Ena Road Laundry

Expensive. $ 4.00 for a single load wash. $ 1.00 buys 16 min of drying time.
pros: there is a coin machine that exchanges dollar bills into quarters. No weirdos outside or inside the place unlike the laundromat across the street.
cons: No wifi. Not too clean of too pleasant. They keep playing Vietnamese music. I saw some upset customers due to coarse language of service ladies.

Close to Hilton, clean, easy to use, good pricing. Next to 7 – 11, made to convenient to get a drink and snack while waiting for clothes to wash. Lady employee was pleasant and played lively music while I was there.

I really should have checked the Unilocal reviews before coming here. I walked in ahead of my boyfriend, who was getting our clothes out of the car, and not even 2 seconds passed before this rude, angry lady yells at me about how I can’t use the coin machines if I’m not a customer. If I hadn’t put my money in the machine already, I would’ve left just based off of that interaction. But I’m a habitual rule-​follower and I have a guilty conscience so I stayed.
The next strike was the cost. I’m from Hawaii but I’ve been living in LA for a little over a year, and even that place has cheaper laundry services than this place! $ 7 for a triple load washer, and I haven’t even gotten to the dryer yet but apparently it’s 25 cents per 4 minutes, and they don’t even work well (thank you, Unilocal fam, because I couldn’t even find the price for the dryers here).
Oh, and the angry lady pestered me again as I was trying to wash my clothes. Apparently the washers work differently than the instructions say (which are the directions I was following), so she argued with me about how I was wrong.
Do NOT come here. This place is horrible. They’re only getting 1 Star because I have to give it in order to leave a review.

I think this is a solid place to do wash and fold with relatively reasonable prices. After being in Korea for a week, we landed in Honolulu on a Sunday morning with a bunch of ditty laundry. In advance of our trip, I found a different laundromat closer to our hotel. I came to find out that while they are open on Sunday’s for self serve laundry, they don’t do wash and fold service drop offs on Sunday. Darn. I called up Ena, and I confirmed that they could do a drop off that day. All good.
I walked over to Ena with a suitcase full of laundry, and I dropped it off, confirming it would be available the next day in the morning. I even had six or seven pieces of my wife’s clothing that couldn’t be dried. I asked if those could be hang dried. No problem.
That was 2pm on Sunday. I came back at 8:30am the next day Monday morning and my laundry was ready! The hang dry laundry had to be taken down from the hangers and folded still, which was fine by me, as it confirms that it indeed was dried via hanging. I left. Done. Easy. Quick.
Why not five stars then? Well, the interior of the place is not the nicest. It really could use some upkeep. Thus, if you want to actually sit there and do your own laundry, maybe this isn’t the best spot, but if you’re planning to drop off laundry and pick it up the next day, I recommend Ena!

Its a place to do laundry. $ 4 per washer and .25÷4 min on dryer. New place across street by new 7 – 11 is cheaper

I had to come here due to an unfortunate mishap on the plane… Threw up all over!!! It wasn’t smooth landing at all… So anyway… Had to come here to wash my clothes.
This place is hella pricey. $ 1.50 for detergent. $ 3.00 wash and i don’t even know about the dryer… But reading other reviews, I guess it’s .25/​minute? Eesh.
Anyway, there’s like little bugs on the washer… Desperate times I tell Ya!

Working in Production, in Waikiki, sometimes a Director or Producer is running low on laundry. We sent their clothes in at 11am & 4 hours later it was washed, fluffed & ready for pick up. A whole duffle bag of clothes came out to under $ 30 (however, price is based off of weight).
They go by weight of the clothes, so u don’t actually have to sort (especially if it’s not ur clothes).
It’s a little hidden, behind 7 – 11 & near Hideaway off of Ena/​Kalakaua.

Not even one star i would give this place. I usually don’t go to laundromats, but I wanted to drop off some because I was in a hurry, it’s suppose to be simple and easy. Pay, drop off, pick up. Never have I had the worse laundry experiences in my life. The little lady working the laundromat was very rude and must have woke up on the wrong side of the bed. After having a broken conversation with her that escalated to her kicking my blanket on the floor and yelling at me, because I didn’t understand what she saying, I quietly grabbed my clothes that were kicked on the floor and left. I will never go back there to see that scary lady again. I think she was racist and probably has worked there way to long.

$ 4 to wash a load of laundry… and detergent isn’t even provided! and then a quarter per 4 minutes of drying time. seriously, WTF. outFREAKINGrageous. most expensive load of laundry that i have ever done. 10 minute walk from the hilton hawaiian village resort which apparently has everything except laundry facilities (which is another WTF moment in itself). the staff recommended this place. :(

Had a good experience with drop off — a little expensive at $ 2.25 a pound, and we had 24 pounds, but they did a nice job with the laundry and folding, and finished in a few hours. No complaints. Visiting from out of town, staying at Hawaii Prince Hotel, so nice to have a place nearby. This was the place recommended by the hotel concierge.

It got the job done in an efficient, professional manner and with reasonable pricing. Having just moved to the area, convenience is everything. The nice young lady was very accommodating and had my drop off ready much sooner than promised. I recommend walking or taking a taxi as the previous reviews mentioned. They gladly offer military discount with ID. Everything was folded nice and neat. I’ll be back!

