laundering & pressing men's shirts

I need to wash and press some shirts wicked bad. In Hauptbanhof today I saw a dry cleaning place and as best I could tell it cost 5E a shirt. Can that be right?

Can anyone recommend a place? If I can get there by U-Bahn it is worth it to me to drag clothes across the city for good service and price.

i think there's one right by me but i am too lazy to check it out. Still haven't dry cleaned anything since being here. Just put the shower on and let it hang.

Yeah, but that doesn't get out the filthy rotten stink.

You can extend the life of stuff by using Febreze. If something is just smokey smelling from the pub, Febreze it, hang it up and it'll be fine for another wear.

Lads, ye are mingin'.
Buy some washing powder (and conditioner if you like soft stuff) and head to
the nearest laundrette. Wash clothes, dry them for 15 mins, on medium heat,
bring them home, and iron them (with a Eur10-15 iron from mediamarkt).

I've found that dry cleaning shirts doesn't actually get them AS clean as when
you wash stuff with water. i.e. they might LOOK clean and pressed,
but they don't pass the nose inspection.
If you wear a T-Shirt under your shirt, and only wear the shirt once or twice, you
might get away with it.

2€ to 2.50€ a shirt is a more common price, the place at Hauptbahnhof is dearer due to convienience. It becomes cheaper when you wash the shirts yourself and bring them in damp to be ironed (shirts are usually washed not dry-cleaned, even in a dry-cleaners). Even cheaper is getting a cleaning lady/ironing service (check the boards at your supermarket) to do it. Even cheaper is doing it yourself of course (I do mine but I wear suits at work so use dry-cleaners a lot).
I have an ok dry-cleaners by me in Neuhausen/Rotkreuzplatz, she does suits very well but isn't so good on silks and cashmere. There is an excellent Italian place in Schwabing on the Georgenstr. (I think, it is attached to a pizza place near the student flats and that posh deli run by a gay couple) which dry cleans 5 pieces for 17€ and is the cheapest place I've seen (it has a mangle in the middle of the place and does a lot of hotel sheets). The Martinizing franchise appears to do good work too and cane be found all over the city or try the one on the Schliessheimerstr. past Nordbad near Müller Drogerie as my mate gets his done there for 1.50€ a pop.
Herr Indoors does his own, he did national service in the Gebirgsjägers and can thus iron and polish shoes with the best of them.
Katrina
PS Febreze is fantastic though but get the light fragrance as it can be a bit overpowering.

There's a launderette near me and it's simple and pretty cheap - pop in, stick the stuff you want washed in a machine and tell the bloke what to do with it - you don't even need powder - he supplies it all. A wash and dry is €6.50, but I always take shirts in - he irons each one at €1.70 I think - nice n cheap and takes him two days to do ten shirts.

Near me for those who don't know is on Barerstraße, heading North, just past the Schelling Salon pool hall - there's a tram stop right outside (sorry, no idea what line).

27 tram, the stop is schellingstrasse

matizer (sp?) just north of the nordbad on schließheimerstr does 4 shirts for 5 yoyos (well they did up until a few months ago)... cleaned and pressed...

ooops, that is the same place katrina mentioned... i recommend it...

And while you are there you can pop into Tung Thong for their Curry Lunch Buffet!

Tung Thong? Is that the extremely dodgy looking place on the corner?

there is a sportsbar of some sort there too... looks kind of aussie...

there's a place near me just south of Kurfürstenplatz - its opposite a restaurant called Casa de Tapas which is on the end of Bauerstr. - that washes and irons shirts for €1,70 a piece - and you get them back in about 3 days.

It is pretty cheap and convenient but their ironing skills leave something to be desired. I think they use shirt-sized presses rather than irons and use them too hot as well, so shirts can come back a bit crinkly with creases pressed in that no-one could have ironed in and double cuffs seem to absolutely blow their mind.

I spray them with a bit of water and hang them up when I take them home and they are usually acceptable after that - occasionally have to finish them off with an iron myself. seems worth a little bit of effort given they are a lot cheaper than other places.

Double cuffs are a source of great amusement to the Germans - my ironing parlour initially told me something was wrong with the shirt. Luckily I was wearing another shirt with double cuffs and could demonstrate to them the magic of the cuff link. He was well impressed as you might imagine.

DW, there's gotta be a cheaper place in your vicinity. Do what I did and just take a walk around one saturday morning looking for it. You may have passed it several times and not noticed it.

Anything done or purchased at the Hauptbanhof is gonna cost too much.

gee drivin', iron your own damn shirts! lazy ass yuppie! j.k.

stay away from the hauptbahnhof unless you're dying for a stick of butter on sunday afternoon. they charge WAY too much for stuff cause they have the right to stay open on sunday's and after normal business hours. look for "reinigung" and see if they do "bügel". i think with those words and a little sign language, you'll get by to get what you need.