<p>Rumor has it that Brown has a laundry service for its students. What is the process for students to get their laundry done at Dartmouth? Do each of the dorms have a laundry room?</p>
<p>Dave:</p>
<p>Info on all that type of stuff will arrive in late May time frame. But, the short answer is yes, dorms have laundry facilities typically in the basement or basement next door.</p>
<p>"Laundry Facilities. A laundry room is available for student use on the ground or first floor of each residence hall cluster, academic affinity, special interest and College-owned undergraduate society or CFS house. Washers and dryers can be used 24 hours a day."</p>
<p>Residential</a> Services</p>
<p>Dartmouth has a laundry service for its students too, if you so choose (ie, once a week you leave laundry outside your door and it comes back clean a day later).</p>
<p>sweet :) Although i should probably learn to do my own laundry sometime before I turn 30 ....</p>
<p>It's expensive as hell, too -- if I recall from the advertising stuff my son received over the summer, it worked out to something like $800 over the year. I thought learning how to do laundry and having to be responsible enough to do it was worth way more than that.</p>
<p>yeah, i definitely agree.</p>
<p>i got the laundry service.</p>
<p>there are two packages... one for 400ish dollars, the other for 800ish dollars. there former only includes wash and dry, while the latter adds pressing, dry cleaning, et cetera.</p>
<p>i highly recommend it. it's been a great investment.</p>
<p>I definitely recommend doing your laundry yourself. All the dorms have washers and dryers down in the basement that are cheap and easy to use. </p>
<p>When you buy the laundry service, you have to leave your laundry in a giant bag outside your door on laundry day. Everyone on your floor will see that you paid for the laundry service instead of doing it yourself. If that's okay with you, then go for it. </p>
<p>If you are an athlete whose sports team does not wash your uniforms or work out clothes, then the laundry service might be worthwhile.</p>
<p>"When you buy the laundry service, you have to leave your laundry in a giant bag outside your door on laundry day. Everyone on your floor will see that you paid for the laundry service instead of doing it yourself. If that's okay with you, then go for it."</p>
<p>I don't understand the implicit value judgment in this statement - I get laundry service and I have no problem with everyone seeing it; in fact I send out the occasional item of my hallmates' with it.</p>
<p>As it were, however, there is a local laundry that does a much better job, so anything complicated I drop off to them. If you need more information about it, PM me and I can look up the address - don't know it off the top of my head. (Once saved a borrowed white dress covered in red wine and punch from the last night off term - and did it in five hours before my plane left!)</p>
<p>Gracilisae, in my opinion the laundry service is the smaller scale version of driving a brand new mercedes... that your parents bought for you.</p>