Laundry Land

Maybe I’ll come back another time.
Last wash means last full wash. Not, the machines are off on ten minutes.

I’ve been coming here for 1.5 years now, but I’m now very disappointed with the condition of this laundromat. I first came here because it had plenty of working machines, lots of sitting space and a few nice TVs to help pass the time.
Unfortunately, an entire wall of dryers were damaged by water but the owner has made no attempt to remedy the situation for several months.
It also irritates me that I have lost money on machines when they are not labeled «out of order» and I only come to find they are broken after I’ve poured in my detergent/​softener and the machine won’t turn on. I really wish the employees would make more of an effort to label these machines.
It may be time to start looking for a new laundromat.

UPDATE. Giving them 1 star and thats being generous. They charge to use the bathroom. I hate the payment method. It’s a total scam. Your machines only have card readers but they only read cards that cost $ 3 to purchase and I can only purchase them with cash? Never coming back. Yeah they have lots of machines they all seem to be working but it’s too expensive.

This place says its open til 1130. WRONG they close at 11 pm! I tried talking to management about their times on Unilocal and he didn’t care, I told him it was false advertisement he still didn’t care! Rude workers!!!

After trying many laundromats in San Diego, this one is my regular place to go. For a few reasons:
–They have the eight load washers; I can cram all of my dark clothes and my gf’s dark clothes in one of these.
–They also have discounts on certain days, which helps a lot.
–The place is always clean.
–They have numerous vending machines and arcade games. There are 4 tvs that place a variety of shows including mexican soap operas, cartoons and kid shows, and sports.
–They have the huge dryers that you can use for your blankets and comforters.

Good service. Off topic but There was a cute white chick there tonight. Get at me. Lol

Laundry day is sad day in my life and is never a pleasant experience, so it’s difficult to write a positive review. Someone somewhere needs to figure out how to make doing laundry into a FUN experience so that I can write a 5-​star review for a laundromat someday. That said, I hate coming here, but it must be doing its job satisfactorily because I keep choosing it as the venue for this necessary evil in my life.
I love the fact that this place uses re-​loadable cards for payment, completely eliminating the need to deal with quarters. But that and its sheer size are about the only things remarkable about this place.
The machines work fine, some better than others, same with dryers… nothing noteworthy except that there are a LOT of them. And lots of different sizes as well. Even when it’s crowded I’ve never yet had to wait for washers or dryers. I don’t always get my first choice of machines and/​or folding areas, but I get it done. It’s much better to come during non-​peak hours (so later in the evening or even on a week night) to avoid the flocks of children playing racing games with the laundry carts and/​or pushy women elbowing their way in to your folding space. But that’s typical, can’t blame the mat.
The cleanliness is so/​so — clean compared to a public bus, but far from restaurant standards. The bathroom is disgusting: just hold it. There are plenty of televisions playing sponge bob and/​or sporting events. There are vending machines with both food and laundry supplies and some video games for entertainment. There is a liquor store right across the street where you can get a beverage and a snack while you’re waiting for your laundry to finish.
It’s nice that they have plenty of parking in their lot. It’s not-​so-​nice that the spots are so tiny that you can’t open your car door wide enough to fit your laundry basket through without hitting the car next to you. I solve that problem by pulling out and pulling up next to the door to load and unload. Unfortunately, not everyone has that courtesy and some choose the ‘dinging the car next to them’ option instead.
All in all, not a very pleasant experience, but it gets the job done with minimal hassle.

The place is very clean and has the BIG washers and driers! I could do ALL THE LAUNDRY! Yay! However, the card is $ 3 up front, which is OK and I can live with that and all, except the attendant will not give you your money back if you put too much on your card which I did by $ 15 (which could’ve been beer money, yo!). Tip: CALCULATE EXACTLY how much you will use before you charge up your card.

I love the fact that coins aren’t involved and every thing is prepaid.

I live very very close and we have laundry on site but i still come to this place to do my laundry cause i can get it all done in one go with the nice big machines and i can use the card rather than have to save quarters.
what really puts it over the top though is the ladies who work here are super nice. I apparently forgot to push «start» on the machine before I went back home so when I returned i had paid the 4 bucks for the load but but clothes were still dry and dirty. I had also already taken my soap back home. I let the lady working know and she was a bit annoyed by me (it was dumb of me) but she supplied me with a free load and some soap– which she DIDNT have to do and so I thought that was really cool…

Just moved into the area, and this was the 3^rd laundry mat I tried. and I LOVE it! The place is spotless, never seems to be busy, and has sooo many machines! I’ve never had to wait even 5 minutes for a macine to open up. On every machine, every 50^th wash or dry (for that machine) is free to the person using it. I had a day where I needed the extra large washer, and was the 50^th user, and it was free! It saved me $ 8.00 and my cloths were spotless!
Pros: No quarters! Love the card system! TV to watch. Lots of washers and dryers.
Cons: Cards can only be filled with cash. Do not actually have wifi.
Overall: 5 stars! In a sketchy location, and this place is probably a front for something, but it’s the first laundry place where I feel comfortable doing my laundry.

Its a laundromat. I like how they use laundry debit cards instead of coins. It makes my pocket lighter. You can wash and dry about 3 weeks worth of a single guys clothes for 10 bucks. Well… maybe 2 weeks… There are a ton of dryers and washers of all shapes and sizes. The workers there are constantly making the rounds and are very helpful. The vending machines are conveniently expensive so go to the liquor store across the street for a soda. But they do have Area 51, a game i was beast at in 1998.
Here, I feel comfortable leaving my clothes in the machines while taking a nap on the folding table or using the secure and relatively clean facilities.

