Laundry service or laundromat in Karlsruhe: what is the difference?
A laundry service (German: Wäscherei) takes your washing off your hands. At a self-service laundromat like Wash&Go Karlsruhe-Oststadt you wash and dry it yourself, at fixed prices and from Monday to Saturday, 6 am to 11 pm.
Two terms, two ideas
With a laundry service you hand the washing in and collect it later. Anyone searching for “Wäscherei Karlsruhe” often wants somebody else to do the washing. In a self-service laundromat (in German an SB-Waschsalon, SB meaning self-service) you operate the machines yourself and pay per wash and per 10 minutes of dryer. Wash&Go is a self-service laundromat.
What a self-service laundromat gives you
- Price: Washing 8 kg €5.00, XXL 18 kg €13.50, dryer €1.50 per 10 minutes.
- Quick: After 55 to 75 minutes you are done with washing and drying.
- Open until 11 pm: After work or a seminar, Monday to Saturday.
- You stay in control: You decide the temperature, the detergent and how dry the laundry gets.
Which solution fits when
If you have no time for washing and would rather hand it over, a laundry service is right for you. If you want to wash quickly and cheaply yourself, go to the laundromat. A price list with worked examples is on our prices page.
At the laundromat Karlsruhe-Oststadt
Ludwig-Wilhelm-Straße 20 has 7 washing machines of 8 kg, 1 XXL washing machine of 18 kg and 4 dryers of 20 kg. You pay with cash, all common credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay or the Discount card. Every payment comes with a receipt.
Example
A load of 8 kg with 20 minutes of dryer costs €8.00, or €6.00 with the Discount card. From Durlach station the trip takes about eleven minutes with the S4, S5, S51 or tram line 1 and a short walk.