# South Texas Eye Institute, San Antonio TX: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/tx/san-antonio/south-texas-eye-institute-san-antonio-office-san-antonio-tx. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-07-16.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/tx/san-antonio/south-texas-eye-institute-san-antonio-office-san-antonio-tx

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## In short

South Texas Eye Institute is an eye care center in San Antonio, TX. Its AI Score is 54 of 100, which is fair.

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


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Eye care center |
| Address | 2424 Babcock Rd Suite 101, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 5:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (210) 692-1388 |
| Rating | 4.6 across 3,288 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Friday |
| Updated | July 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 | 2424 Babcock Rd Suite 101, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | South Texas Eye Institute is the premier LASIK surgery and cataract surgery center in San Antonio Texas. We offer the most advanced and safest procedures that will make you see clearly. Other than LASIK surgery and cataract surgery, we offer eye exams, corneal treatments, glaucoma treatments and more. If you are looking into improving your eyesight, South Texas Eye Institute - San Antonio Location is your place. We're looking forward to meeting you and figure out how we can help. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | South Texas Eye Institute - San Antonio Office | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (210) 692-1388 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Advanced lasik technology | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Blepharoplasty | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Cataract self test | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Cataract surgery | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Cornea | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Corneal treatments | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Dry eye | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Eye exams | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Glaucoma | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Lasik | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Lasik self test | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Prk surgery | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Refractive lens exchange | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Symfony lens | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Visian icl | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Vision correction | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/southtexaseyeinstitute | Confirmed | Business website |
| Links | Website | https://www.southtexaseyeinstitute.com/?y_source=1_MTA4NjM2OTctNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 14 services South Texas Eye offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Symfony lens |  |  |  | From their website |
| Advanced LASIK technology |  |  |  | From their website |
| LASIK self test |  |  |  | From their website |
| Visian ICL |  |  |  | From their website |
| PRK surgery |  |  |  | From their website |
| Dry eye |  |  |  | From their website |
| Refractive lens exchange |  |  |  | From their website |
| Vision correction |  |  |  | From their website |
| Blepharoplasty |  |  |  | From their website |
| Cataract self test |  |  |  | From their website |
| Cataract surgery |  |  |  | From their website |
| LASIK |  |  |  | From their website |
| Glaucoma |  |  |  | From their website |
| Cornea |  |  |  | From their website |


### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting South Texas Eye

Address: 2424 Babcock Rd Suite 101, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA. Phone: (210) 692-1388. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 5:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "South Texas Eye Institute is the premier LASIK surgery and cataract surgery center in San Antonio Texas. We offer the most advanced and safest procedures that will make you see clearly. Other than LASIK surgery and cataract surgery, we offer eye exams, corneal treatments, glaucoma treatments and more. If you are looking into improving your eyesight, South Texas Eye Institute - San Antonio Location is your place. We're looking forward to meeting you and figure out how we can help."


### When to go

Quietest day: Friday. Busiest day: Wednesday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Babcock Opposite John Smith | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Babcock & John Smith | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Subway | Sandwich shop | 2 min walk |
| Jack in the Box | Fast food restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Sabores Cali-Baja Mexican Grill | Mexican restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Taco Bell | Fast food restaurant | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.6 average across 3,288 reviews: Google 3,288. (Confirmed, read July 16, 2026.)

 (AI guess, from 3,288 reviews.)


### What people like

- Friendly demeanor of staff
- Cataract surgery experience


### What people do not like

- Excessive wait times
- Poor appointment scheduling
- Lack of communication


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing


### parking at South Texas Eye, where does everyone put the car?


### Are the hours on Google right for South Texas Eye in San Antonio?


### people keep recommending South Texas Eye, what for?


### medical staff at South Texas Eye, or is it techs?


### never been here, how does it go?


### Busiest day at South Texas Eye, anyone know?


### walk in here, or is it appointment only?


### Saturdays at South Texas Eye, are they open?


### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints?


### somewhere cheaper in San Antonio that is not a risk?


### Why do people rate this place?


### is there a socials account worth following


### anyone been to both here and Parkhurst NuVision LASIK Eye?


### best lasik surgeon in San Antonio


### how much is a first visit around here


### numbing at South Texas Eye, do you have to ask for it?


## What AI gets wrong about South Texas Eye

We ask Perplexity, Gemini and ChatGPT about South Texas Eye. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 23, 2026. Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 23, 2026. Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 23, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | Perplexity via DataForSEO on Oct 23, 2026: 7500 Barlite Blvd. | 2424 Babcock Rd Suite 101, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA |


## The AI Score: 54 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Antonio eye care centers run 28 to 63. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. South Texas Eye scores 54, above the San Antonio average of 47. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | South Texas Eye |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 50 | 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. | Fair |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | 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 | 45 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Fair |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | 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 | 57 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 52 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 61 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

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

How AI decides what to say about an eye care center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery


## 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 South Texas Eye |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| South Texas Eye Institute | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://www.southtexaseyeinstitute.com/?y_source=1_MTA4NjM2OTctNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D | Subject of this page |
| San Antonio, Texas | City | #city |  | City South Texas Eye 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 eye care centers in San Antonio, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best eye care centers in San Antonio: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tx/san-antonio/eye-care-center
- Best businesses in San Antonio: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tx/san-antonio


### Nearby

- /fort-worth: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tx/fort-worth
- /cypress: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tx/cypress
- /denton: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tx/denton
- /dallas: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tx/dallas
- /frisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tx/frisco
- /houston: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tx/houston


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Texas: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/tx


## References


### Sources cited

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