Soap Laundromat Tamatea is a self-service laundromat at 7 Leicester Avenue in Tamatea, Napier, rated 4.4 from 24 Google reviews. Customers call it a tidy spot with plenty of machines at reasonable prices, and cleanliness and ease of use come up often in feedback, though a few recent reviews are less happy.
A laundromat lives or dies on its machines, so regulars learn which washers swallow a big duvet and which dryers actually dry. Two habits are worth stealing: give the drum a quick look and a sniff before loading, because a shared machine carries traces of whatever ran before yours — pet bedding is the usual culprit — and go off-peak, when you have your pick of machines and nobody queueing behind you. Overloading is the other classic mistake; a crammed drum never gets properly clean, and it still costs a full cycle.
Next door to Pak'nSave, it slots neatly into the Tamatea weekly shop.