Preaching that “the longest journey stains with a single step” and “you can clean a horse with water, but you can’t make it drink,” history’s dry cleaners were a leery bunch. Today’s Groupon gets you a more-audacious clean. For $20, you get $40 worth of pick-up or drop-off dry cleaning from Kona Cleaners' six locations in the Orange County area. There is a limit of two Groupons per person, and new clients must call to schedule pick-up or delivery services.

Providing full-service dry cleaning to the Orange County area since 1950, Kona Cleaners has tidied more than a semi-century worth of suits, space suits, jeans, space jeans, pope robes, dresses, and sticky gorilla costumes. Prices vary by location; pants, on average, cost $5.35, a dress is $9.96, and shirts run around $2.65. Specializing in cleaning unusual materials such as caviar sequins and bread-bowl hats, Kona also expertly performs alterations ($10 average for a pant hem) and employs environmentally conscious cleaning methods. Their use of wet cleaning when possible and high-tech cleaning equipment is buttressed by a sophisticated sorting system and a well-trained staff that ensures each garment is restored to its fresh-off-the-particle-assembler condition.

Free pick-up services are offered, and the 17th Street Costa Mesa location is open seven days a week so that front-row seats to ketchup-popsicle eating bouts don’t leave customers with a red-polka-dotted shirt. Looking prim and dapper is difficult to do with a sausage-biscuit silhouette etched into one’s tuxedo T-shirt. Thanks to Kona's effective and convenient cleaning services, customers can expect to make a striking entrance crashing their next wedding, White House state dinner, or wedding-themed divorce pre-party. Call ahead to schedule a pick-up.

Reviews

Kona came in fourth on CityVoter's Best Dry Cleaning of the OC 2010 survey. Yelpers and Yahoo! Locals give it three stars:

• They really know how to remove tough wine stains on my brand new white slacks. Very pleased. Now a loyal customer. – Ray R, Yahoo! Local
• When my buttons fall off of my clothes, they sew them right back on for me. – Jennifer B, Yelp