Big place with lots of machines so no wait. But it costs $ 3 to buy the smart card that you HAVE to use for the machines to work. Pretty cool though since you put the money to the card and when you return the card you get the $ 3 back.
However it’s kind of in need of a facelift outside and in. A bit run down. But a good place to throw a malted beverage in a brown bag, drink, and watch episodes of Southpark!

This laundromat has been sold, and the name has been changed to the Vegas Laundromat. I used it, and seemed ok to me.

1. I love the little old man who works there who watches movies with me.
2. I love that they have free wireless except when its not working and no one can reset the router because its in a office thats kept locked because the owner lives up North somewhere. This was bad because I work Sundays off my laptop and came in to do my laundry, set up camp and the wireless wasnt working but all my clothes where in the washer.
3.Pin ball !!!
4.The people who work there are super nice and helpful. I just get a little annoyed when its 8 pm and last wash is at 10:45, its crowded and they start to clean and section off certain areas of machines.
5.Again, the best staff ever! You drop one dryer sheet on the ground and they are right over to sweep it up for you.

It’s a bright, clean, shining beacon of clean laundry smell. They have awesome hours, nice girls who work there and are attentive {not on cell phones, how the bar has lowered}, a couple arcade machines, snack machines, benches outside and tons and tons and tons and TONS; I repeat AMPLE machines. It isn’t cramped, hot or needing more seating like most lavanderias. I don’t care if I had to pay 3.00 to buy a card to load, it’s worth it to not have to lug around quarters. Hell, if they charged a membership fee I’d happily pay it, too!
Word to the wise, the liquor store across the street always has something entertaining going on WITHOUT FAIL. And by entertaining I mean hookers threatening to blow the place up because they charge CRV on a tall can of Arizona Iced Tea: D

I think the thing that really sells this place is the re-​loadable cards. No longer do I have to hoard my quarters like gold doubloons, JOY.
It was clean and the staff seemed to be active in trying to keep it that way. There are tons of machines to use. They have the mega-​huge-​load washers which was great for doing my comforter, blankets, and sheets in one load.
The machines all have a good spin cycle so the clothes didn’t come out dripping wet. Which meant drying times were super short, 16 min on most of my loads.
The only reason they don’t get 5 stars is because when I went they had blocked off about half the place for cleaning the floors, which meant things were a bit more cramped.

Although I no longer have need for a Laundromat, I still have love for this place. It sooo clean. Ooooh and there are cable TV’s and WiFi! There are a lot of machines so I’ve never had to wait. The best thing is that you don’t have to save quarters; the machines are paid for with a rechargable card (even the vending machines). I recognize that its in a scetchy location but i have risked leaving my clothes there to run errands or grab a drink at Chasers (now Soda Bar) 100’s of times and I have yet to see someone walking around in my fav t shirt or jeans.
Don’t forget, Centre Laundry IS a LAUNDROMAT. You can still expect to see families of 10 with screaming children running up and down the isles armed with shitty diapers and runny noses… The price you gotta pay for not having a washing machine at home…

It says they have wifi on the window, but they don’t. Maybe they did once, but they haven’t in a long time. They also say they have dry cleaning on the premises. They don’t. That’s minus 1 star for each of those. They charge you 3 bucks just to get one of those cards that you have to use. That’s minus another star.
The place is huge and they have a million washers and dryers. I have never waited for a machine. That’s plus one star. They also have some really big machines so you can do everything in one load if you want. Plus half a star. The card is actually pretty convenient to use. That cancels itself out. They have cool little detergents and dryer sheets that you can buy with the card. That’s plus one star. Even better, you can use the card to on the soda machines.
So I lost count of how many stars this place gets. But it’s still only a Laundromat, so it’s getting 3 stars. Besides, the front window is a pack of lies.

As previous reviews have mentioned, Centre uses a card-​based system instead of coin-​op. Whether it’s a better deal than your local alternatives is for you to decide. Their pricing, as of this writing, is as follows:
Small Upright Wash $ 1.75
Medium Front Load Wash $ 2.25
Large Front Load Wash $ 3.95
Extra Large Front Load Wash $ 8.25
$.25 per 8 minutes of dryer usage
I have a laundry mat at the end of my street that I used to go to simply due to convenience, but my clothes kept getting peach-​colored bleach splotches on them. I don’t use bleach. I suspect that residual bleach was somehow staying in the inner workings of their washers. Anyway, after a dozen or so occurrences of that, I shook my fist at the sky and swore that place off. I figured I’d give Centre a go. The good patrons of Unilocal seem to dig it, after all.
There seems to be a lot of talk about Centre being in the ghetto. I don’t really see it. I live in Northpark, so maybe I’m just used to it. But I mean… all of SD is a little ghetto unless you live in La Jolla. Just different flavors of «ghetto» depending on where you are.
The Pros of Centre are as such:
— TONS of washers, dryers, and carts. I’ve never had to wait.
— The card system (pricing aside) is very convenient. I hate dealing with quarters.
— My clothes have yet to get effed up with bleach splotches in their washers. That’s a big plus for me.
The Cons:
— I do suspect that you get taxed a little for the convenience of the card system.
— For such a big place, there aren’t too many places to sit. There are some benches along the windows and two tables in front.
My biggest gripe with this place, by far, has to do with the staff. They lounge around like a bunch of bums all day and it’s very unappealing from this customer’s perspective. They treat the place like their home away from home instead of a business. One of the two aforementioned tables is invariably taken up by the staff members. You can tell who they are because they’re wearing yellow polo shirts. That just seems lame to me. I mean, common, those tables are for customers. They sit around watching TV all day. The janitor is the worst of all. I’ve seen that old-​timer with his shoes off, laying down on one of the folding counters, watching TV like he was in his own living room. It weirds me out.