Extreme HLO

[andye]

For the travelling light brigade, how would you go on this trip/experiment?

Could you survive a three-week holiday with only one outfit? 

 

[Hvr]

Paging Ms Jessica Tam to the white courtesy phone. Jessica makes the people look like amateurs.

Heck I can do a month with HLO including a large camera.

 

[eric2011]

Paging Ms Jessica Tam to the white courtesy phone. Jessica makes the people look like amateurs.

Heck I can do a month with HLO including a large camera.

Crikey your good, best me and SWMBO could manage was 12 days in New Caledonia with 1 HLO only. Must admit thats not bad for the fairer sex

 

[drewbles]

I've done two weeks with a little planning. It's not actually that difficult. Get the right carryon, the right clothes and carry your coat (if you need on). Winter can be tricky, but I have done it.

 

[codash1099]

The link leads to a 404 page.

 

[andye]

The link leads to a 404 page.

Still working for me-?browser

 

[Fiches Mouser]

I can go HLO indefinitely. After about a week, it doesn't matter if it's a month or a year.

One outfit for three weeks? No problem at all. Logistically it wouldn't be easy though. A lot of sitting around in a robe while you wait for your expensive hotel cleaning to be done.

It should be said that the extreme-HLO philosophy works particularly well when you're travelling in premium cabins and staying in full-service hotels, since toiletries and pyjamas are all taken care of. Couldn't do it on a budget, but then, probably wouldn't be travelling if that was the case!

 

[esseeeayeenn]

I like my own toiletries, so I could only last as long as 100 mls lasts!

 

[Denali]

I could do it easily, my husband on the other hand... uggh. Hes the reason we ALWAYS have check in luggage

 

[Boca68]

I'm usually a fairly light traveller anyway. HLO for 3 weeks might be pushing it though. 9 or 10 days, probably would be reasonably easy.

I did meet 2 french photgraphers years ago in Malaysia. We shared a long distance taxi ride from Mersing to Kuantan after missing the late bus. They'd being travelling Thailand, Malaysia for about 3 weeks with one small satchel (enough for a t-shirt or 2 and a couple pairs underwear) and a camera bag between the two of them. Although, they did have luggage waiting for them in KL, where they planned to be in 3 or 4 days. I remember at the time, thinking , how do they do it?

 

[cgichard]

Not extreme HLO, but I did 5 1/2 weeks with just an Antler trolley backpack and a Baggalini handbag in June-July last year: group tour in Georgia, solo walking in Provence, smart 4-day tour in the north of England and last 10 days visiting my sister in Wales. Left Melbourne wearing heaviest items to keep within SQ Y allowance of 7kg. Left Georgia within 8kg on LH. Last 2 flights were with BA (size but no weight restriction for HLO in Y) and short flight NCL-CWL on Eastern Airlines - tiny plane so all cabin baggage went in the hold, retrieved immediately on landing. By the time of my return journey straight through on SQ I was close to 10kg so I did check in the main bag. Hoping to do similar this year: just France and Wales this time but HLO will facilitate the inter-segment train travel.

 

[SYD]

I like my own toiletries, so I could only last as long as 100 mls lasts!

You're allowed to go shopping. But isn't it a bugger that only airports seem to carry those ever so convenient (if pricey) small sizes of stuff...

 

[Fiches Mouser]

You're allowed to go shopping. But isn't it a bugger that only airports seem to carry those ever so convenient (if pricey) small sizes of stuff...

I'm addicted to Aesop's samples. Every time I stock up on an item at home, I make sure to grab as many samples as possible for my travel needs.

 

[drewbles]

I can go HLO indefinitely. After about a week, it doesn't matter if it's a month or a year.

One outfit for three weeks? No problem at all. Logistically it wouldn't be easy though. A lot of sitting around in a robe while you wait for your expensive hotel cleaning to be done.

I simply find a laundromat. Grab a book/tablet and sit and observe the locals. Get a big-assed washer, do the entire load. Transfer to the biggest dryer, do the same. 2 hours max I find for wash and dry. I have my regular places in LAX, BOS and the burbs of London I get my laundry done at. Know the best coffee places around to kill some time whilst I wait too.

Other options i've found (which I use in LAX) are the bag wash-n-fold services that charge by the pound. Drop off a big bag of washing, pick up the next day all laundered and folded neatly in a fresh bag. A little more expensive than laundry, but around 20-25% or what the hotels charge (downtown LA is a wasteland). The place I use will even deliver to nearby hotels free of charge and offer a same day express for a small surcharge.

Where there's a will...

 

[Fiches Mouser]

I simply find a laundromat. Grab a book/tablet and sit and observe the locals. Get a big-assed washer, do the entire load. Transfer to the biggest dryer, do the same. 2 hours max I find for wash and dry. I have my regular places in LAX, BOS and the burbs of London I get my laundry done at. Know the best coffee places around to kill some time whilst I wait too.

Other options i've found (which I use in LAX) are the bag wash-n-fold services that charge by the pound. Drop off a big bag of washing, pick up the next day all laundered and folded neatly in a fresh bag. A little more expensive than laundry, but around 20-25% or what the hotels charge (downtown LA is a wasteland). The place I use will even deliver to nearby hotels free of charge and offer a same day express for a small surcharge.

Where there's a will...

I reckon there's a big market for a global, reasonably-priced laundry service that does exactly this – pick up, drop off, wash and fold. I'd use it at home as much as when travelling.

I really hate washing.

 

[drewbles]

I reckon there's a big market for a global, reasonably-priced laundry service that does exactly this – pick up, drop off, wash and fold. I'd use it at home as much as when travelling.

I really hate washing.

Absolutely there is. The issue becomes with hotels who want to protect their stupidly excessively priced laundry service where margins are in the thousands of percent. You could setup a business but you'd not be able to get into the hotels. I guess like the one in LAX, if you could find a small drop off/collection office near to hotels and send it out to launder in the burbs, you could do well. I smell a smart phone app opportunity

 

[Fiches Mouser]

Absolutely there is. The issue becomes with hotels who want to protect their stupidly excessively priced laundry service where margins are in the thousands of percent. You could setup a business but you'd not be able to get into the hotels. I guess like the one in LAX, if you could find a small drop off/collection office near to hotels and send it out to launder in the burbs, you could do well. I smell a smart phone app opportunity

Here's a good-looking app, but too expensive.

https://www.getwashio.com/prices

I want prices by the KG, not the item.

 

[esseeeayeenn]

This is why I have changed my accomodation habits away from hotels towards AirBNB.
I look for "whole of apartment" listings with a washer and, if possible, a dryer.
Although in Europe in winter you can usually dry clothes using the heating.
I have no desire to spend two hours every few days in a laundromat.
That's not how I choose to spend my time in Paris, for example.
Of course when I stay somewhere like coughet I use the laundry services.
From memory I think they charge 50 baht ($2) per kilo.

 

[Fiches Mouser]

Of course when I stay somewhere like coughet I use the laundry services.
From memory I think they charge 50 baht ($2) per kilo.

Good to know some charge by weight!

Agreed with Airbnb. That's probably the single most valuable part of private residences. That and having a kitchen.

 

[vetrade]

Makes the holiday pics terribly boring if you're wearing the same clothes in all of them though, doesn't it?