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My husband has been in the San Jose area for a couple of weeks & finally ran out of clean clothes. Well, we thought we had thought everything through prior to his leaving the US but something as simple as washing clothes did not occur. Well..just a warning that it should have. He naivevly gathered his dirty laundry & questioned where he could find a “laundromat.” Well, apparently they do not exist there, so he was referred to an establishment within walking distance with his laundry. He dropped off his clothes (9 tee shirts, 3 jeans, a few socks & underwear). Since they did not speak English he did not bother with trying to figure the price (no idea why not since he does know the conversion rate). I think he was so relieved to find someone to wash for him. Well, what a surprise when he went back to pick up clean clothes & received a $73.00 bill!!!! Somehow he got them down to $60.00. He was not happy!!!!! Hopefully he learned two things: 1. Always get price (prior) to service. 2. Live & learn…Chalk it off to a learning experience. It’s not the first & I’m sure it’s not the last. Sooooo…the moral of this story is…if you are planning a visit to Costa Rica, don’t take anything for granted.
You certainly should have established the price BEFORE leaving your laundry with these people but you were absolutely ripped off – big time!
More accurately, you were ‘clothes-napped’ and you paid a $60 ransom to have them returned safely to you.
To put things into perspective, I pay my maid $2 per hour and I am overpaying her so if you paid $60 for that small load of laundry which would have taken less than two hours to wash, dry & fold…. Yeech! Another “learning experience.”
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comWhile you may find a small handful of laundromats in CR as we know them (there used to be one in Los Yoses), we take our clothes to Lavanderias where they do it for you in a matter of hours for a few thousand colones per kilo. I’m afraid they saw you coming a mile away.
Don’t feel too bad, I’ve been conned every which way at least once in CR. Which one was it so we can all stay away?
I have suffered three major “cons” in my life which cost me a significant amount of money one way or the other.
In New York, Grand Cayman and here in Costa Rica but they were all US attorneys that caused this…
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.com
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