The staff was really helpful in navigating the store in post COVID19 status and signing me up for…read morethe new Teachers club card

Fine, I'll admit it: I'm in love with Lakeshore Learning…read more I was first tipped off about this place by one of my baby's (okay, so she's two...not exactly a baby but whatever ;) therapists and to say it was love at first sight...that wouldn't come close to cutting it. I'm a mom of four (5, 4, 4, and 2) and my youngest three have developmental delays from mild to severe. While my husband and I have come up with some amazingly engaging/proactive activities for the kids thus far, we're always on the hunt for more, for better, for That One Item/Activity/Etc. We've Been Missing. Lakeshore Learning--much to the chagrin of my Visa card--has yet to disappoint. It's by no means exclusively a store for teachers; it's by no means exclusively a store for special needs parents. Sure, sensory items and activities abound...block play, active play, puzzles, and manipulatives in abundance--but this is just the tip of the iceberg. If you don't want to make the trip (although I don't know why you wouldn't!), hit up the website and request a catalog. It is huge, glossy, and enticing. Also? Lakeshore Learning offers up a pretty sweet check in deal for the mobile Yelping crowd. As *if* you needed more incentive to stop in, right? Riiiiiiight. :)

After 2 months of waiting for this sold out event we finally got a spot at the robot date night…read more Which cost $50. But when we went to the place you pick whatever robot you want to build and it's not included in the ticket. Robot prices cost $25-$65. The host was pretty nice and he provided us with a cutter and a screwdriver. Then he played a movie while we built the robot. In the middle of the movie he provided free beer and popcorn presented by a walking robot!! At the end of the night there Wes's a robot movie trivia which was fun. The experience was really fun but I think it is a bit expensive for the ticket not including the robot.

My boyfriend and I booked a date here through HowAboutWe.com and while it was fun, I can't possibly…read morejustify the $55 cost! You get to build a robot w/ a few other couples -- each couple gets one robot -- while watching a robot-related movie. It's a cute idea but the robots cost $15-25 and you're watching an old movie in a brightly lit room where you have to bring your own drinks and food. What is the extra $30 for? Building the robot was fun (although, ours didn't work and ended up having to be repaired & re-repaired which ended up making it worthless b/c it was a bubble robot & all the bubble solution ended up getting spilled before we could even try it out) but we could have just as easily bought a robot kit from the store and then went home to build it, resulting in just as good of a time. Unless they invest in some spotlights for the tables where your building the robots, dim the rest of the lights so that you can actually see the movie, offer complimentary soft drinks, and throw down some real robot knowledge, I wouldn't come back.

Chaos at the cash registers. When you don't make the line system consistent it's difficult for…read morecustomers to be compliant. Much easier to just use Amazon.

I would like to give them a zero rating. I was gonna customer for a while always happy with…read moreeverything. But we did get two items that when we opened did not work properly from the first usage. When I went back to exchange, they informed me that they never take any refunds or exchanges ever. So unfortunately, they do not stand by their products I've got similar things from Amazon that are been opened and were refunded it. we like to support small business Which is why we go there but Unfortunately they do not stand by their products and or exchange or return anything or even talk to you nicely about it. So just be careful when you go there because things are expensive and it's unfortunate. They do not stand by their product. I have attached their policy rules so before you go, you can see what you're getting yourself into.

I mean it's a store full of random stuff. The store promotes stuff that is seen on commercials for…read moreexample : Zorbeez, Shamwow, My Pillow. It's mainly full of toys out of all the random stuff and stuff for hobbies or to kill time here. Not my cup of tea but if your hungry, they got some candy machines right outside the door.

Totally awesome. Makes the downtown Chicago LEGO store look bad. Great employees that made me feel…read morewelcomed and enjoy the experience.

wonderful experience all thanks to josh, my grandma and i never had made the figures before and he…read morehelped out a ton. thank you josh!!!