Flat without a washing machine in Ludwigsburg: what to do?

You've just moved to Ludwigsburg and there is no connection in the flat. Or it's a furnished apartment for a project, an internship, the first months of a new job. Or the old machine has broken and a new one can wait. The laundry piles up all the same.

Especially in small flats in older buildings there is often simply no room for a washing machine, and sometimes no suitable connection in the bathroom either. The good news: a flat without a washing machine is no problem in Ludwigsburg if there's a laundromat near you.

1. Buy your own machine

Worth it if you're staying long and have space plus water and power connections. Add delivery, installation and the question of whether your landlord agrees. For a fixed-term let or very small rooms, usually not a good idea.

2. Wash at friends' or family's

Costs no money but takes time and arrangements. Fine as a stopgap for a few weeks, but it gets tiring for both sides in the long run.

3. A laundry service

Convenient, but much more expensive than washing yourself, and your laundry is away for a few days. Makes sense if you can't wash yourself.

4. The laundromat

You only pay when you wash, can spread piles of laundry across several machines at once, and are usually done in a good hour, drying included. For most people the most practical solution.

On top of that, you wouldn't have a suitable machine at home for duvets, curtains or winter jackets anyway. At the laundromat you wash everything in one place: normal laundry in the 8 kg machine, big items in the XXL washing machine with 18 kg. What a visit costs per month is worked out in the guide How much does a laundromat cost?

• 11 washing machines with 8 kg for normal laundry, 3 XXL machines with 18 kg for duvets and big loads, 4 dryers with 20 kg
• Washing €5.00 (8 kg) or €13.50 (18 kg), drying €1.50 per 10 minutes
• Pay by cash, all major credit and debit cards, contactless with Apple Pay and Google Pay, or with the discount card, which makes every wash up to 25 % cheaper
• Detergent is available at the terminal (€0.70), and you can bring your own
• No appointment, no sign-up, free Wi-Fi

1. Plan a fixed day, for example Saturday morning. Then not too much piles up.
2. Two laundry bags: one for dirty laundry, one for the clean laundry on the way home.
3. Use the dryer if your flat is small. Then nothing hangs damp in the room for days.
4. Wash big items together: duvets, curtains and jackets go together in the XXL machine.

• Waiting too long: if you only wash once there's nothing clean left in the wardrobe, you end up hauling three full bags. A fixed routine makes it easier.
• Washing everything by hand in the sink: fine for a few socks, but too much effort for towels and bed linen, and rarely properly clean.
• Drying damp laundry in your room: in small flats the humidity rises and it soon smells musty. The dryer at the laundromat does the job in 20 to 40 minutes.
• Planning for Sunday: closed on Sundays and public holidays. Saturday or a weekday evening until 10 pm works better.

If you live without a washing machine, you wash regularly, and that's exactly what the discount card is made for. You get it for a €5 deposit at the payment terminal and top it up: €10 becomes €11.00, €20 becomes €23.00, €30 becomes €36.00 and €50 becomes €62.50 of credit.

With the discount card an 8 kg wash costs from €3.80, the large washing machine from €10.20 and drying from €1.10 per 10 minutes. The card works at all 7 Wash&Go laundromats in Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg and Karlsruhe.

Stuttgarter Straße 54, 71638 Ludwigsburg. The Karlsplatz bus stop (lines 421 and 533) is 3 minutes away, the station about 9 minutes on foot. Parking right outside or at Karlsplatz. Opening hours & directions

The laundromat Ludwigsburg is easy to spot: it's right next to the Friedenskirche on Karlsplatz, opposite the Residential Palace. From the surrounding area too, for example from Kornwestheim or Bietigheim-Bissingen, the S-Bahn gets you to Ludwigsburg station quickly.