 Poster: A snowHead
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In an unusual move into ski equipment, Tesco Opticians will offer prescription ski goggles this winter for £35 per pair. This presents a budget-price solution for those wanting to avoid 'over the glass' goggles.
The price includes standard single vision lens inserts, protecting against UVA and UVB rays.
This report from Ifyouski.com
It would be interesting to have comments from anyone who normally uses this type of goggle, and a comparison if you go to have a look at them (and even better, use them)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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My girlfriend might be interested in this, but I followed the link to IYS and then to Tesco but they only seem to be advertising contact lenses. Maybe this product is not quite launched yet?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I suppose for Skiers 'every little helps' - 
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Now I've read the piece in IfyouSki properly, the link was not to goggles but just to Tesco opticians. Anyone with a Tesco near them to checkout? I would be interested in a pair for emergencies.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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easiski, I'll look into it (excuse the pun) and let you know what I find.
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Tesco's did prescription lens goggles last year. They have a buy one get one fee offer at the moment which includes allowing prescription glasses and what the leaflet describes as "ski glasses (normally £35)". I'll check this out as I have just got a new prescription for driving glasses.
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easiski, I'd check it out but our friend ( a local optician who is about to lose his business to the new Teasco optician) would kill us. He does get us a nice price on Bolles though.
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would they work properly? i have never needed glasses or lenes, touch wood. but wouldnt the distance from the eye to the goggle cause problems..?
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Good grief....I finally manage to get myself contact lenses that work just so Tesco can make them seem like poor value! No really....I'd be interested in them as a back up, our local Tesco doesn't have an opticians so it'd be useful to know if it would be worth travelling to get them.
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Though what happens when you take your goggles off to have lunch? You'd have to walk round in your goggles just to read menus. Doesn't affect me personally (so I may be missing the point), but it seems slightly impractical unless you're happy carrying glasses/contacts with you and swapping them over periodically.
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CANV CANVINGTON, yes they do work properly. The distance from eye to prescription insert is about the same as eye to glasses would be. My local optician didn't charge much more than tescos anyway.
Helen101, depends how bad your eyesight is. I wear glasses to drive (and therefore ski) but can get around a mountain restaurant without problem. And even if you do have to swap goggles for glasses, you only stop for lunch once a day. And if you wear contacts you wouldn't bother with the inserts in the first place!
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Helen101, Thank your lucky stars you've never sufferred from the nightmare that is changing from prescription sunnies, to glasses with goggles, ordinary glasses whilst in the self service queue, back to sunnies on the terrace and on and on all day long. Fogging, trying to de-fog and in the case of Mr HH coping with the horrendous whinging that starts when it all goes wrong, not to mention all the paraphenalia you have to take on holiday just to have a vague hope of being able to see on the slopes! Prescription goggles have always sounded like a great idea to me....but have been bit out of reach at over £100!
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I have recently purchased some shades Adidas E.E. Explorer, to ski, which have inserts. My prescription is too high to have lenses made, so clip in inserts are the only way. I also use goggles, Oakley L Frame, but I had a small specs frame made up with polarising lenses, and I use those under goggles. I always carry a spare pair of specs, having broken a pair many years ago and having to ski about 2 miles to the bottom of the mountain. 
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You know it makes sense.
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Will the goggles fit over helmets I wonder?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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bucking bronco, Always worth taking the helmet with you and ignoring the funny looks which I inevitably get 
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Poster: A snowHead
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homphomp wrote
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I finally manage to get myself contact lenses that work just so Tesco can make them seem like poor value!
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Do you mind me asking what brand of contacts you wear and whether you wear them skiing?
The cost and faff of switching between specs & OT goggles and/or prescription sunglasses is really winding me up.
I've been looking and trying, but have yet to find contacts that I can wear rather than just tolerate!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Cany see it working for complex subscriptions. Mine would be about a foot 'n a half thick at the edges. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Manda, used to use Johnson & Johnson Acuvue, but changed to Specsavers Easyvision. Both seem fine for up to my wife's -3.0D prescription (as well as for my substantially weaker one).
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Manda - don't know if you've tried Focus Dailies - but they're the brand I use and I completely forget about them being in.
Sometimes one might get dislodged if i rub my eyes or ski very fast - but I usually have a couple of spares in my pocket
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I've got focus dailies and acuvue - again no issues and pretty comfy but they do fly out if you ski too fast in normal sunnies  Lensed goggles might be interesting though - my OH has lensed scuba goggles and they are fine - not half as thick as I was expecting (-4). Did anyone get a chance to look into them yet? The nearest one to me is cambridge which is a bit of a hike...
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Get your eyes lasered and be done with faffing around!
Mind you, £35 is seriously good value, the Mrs got some Bolle ones done last year and it cost a small fortune.
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Manda, Focus Dailies...I've had endless trouble finding ones to work in my wonky eyes! I can't wear hard lenses due to an allergy and my astigmatism has caused me problems, although it's not that severe there's sometihing about the way my eyes are made that has made finding disposable torics an absolute nightmare...these are the first I've tried that have settled properly, all the others used to switch focus points with every blink - makes for very interesting viewing of the world!! I have no idea if they're any good for skiing because I've only just had them fitted but I've used them for drinking and dancing in and that was ok
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homphomp, F D's are fantastic for skiing in
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I took a look at these at my local Tesco Opticians yesterday. I guess you get what you pay for but they look a bit cheap and nasty. They have a mirrored lens, fairly thin foam and the strap is pretty long and should fit around goggles although the catch isn't very substantial. There's a (small) picture of them here http://www.ifyouski.co.uk/news/newsarticle/?ObjectID=7542515
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Frosty the Snowman, that reminds me of the Billy Connolly joke about the guy driving with a prescription windscreen, dinner plate sized eyes and the resulting crashes as other drivers recoiled in horror. Could be interesting on the slopes.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Alastair Pink, Can you let me know which Tesco you got the goggles from? I phoned my nearest Tesco optician (Tesco) and they said my prescription was too high for them to make (approx -10.5 in each eye). I'm having problems with wearing contacts at the moment and want to get some goggles as a backup. Thanks.
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You know it makes sense.
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Sue S, It was the one in Leicester (which is the closest branch of Tesco opticians to me in Derby)- although as I post this I am actually in Wengen 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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And hopefully the goggles are working efficiently? 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Sue S, Belated reply (I'm now back home) - yes
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Alastair Pink, Still haven't had any luck with Tescos. They say it's impossible to make the inserts to my prescription that they would be too thick and therefore dangerous. I told them that the Leicester store had arranged for an even stronger pair to be made and they checked with the lab who said it had never happened. It seems that you're hallucinating Anyway, I've given up trying to persuade them and will just have to buy some to wear over my specs. Thanks anyway.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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