Dan’s Cleaners

Consistently late on EVERYTHING. Rude and unapologetic. Gave me back three shirts after 10 days — they were still filthy. You can do better.

pure kindness here. like old-​style neighborhood connection kindness. do my clothes come back clean? yup. are the prices as low as anyplace? ubetcha.
sure, i could use an app and not have to leave my house, and avoid talking to my neighbors, but i LIKE engaging my community. the app doesn’t recognize my daughter walking down the street and wave hello. HI! when i’m in the cleaners i get to share a smile with a neighbor and make the world, our hood called bernal heights, a bit smaller. these things matter.
OOPS, my bad, we were talking about dans cleaners! so yea, affordable, pretty much always open, more than fast enough for me, they recycle the old hangers, light starch on the shirts. good stuff.

Friendly and priced well. But they take a long time and clothes aren’t ready when promised (more than a week for standard shirt laundry). Additionally, they still use tags stapled into the shirt, which need to be removed. Ever had a staple slip under your fingernail?
Good enough, but too much trouble to be my weekly cleaner – which is a shame as I prefer to support a place in my neighborhood.

Very very reasonably priced and they do a great job. Skip the expensive techie places and go here to save!

I’m sure this place is fine under normal circumstances. They were friendly, as other reviewers have mentioned, but not more than other cleaners in my experience. They really do take a long time though. But more importantly I site the incident that led me to leaving this review. They totally ruined a shirt. Which is awful enough but when I pointed out that the shirt was now a totally different texture than when I brought it in and had some strange waves due to inconsistent shrinkage, the proprietor kept saying that’s what it was like when I brought it in. Over and over. If she had explained what happened and apologized, I would not have been that upset, just sad. But oh my god, don’t they know that it is better to apologize instead of lying to my face? So frustrating

If you’re in no rush to get your clothes back, this is the place for you! Competitive pricing and very friendly service, they just take a while for the turnaround.

I’m baffled by some of these negative reviews as we love Dan’s Cleaners. The owner, Dan is always so friendly and accommodating of special requests. She rushed through several cleaning and alteration orders for our wedding clothes that we brought to her. I also brought in the vintage, lace wedding gown I purchased on Etsy for advice on how to clean it. I really appreciated that she was honest and upfront after looking it over that she didn’t think it could be safely cleaned. My husband was really happy with the alterations that she did to his suit jacket sleeves. Dan’s prices are more than reasonable and our dry cleaning doesn’t have that chemical smell that happens from other dry cleaners. We are happy to have found Dan’s Cleaners and will continue to use her services! The only downside is that it is cash only and unless you ask for a quicker turn-​around time, cleaning can take a few days.

Dan’s are nice folks, but they take forever, only accept cash, and are often late on finishing the work. Also, they’ll staple the tags right into my dress shirts, which for me is a deal breaker.

I think my review echoes some of the past reviews — I went back to them because they are close (if you live in Bernal you know the intense struggle of walking back up the hill after going anywhere).
My single pair of pants took longer than the quoted time, which was a full week. Really? One pair of pants? 7 days?
The lady was very friendly and the price seemed good (I haven’t really price shopped though).
In my experience they get good business because of their location, but could attract far more business if they wanted to just by better organization.

A very friendly lady but it takes longer than my previous cleaner. Plus they are cash only which is an inconvenience.
I am new to the neighborhood and have little dry cleaning so I will use them.

Good prices and friendly owner. Never had any problems. As it’s near my house, I will probably keep using it.

This is my now go-​to place for dry cleaning and alteration. The shop owner is very friendly and easy to work with. The place is not very organized but they seems to be able to find things through their messy piles. I only wish they could take credit card soon and will be able to finish their work on time. I’ve had a few incidents that the clothes weren’t ready for pick up on the date specified on the ticket.

Uggggh, burned again! I thought I would try it one more time since it is the only cleaner within walking distance of my house, but never again! I’m ok with a slow one week turnaround but I’m not ok with none of my items being ready the day after they were supposed to be available for pickup. It is just inconsiderate and a waste of my time.

This cleaner wants to take at least a week for anything. Further when I returned on the pickup day half my order was not ready. If you scroll down to the Unilocal review by Emile it looks like I am not the first customer that this has happened to. I really wanted to like this place because it is near where I live, but once I hopefully get the rest of my order back, I will not return.

Long and short is that they work hard, they’re friendly, but they take a long time. For example, I bring some shirts in on a Monday and they’ll suggest a pick up on Saturday. If I ask for Thursday, then it might not be ready. They’re nice enough to call to say that it won’t be ready, but then they’ll say Saturday morning. So I’ve learned to give at least a week to get things cleaned. But they’re nice, they work hard and their prices are fair.

Dan is the happiest person day to day. Always a smile and willing to make accomidations. People saying things take long to come back because they didn’t request to have it any sooner. Just ask, you can have the next sometimes if it’s early enough. If my work didn’t dry clean my suites and shirts I woluld be here weekly.

Nice neighborhood dry cleaners. Sometimes it takes a little longer to get your clothes than other places, but as long as you take this into consideration and plan out your trips accordingly it’s not so bad.
Other than the occasional tardiness, the service is great — accommodating and friendly. Prices are fair.

This place is a total wreck. I’ve been three times. Each time I thought to myself that something would get lost. And what happened? Third time was the charm — they lost my pants. Not only that but they also lost the blazer of the person in front of me. Convenient location, low prices but never again.

I usually go to Brite Look on Bryant, but I thought I’d try out Dan’s because it’s closer to my home and all of the construction on Cesar Chavez made it less convenient to park near Brite Look. Let me just say, I am running back to Brite Look.
First of all, it takes a whole week for the clothes to come back. On top of that, when I came back a week later for my clothes, she told me that one of my shirts wasn’t ready yet. How is it that other clothes are ready but one t-​shirt is not? Strike one. I leave more clothes and come back a week later (today). When I came in, I found that the shirt was ready, but all the other clothes that I dropped off last week were NOT. How long does it take to dry clean a few shirts and pants. Strike two.
I am not waiting around for strike three. I’m just hoping that my clothes come back next week. I won’t be back after that. Brite Look is faster (2 – 3 work days max) and the lady who works there is very friendly.

This used to be my «right next door» dry cleaners, it was literally 10 seconds walk from my house.
This is probably the worst dry cleaners I’ve ever been to.
As some previous reviews will tell you, nothing is ever on time. They would constantly tell me to come back 1 or 2 days later when I had a ticket for it to be ready that day.
One two occasions I brought stained laundry (1 baseball jacket, 1 baseball jersey), and I had to insist they wash it 2 or 3 times and use stain remover, as the stains were not set in by heat. 1 week later they would be fine.
These people are also famous for losing laundry. I was constantly standing in line with people furious because she said she was missing 1 or several articles of clothing.
The ONLY reason this place gets 2 stars is because they are often working until 7−10PM, so even after they are closed you can sometimes snag your clothes by knocking on the door late at night.
I would seriously recommend going anywhere else if at all possible.