On every trip, if there's a Del Sol we make it a point to stop by and get a shirt. It's like a…read morebookstore to us but different. Del Sol items change color in the sun. If you buy 2 shirts, you get a complimentary bag so we grabbed our favorite shirts and got a collector's bag too. Customer service is really friendly here. It was our first tourist stop of the day before we explored the rest of the island.

Whenever I see a Del Sol store, I always want to check it out. I like how their shirts change…read morecolors in sunlight. I like how durable the shirts are as well. I still wear shirts that I have purchased from Del Sol stores from over 7 years ago. When we walked into this Del Sol store last week, the first thing that I noticed was that their stock of merchandise was very very low. I did not see any shirt with Catalina Island on it. The only shirts that they had a lot of were Marvel and Disney characters. I was not interested in them. A store with very little merchandise is not going to produce much sales. Oh well, at least I saved money.

If you are looking for a shirt or sweatshirt, this is your store! Unfortunately we had already…read morepicked up our gifts and was heading out to look for a baggage tag... she was very friendly and suggested the Pharmacy and said it just wasn't a big seller. After looking around, even up finding some more gifts and walked out with a couple of cool catalina island shirts. Definitely check out this store, it is located right next to an arcade and bath bomb store in a mini shopping complex off the main boardwalk. In metropole market place. Grab a coffee next door and walk right on in!

I'm always on the hunt for a Volkswagen related item at these tourist trap souvenir shops. I found…read moreI shirt I could not leave without and bought it right on the spot. You always have to look around at different shops because they all don't carry the same merchandise.

What a cute shop! Friendly service and fun sweatshirts! It's right in the middle of town. You…read morecan't miss it!! So fun!

Love this shop a must to visit. Only store that has plus size clothes. One of the 1st shops we go…read moreto in Catalina

October 2024 | Avalon | Catalina Island: Located right on the oceanfront! Super friendly customer…read moreservice, thanks again to the friendly woman at the cash register, Dina! Absolutely cute souvenir shop with cute coffee mugs, men and women's clothing & Catalina Island branded products & so much more, with a variety of price points! Cozy Fabric: In October, Catalina Island can get pretty chilly at night time! Before quickly walking over to the movie theater, I stopped at this cute store and picked up a fuzzy-wuzzy sweater jacket to keep warm & it totally worked! Even cooler, the sweater jacket is reversible, and it felt like a warm blanket wrapped around me! I was super happy & very warm!

Hidden gem! We stopped in as we did other shops along the water front. As I browsed, I was struck…read moreby the high percentage of embroidered items. Not your typical printed embossed stuff, mind you, but old-school embroidered. I found one design I particularly liked on a sweatshirt (not the season for one where I live, but it was perfect). I brought it to the register where I met Dina. When I mentioned how pleased I was about the quality of the embroidered work, she smiled and explained they were embroidered "in the back." I was impressed. We continued talking and I mentioned how much I loved the unique designs, nothing I'd seen anywhere. She smiled even more and admitted she'd designed them! I asked more about how (I do some graphic design work) and turns out she does them by hand. By hand! Not using modern technology, but true art. Please, if you visit Catalina Island, check out this shop. It's the middle storefront at the Hotel MacRae, the sign was missing on my visit. Buy one of Dina's embroidery designs. Buy several. Our visit to the island was amazing and we will be back. Each trip I intend to bring home a Dina original.

Our favorite gift shop on the strip in Avalon! This cute little shop is in Metropole plaza which is…read morewalking distance from the dock. They have everything like seashells, wind chimes, signs, shot glasses, souvenirs, and more. Most things are made from sea shells and the colors are so pretty. We really like the seashell chimes and dream catchers here. Everything is reasonably priced and very well made. The workers here are always so friendly. They package the purchased gifts for customers very well too. Definitely come in to find some cute gifts if you ever visit Avalon!

Cute shop and friendly owner. So many cute things sold at this shop. We were sad that we didn't…read morevisit here first before purchasing souvenirs for friends and family. This shop is located near the cafe and inside metropole market place with other retail locations. It is located off the main broadwalk in a busy shopping center. Highly recommend coming to this shop prior to making any purchases as most everything on the island is not refundable or returnable.

