NEWLY RENOVATED

Cambridge's premiere neighborhood laundromat

No quarters. No stress. Just clean laundry - done your way.

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Cambridge Laundromat offers top-quality wash and care services designed to fit your busy lifestyle. Whether you leave it to us or do it yourself, we make getting clean clothes easy and stress-free.

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About Us

Experience laundry without the friction

We've renovated top to bottom - new machines, a comfortable space, and card readers on everything. You can pay with your phone, your card, or yes, still coins if that's your thing.

Cambridge Laundromat is the full-service option on Brookline Street - whether you're running a quick self-serve load or you'd rather hand it off entirely and get your afternoon back.

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THE STORE

Our Cambridge location

Close to BU, MIT, and the rest of the neighbourhood. Free parking - which in Cambridge is worth mentioning.

THE BLOG

Dive into the wash

By June Kozak May 27, 2026
If you're studying at MIT, BU, or anywhere else in Cambridge, laundry is the chore that always seems to fall at the worst possible time - right before a deadline, right after a long week, right when you have approximately zero desire to sit in a laundromat for two hours. Here's how to make it as painless as possible. Pick the right time The busiest times at any laundromat are Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon. If you can shift your wash to a weekday evening or early Saturday before 10am, you'll almost always get a machine straight away. Less waiting, faster turnaround. Size your load properly Overstuffing a washer is the most common mistake. A 20lb machine handles a standard week's worth of clothing comfortably - jeans, shirts, socks, underwear. If you're adding bedding or towels, go for a 30lb machine. Clothes need room to move to actually get clean. Use less detergent than you think Modern front-load machines are high-efficiency. Most people use two to three times more detergent than they need to. One tablespoon is enough for a standard load - more than that creates excess suds that the machine has to rinse out with extra cycles, and it can actually leave residue on your clothes. Dry properly or pay twice A full dryer cycle on a standard load is around 40 minutes. Don't pull your clothes out early to save a dollar and then spend the rest of the day with damp denim. If you've got a mixed load with heavier items, consider separating them - thicker fabrics need longer than a t-shirt does. Consider wash and fold for the big weeks Exam period, end of semester, moving week - these are the times laundry piles up fastest and your time is worth the most. Wash and fold drop-off at $2.00/lb means a week's worth of laundry handled for roughly the cost of a couple of coffees. You drop it off, come back to it clean and folded, and spend that time on something that actually matters. Or just skip the trip entirely Pickup and delivery exists for a reason. Schedule through the Cents app, we collect, wash, fold, and return. No trip required. Useful if you're car-free, on a deadline, or just want to get that task off the list permanently. Cambridge Laundromat is on Brookline Street, open seven days. Free parking - which we know matters here.
By June Kozak May 26, 2026
Running an Airbnb in Cambridge is good business. The city draws a constant stream of visitors - conference attendees, parents weekend after weekend at MIT and BU, medical professionals at the Longwood cluster, tourists who want to be somewhere with actual character. Occupancy stays high, rates hold up, and repeat bookings are common. The part nobody talks about is the linen turnover. The hidden time cost of self-managing laundry A one-bedroom Airbnb has, at minimum, a duvet, two pillowcases, a fitted sheet, a flat sheet, and a set of towels per guest. If you're running two or three nights between bookings - which is common in a market like Cambridge - that's a full laundry cycle every few days, without fail. Most hosts start by managing this at home. Then the washer is running constantly. Then the dryer starts going on the same cycle. Then you're folding at 11pm before a 9am check-in. Then you start calculating what your time is actually worth per hour. What a commercial laundry account actually looks like It doesn't have to be complicated. You drop off your linen after a checkout, we wash, dry, and fold to a consistent standard, and you pick it up ready for the next guest. No sorting, no folding, no waiting on a home appliance. For higher-volume operators - multiple listings, frequent turnovers, or larger properties - we can set up a regular schedule with pickup and delivery so the linen cycle runs in the background without you touching it. The consistency argument Home washing is inconsistent. Water temperature varies, machines differ, and the result changes. Guests notice when bedding feels properly laundered versus run through a domestic machine and pulled out slightly damp. A consistent commercial wash produces consistent results - which matters when your reviews mention cleanliness directly. Cambridge specifically The Cambridge short-term rental market is competitive. A significant portion of guests are professionals and academics with high baseline expectations. The small details - fresh towels that smell clean, bedding that's properly pressed - add up in review scores faster than most hosts expect. If you're managing a property in Cambridge and linen turnover is taking more time than it should, get in touch. We work with local hosts on a regular basis and can put together a rate based on your volume and schedule.  Cambridge Laundromat 266 Brookline Street, Cambridge, MA (617) 999-9880 cambridgelaundromat.com