High Street style only (Shopping Areas in Milton Keynes)

Member Name: sympatic

Product:	Shopping Areas in Milton Keynes
Date:	26/05/08 (63 review reads)
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Advantages: Large, covered and sufficient parking

Disadvantages: Predictable stuff

After London Milton Keynes is the main place that I do my clothes shopping with the occasional trip to Birmingham thrown in for good measure. While London has more individuality in its choice of shopping locations with lots of one off boutiques and diferent areas offerring different options Milton Keynes is far more main stream in the range of shop on offer but it is a lot closer than London for me and so is more convenient especially if I'm not actually working in London.

The main shopping centre in Milton Keynes is a covered centre that is located about a ten minute walk frim the train station and is surrounded by car parking. Do watch out for which zone you park in, these are colour coded, red is the most expensive and the closest to the centre, ideal for a short one hour drop in but gets expensive after that.

Two big department stores dominate either end of the shopping centre which is rectangular in shape and covers about two blocks in total. At one end you have John Lewis and also a big Next store and at the other end you have Marks and Spencer. In between you have all the stores you would expect to see on any high street. There is a market on certain days on the outside of the centre as well.

At the Marks and Spencer end there is also Midsummer Place which is a relatively new annex which has a much better range of womens clothing and also houses Debenhams.

The two negatives about the centre are the fact that it lacks any one off shops that offer something different and also the choice of places to eat is rather poor.

One alternative especially if you want casual surf and ski wear is to head to the Snowdome which is a big entertainment centre and great for ski and snowboard wear and it also has some better eating places as well.

Summary: Large shopping centre