My friends and I were walking through all the boutiques and shops on Thursday night and wandered…read moreinto Bay of the Seven Moons right around their closing time. The owner is so sweet and did not rush us at all when we were looking around, even though I'm sure she was ready to go home. Her puppy Rudy is so cute and sweet, and I was really excited when she let me play with him for a bit. We ended up getting the fortune bracelets from the toy capsule machine. I thought that for only $1 it was a cute little bracelet (that can be worn as an anklet also!) and the meaning behind each color is really cool. I totally recommend checking her boutique out while you are in Avalon! She has lots of very unique products. At the very least, you can say hi to Rudy and grab a cute fortune bracelet!

After my first pass of "window shopping," I wanted to get a gift for my granddaughter…read more Unfortunately, we were there on a Sunday and shops close at 5 pm or 6 pm. We were disappointed that we missed coming back to this store only to have missed them being open. I am always looking for something unique, and I usually will spend a substantial amount of money on the right thing. It's unfortunate that I was not staying overnight on Catalina. It was a missed sale for the shop owner and a return trip is not in my near future. In addition, on my initial visit when it was open, I was not asked if wanted to see any items. So service here was lacking. I am a Filipino woman and after reading the complaints by customers of Latino descent, I am now realizing maybe this is why I wasn't helped during my visit. Seeing the racial discrimination posted by other customers, my recommendation is DON'T SHOP AT THIS STORE.

I visited Catalina Bath and Body and the store was beautiful. Everything looked really nice and…read morewell put together. I bought a soap and sponge combo for my daughter and a bamboo mud bar soap for myself. Unfortunately my daughter misplaced the bag so I didn't get to enjoy the products this time, but I definitely want to come back and try more, especially their lip balms. The shop has such a cool selection. The young lady who was helping me had some really cute hello Kitty glasses too

So, I really wanted to like this place. I mean, it had a lot of conventional body products: body…read morewashes, lotions, "bath bombs" (not technically licensed by Lush, but whenever I hear "bath bomb" I think of Lush) and so on. I would have asked a number of questions, but the clerk on duty spent the entire time from the moment I entered to when I left talking on the phone. To her credit, she did put the phone down when I bought my patchouli soap, but that was about it. A lot of the fragrances seemed appealing. Unfortunately, there weren't any testers. And the signage did not encourage opening the products to smell them. That was a bit problematic. As it turned out, the only products I could "smell-test" where the soaps....which turned out to be very nice. And the bar was only six dollars, which I thought was very reasonable for its size and fragrance and being from a specialty shop.. A lot of the scents seemed Catalina-specific, but I have no idea whether or not there were actually local. It's really easy to slap a label on a product on a plastic bottle or rename it. Again, if I had felt comfortable asking the woman on duty about them, I would have tried to figure that out. I hope this was some emergency or, at least, a one time thing, but I'm probably not going to visit Catalina again this calendar year. And if Idid, I don't feel encouraged to come back. Take from that what you will.

Been coming to the island for decades. I'm an old school skater and do my best to support local…read moreshops. I hhave only found this place open once. This place is hardly ever open and posts no hours. If they cared, I would. They don't, so neither do I.

This place sells neat clothing, and it's nice to have a board shop on the island. My frustration…read morewith this business stems from the employees' laziness. I came in two days ago, asked about a board. They were out. I said I was interested in acquiring a board ASAP, they said come in later when their inventory arrives. I literally walked up to the people who deliver shipments to businesses after they're flown to the island. I asked if they were going to deliver to CSC that day. They said they were on the way after stopping at Vons. Couple hours later, I stop at the shop and the shipment is sitting right next to the employee at the register. They said come back later, they had to unpack all the stuff. I say okay, expecting to have the board later that day. Come in later that day. It's 4:50pm. There's a note on the door saying "on break, back at 5". I already knew the employee was lazy and wouldn't be back on time, so I come back at 5:15. I arrive seconds before them, while they're pulling the keys to the business out of their pocket. Boxes still sitting there. They say come back tomorrow. Okay... Next day, I come back several times desperate to buy a board, every single time the same boxes are sitting on the floor. Ended that day empty handed. It's currently 2:50pm the next day. I've dropped in twice already today. Same thing. They KNEW I was willing to drop $200 on board parts, why would you not just take out components to a board and sell them to me? I've given up. I just wanted to ride, dude. Come on... Any skateboarders know what it's like when you get that itch and just need to ride. Someone who runs a boardshop should definitely get it. Anyone with business sense would get it. This place kept playing with me, acting like they were actually going to do what a business does. I felt like I was in some sort of absurd time loop. I am severely disappointed. I may just buy someone's board off of them. I'm sure it's not a bad business but this was a horrible experience. I mean, lazy is one thing. Three days to open a few boxes and scan some barcodes though? That's a whole new level.