2000 Free Parking Spaces. (Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre)

Member Name: daseaford

Product:	Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre
Date:	19/01/02 (855 review reads)
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Advantages: Clean and bright., Plenty of free parking.

Disadvantages: Not many seats.

The Crystal Peaks shopping centre is a few miles outside of the Sheffield city centre and makes a very pleasant shopping experience. There are about 70 shops in the centre including a large number of national shops, such as Boots, Wilkinsons, Superdrug, Iceland, Sainsburys, Dorothy Perkins, Burtons and many more.

There is a good mix of shops in the centre, with the majority all being on one level. There is also a mixed indoor market, selling food, clothes and other non-food products. On a lower level is a food court, which includes a pizza outlet, an Indian restaurant and a McDonalds restaurant. Also on the lower level is the entrance to a ten screen UCI cinema.

Access to the centre is easy with a 2000 space free car park, a bus station, and a Supertram stop. (The tram trip is about 30 minutes to the centre of Sheffield.) By car it is very easy to reach, being just a five minute drive from Junction 31 on the M1 motorway.

The whole place has a very bright, spacious feel to it, with a large glass covered roof above the central atrium of the centre. There are all the usual features that you would expect at a shopping mall including cash points, toilets, a children’s play area, a petrol station and information points. There is also a very pleasant pub just outside of the centre.

The only fact that I did find a bit disappointing is the lack of seating near the shops. When my wife was looking around the ladies clothes shops I would have liked to have rested my old legs whilst waiting outside for her, but there were very few places to sit and rest.

The centre is open seven days a week, with late night shopping on Thursdays and Fridays (to 8.00pm). The centre will never compete against the Meadow Hall shopping centre, which is also at Sheffield, for the number and variety of shops, but it does have a very pleasant atmosphere and a good mix of shops.

For more information about the centre and a full list of all the s
hops there, you can look at their web site at:
http://www.crystal-peaks.co.uk/

I would not travel a great distance to visit this centre, but we have visited it a couple of times and enjoyed our visits. I am sure that when we are next in the area we will visit it again.

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