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Laundry service

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

/ˈlɔːndri ˌsɜːrvɪs/nounCommon term

In tourism & hospitality, laundry service means: A hotel service that washes, dries, irons or dry-cleans guests' clothes, usually for a fee shown on a price list.

In Turkish: çamaşır yıkama hizmeti, çamaşırhane, laundry servisi

How it is used

Guests put clothes in a laundry bag, fill in the laundry list and call housekeeping for collection. Hotels offer same-day or express laundry service, pressing (ironing only) and dry cleaning. The hotel laundry also washes all the hotel's linen.

Example sentences

  1. If you leave your shirts in the laundry bag before 9 a.m., our laundry service will return them the same evening.

  2. Is there a laundry service, or a washing machine that guests can use?

Common collocations

  • same-day laundry service
  • express laundry service
  • laundry bag
  • laundry list
  • dry cleaning
  • housekeepingThe hotel department that cleans and prepares guest rooms and public areas and looks after towels, sheets and room supplies.
  • linenIn a hotel, all the cloth items used in rooms and restaurants, such as sheets, pillowcases, duvet covers, towels and tablecloths.
  • incidentalsExtra charges a guest makes during a stay that are not part of the room rate, such as minibar, room service or phone calls.
  • room attendantA housekeeping employee who cleans guest rooms, makes the beds and restocks towels and supplies.

More terms: Housekeeping

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