Hotel Guest Laundry #2: It's A Speed Queen Trifecta

[frigilux]

One of the joys of a hotel stay? A stealthy, early morning perusal of the guest laundry, of course!

The score so far: Speed Queen/Huebsch 2; other brands 0

There's a lot of Speed Queen stuffed into this Minneapolis hotel's phone booth-sized guest laundry.

Electronic control swag on this one. The four pads: Normal Hot; Normal Warm; Perm Press Warm; Delicate Cold
[this post was last edited: 4/11/2014-06:56]

 

[frigilux]

Obligatory money shot.

Nice to see a gleaming stainless steel tub, which gives SQ the edge over the dark porcelain of the Huebsch spotted recently in Chicago. Shame about the schmutz-laden agitator cap, though.

 

[frigilux]

This guest laundry swings both ways: A front-loader for those who prefer that format. Count me in!

 

[frigilux]

This is actually a double-stack dryer, but the room is too tiny to get the whole thing into a photo.

 

[mickeyd]

"Perusal of the guest laundry, of course! "

Frigilux, that's so funny. I wonder how many of us here--probably everyone--does the same thing. And then so-called normal people wonder and ask: " Where the hell you running off to?

We just got here ! "  

 

And we say: "To check out the guest laundry room, of course-- what else would I be doing? You mean you don't care about the brand or the type of machine they have in the laundry?  Are you for real?"

 

Have seen a platoon of free (no charge--start switch, instead) dark porcelain SQ's in a large condo complex in Fort Lauderdale, and the Heubsch version at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz for the staff,  with charge boxes; the guests get Neptunes.  Used them  all. What a ball!

 

Have fun! Are you there doing music?

 

Now if you were going to use the top loader, would you clean off that nasty agitator cap for them?  (laughs)

 

[mrb627]

Preference...

First of all, GUILTY! I admit I have a problem of needing to know what is being used in the laundry of any business that might have it.

Second, I kinda prefer the flat top agitator cap to the softener dispenser.

Malcolm

 

[frigilux]

mickeyd-- Fortunately, I'm on my own, so there's no one to question my guest laundry curiosity, LOL. I'm here on double duty: Playing keyboards for the soundtrack of a friend's film project, and working at a forensic speech tournament. And the answer is definitely 'yes': Were I to wash a load of laundry, I'd definitely clean the cap! In fact, I opened the door to the front-loader to let it air out after I took the photo. It's all part of the AW Scout Pledge, right?

Malcolm-- I like the flat agitator cap as well. Is the one in the photo above meant to hold a softener dispenser? By the way...I was at a Super Target a few minutes ago and saw those nifty little bottles of Tide for $2.99 each. Was tempted, but decided not to.

 

[mrb627]

Flat Cap

Is meant to replace the FS dispenser. The FS dispenser doesn't ride on top of it.

Malcolm