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You have four choices when it comes to handling laundry while traveling:

1. You take so many clothes that you never wear anything twice and you bring a giant suitcase. Don’t do this. Unless you have an entourage of "staff" carrying all your stuff, this is a bad idea. 
2. You pay for laundry service at your hotel. This is the most expensive option. Often the cost to clean the clothing item is more than what you paid to purchase the item.
3. You search for a coin laundromat after you arrive. But searching for a laundromat then waiting for your clothes to be cleaned and dried would use up your previous vacation time. I don’t recommend this option either.
4. I hand wash my clothes and hang them in the shower in my room. I bring light weight clothing that way everything dries quickly. I used to bring a bar of laundry soap but find it doesn’t rinse out well. Then I would buy a small jug of liquid laundry soap but even the smallest jug is more than I need for a week or two. Now I hand wash things using hotel shampoo. It's a liquid soap that rinses out well. I wash things at night then roll them in a towel to remove most of the moisture. My clothes are usually dry by the morning. If they're not dry in the morning no problem. I have other clothes to wear.

How much hand-washing are we talking about? That's up to you. Do you wear an article of clothes only once before washing? It depends. Think about it. In my opinion, hand-washing is no big deal and saves me a lot of time in a coin laundromat.

I recommend avoiding wearing blue jeans. Blue jeans take forever to hand wash, rinse and dry and, frankly, are really not so comfortable on a long haul flight especially if you have to sleep in them.

Think about packing light-weight clothing that you can layer if it gets chilly.

If you're lucky your hotel room might come with one of these--a heated towel rack. They're not pretty but they do a great job of drying clothes quickly (relatively speaking).

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