Vietnam Doesn't Have Laundromats — Here's What Most Travelers Actually Use

Cost structure and culture. Real estate + machines + utilities make a self-service laundromat unprofitable when labor is cheap enough that pickup-and-delivery wins. Vietnamese households mostly own a small washing machine, and travelers/expats use services like Giặt Ơi! that come to them. The few "coin laundry" signs you might see in HCMC are usually hostel-owned and only serve hostel guests.

For tourists, yes. A US laundromat run (wash + dry + detergent + parking) is typically $5-10 per load. Giặt Ơi! Standard 24h is 30,000đ/kg (~$1.20/kg) and a typical traveler load is 4-6kg → $5-7 total, delivered to your hotel. Cheaper than the cab fare to a laundromat would have been.

Easier but 3-5× more expensive. HCMC 4-star hotels charge 70,000-100,000đ/kg, 5-stars charge 100,000-180,000đ/kg, often with 24h minimum turnaround. Giặt Ơi! delivers to the same hotel lobby at 30,000đ/kg standard or 50,000đ/kg express. The hotel is technically more convenient (no app/WhatsApp), but you pay 3× the price for that convenience.

Two options: (1) Pay the 5kg minimum (150,000đ flat ~$6) — still cheap. (2) Wait until you have ~5kg accumulated; most travelers easily generate 5kg in 4-5 days. If you're staying short and don't want to wait, just pay the minimum — it's less than what you'd tip a hotel concierge.

For 1-2 small items, sure. For anything more (3+ shirts, jeans, undergarments), service is faster and your clothes won't look like they spent a week in a sink. Most travelers find one Giặt Ơi! order mid-trip covers the whole stay — pickup Tuesday, back Wednesday, ready for the rest of the week.

Written guarantee: 100% reimbursement at market price for lost or damaged items. We've paid out for items from H&M shirts (~$25) to Calvin Klein blazers (~$100). Driver issues a photo receipt with order code GO-YYYY-NNNN. 128+ Google reviews at 4.8 stars across the brand.

We cover all 22 HCMC districts. Inner-city pickup is free. Outer districts (Q12, Tan Binh, Binh Thanh, etc.) have a flat 40,000đ delivery fee per order. Tan Binh airport area gets a lot of business-traveler pickups.