Hemel Hempstead in General

I don't know if I should admit this looking at your reviews, but I live here! And I'm going to stand up for Hemel Hempstead. We're quite a small town. There are lots of nice little villages here, I spent 21 years growing up in Great Gaddesden. There are lots of nice walks and parks to go to in Hemel. I now live a 10 minute walk from the town centre with my fiance and two young Daughters and we're all very happy. The town has been updated and now looks more modern. We now have a big 3 floor Debenhams, TK Maxx, H&M, Waterstones, plus more. Our River Island and New Look has been updated and looks really good. I can get ...

My boyfriend and I visited the Peter Percy shop in Hemel Hempstead Dec 07 for a last attempt to buy a dress shirt for a black tie event we were attending that evening, due to the time of the year, every shop previous to this had sold out or didn't have correct size. The manager took one look at us (mid twenties) and brought out many shirts in the sale (because apparently being young clearly means we have no money and are only there to waste his time....) he was very unhelpful, condescending and seemed very bored with our requests. We tried our best to ignore this as we were desperate to get a shirt. Once we had found a shirt we liked, my boyfriend asked to try it ...

I don’t live that far from Hemel Hempstead, So last week I decided to go there for a bit of shopping and just generally see what is going on there. Damn! Why did I bother? Marlows shopping centre: Virgin Mega (mini) store- only sells charts CDs and old videos, Staff are Argos rejects. NTL shop- do not buy anything NTL related or you will suffer for the rest of your contract. Clinton Cards x2- Why? Couple of sports shops- leading the way in mass market cheap sports clothing. Chitter Chatter- selling one2one products. Orange- yeah, if you want an Orange phone. Fake gadget shop- selling rubbish versions of Gadget shop goods ...