This laundromat is located right in the thick of the shopping district around the corner from Hudson's Bay. It's small with only six regular capacity and one large capacity washers. There are four dryers (one of which is broken).
The entire process here is convoluted and confusing. The washing machines don't accept coins. You have to feed coins to another machine that will dispense a token and a portion of laundry detergent. There's a big bag next to this machine with cast off detergent and plastic tubs that you are supposed to put under the dispenser to catch the detergent. Since everything is in Dutch and my translation was completely off, I ended up covered in laundry powder. For some reason, it appears that the dryers do take coins. I'm not sure why there are two different methods of collecting money.
The facility is well lit with painful fluorescent lighting so you can see every grubby flaw (and it *is* grubby with a concrete floor and peeling paint). But, you know. It's a laundromat. I'm not expecting marble countertops and travertine floors. It would be nice, however, if the entire place didn't smell like a fish market.
Two stars for simply existing. These places are hard to find. read more