Manoa Dry Cleaner

Mediocre cleaners in the neighborhood. It’s conveniently located right next to the train. The service is alright, but the family owned business is ran in a very old fashioned way. They document all of there sales with a notepad and still use a abacus which is a little odd. I’ll continue going here because of the convenience and the quality is average.

Been coming here for the past six years. I don’t even live near Lincoln Park any more but I still go back because I like the cleaners, the owners and the service THAT much.
Listen, they aren’t perfect. I’m sure they’ve ruined dresses, made mistakes, etc. EVERYONE does — it happens. It is on the pricey side for alterations, but you get what you pay for. Many times things didn’t come out how I wanted it and every time they redid the alterations (sometimes multiple times, all for no additional price). They are nice people who provide a good service.
They saved a suit, shirt and jacket of mine — all of which I thought were hopeless. They made them spotless.
As far as bags/​leather goods go, this is not the place. It is a DRY CLEANERS. That means fluff and fold, dry cleaning and clothing alterations. If you need any bag/​shoe/​leather/​suede repairs, there is a great shop close to this cleaners. It’s on the north side of Armitage about two blocks east of Manoa. Look for the sign, go down the stairs. They’re great (and cheap).

I brought in a tote bag to be cleaned because of a small stain. The bag was brought in to them on May 12 — now (2 months later!!), I still don’t have a clean bag back to my satisfaction. The bag is RUINED. It was a black and white striped designer bag. The stain I brought it in for is gone, but the bag is no longer black and white… its black and gray. It looks dirtier and worse than when I brought it in.
The workers cannot communicate with me to resolve the issue because they don’t speak english well. They have told me twice that someone will call me to resolve the issue — no one has called yet. To make matters a million times worse — when I told them they need to replace the bag (after my 4^th time there to pick it up after another cleaning attempt), the man screamed, picked up the bag, and THREW THE BAG AT ME! Completely inappropriate behavior… I still can’t believe it!
The matter is still unresolved. I will never go back there or recommend that anyone go there.

Shame on me, I went back twice out of convenience. Laundry services are decent. Alterations are RIDICULOUS, both in price and quality. They charge almost double for simple things like hemming and sleeve shortening on suits. The work is SUB-​PAR. After paying $ 35 to simply shorten sleeves on a coat, I found the lining was not shortened. It was reattached at full length and makes it hard to put the coat on and makes a lump under the cuff. Any discussion afterwards leaves you feeling that you are wrong. If you live VERY nearby, then use them only for cleaning. I WOULDN’T USE them for ANYTHING based on their prices and poor quality of alterations.

I go to Manoa cleaners every two weeks and my coats and jackets always come back pristine and clean. Mr. and Mrs. Kim are extremely friendly and nice.
And quite frankly I don’t know why people are saying they do a bad iob with alterations because all my hemmings are done to my liking each time.
It is a bit pricy, but the location is great and they have never delayed on my cleanings.

Horrible. I just paid $ 85 dollars for someone to ruin my bridesmaid dress for a wedding this weekend.
I was in a bind and needed additional alterations before this weekend and this place is down the street from my work. All that was needed was to take up the straps a little and take about an inch off the waist/​bodice. This dress was David’s Bridal cheap construction, so it’s not a gem to begin with but I know how to pin for alterations (just can’t sew them) and it was NOT a complicated job.
They refused to give me an estimate of price, saying they had to send it out (so that wall of threads and a sewing machine is just for SHOW?). I assumed, at most, about $ 40 for these simple fixes.
Well, I got the dress back today and they’ve completely ruined the line of it. The seams now pucker, the pockets in the dress now sit BEHIND my hip bones (how did they manage THAT?) and then dress no longer falls fluidly over my hips. It looks like I’m wearing huge, baggy shorts under my A-​line dress.
Thank GOd it was at least ready on time and I’ll have something to wear. Even if it now looks ugly.
GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!

Manoa Dry Cleaners does a very pristine job on dry cleaning and tailoring many of my things. The prices are quite high, but I have experienced some crazy things elsewhere and some ruined items.
They once dry cleaned a top with beading and it came back with the beads ruined. They paid me for the item when I brought in the receipt:).
I would recommend Manoa!

IF I COULD GIVE THEM NEGATIVE STARS, I WOULD!
This place is ridiculous, they are WAY over priced for ALL services. I went there a couple times because its by my work but they are not next day, because they send out all their garments, which a lot of places do so that’s not a big deal but to get two suit jackets, a dress and another jacket cleaned it was over $ 100, the prices are OUT OF CONTROL. And they don’t have a pricing guide/​schedule of fee’s and how much things cost, I decided to give them another try and have them tailor two dresses for me and a pair of jeans, I asked how much it would cost and she told me she didn’t know because they send out everything. I said around $ 20? To have less than an inch taken off the side of a romper and a dress and she agreed. When I went to pick up the garments it was $ 40 to sew the pockets shut and take off less than an inch, that is out of this world for a tailor. I also asked for the pockets to be sewn shut on a pair of jeans and less than an inch taken in and that was $ 20, when I got the garment home the pockets were not even sewn shut. I had to come back and complain and threaten to leave the dresses and not even get them out before they took down the price for the two dresses, the dresses didn’t even cost $ 40. I thought it would be around 15 – 20 dollars, I am from Michigan so I realize we are in a bigger city and things cost more but that is ridiculous. The location is nice because its by the train and my work, the staff is friendly I don’t disagree there but the prices are not comparative to the type of work they are doing. And one the cream suit jacket I mentioned before came back with a brownish yellow stain it did not have prior to having it cleaned. I will never go back to this place, not even if it was the last cleaners in the city… thank God there are so many to choose from.

I don’t know how this place stays in business or why people keep going here. I went to get a one-​inch tear on my seam of my dress pants fixed and the woman there tried to charge me $ 15…$ 15 to sew a little tear on the seam. This place just makes up prices and tries to rip off customers.
I walked across the street and around the corner to DEPAUL CLEANERS on sheffield and they fixed my pants for $ 5, one-​third of the price.
If you have any launder or alterations needs around sheffield and armitage, DO NOT go to manoa cleaners…
go to Depaul Cleaners… honest prices and they aren’t trying to rip you off.

FIrst off they are extremely nice. I have a permanent back injury and they always help me to my car — which they don’t have to do! They are also close to my house. I have never had a probelm. I recommend them highly!

This place is legit– they are super fast and my laundry comes back folded and smelling wonderful. Mr. and Mrs. Kwon are always friendly and let me use my credit card for amounts under $ 20 even though that is the stated minimum (Ooops!).
During the week it’s totally possible to drop clothing off in the morning and have it back that night. Service is great! I’ve never had any problems with Manoa and go about once a week!

I had a HUGE makeup stain on one of my favorite white tank tops and they got it out, no problem. They also told me ahead of time that they might not be able to so that they didn’t mislead me. They are also very friendly & reasonably priced. I will go back here any time.

I like Manoa Cleaners. I get my laundry done here and Mr and Mrs. Kwon are also my landlords. No complaints so far and they do a pretty good job on my laundry and dry cleaning when I need it.