Ding Ho Laundry & Cleaners

How do these guys stay in business? My experience as follows:
1) Almost new dress shirt bought just 1.5 months ago returned with large rip in elbow. Owner says it has to be my fault because the rip is in the elbow region and that’s where normal wear/​tear occurs.
…Ok, I let that one go…
2) Several dress shirts came back ironed but without obvious signs of cleaning around collar/​sleeves. These shirts weren’t excessively soiled and have come back spotless with my prior cleaners in West Seattle. Ding Ho owner claims he can’t help it if «body oil» soils shirt.
…I’m starting to get a bit irritated but still giving them another chance…
3) Dress pants came back with 2 obvious creases down the front of one of the pant legs. They tried to fix twice without success. Owner says that he’s been in business for 20 yrs and can’t seem to understand why I’m bringing up this issue.
…I’m done with Ding Ho…
They cost less but you get what you pay for. I don’t hate these guys but maybe after 20 years in business the owner is just getting burned out. Still, customers needs to go to work with clothes that appear clean, neat and without rips/​holes. I’m looking for another dry cleaner. Too bad… I wanted this to work out because they’re locally owned and so close to my home.

They are always so nice and accommodating when I come in here. They even dry cleaned blouses for me in less than 24 hours and didn’t charge me anything extra.
They’re also more reasonably priced that the cleaners nearby on 15^th. I brought in upholstery pillow covers and they charged me 3x LESS than a cleaners down the street.
Highly recommend!

This place is awesome.
Very friendly service. They always try (and generally succeed!) at getting stains out of my clothes (apparently, I need a bib). They’re pretty quick and are willing to work with you on timing. And did I mention they’re friendly? That matters.

went to pick up my dry cleaning in pouring rain carrying a toddler. When I reached for my stuff the lady said no no, and she carried it herself to my car in the downpour. service above and beyond. thank you

This is my local dry cleaner, and I absolutely love it. It’s convenient, the staff are very friendly, and the prices are definitely reasonable compared to others in the city.
The last time I went, one of the clasps on a dress was completely mangled, and I’m trying not to hold it against them since I really do love everything else. I’ll keep trying them for a few more months and see how it goes.

I’ve gotten a handful of pants dry-​cleaned here, as well as a few pants hemmed here. The people that work there have always been friendly to me, have always been on time with when I can pick up my clothes, and the price has always been very good compared to most other places in Seattle. The cost to dry-​clean a pair of pants was $ 6.
There was once when I asked them to try to remove a stain in one of my dress pants, and they didn’t get it the first time. However, I brought it back to them, and the (presumably) owner said he’d take care of it. I came back in a few days, and the stain was removed at no extra charge.
Ding Ho is where I go for my dry cleaning — they get the job done, and for a reasonable price.

**FYI Ding Ho has two Unilocal pages for some reason. Their other page has a significantly lower rating.**
A disappointment and a waste of time.
I’m giving them two stars instead of one because they didn’t actually ruin my clothes– but they didn’t actually clean them either. The blazer and winter coat still smelled of sweat when I picked them up, and had lint/​fuzzies all over. The lady was kind enough to run a lint roller over the pea coat, but it did little to help.
Wasted $ 20. Next time I’ll go to Madison Cleaners right down the street– they left me clothes looking BETTER than I remember.

I literally never write reviews. Never. I think this is my 1^st one in Unilocal but the people at Ding Ho are MAGICIANS. Seriously.
I brought in a beautiful pink rayon shirt that cost $ 200+ that I had destroyed. Literally thought it was a goner after a long day on a sailboat. Oil stains, sunscreen… The works. It came back to me from Ding Ho in perfect condition. Looked brand new. Rayon people! Rayon!
I also brought my favorite Acne black linen tee in here on the verge of tears. I spilled nail polish all over it and then tried to get it out the nail polish remover (I’m an idiot). And guess what? GONE. How do they do it!!! It looks better than ever.
I couldn’t rave about these people enough. Kind, exceptional at what they do, and I’m always greeted with a smile. True miracle workers.

My wife and I recently moved to Montlake and were in search of a good dry cleaner. I’d say we do a fair amount of dry cleaning (~$ 150 every 2 months). I’m not sure how we came across Ding-​Ho, but we dropped off a large load of clothes including shirts to be laundered and dry-​clean only blouses, dresses, etc. I returned a few days later, paid the $ 123 bill and took everything home. I then found 3 of my dress shirts ruined (1 shirt had a 3 inch long brownish stain on the outer collar. Almost like a burn mark. 1 shirt had a spattering of the same brownish color on the front, and the last shirt had tears in the collar and on the front of the shirt. I am very meticulous with my laundry and spray any stains with stain remover before taking them to be laundered. All three of these shirts did not have the stains or the damage described before I dropped them off. Honestly, things happen and I understand that. The reason I am posting a 1-​star rating is because of how my wife was treated when she went in to show them the damage. She was completely dismissed and told that the stains and tears were there before. They did not seem to care about fixing the mistakes and didn’t even offer to try cleaning them again (which was all we were hoping for). We’ll be going somewhere else and will let anyone that is looking for a dry cleaner know that this is definitely a business to avoid.

