# SAMBA SMOKE & VAPE, Glendale Heights IL: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/glendale-heights/samba-smoke-and-vape-glendale-heights-il. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-16.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/glendale-heights/samba-smoke-and-vape-glendale-heights-il

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## In short

SAMBA SMOKE & VAPE is a smoke shop in Glendale Heights, IL. Its AI Score is 27 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Smoke shop |
| Address | 1576 Bloomingdale Rd, Glendale Heights, IL 60139, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM |
| Phone | (331) 322-3163 |
| Rating | 5.0 across 5 reviews on Google |
| Updated | September 16, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 1576 Bloomingdale Rd, Glendale Heights, IL 60139, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Welcome to samba smoke&vape, we pride ourselves on offering selection of high-quality vapes,pre rolls, Thc flower and products | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | SAMBA SMOKE & VAPE | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (331) 322-3163 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | THC flower | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 1 service SAMBA SMOKE offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| THC flower |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting SAMBA SMOKE

Address: 1576 Bloomingdale Rd, Glendale Heights, IL 60139, USA. Phone: (331) 322-3163. Hours: Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Welcome to samba smoke&vape, we pride ourselves on offering selection of high-quality vapes,pre rolls, Thc flower and products"


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tommy's Red Hots | Hot dog restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Taqueria el compa | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Just Jackpots Gaming Cafe | Casino | 1 min walk |
| FYVE BROS | Hamburger restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Veterans Memorial Park | Park | 3 min walk |
| Americana Park | Park | 6 min walk |


## Reputation

5.0 average across 5 reviews: Google 5. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)

Samba Smoke & Vape stands out for its unbeatable prices on Geek Bars and the owner's friendly demeanor. (AI guess, from 5 reviews.)


### What people like

- Lowest prices for Geek Bar in Illinois
- Wide variety of products


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### anywhere on Bloomingdale to sit while I wait


### best smoke shop in Glendale Heights


### address for the shop, anyone have it?


### genuinely, what is good about this one


### opening hours at SAMBA SMOKE in Glendale Heights, what are they these days?


### what do people usually buy there


### Ballpark for a visit to a shop in Glendale Heights?


### where does the shop post updates


### torn between SAMBA SMOKE and American Smoke?


### somewhere cheaper in Glendale Heights that is not a risk?


### do regulars get anything here


### cancellation list here, is there one


### Booking a first visit at SAMBA SMOKE, what happens?


## The AI Score: 27 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Glendale Heights smoke shops run 27 to 34. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. SAMBA SMOKE scores 27, below the Glendale Heights average of 34. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | SAMBA SMOKE |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. |  |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 23 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 4 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 74 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. |  |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. |  |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a smoke shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to SAMBA SMOKE |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SAMBA SMOKE & VAPE | LocalBusiness | #business |  | Subject of this page |
| Glendale Heights, Illinois | City | #city |  | City SAMBA SMOKE is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the smoke shops in Glendale Heights, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best smoke shops in Glendale Heights: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/glendale-heights/smoke-shop
- Best businesses in Glendale Heights: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/glendale-heights


### Nearby

- /chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago
- /schaumburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/schaumburg
- /elgin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/elgin
- /carol-stream: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/carol-stream
- /lombard: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/lombard
- /aurora: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/aurora


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Illinois: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJ4XSfCgCtD4gRrE2sqCU-9fo (accessed Sep 16, 2026)