Lucky Lizard Curios & Gifts — Local services in Austin

Horrible experience. We had some friends in from out of town who wanted to get some souvenirs before returning home. We decided to try this place out since it had good reviews. We walked into an empty shop and were immediately confronted by the cashier asking if we had masks. When we stated we didn't (since most places no longer require them) she refused to even let us enter and told us to go buy masks before we came back. I'm sorry, but if you are still planning to require masks, you should either offer them customers complementary or sell them in your shop. We ended up finding another cool shop next door that allowed us to enter and shop without masks. My friends spent over $100 on souvenirs at the other shop. We have friends in from out of town all the time and I am always looking for cool places to take them. I can confidently say that this shop will never receive my service again while the shop next door has gained a couple new loyal customers. Talk about a...

Although we went in on the last ten minutes of business they were still very wonderful and amazing! Very courteous, the exact thing I look for in customer service! As someone who collects post cards, I had a great variety to pick from and they had a "buy 5 for a $5 or one for $1.50" so I got a solid 15 because I lived the variety offered 😂 they also had a lot of oddities and nick-nacks throughout their little store and just had a great environment and feeling to it. Either the employees honestly love their place of work or are experienced enough to pretend they do and not show that they...

Okay, I know it's for tourists, and yes, it's weird enough to qualify for doing its part for keeping Austin weird. And I liked all the oddities in the shop...great postcards (I love weird postcards!).

But the museum was, well, think a low-budget side show in a lean season. That about sums it up. But maybe that's the point...so tacky and kitchy it's cool! Yeah, Austin weird for sure!

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