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Downtown Laundry Express (Hilo)
19° 43.3′ N · 155° 5.1′ W
A 24-hour attended laundromat on Kilauea Avenue in downtown Hilo with self-serve machines and wash-and-fold - the practical place to wash salt-stiff bedding and foul-weather gear after a crossing.
Practical
194 Kilauea Avenue, Unit 101, Hilo (coordinate and address from OpenStreetMap; phone +1 808-969-7755 per OSM). Open 24 hours with an attendant always on site ('We Never Close'); takes credit cards. Wash-and-fold $2.10 per pound with a 24-hour turnaround; washers are 15% off midnight to 4 am and 10% off 4 am to 6 am (website prices, year not stated - verify locally). There is no laundromat in Keaukaha near Radio Bay itself; from the Wailoa River dinghy landing it is roughly a 1 km walk west. Alternative: Tyke's Laundromat on Kilauea Avenue in Waiakea (OSM 19.70756, -155.07585), about 1.8 km south of the Wailoa landing - hours not listed, call ahead.
Best for
Post-passage laundry, day or night
Season
Year round