Joy Max Cleaners

I first found joy max when the time — restriction and stress of finals reached a point where I really needed help with tasks as simple as laundry. Initially I took my clothes to the cleaners for the wash and fold service (and did twice more) — $ 1.25 a pound was worth the service I received. My clothes smelled fresh and were nicely folded, my socks paired. They are very good about following up with the customer to let them know that their laundry is ready; I can appreciate that… it’s very convenient to not have to call back myself. If you bring your laundry in earlier they are very good about turning it around the same day. Once I brought a load in much later in the day and although we scheduled a pickup for the next day, I was excited to get the call that my laundry was done and ready for pickup that night.
I highly recommend Joymax to anyone who needs a little bit of stress relief when it comes to taking care of the things that make your life flow smoothly… like laundry!
Now that finals are over I’ve been using the machines in the attached laundromat. Many, many machines to select from with multiple settings. And it is CLEAN. A great place to do your laundry and relax for an hour.

Lots of machines and plenty of space. $ 2.75 for the small washers, $ 4.50 for slightly larger machines. 7 mins per $.25 to dry

Hard to find a good cleaners nowadays, but these guys do the best job at the lowest prices.

I’m supposed to be going to the Zoo with my kids and instead find myself online looking at my Unilocal account and decide to write a few reviews, go figure!
Joy Max has been on my list for a long time and I must admit I’m shocked to read such poor reviews. I’m going to bet the happy customers like myself just haven’t logged on to write a review (very typical). Probably because we forget to review places like the dry cleaners. Well, here I be. My husband and I have been going here for a long time, years… One of the best cleaners we have been to. I’m a nice friendly person so perhaps my experience reflects just that. I have always been treated well and I can’t say this is the case for most cleaning places we have used. It seems like a lot of cleaners are rude. Not the case here. Let me give you and example, I come in with two of the cutest kids ever, ages 5 & 7! The kids immediately head over to the massage chair, I prompt my kiddos to get out and the owner instructs them how to use it. SHOCKER — really?
He didn’t have that edge, like your kids are going to break my chair. Well, then the lovely children spot the water cooler and proceed to get water, you know they spilled water. He didn’t even say anything. Before leaving I asked for paper towels to wipe up the spill, he was so nice and told me not to worry. I insisted on wiping it up since my little angels spilled the water and he even tried to stop me. That is rare, he was super pleasant and not the least bit bothered. Mind you, he doesn’t know what a good customer I am, my husband usually goes there. Not only do the clothes look good, service is quick and I’m always treated nicely, even when my kids come through like Tasmanian devils… Thanks!

This place does the job of a neighborhood cleaners. Most reviews you read are trashing them which isn’t fair. I am writing this today because I was pretty impressed after picking up my shirts. I usually spill food all over my dress shirts because I am an animal. Three of the shirts were white with rainbow colored stains which I assumed were going to good will. I am delighted to say that I will be able to wear them a bit longer. They are quick, efficient and haven’t lost anything in the last year. Ill keep coming for now.

I have been using this dry cleaners for years and haven’t had too many issues except for the last time I went to pick up my dry cleaning. I gave them the ticket and after a few mins of searching for my shirts they couldn’t find them so accused me of picking up them already! I told them that I had not and only pick up when I drop off clothing. I asked the owner where my shirts went and he said he didn’t know. The owner tried to get me to drop off the dry cleaning I was holding. I laughed and told him, «So you can lose these as well?» Not a chance! I am taking my business elsewhere. I know that they’re lazy and incompetent when giving back dry cleaning because twice before I have had to tell them that the dry cleaning they are trying to give me is not mine. Don’t give them anything that you cannot afford to have them lose…

This is the worst business of all time. They’ve now ruined two of my shirts and refuse any to take responsibility. I would strongly recommend using any other option available.

Owners are nice and respectful, when the machine doesn’t take bills they wi give u change. Just need to be more strict with their parking lot like last owner. It looks like the mechanics are going to take over with their junky cars here.

I don’t know why I continue going to Joy Max Cleaners. The staff isn’t very friendly and on numerous occasions I have come in to pick up my clothes and they tell me they are still not ready, only to come by the next day and tell me the EXACT same thing. It’s not a big deal if you are taking longer, just don’t tell me to come in and when I come in they are not ready. At this point you are just wasting my time. I do like the results when I eventually get my clothes back. If you just get your act together you guys could be getting a 4 or 5 star review.

