Product review (4 stars): Why didn't I google this sooner?
I don't know why it took me - what - ten years to ever wonder if portable washers existed. I knew there were portable dishwashers - but for some reason portable clothes washers never entered my mind.

The unit does feel flimsy but it holds up quite well. It's easy to use and very fast, all things considered. My average visit to the laundromat includes 5 minutes of driving; 5 minutes of getting set up/loading the washers/putting money on the laundry card/adding the detergent; twenty some odd minutes of washing; and then an hour and a half or more of drying my clothes.

Easily a two hour errand.

With the Panda Small Compact Portable Washing machine I can easily wash my clothes before I go to work and then I let them hang dry on a retractable clothes line.

The unit does a very good job of cleaning my clothes - almost better than the units I used at the laundromat. As mentioned by others - there is no lint trap, really. There is a mechanism supposedly for that functions but it traps absolutely nothing. I've bought a floating washing lint trap (which should be arriving this Saturday.)

The hoses feel incredibly - ephemeral, I think would be the best word. However, they are curiously durable.  The electrical cord is of decent length although I face the challenge of bizarre outlet placing in our apartment kitchen, so won't judge the unit on that aspect.

The washing side of the unit is very strong and you have to be mindful of how much water you fill the tank with. I stupidly filled it up to H and then I had to explain the water all over the floor. If there is too much water in the tank, and the garments provide too much "force" while swishing, then water will drip out from under the top lid. As for filling the washing side with water, I find it takes only a few minutes to do - enough time for me to get my laundry into the unit or make coffee. Some people recommend letting clothes soak before washing them, other people recommend putting the clothes in first and then filling it with water, whereas others recommend putting the water in first and then adding clothes.

The only thing that matters is what works for you.

As for the Spin side unit - it's incredibly powerful. So powerful, in fact, that in our apartment the sheer force of it sounds an jet engine. Our oven rattles, the refrigerator shimmies, and the dishes clink and clank. Our apartment unit could also be possessed by Satan and he chooses those moments to express himself, but I don't quite care to find out of it that's the case.

There is an inlet for water on the Spin side. I've read that it was unnecessary to make use of it but I've found it quite using in spin/rinsing the excess soap out of garments. However, you can't let water flow at full speed; the power of the air spinning around in the unit will cause the hose to violently fly off the faucet. You have to set it to a low/moderate flow and hold it onto the faucet. I usually let water run into the Spin drum for one minute and then let the spinning action run aided by water for the rest of the timer.

The unit is easy to carry and store. If you live in an apartment building with tenants to the side or below you, then I'd recommend only using this during daytime hours or notifying them in advance (like I did.) It's doubtful your landlord will notice a spike in the water bill; the washing drum only uses about five gallons of water and the most water efficient shower head uses about two gallons of water per minute - so one wash is the equivalent of a four minute shower.

***UPDATE MAY 2017***

So I've gone on with this for about a year and a half now with no issues. I find that I like to let my garments presoak for thirty minutes (pour detergent in bottom, and then fill,) run it for fifteen minutes, drain, spin dry, and then wash a second time (without detergent,) then spin dry again.

I recently had an issue where the pump essentially was running but not draining. I *heard* it running but the water was coming out at barely a trickle. It was taking two hours to drain the main tub. I assumed I had finally burned out the pump after casual use after only a year and a half, so I was a bit bummed.

So I took to asking a question about the pump - and per the seller - perhaps something had clogged the tubes.

I took apart the bottom of the main tub, where the drain is - no clog there. I took off the back panel and couldn't find or feel anything in the tubs that indicated a clog. So I finally chalked it up to the pump really just being dead.

I was planning on dumping this off at the public bulk waste site early next week, but I decided to give it one final crack to see if I could find the issue. I rechecked everything - but this time I checked the spin-dry tub. Everything inside it looked fine, and pushing it to the sides I couldn't see anything. On a whim I decided to shine a flashlight in there and was surprised to see water at the bottom, still - this after leaving the lids open to let it dry out.

Then, I noticed something else - something beneath the water.

A sock.

Somehow when I was loading the spin tub a sock went over the side and into the spin chamber and eventually clogged the drain pump. I realized the main tub requires air being sucked in from that tub to work properly. After forty minutes and pulling a McGyver with a wire hanger, I got the sock out (it was REALLY sucked into that pump outlet) and now the pump drain runs perfectly. If not a bit aggressively.

So this washer is back in use and saved from the junkyard,