Flamingo Dry Cleaners & Alterations

Be ware if this place. They ruined a dress shirt (they spilled bleach on it) and refused to take responsibility or make me whole even though I have been going there for over a year.

If you need simple alteration then go here, but if you need more work done, like bridesmaid dresses go down the block to Best rate cleaners and see Wendy she awesome! She can do every kind of fixs and fast. trust me!

Flamingo is in neighborhood & used them in the past with no problems for dry cleaning & alterations so I returned to have two skorts (shorts under) shorten as okay on waist & hips. I was so disappointed when I got home as they were three (3) inches shorter in front than back. I spoke to their employee, Mandy who did the hemming & asked me to bring them back in which I did.
I modeled one for her which I noticed also the skort jacked up in front so she used some chalk on skort to mark new hem line as I turned around in a circle for her. To my dismay the chalk lines were so uneven it was shocking. I ordered these from Duluth clothing & wasn’t cheap. So I wasn’t about to let her correct her problem with the crooked chalk lines.
My daughter referred me to another cleaners to correct situation & we determined the front was 16 inches long, sides were 18 inches & back was 19 inches on hem completed by Flamingo. By the way there was no offer to return my moneys by Flamingo employee. She said she wasn’t the owner. I wish I had left message for owner regarding money’s.
In all fairness as I stated in the beginning alterations were okay in past but this was a disaster.
I would have felt better had she apologized but got a little uppity when I told her I wanted to take elsewhere. Be careful out there.

reasonably priced $ 10-​$ 15 for a sleeve to be hemmed $ 20 – 30 for a whole blazer

Great service on alterations and dry cleaning; including for ski stuff.

Wow! This place has changed. I first brought my clothes here for alterations back in January. The ladies did meticulous work on my suits. Soon after finding this gem, I moved down to Santa Barbara for work so I haven’t been here in a while. This past weekend, I went back up to SF to visit my parents and I dropped off some suits to be dry cleaned. And holy smokes! This place looks amazing! They completely remodeled the whole store. It’s relatively the same layout but everything is brand new. I love the new flooring – much more inviting than those red tiles they used to have. Keep up the amazing work ladies! I’ll be saving my suits for you for when I’m in town! :)

I’ve lived a couple blocks away from here for nearly a decade, and the very polite, professional and hard-​working women in this dry cleaner consistently do an excellent job on my dress shirts, slacks and suits. Alterations are very well priced, and I’ve been satisfied with each one [which is saying a lot considering how long I’ve been using their services.] They’re open until 7 too, which is a nice touch in case I get home a little late from work. Thanks Flamingo Cleaners — you are great to have in the neighborhood!

Absolutely amazing alterations! I brought in three vintage dresses that were a huge pain in the butt to re-​size. One dress was taken down 2 – 3 sizes throughout — very difficult to do – another dress had be altered at the neck and reattached at the collar, and still another had crossed straps in the back that needed to be adjusted for a whole new fit in the bodice.
I picked up the items yesterday and it was like they were tailor made for me, from scratch! I have never seen alterations performed so well, much less on such complicated pieces.
When I first went in, the seamstress working that day spent a good amount of time pinning the items on me and getting the fit just right. We had to chat a bit about what was just right and what was too tight for me – but I expect that, since she isn’t a mind reader. She was reasonably patient with my «a little looser please» and «just a little more.»
I brought in 6 items in total (the other three were just a simple let out and a couple hooks and buttons) and picked them up two weeks later, as scheduled. I thought the price was more than reasonable for the work performed.
As a tiny person with a love for vintage clothes — you know, clothes offered one off in a single size — I’m very happy to have found Flamingo.

Three years later and I’m still coming back frequently. I’ve moved a few times in the past few years and have went to other cleaners but no other place did the job right like this place. Even when I’m on the other side of the city I’m still coming back here. What’s changed a bit (for the better) is that they now have a «parking spot” – customers can temporarily park their cars where the middle garage is on the side of the building which makes this place just that much better!

I cannot recommend their dry cleaning service based on my initial experience:
— They don’t do the cleaning on-​site, which often means it’s outsourced to someone else
— I made a specific request on a garment and they failed to do it
— Most of my sweaters/​blouses were folded/​buttoned incorrectly on the hanger (they can really look jacked if they stay on the hanger that way)
— They had difficulty finding my clothes without the pink slip

These amazing women are so good to us and our clothes. They’ve done perfect hems for my pants and I’ve never had a piece of clothing shrink in their wash and fold OR dry cleaning. Very reasonable rates.
We are so lucky to live around the corner from them, and I bet we’ll travel to them if we ever move.