I’ve been taking my clothes here for years. It’s the closest place to my house, and they did a good job. Unfortunately i recently had some bad experiences and won’t be going back.
I brought in a bunch of items, many with stains (two silk dresses). I pointed out the stains to them to make sure they knew they were there. When i came back to pick up the items, all of the stains were still there. I asked them to re-​clean the items. When i came to get them a second time one dress was partially clean (the stain was less but still visible) but the other dress didn’t look like it had even been cleaned! It looked exactly the way it did when i brought it in. The man behind the counter was dismissive when i pointed out that the dress still had stains. I had already paid for all the items so i asked for my money back for that one dress — the one that was still dirty. He refused. I explained that i was now going to have to take that dress some place else and pay to have it cleaned again. I had paid for them to clean the dress and they hadn’t performed the service i had paid for. The man quickly got agitated and told me it was my fault the dress got stained and there was nothing he could do about that. (What!!! That’s your JOB! To do something about it!)
I explained that i wanted to keep coming back there, but in order to feel good doing so, i wanted my money back for the dress that did not get cleaned. He refused.
The cost of cleaning that dress was $ 8. It would have cost him $ 8 to keep a customer. Instead, because of his stubbornness he lost a customer.

When I first moved to Seattle, I lived right on top of the building next door.
Naturally, this became my first dry cleaners.
They have always been friendly and quick.
Since I’ve moved out of the building; I’ve returned to this dry cleaner to get some pants hemmed and they always do an excellent job.

This is an awesome family-​run operation. The people who run this joint are SUPER friendly!
It doesn’t matter if I’m dropping off my slacks, my sweaters or my blouses… or even over 2 dozen of my BF’s button down shirts… they always have it ready for me rather quickly. The quality of their work, along with their reasonable prices, AND their stellar customer service keeps me coming back!
I’m thankful they are so close to my new office… now I can pick up or drop off on my way to/​from work!

Short version:
Super close to my apartment, so it’s very convenient.
The people are generally very nice.
Great for dry cleaning. I haven’t had any issues there.
I’ve also had fine experiences with bringing in pants that needed hemmed. No issues.
And then I brought in a bridesmaid dress.
(dun dun dun…)
I needed it taken in because it was too big in the bust. No huge deal, right? Well, somehow the alterations took it from too big to waaaaay too small. I’m talking «the two sides won’t even come together so you can’t even THINK of zipping it.» And no, I hadn’t gotten fat in the meantime.
There were some issues at first; the person in the shop seemed not to believe they’d caused the problem. That was sort of my fault because I tried the dress on after bringing it home, not right away in the store. Anyway. He said he’d contact the person who did the alteration and see if she could fix it. I called a few days later and they told me to come in, and I figured it was to go over what could be done — but instead, it was fixed! And it didn’t look like there had ever been a problem. I wasn’t charged for it (which I shouldn’t have been) so everything turned out just fine.
Still, though… I’ll be a little wary of really, really important alterations from now on.

This is a great dry cleaner. Super friendly staff, my clothes look great and everything was ready when promised. The prices are exceptionally reasonable, in my opinion. My dry cleaning load consisted of a dress, two skirts, two pairs of pants, a shirt, a blazer, and I also had them repair a tear in my trench coat. Total bill? $ 55.85. AMAZING.

I found Ding Ho while searching for a dry cleaner in my new neighborhood and so far have been very pleased with the results. I’ve now brought in two items that had stains I thought would never come out and both times Ding Ho has come through — and no evidence of extra scrubbing work to get them out either. They may not be the cheapest cleaners, but they are definitely worth the $.

Within days of a wedding, I realized my dress needed some TLC. Not one to buy «dry clean only» clothes, I was faced with my first trip to the cleaners. And WOW what a great experience. I dropped it off early one morning and picked it up within hours of the event. On my way to get the dress, I was calculating how much extra time I’d need to sew on the missing button — guess what? Yep, they sewed one on for me! Life saver! I’m heading back to have them hem some pants for the next wedding on the list.
Story of a very happy customer!

I really like this dry cleaner the best out of all the dry cleaners around this area. The owner is very courteous. The charges were very reasonable. The quality of dry cleaning is decent. I may come here with a few alterations as well.

Cheap prices AND great service /​quality of work!
Aside from dry cleaning, they also do great work on alterations. I had my designer jeans altered to keep the original hem and it only cost $ 18. The turn around time on 1 large bag of dry cleaning, 5 pants hemmed was only 3 business days.
To add to their quality of work is the fact the owners are extremely kind people.
This is my «go to» for dry cleaning & alterations and would highly recommend you try them out, you won’t be disappointed.

My previous experiences trying out various dry cleaners in Seattle had lead me to believe that all dry cleaning adventures were a gamble. There would be a 1 in 5 chance that you would never see your sweater again, or receive it back with weird burn marks or holes. Frequently I would resort to machine washing those DCO items, hoping for the best — disappointed every time they dried up shrunken and wrinkled. I’m very thankful to have found the reliable services of Ding Ho Cleaners.
My husband is prone to spilling, on himself, and on me. Of particular note was an expensive chiffon dress that ended up with almost an entire pint of dark ale down the back. I had resigned myself to the fact that it was ruined, but to my amazement, it returned from Ding Ho Cleaners looking brand new! I can say that over the past year we’ve taken in delicate items, items with party foul stains, down comforters, blankets, you name it, all have returned in good condition.
Ding Ho’s prices are a little steeper than average, they take a little longer than other dry cleaners, they are only open until 6p.m., but it’s worth it to know that your items will return to you in better condition than you dropped them off in.

Friendly service doesn’t cut it.
I found Ding Ho after I decided to avoid CH Cleaners, but never will I set foot here again. On the phone, I was quoted:
(1) Two dollars per shirt for laundry.
(2) Clothes would be available in two days.
In person, the same guy I spoke with said:
(1) No dry cleaning with laundry? That’s 2.75 a shirt.
(2) Pick up on Thursday.
That was 4 days out instead of 2. Despite the red flags, I decided to give this place a try. Highly rated in Unilocal,what could go wrong? The sleeves of one of my shirts got a blue stain.
Never. Again.
And BTW, what does dry cleaning got to do with the price of regular laundry? Imagine going to a steak house, «Oh, you’re having fish and no steak? You’ll pay 40% more on fish.» Ding!