couple of days to get it done!!

 

[retired and happy]

Our closets are stuffed and still we use the laundry almost every day. There's always chocolate or catsup dripped on clothes...and the kids get dirty too. Lots of clothes come home, never worn, but with the weather changes, we pack for warm and cool. We collect quarters all year for our three weeks at the Fort. We also use the quarters for ice (also $2.00). If anyone still uses 35 mm film, the film containers make great quarter collectors....or some sizes of old prescription pill containers.

 

[DaveInTN]

We go to the bank before trips and get a couple rolls of quarters. Pack a small container of detergent too. Then you will be all set to do a few loads if necessary.

 

[alwaysdisney]

We'll be staying for 8 nights and have a pop up. We're doing three park days (maybe possibly four) so we'll have some downtime in the campground. I should have time to wash clothes if necessary. I'm wondering if I should pack enough clothes, plus extras "in case".....which would mean about 10 outfits per person, plus socks, undergarments, etc (times four people, in a pop up camper). Or should I pack half of that and just wash clothes? What does everyone else do?

And a totally unrelated question.....is there wireless internet at the Fort? Will we be able to bring our laptop and use it?

We usually stay inside Disney's Cabins, so we fly into Orlando and are members of the owners locker so they supply us with a tube that we store all of our disney attire in. We keep in there enough clothes for 5 days, then on the 5th day, we wash clothes, in the morning, as we early risers, at the laundry facilities and then we are free for that evening and for the next 5 days. Prior to leaving, we wash our clothes 1 more time and put them back into our owners locker storage and we basically get on a plane with my purse and our carry on. No extra cost for luggage from us!

 

[SunshineCamper]

I can't escape doing some form of laundry when we camp over a week. If nothing else I have to wash the towels (pool/beach and bath). So we always have on hand $20-$30 worth of quarters-like mentioned ($2 for ice too).
We keep laundry detergent and dryer sheets in the TT. I have the smallest tide liquid container they make and just refill it when needed. I keep the dryer sheets in a ziploc. I keep our quarters in a zipped coin purse which says laundry $$-(bought at Target's $1 section a fews back).
It's been worth-pardon the pun-every penny (or $1 in this case)
Like so many I too do laundry in the mornings-

 

[sshudson99]

For long trips, I wash clothes about 1/2 way through the week and sometimes the night before, so I won't work myself to death when I get home. We go in June, and will have 4 adults and 2 children-so space is limited

Susan

 

[freshlybarked]

I'm lucky that it's just DH and me. Our longest trip was 9 days and I took enough shirts and shorts, towels and under things to last. I even have a second set of sheets. In our old tt/hybrid we would not have had enough room, but in our 32' Class C we have just enough storage for the extra things. If we had one more person we couldn't do it.

 

[liv luvs disney]

We wash clothes at the campground. Even if we didn't go to the parks, my kids get so dirty while camping alone that I would have to wash laundry anyway. In the spring, summer, and fall, it's usually so hot in FL and wearing something twice before washing it may not be feasible. We, too, bring a couple of rolls of quarters when camping that we use only for laundry and ice. And for some reason washing a couple of loads of laundry on vacation is not as bad as washing at home.

 

[m1tchells]

OK....here I go again...the official cheerleader for Purex 3-n-1 laundry sheets. Anyway...have you seen them? Well - I decided to try them out because I thought they would be perfect for camping. And they are! Clothes come out clean and smelling fresh...not as fresh as when I'm at home using seperate detergent, softener and dryer sheets...but clean and fresh without having to tote all that stuff to the comfort station. Again...! Plus they don't take up any storage space!

 

[Disneyforus]

We are going to do laundry too. Because we are going in November, I feel like I need to pack a huge variety of clothes...the only way I can "fit" everything is to do laundry. Not a big deal...we have enough days planned to be at the fort so I can squeeze it in.

 

[liv luvs disney]

OK....here I go again...the official cheerleader for Purex 3-n-1 laundry sheets. Anyway...have you seen them? Well - I decided to try them out because I thought they would be perfect for camping. And they are! Clothes come out clean and smelling fresh...not as fresh as when I'm at home using seperate detergent, softener and dryer sheets...but clean and fresh without having to tote all that stuff to the comfort station. Again...! Plus they don't take up any storage space!

Yep, they are great for camping! I don't know if you are who first mentioned these on the board, but I remember reading about them and I went straight to Wal-Mart to purchase some.

 

[sapdaddy]

We carry (4 of us) enough cloths to go the whole vacation. We do what my mom use to do when I was a kid. All the clothes during the year that were either torn or ripped or almost too small would be cleaned and put in a vacation box. During travel days we would wear the box clothes, at the end of the day just threw them out. At the end of the trip we don't have that much to wash.

 

[Luv2Camp]

OK....here I go again...the official cheerleader for Purex 3-n-1 laundry sheets.

Absolutely, the 3-n-1 laundry sheets are the way to go! We took a rest day in the middle of our 10-day trip last summer, and that was also our laundry day. It made it much nicer to come home without mountains of laundry to do!

 

[5stljayhawks]

Whats your method - do laundry once or few time???? What is your space limits? I am 60% packer, 5 days worth for 8 day trip... hoping to do wash once. Ok maybe twice I am get really dirty with the kids and have the time so I don't have a pile when I get home.

If I am lucky I can few wears from pants, socks and undies are out, but maybe two days or a few 1/2 days on shirts.

 

[gillenkl]

We bring enough clothes for week #1 (14 outfits per person because we go in June and like to change into fresh clothes after our afternoon swim). Then we do wash and we're ready for week #2.