While doing business in Honolulu, I’ve done my laundry here twice now. I used two machines that cost $ 2.50 each for a standard machine. It’s 25 cents for 4 minutes for a dryer but the dryer dried quicker than I expected on medium heat. They keep the washers, dryers and tables clean and I was very comfortable doing my laundry here on Saturday mornings. Anna was extremely nice and went out of her way to make sure I had my quarters quickly when the change machine was being filled and the second trip the change machine worked fine.
These folks work very hard! I was treated very well and was in and out pretty quickly with nice clean laundry. They also have drop off service at very reasonable rates! I think I will drop my clothes off next time.
Thanks for being a good business!

we got there before 9am on a Wed morning. They have 3 parking spots in front but the owner already took one. There were $ 1.75 (only 3 of those)/$ 3.5($ 4)/$ 6 washers. The dryers were $ 0.75÷4 mins. They were the newer ones where there was only one set of buttons for both the top and the bottom driers. We walked by the $ 3.5 one then the owners told us to go to the other side. She said they were all the same. Fine~ We didn’t want to argue just for $ 0.5. I personally think they have a little discrimination problem. There wasn’t even a smile or anything. While we were waiting, a Japanese family came. It seemed like they have trouble understanding the instructions and the owners were not useful. They charge $ 1.5 for detergent/​fabric softener. 7 – 11 next door was selling for $ 4 something for 6 loads. We got ours from ABC store for $ 0.89 each. The only reason we were there because of their free parking. Good that we were there early enough to get a spot. There wasn’t any when we left. I would prefer go to iDo laundry across the street next time.

Went early to avoid the sketchy characters. Able to do laundry quickly and easily. Staff was professional. Driers worked as well as they ever do in laundromats. Prices were reasonable, given this is a tourist district in Hawaii.

Within 5 seconds of walking in to get change from the machine, a mean Phillipino lady was yelling at me, asking me where my laundry was. I guess they don’t like people using their change machine. She called me a liar. All this at 9 am on a Sunday. I would never use this business.

I had a comforter that I needed to get washed and came to Ena Road Laundromat because it’s right next door to one of my favorite phở spots. I have three kids so my life is all about multi-​tasking. I paid $ 25 to drop off my comforter and have it washed. You might think that’s a lot to pay to have something washed but I have better things to do with my life than sit in a laundromat. The lady who runs the shop was nice and although a bit hard nosed, I think she means well.
Big downside to the laundromat is that there are a ton of sketchy characters that hang out front. Men with bicycles as their main mode of transportation who gossip while drinking forties. Not ideal marriage material if you get what I mean.
If you’re staying in Waikiki and need your laundry done quickly then this is probably the place for you. I go here because I like to eat phở next door.

There’s a reason this place always seems to have washers open.
It is CREEPY.
Ordinarily I use the laundry machines at the Ala Wai fuel dock, less than a mile from here, but due to a time crunch, I couldn’t wait for a machine. So after 2 years of avoiding this place, I came in and MAN! Between the various derelict looking old guys feeding pigeons on the sidewalk outside, to the other, friendly native, patrons inside staring at you with what can only be described as «Aloha-​stility,» to the $ 4.00 (!!!) per load washers, (which claim to be double load but i assure you they are not) and of course wading thru the pigeons on the sidewalk outside, and constantly shooing them off your car… I could go on, but believe it or not, I’m trying to not get too negative with this.
Plus sides: you’re still in Hawaii. The proprietors are friendly. There’s a 7/​11, an ABC, and a Food Pantry nearby. There is a change machine and it gives correct change. You’re still in Hawaii.

Here is the skinny at this place. I stayed next door at the Hilton Hawaiian Village and this place was a life saver. I had to go here to get the lava flows and Blue Hawaii drinks that spilled all over my shirt and shorts the night before and I brought the rest of my clothing to get washed. I dropped off at 8am and picked up at 2pm. All ready, nicely washed per my instructions and folded and for a lot lower than what you would pay at the resort. Pretty good price I would say! I would recommend this place!

I wouldn’t even give this place ONE star but apparently you have to if you want to write a review.
Here’s some friendly advice… DO NOT go to this place to do laundry.
You think you may save time and money because it’s so convenient to the Waikiki area… that is until you sped $ 4.00 to wash a load then another $ 3 – 5 drying it because their dryers are crap.
Went here to do laundry because I live a block away. I usually go up to Manoa to do it but figured might as well try this one out since I won’t have to drive anywhere. WRONG.
Washed my clothes in 30 mins. (standard…) But when I went to put my sheets and towels in 4 different dryers to make sure that they would dry, it took me $ 3-​$ 4 for each machine. Total drying time: 50 minutes.
Two other people in there and I checked the dryers and realized that the «HI» setting actually meant «this is suppose to be high but we turn our heaters down so you have to put more money in to dry your clothes».
After one person asked the worker there what was up with the dryers she decided to tell us we didn’t know how to dry clothes correctly and that 2 sheets in one dryer and 50 minutes later was not enough.
I’ve worked in customer service before and usually when someone complains about something you don’t tell them they’re idiots. If YOU the worker at this laundry mat are reading this… maybe you’ll think twice about what to do in a situation like this or maybe you’ll just be stuck working at a laundromat for the rest of your life. Who knows.
Of four people in this business while I was there… 0 were satisfied and 4 left the laundromat with loads of damp clothes, towels, and sheets.
If this wasn’t enough persuasion to NOT use this business… well… I hope you enjoy wasting your time and your money and everyone’s electricity.
Cheers.

Came here this morning to do my laundry. Business travel requires that I do the laundry sometime, especially since hotels will charge you an arm and a leg for their services!
Anyways, it wasn’t crowded when I arrived and there were plenty of machines to use. But $ 3.50 per load (a «double loader» which seemed pretty small to me), seemed a bit much. And 25 cents for 5 mins in the dryer seemed a bit pricey, but they got my clothes done after about 25 minutes.
The change machine here is quite finicky, so beware.
Hours weren’t conducive to my schedule, they’re only open until 7pm on the weekdays, 6pm on Sat, and 5pm on Sun. That means 2 hours before they close is the last load of laundry they allow.
But this was the best option I had, so it was alright, but not the greatest. It’s situated right next to a restaurant and a 7 – 11.