Roy's Wash-N-Dry

Roy's Wash-N-Dry sits on River Oaks Blvd, and the single most useful thing to know about it is that it really is open 24/7. Plenty of folks have Googled "laundromat open now" at five in the morning, half-expecting the 24-hour claim to be a bluff, only to find Roy's genuinely is the one place in River Oaks you can walk into at any hour. Word around town backs that up, and it has earned the place a solid following over the years. The big draw for a lot of people here is capacity.

If you've got comforters, blankets, or a mountain of family laundry, the oversize machines handle bulky loads without a fight, and more than one person has made the trip specifically to knock out their large stuff. When the place is kept up, it earns real praise for being clean, quiet, and easy on the wallet, and several people mention feeling comfortable and safe doing a wash here, even late. One person who wandered in without a regular laundry spot said it plainly: a clean, safe-feeling place that made a rough situation easier. There's plenty of parking too, with handicapped spaces right up front.

Now, honesty time, because locals are a little split lately. Bring cash, first off, this is a coin operation with a few working change machines and no card option. The bigger grumble we hear is that the place runs unattended a lot of the time, and folks miss the tall red-haired attendant who used to keep everything spotless. When she was around, regulars swear the floors and machines stayed immaculate.

Without steady staff on site, some visits have found trash cans full and dryer sheets on the floor, and a handful of people have lost money to a balky machine with no one there to help and a phone number that doesn't connect. The dryers can be finicky about latching too. Bottom line for River Oaks: Roy's is a well-regarded, genuinely 24-hour laundromat with the big machines for your bulky loads and fair prices. Come with cash, and it does its best work when someone's tending the floor.