I have always gone to 7^th Avenue Cleaners in downtown. They always do an excellent job. I took a 200 dllr dress to Joy Max because it was recommended by my boyfriend and I wish I would have seen the reviews on Unilocal.I got my dress back with rips on it and white starch marks on it. I wish I could give this place a negative 5 stars.

Complete rip off. I had been a customer for multiple years and they ruined 3 of my extremely expensive dresses (each dress was over $ 300). They made me pay for it even though they ruined it and when I asked if they would replace the dresses or pay for any portion of them they said no. The man is extremely rude. Do no go here unless you want your clothes ruined and to be ripped off.

One of the best cleaners I’ve found in SD so far. I think the price is reasonable. I usually prepay with more than 5 shirts, which brings down the price to about $ 2 per shirt. They have their own machines, not like the places where they would send it to a third party broker to get it washed and bring it back. Because of that their turnaround time is really quick. Depending on who’s working, the competency of English could vary, but I’ve had nothing but excellent service at this location. Only downfall is that I don’t live in PB anymore, so I don’t get to frequent this place as much as I would like to.

They are alway nice, never had a problem till my nice sweater got destroyed. The owner told me I might have brought it in that way. There were holes all over it when I came to pick it up. The dishonesty sucked. If you care about your cloths watch out, it’s a great place till your cloths come back burnt with holes all over them.

This place is horrible. I only came here for some alterations because my boyfriend takes his dry cleaning here. I came here to alter some flare pants into some straight Leg. I asked them if they Had the double stitching machine because other wise the single stitching would change the way the pants fit and also not match the original stitching. These pants are a bit more expensive then my other pants, that’s the only reason I cared so much. The older lady was insistent that she can alter my pants and not to worry. So I took and chance. And when I go pick up my pants the day they told me it was ready, the pants were not ready, so I had to come back again that evening. The alteration was horrible, the stitching didn’t match, and the work seemed very rushed. Needless to say, I regret leaving my nice pants with them… I told them I didn’t care about the time as long was it was quality work. I normally don’t write reviews or post negative feedback, but I just felt that this place only wanted my business, and didn’t offer quality service. I will not come back here for alterations or dry cleaning.

Joy Max Cleaners is Awesome. This is the place to take your clothes. I had some clothes altered because I lost a lot of weight and they did a great job. You can’t tell that they did an alteration to my clothes. For the professional work that they did the prices where even better. I was surprised on how cheep they were for the kind of work they put out. I will be bringing all my clothes here from now on.

first time using the dry cleaners. very fast in and out and the staff was very accommodating to my needs. went back a week later… same results. will go again for sure.

For the past five years, I always use this place for all my dry cleaning needs. I’ve tried two other places in PB and I was disappointed. Joy Max used to be called La Jolla Cleaners… or something like that. They always get everything perfectly clean and do very well with fix-​its like missing buttons, broken loops, tears in the side, etc.

I wanted to like Joy Max cleaners, I really did! The people are nice, and the work is quite good. Then, I realized their prices were way over the average I am used to in Los Angeles. Example, men’s suit: $ 10.75! They have inflated specials like «pre-​pay special» which is supposed to be cheaper but the prices are already too high per item. Then, there were the Von’s coupons, which offered 20% discount, which proved to be too generous for Joy Max because one day this January they decided «no more coupons.» Even though Von’s was still issuing them!
Today, I went in there at 8:30 am and dropped off three polyester uniform shirts, and two polyester work pants and asked for the standard «same day» service. This was nothing special — just basic cleaning and pressing. Two bucks an item would have been reasonable.
Remember? «In by 10:00, back by 5:00»? This was standard in the dry cleaning business when I was growing up. Well, a brand new employee advised me this morning that «same day service was $ 1.00 extra each piece». I left and did not pay up front so I could take it up with the owner when I returned at 5:00pm.
So, I did, and he told me, «Thank you for letting me know that. She is new.» Did he charge me the extra? You bet! So, it is «good-​by Joy Max»! And my total bill? $ 30.00, or $ 5.00 per item!
And, another thing that irks me. Any dry cleaner (like Joy Max) that promotes itself as «Green» is simply charging extra to pay for this new method of cleaning. Well, I can’t afford to pay for this upgrade, and I won’t. If dry cleaners are choosing more expensive methods, I don’t want to pay for it! I’ll find other options.
Green is a scam meaning the consumer pays more for the merchants choices.

They are the cheapest (20% off is you pay up front or have 5 shirts) and have the earliest hours (open at 7am). And they have a massage chair in the lobby.

Best price, friendly service, shirts are pressed perfectly, and quick turnaround. I wouldnt think of using any other dry cleaner in SD. Enough Said.