Laundry Services: Most of the hotels in the city provide laundry service. Besides this, the laundry shops at two blocks off Dam Square on Damstraat and the one at NZ Voorburgwal offer good services. The best self-service laundry in the city is the Clean Brothers, (Kerkstraat 56 Grachtengordel south). It charges €4 to wash a sizeable load, €1 per 30min in the drier and €0.50 for soap. Service-washes, dry-cleaning, ironing are also done by them. Their another branch is at Jacob van Lennepkade 179 Oud West. Other main laundries in the city are at Elandsgracht 59 (Jordaan and the Westerdok), Warmoesstraat 30 and Oude Doelenstraat 12 (Old Centre).
Lost Property: If any item is lost on the tram, bus or metro, there are various offices in the city that can provide help to recover it. GVB Head Office is one of them. The Gevonden Voorwerpen office at the nearest station opened round the clock helps to figure out the property lost on a train. The unclaimed property reaches the Central Lost Property Office located at Utrecht after three days. In order to pick them, a cost of 7 per item has to be paid. But, if any property has been lost in the street or a park it will be useful if contacted the police lost property at Stephensonstraat. Property lost in airport should be informed at Schiphol airport's lost and found office.
Book Sellers: The popular bookstores in the city catering to the international community provide various English
language books. Waterstones (Kalverstraat 152, Ph: 638 38 21), located on the corner of the Kalverstraat, the Spuithe Kalverstraat and the Spui, has a wide range of English language books spread over four attractive storeys. Books on modern fiction are located at the ground floor. The four-storied American Bookshop (Kalverstraat 185. Ph: 625 55 37) also has a wide range of books for good discounts. Besides novels and fictions, The New English Bookshop (Lauriergracht 71 Ph: 626 4230) also has coffee-table books, travel guides and stationery. De Slegte that also sells second-hand books and Scheltema's the best of the Dutch bookstores, Atheneum Boekhandel (Spui 14-16 Ph: 622 6248) that has an extensive collection of as politics, history, academics, philosophy, and literature are the other popular book shops in the city.
Use of Electrical Appliances: Holland has a high voltage of 220 volts. The travelers are requested to carry along a power converter and an adapter for two-prong, round-prong plugs. Hotels have a 110 or 120-volt outlet for shavers. People can use battery-operated appliances if they find it comfortable than using electrical ones.
