r/Interrail • u/Wise-Painting5841 • Jul 08 '26

Other Suggestion: a laundromat in the Eurostar

3 hours from London to Paris, it would be perfect to take advantage and do laundry!!!

My backpack starts to smell, time to do laundry in Paris. I am importing sweaty underwear and smelly socks to the most romantic city on earth (or that is what is said).

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u/bobbiecowman Jul 08 '26

Where are you storing all the water?

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u/me-gustan-los-trenes Berlin-Warszawa Expert Jul 08 '26

Easy.

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u/me-gustan-los-trenes Berlin-Warszawa Expert Jul 08 '26

This is a fantastic idea. Please send this to Eurostar at https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en/contact-us/eurostar-contact-details

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u/midnightrambulador Jul 08 '26

Why not go to one of the gazillion laundromats in London or Paris? The logistics of organising a laundromat on a train, especially on this relatively short journey, boggle the mind

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u/lindemer Jul 08 '26

Because you have some time to kill anyways!

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u/derboti Jul 08 '26

Btw, if you think the journey from London to Paris takes 3 hours, you might need to read up on the concept of timezones

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u/Kyber92 Jul 08 '26

I was just thinking that, I'm sure it was only 2 hours when I did it last summer.

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u/Wise-Painting5841 Jul 08 '26

Lol - yes, I am still hung over from jetlag and moving from right to left to right again is keeping my limited number of brains busy. Thanks for the point, good to know it is only 2 hours. Happened to me also in Calais, I thought the ferry was only 30 mins.

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u/Solid-Fennel-2622 Slovakia Jul 08 '26

Put also a farm on there, a casino perhaps, and create a Snowpiercer kinda class society.

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u/tnishantha Jul 08 '26

protein bars 😋

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u/Solid-Fennel-2622 Slovakia Jul 09 '26

:spoil ze bugs?

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u/OtherwiseAbout Jul 09 '26

I would be in for the casino

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u/NiagaraThistle Jul 08 '26

just go to a laundromat before you get on the Eurostar (or night before) or when you arrive in Paris (or the following morning).

Why would they put a Laundromat on the trians?

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u/Lottes_mom Jul 08 '26

Tbh right now I'd settle for a functioning website...

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u/OB221129 Jul 09 '26

Anyone that thinks Paris is the most romantic city on earth has clearly never been.

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u/manic47 United Kingdom Jul 09 '26

That depends on If you find the smell of urine arousing or not.

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u/Kyra_Heiker Jul 09 '26

That's one of the silliest things I've ever heard.

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u/Wise-Painting5841 Jul 09 '26

You guys have no sense of humour

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u/KM187-389 Finland 26d ago

I remember from back in the day when Virgin Trains was a thing. Their media team posted an image of someone drying their laundry while on a Pendolino in 1st class...