If you are just doing laundry once during your trip, I would guess that being far from the laundry room would not be that big of a deal. If you are doing laundry every other day, or something, then maybe being closer bceomes an advantage. I would suggest buying a mesh pop-up laundry basket. You can get them at Target for cheap. They fold up flat, in a circle, for easy packing. They have handles. Ours is double-sided: one side for darks and one for whites. We open it up and put it in the closet when we arrive, and then toss our dirty laundry in it each day. When we are ready to do laundry, we easily carry it to and from the laundry room. We travel about 3x per year, and prefer packing light and doing laundry on our trips. I couldn't get along without my pop-up laundry basket!