Let me start with the one bright spot
Let me start with the one bright spot: Nika at the Laguna Beach store is fantastic. Every issue I've had, she's handled graciously and professionally. If this review were about service alone, it would be five stars. Unfortunately, it's about the products.
Strike one: I bought several beach towels. They sat UNUSED in my garage for a few weeks, and when I brought two back to exchange for a different color, one had visibly faded — from UV light coming through a garage window. A beach towel that fades from indirect sunlight, before it ever saw a beach. Nika exchanged them without charge, and I liked the look enough to buy six more.
Strike two: I then invested in a large, very expensive market umbrella with a heavy base, plus two smaller umbrellas with the same bases. In less than THREE MONTHS, the bases were rusting. These are outdoor products from a premium coastal-lifestyle brand — rusting in under a season. Again Nika came to the rescue, swapping them for stainless steel bases (I paid the difference).
After the second failure, something felt off for such a high-end-looking company, so I finally did what I should have done first: I Googled their reviews. They were astonishingly low. Now I understand why.
Beautiful designs, wonderful in-store service, but the products simply don't hold up to their intended use. At these prices, that's not acceptable. Do your homework before you buy — I wish I had.








