Best place to have your eyeglass prescriptons filled?

I will be in Hong Kong July, 08. Would like to have some prescriptions filled with present glasses. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Santafelarry

Best place to have your eyeglass prescriptons filled?

The Lonely Planet guide book has a suggestion, which I presume has been sussed out. Apart from that I would tend to use large international chains. There are a number of ';opticians'; in Hong Kong whose work is not the best. It is best to be careful, as presumably if there%26#39;s anything wrong with the glasses you want be there to discuss this with the people who made them.

Best place to have your eyeglass prescriptons filled?

Thanks for your response.

Santafelarry

Santafelarry,

We used Optical 88 which is a large chain located all over HK. We found them professional and they provided excellent customer services. We had 3 different subscriptions filled, contacts, and sunglasses and are very happy with the products. Don鈥檛 be afraid to negotiate a discount which made our purchase approx 50% less than Australia price.

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Can you give me an idea of what you paid for prescription sunglasses? Do you know if they do progressives?

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Colleen

As far as I know everyone does progressives. Had some done myself years ago. prices now not so sure but shouldn%26#39;t be much more than 1/2 of US price if that.

We used New Fei last week, because they appeared to be recommended a number of times in this forum. Located in the Mongkok area, it%26#39;s a sort of strange place that could be a bit off-putting at first glance, it%26#39;s more like a warehouse-showroom on the fourth floor of a building, very noisy with dozens of staff and includes a class 1 trained optometrist. They do transitional lenses as well. We found their prices compared to Australia, even after comparing equivalent medical benefit, were excellent but I guess It depends on your taste in frames etc. Made up 4 pairs including 2 transitionals in three hours. We called them from our hotel and they came and picked us up in one of their people-mover vans and dropped us back later.

Yes I have used New Fei twice and highly recommend. Good prices and lots of choice and very reliable. I will be going back. call them and they collect you from the metro.

You mentioned that you called them from your hotel. You don%26#39;t happen to have the telephone number?

Enter ';new fei'; in google and it%26#39;s the first result returned.

Prescription sunglasses prices vary from 200 - 50000 HKD, depending on choice of frame, lens brand+material, and prescription. It%26#39;s rather pointless to simply ask ';how much';.

Every opticial store does progressive. However it requires expert fitting. There are 4 official ';grades'; of optician/optometrist in HK.

Quality name brand lenses cost about the same in HK as those at Asian-owned optical stores in Richmond(vancouver) BC, which are about 30-50% cheaper than mainstream optical stores in Canada. Frames are cheaper in HK, if you bargain.

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