It's the worst place I've been to wash, my clothes got stuck and they broke and they didn't answer, they don't have a phone number to call and complain, I never dry my clothes and I smell burnt. IT'S HORRIBLE if you don't want to lose your money NEVER GO TO THIS PLACE. read more

Thrifty Wash - My clothes got stuck and damaged - Laundry Services Near Me - Goleta, California

It says on the front that the hours of opening is 6:30 to 11 pm...I arrived at 6:32 and it's slready 7:15. It happened yo me twice already. What is your hours really? Would you change that misleading hours you put at your window? You don't even put your phone number here. read more

Not my favorite place to wash my clothes, but it's convenient to my workplace. I'm pretty sure that this laundromat has never been updated. It's clean, but very, very old. From the front, it looks like something from a scary movie with its badly deteriorated gravel parking lot, abandoned vehicles, and weeds. Inside is just as bleak. I'd say over half of the machines are out of order, and the ones that do work are straight out of the 1970s. It's dimly lit so I'd recommend going during the day. There is usually only one of the change machines that work. Music is played, though, which is nice. Prices really aren't too bad. The machines that do work, work just fine. That said, a dryer ate three of my quarters today as I was attempting to re-up the time. That was annoying. There isn't an attendant on duty so it's not easy to collect refunds for such things. Will I come back? Sure. I just need to make sure to have a few more quarters on hand in the event I am stiffed by a machine once again. read more

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Well it looks like I won't be getting my $6 back. No one is here and almost all the machines are broken and dirty. Washer just really took my money and didn't start, asked someone if there is a worker here and they said never. ALSO there is people with out there masks here since no one is here to enforce the rules. I checked everywhere for a number and didn't find anything. Don't waste your time or money. This is a joke. read more

Laundry is a total bummer. There's no way around that but the parking at Thrifty wash is convenient and the people are nice too. I had a great experience at Thrifty wash. It's a nice and quiet, and a really chill atmosphere. I brought our sleeping bags in a total filth and the machines made it good as new! I got several loads done. If you want clean clothes, this is the place! There's plenty table space to fold too. I also was stoked because the money machines take change up to twenty dollar bills. When I went there the machines were ALL working which can make happy difference! read more

Wow, I'm never doing my laundry here again. This place is terrible. I've tried hard to avoid using the word "fraud" in this review, because fraud suggests intentional deception and I don't have any proof of this, and suspect that it's just that the owner(s) is/are lazy and don't give a shit, but from the customer's viewpoint, there's really no difference. It's hard to come to any conclusion other then that whoever owns this place is intentionally targeting locals too poor to own a car and who therefore don't have meaningful alternatives for laundromats. I'm not saying that this is the case; I'm just saying it's hard to come to any other conclusion. Both of the change machines were broken when I got here: one had the "out of service" light flashing, and one simply rejected every single bill I tried to feed in. (There were maybe 14 bills in my wallet, including two fives, a ten, and a twenty, and a wad of ones. The machine didn't take any of them.) You'd think that, at a coin-op laundromat, it would be a no-brainer that the owners would keep at least one change machine working, but apparently this is such a common problem at this place that the regulars just advise new customers to walk across the street to the liquor store and hope they have change. I needed five washing machines to handle three weeks' worth of laundry for two people, which is about what I expected. But I had to examine twelve machines to find five that (I thought) worked, and some of the non-working ones had fairly subtle problems that weren't obvious until I'd already poured in detergent and loaded laundry into the machine: doors not latching, all coins rejected, etc. No, I didn't lose any money on this basis, except for the value of the detergent I poured in, but my time is valuable, and loading the same pile of clothes into one machine after another in the hope that one will eventually work is a pain in the ass. Of those five apparently working machines, one started the load and ran for the right length of time, but when the clothes came out, they were barely damp and definitely not clean, and had to be run again in a different machine. Of the eight non-working machines in a row of twelve, only two had any indication at all that they were out of order. Non-working machines seem to be enough of a regular problem that regular customers warned me about driers not to use. None of these driers pointed out by other customers were in any way marked as out of order, though several other dryers had their buttons covered with foil, which (I guess) means "out of order." As I stand here writing this, there's a woman across the laundromat kicking a washer and swearing in Spanish, so I take it this problem is not unique to me. Tried five driers. Three of them defaulted to low heat when the start button was pushed even if another temperature had been selected before that point, and the same three silently switched to low heat at some point during the cycle. Two of the driers I tried apparently do not heat at all, even when set to high heat, and another one heats, but does not tumble. None of these dryers is in any way marked as non-functional; they just waste your money and time. All in all, I must have spent about eight bucks extra re-doing laundry that didn't get washed or didn't get dried the first time I used a machine because the machine happily eats money and appears to work, but doesn't do anything productive. Moreover, what should have been a two-hour-or-so trip to the laundromat stretched out to more than four hours while I played "guess which of these machines that takes your money actually works." This place is bad and its owners should feel bad. read more

Thrifty Wash - Laundry Services Near Me - Goleta, California

I would give this place a zero. I had a large dog bed to wash, so put in the machine with soap pod & downy crystals & started putting my coins in. When I got to $6.75 of a $7.50 bill, coins jammed & machine would not give them back. Of course no one was working there & I didn't see a phone number to call. Waste of time & money. read more

The last reviewer mentioned fraud with hesitation. I say absolutely fraud. The first machine that I found took 5 bucks and didn't work. The next machine that I went to to accommodate my load didn't work. After I had already loaded everything again. There is no name on the building it is difficult to see what the street address is and there are no phone numbers anywhere I guess I just donated five bucks to a really crappy place read more