Good optician Limerick City

Leonita

Hi all,
Just wondering if anybody can recommend a good optician please? Preferably in the city.
TIA

James Bond Junior

After years with specsavers in the crescent and their sloppy work I moved to Vision 2 on Sarsfield st opp Debenhams. Very happy but they do go on the hard sell.

Leonita

Thanks James! That's what I'm trying to avoid. Several people who have gone to those chains ended up getting glasses when they were not needed so that's why I'm looking for an independent optician :eek:

phog

Fines on Catherine St/Cecil St - opposite Fla's Pub

gerandy

The only optician I can speak highly off is Margaret Pearse in Tipp town, She is also a GP. If you can travel well worth it.

brianregan09

The ones out in castltroy park medical centre are fantastic moved from specsavers would never go anywhere else

masterboy123

Can they provide your eye prescription?

brianregan09 wrote: »

The ones out in castltroy park medical centre are fantastic moved from specsavers would never go anywhere else

Butterfly25

+1 for Vision 2

Leonita

Thanks all for the recommendations. You have provided lots of suggestions. Somebody mentioned Fines but iirc is Mr Fine not retired in recent years? Are the people mentioned in various medical centres opticians or gps that do eye tests?

Mockba

masterboy123 wrote: »

Can they provide your eye prescription?

I use Castletroy Opticians and they give me the eye test results everytime no problem, Just ask and they print it out for you with all the information needed.

RhubarbCrumble

I haven't been myself, but a friend and family member both go to Castletroy Park Opticians and swear by them.

Specsavers are a nightmare (in the Crescent anyway, I can't speak for the others) Mr Crumble wears glasses for reading. Got new ones lately, got them home and he said he couldn't see properly with them, but thought it was just because they were new and his prescription had changed slightly (still a very mild prescription though). After about 3 days, he went back there and was told it would 'just take a bit of time to get used to them'. A couple of days later and he had to go back again because he couldn't read with them on. He met someone different and they went off again to check what was going on.

Turned out they'd put the wrong lenses in his frames and he had someone else's prescription. Bad enough getting someone else's prescription in the opticians, but just as well whatever idiot did it doesn't work as a pharmacist eh?

masterboy123

Thank you. So we are not forced to buy eyeglass from them as this happens at Specsavers.

Would Castletroy Optician do PRSI based free vision test?

Mockba wrote: »

I use Castletroy Opticians and they give me the eye test results everytime no problem, Just ask and they print it out for you with all the information needed.

Mockba

masterboy123 wrote: »

Thank you. So we are not forced to buy eyeglass from them as this happens at Specsavers.

Would Castletroy Optician do PRSI based free vision test?

No your not forced and they do prsi eye test also..

black & white

I've used Hartmans since 1977 and have always had excellent service there.

iora_rua

black & white wrote: »

I've used Hartmans since 1977 and have always had excellent service there.

+1 for Hartmans (over Foot Comfort, opp Arthur's Quay) Have had good advice and service for the past six years or so. I used to use Specsavers, but found it too rushed, too many people involved and not very relaxing trying to pick frames.

phog

leo78 wrote: »

Thanks all for the recommendations. You have provided lots of suggestions. Somebody mentioned Fines but iirc is Mr Fine not retired in recent years? Are the people mentioned in various medical centres opticians or gps that do eye tests?

Are you confusing Fines jewelers who closed their shop on Cecil St? Fines opticians were definitely open up to recently.

Leonita

phog wrote: »

Are you confusing Fines jewelers who closed their shop on Cecil St? Fines opticians were definitely open up to recently.

No the optician himself. It might be about 4 years or so now that I heard he was retiring

phog

leo78 wrote: »

No the optician himself. It might be about 4 years or so now that I heard he was retiring

I met the man himself there in the last 12 months, he might well have retired since then.

Leonita

phog wrote: »

I met the man himself there in the last 12 months, he might well have retired since then.

That's good to know. Didn't even consider there until you said that. He's around a long time so might go there.

Thanks!

Mc Love

James Bond Junior wrote: »

After years with specsavers in the crescent and their sloppy work I moved to Vision 2 on Sarsfield st opp Debenhams. Very happy but they do go on the hard sell.

There's one really good optician in Specsavers in the Crescent that my family all swear by.

Hooked

Get your FREE prescription from a reputable optician (I used Fines, some years back) then head over to www.daysoft.com for lenses and zenni.com for glasses. I'm actually wearing a pair that cost less than a tenner, and getting plenty of compliments on them. Have 2 more 'spare' pairs... yet to be used! The latest cost 6.99!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Going to Delaney's since I was a child, very relaxed in there, they're on Thomas St a few doors up from Sally's.

They've some free frames for medical card I think or you can buy a pair, think it's 50% deposit.
I've gotten glasses off goggles4u and they've given me my prescription to get them (heard Specsavers don't seem to want to let you have it?)