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Waverley Shopping Centre |
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20/03/02 (70 review reads) |
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Advantages: good for a look at the shops
Disadvantages: not excellent for shopping ages in, can get a bit dull should get better shops
Edinburgh is never considered much of an excellent place for shopping but it has it's good places. Although the Waverley Shopping Centre isn't the best of all places to shop, it does have many good names under it's roof and it is right in the city centre, obviously being nmaed Waverley for being next door to the train station.
A variety of shops are in here, from little gadget shops, clothes shops and beauty shops to record shops and so on. This is quite a confusing places because every corner turned looks the same so when I go here I usually keep on the same floor and go to every shop I need to before moving on, so that if I get lost I will at least have seen what I wanted.
A shop I quite like in here is the Fox Entertainment one, it sells merchandise from all of it's tv programmes and films, I really like it here and it's good for buying people presents, even though some things are quite expensive.
The clothes shops I like in here are Jeffrey Rogers, which I did a review on, Kookai I like even though it is a small branch. There used to be a Morgan in here but I am sure last time I was here it had gone. There is an Oasis and a boarder shop downstair selling things from Quiksilver and the Oasis shop is nice. The Benetton shop in here is quite a disappointment nothing exciting is sold here.
The Body Shop is nice in here and so are most of the shops selling bauty products.
The record shop in here isn't a wellknown one like Virgin Megastore and HMV which are on main Princes Street but it still sells everything like the rest do.
If you want a break from shopping there is a huge choice right at the very bottom floor of the centre, with a selection of many different foods, from salalds, to pizzas, to potatoes or ice cream etc there is a big area in the middle to sit at and if you
I think this is a nice shopping centre but I couldn't spend a day shopping here, I would recommend other ce
ntres in Edinburgh like the St James Centre or the Gyle.
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- 22/03/02 I was quite often in Edinburgh and never missed a visit at WSC. Once it was a milestone as it was one of the first shopping centres in that kind of style. I used to love the atmosphere especially at the groundfloor sitting close to the fountain, having a tea and a snack, watching all the people passing by.
Unfortunately the WSC changed during the last years. The fountain area vanished and changed into a boring and ordinary sit-down-and-have-a-short -break-area. Many shops vanished too and were replaced to ordinary souvenir shops offering the conventional cr*p for the American and Japanese tourists. I agree to the opinions this shopping centre not to be different anymore from all the other places in any town. |
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- 20/03/02 I was dissapointed with this centre, but at least I could sit down and get a drink. |
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- 20/03/02 Such a shame that all shopping precincts are becoming so similar. |
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