This place is great. Prices are cheap, employees are nice, and they always hem my pants to the exact length I want them.

I’ve been to this place a couple times for minor things, but recently I went in a little nervous, with a leather jacket and a silk dress. I was especially unnerved because of the «liability» card that I needed to sign saying that I couldn’t do anything if they ruined the leather…
Turns out I had nothing to fear! Not only was the leather cleaned wonderfully but the lining is also spotless. It looks as good as it did when I first bought it. All for only $ 45. Considering most leather places are around $ 75, I can’t imagine a better place to go.
Also my silk dress is finished beautifully.
These guys are great and the prices are really fair, I definitely recommend them.

Just grazing five-​oh, it’s nigh impossible to find pants that fit. My shopping routine involves excitedly grabbing 13 or so pairs of pants off the rack, shimmying hopefully into them, and then staring disconsolately into the mirror at the extra foot of fabric bunching around my ankles.
I’ve settled for being grateful to find pants that are a rough approximation of my torso on down and bringing ‘em to Flamingo for tailoring.
The women who work here are super careful; they measure and check with you on the front end to make sure everything is as you want them; their hemming and waist-​taking-​in is totally professional quality; and they make sure you’re happy with the end results. A couple of times they’ve re-​hemmed things for me at no additional charge; last time I was in they gave me a discount (perhaps because I’ve brought like two dozen pairs of pants to them at this point), and their prices are totally reasonable to begin with. And thanks to them, I don’t look like Charlie Chaplin when I sashay down the street.

Found this Cleaners on Unilocal,since I didn’t want to pay $ 18. to clean a suit in Westlake. Glad I did.
The ladies here are polite and correct and deliver a well cleaned garment for — what seems like — the best price in town. Value is very important as we free fall into the 2008 recession. The location is easy and very near the Bosworth 280 FW exit. Free parking is usually a block or two away.
One caveat, DO NOT LOSE OR FORGET YOUR TICKET. On occasion, they are hard put to find your garments; without a ticket you will surely be inconvenienced.
Overall a good value Cleaner.

I called about a last minute alteration request for a bridesmaid dress that was just not quite right. Over the phone, everything sounded good. I was reassured there would be no problem, they could even do it in a few days.
I confidently walked down the block to Flamingo, excited for this chore to be almost over. I tried on the ugly, mis-​fitting dress and sat in front of two woman as they made ohhhing and ahhing noises, then they began to argue in Chinese, not saying anything to me in English beyond grunts.
About twenty minutes passed. I was told the dress did not seem to have the snaps on one side of the straps and I should take it back for a new, smaller size. I looked in horror. The wedding is in a few days! They then told me, «The dress was ‘unalterable’ but the style of this dress is ‘romantic’ and flowing» so they decided it looked OK on me. I explained that I am 5’3″ so I know that the dress is way too long on me, as well as the straps and chest area fit wrong. They repeated themselves, «the dress was ‘unalterable’ but the style of this dress is ‘romantic’ and flowing». So I leave, on the verge of tears with my one strap broken, «unalterable» dress. I go home and get out a needle and thread and sew the damn strap on myself.
Somehow the other bridesmaids had their (same) dresses altered in a similar time frame. I think Flamingo Dry Cleaners & Alterations is just lazy when it comes to alternation.

Friendly, but don’t seem to have their act together.

Considering that this dry cleaner is a mere block from my house, I decided to try it out. The first couple of times, everything worked out just fine — my clothes came back clean and nicely pressed. But my husband just brought home the most recent batch, and it’s not pretty. The leather buttons on my tweed jacket are totally ruined — all torn up and stained. Every one will have to be replaced. Unfortunately, we didn’t notice this until the jacket had been hanging in my closet for a week, so I doubt there’s any recourse. I’ll just never go back.

Great turnaround time! I went in with a load of shirts and sweaters that needed to be laundered and dry cleaned, and they got it done by the next afternoon. Tons of places claim to be «one hour cleaners», but it’s all false advertisement. One day turnaround is fantastic. Also, they’re very reasonably priced.
In terms of actual cleanliness, they got a stain out of a sweater that I have (soy sauce on cashmere, yikes!). The only complaint I have is that they don’t use smaller hangers for women’s shirts (I still haven’t found a dry cleaner in SF who doesn’t use men’s shirt hangers for women’s shirts — they are different!), and the collar was kind of bent out of shape.
Parking is also kind of a pain.

I love this place because of their great prices & great hours. They stay open until 7:30pm most nights and they’re open on the weekends, too. And, they do an excellent job!