Lenscrafters

Like so many Hong Kongers, I have really bad eyesight. It’s awful. Fortunately, I managed to find my way to Lenscrafters, where I got a pair of decent glasses for a reasonable cost.
To be fair, it is a chain store that sells specs. Not much more, not much less. The service I got in the Wan Chai store was very good. The staff were pleasant and friendly, starting with the optician, who was thorough in his examination of my eyes, through to the floor staff who did well not to snigger when I picked frames that made me look like Chinese Elton John.
What I did like was the ability to come back repeatedly to adjust my frames. I get that all opticians will do this until they fit right, and then there is the argument that they should just set them up properly in the first place. For my last pair of specs, they just could not seem to set the frames up properly without them dropping off my face, or cutting off circulation to my brain. They did get it right eventually, but after three attempts.
The turn around time for appointments and glasses is good. You can pretty much walk in for an appointment, and so long as the optician isn’t at lunch, you can be seen. If your requirements are simple, just frames and lenses, you can get a pair in a few hours, or certainly the next day. If you are like me and go for high index transitions etc., expect to wait at least a week, if not two.
As with most of HK, the glasses are very reasonable (again, especially if they are standard). A regular set of specs will only set you can a few hundred HKD at most. For me, I spend into the multiple thousands of HKD, but that’s because I am so lazy I don’t want to have to move to put on sunglasses, let technology shade my eyes for me!