Quality Optician in Chiangmai

[Grumpy Old Man]

Can anyone recommend a quality optician in Chiangmai; I had a optical prescription from the UK but that is now out of date and I need a full eye examination and new reading / close work glasses.

 

Thank you in advance for all your help 

[Opl]

Sawang Optical  6/20 Nimmanhaemin Road, Tambon Amphoe Muang, 50200, ตำบล สุเทพ, Mueang Chiang Mai District, Chiang Mai, tel +66 84 851 7770

Formerly from Samui, they moved to Chiang Mai  a few years ago. 

They ordered high quality Essilor glasses from Singapore, and I 've had my glasses ordered from them each time I needed when I stayed in Samui for holidays 

 

Edited July 27, 2019 by Opl

[Bill97]

Tokyo In Airport Plaza did very well with my prescriptions, glasses too.


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[JimmyJ]

I started a similar thread last year:

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1059325-good-place-to-buy-prescription-glasses/

 

I went with the highly recommended Vision Center and was satisfied.

The owner gives free eye exams, and his Rx was exactly the same as the one the optician at Ram Chiang Mai Hospital had given me (I'd seen her previously).

 

Vision Center

Rajvitthi Rd. (near to the UN Irish Pub)

Tel. 053-418336 

 

I'd passed it many times but never paid attention to it - it is on the same side of Rajvitthi as the UN Irish Pub and very close to it, but there is NO sign in English and no English on the door or windows either.

 

The price was higher than I expected, but I feel still less than it would have been in the US.  (Cheaper frames were available).

 

Edited July 28, 2019 by JimmyJ

[Langsuan Man]

An Option is a person trained in fitting glasses, they make glasses and insert lenses into frames, they adjust glasses, and they can fill a prescription written by either an optometrist or ophthalmologist  

 

An Optometrist is a doctor of optometry, who can perform vision tests, and determine correct vision and perform certain tests regarding refraction

 

An Ophthalmologist is a medical doctor (MD) who also performs vision tests but is allowed to dilate your pupils for clearer observation of vision problems deep inside of the eyes, and can perform eye surgery and other more complicated tests

 

So when you are looking for a specialist, try using the right terms  

 

 

 

[Bill97]

An Option is a person trained in fitting glasses, they make glasses and insert lenses into frames, they adjust glasses, and they can fill a prescription written by either an optometrist or ophthalmologist  
 
 

Really?

Weird shit being posted recently on several threads. DN invasion?



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[Trujillo]

Tokyo gets my approval.  

[CMoldie]

Any branch of Tokyo. I use the one in Kad Suan Kaew and have friends who have used other branches and are also satisfied.

 

 

Edited July 30, 2019 by CMoldie
I was wrong. Things have changed since I was in the UK