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Ashford Designer Outlet (Kent)
by MollyWH The McArther Glen Ashford Outlet is located near to Ashford Town Centre and there is a free shuttle bus that runs between the town centre and the shopping outlet. The shopping outlet is also within walking distance the Ashford International Train Station. If you are driving, the outlet is a few minutes off Junction 10 of the M20 ... motorway. Design Of The Outlet The outlet is constucted from high tension steel with a canopy above which runs throughout the perimiter of the site. There is a large car park in the centre of the outlet with the shops creating a circe surrounding this. At the entrance to the outlet there is a large wooden pedestrian footbridge which leads to shops either side. There are toilets at the halfway point of each site and there is another set of toilets in the 'Food Court which is located at the far end of the outlet. The Food Court consists of a variety of food outlets such as McDonalds and Spud U Like as well as a tradtional fish and chip shop. There are two snack type places where you can get cokkies, muffins, browie, ice cream and milkshakes. Just outside the Food Court, there is a large childrens play area which includes a large climbing frame as well as slides and tunnels. There is a large car park which is located in the middle of the shopping centre with the shops being designed around it. The car park does charge a small fee for parking which is about 50p for 2 hours, £1 for 2-4 hours and so on. Parking used to be free but unfortunately, people took advantage of this and used to park their cars here while at work all day s charges have now been put in place to reduce this. There are many desinger shops here but despite its name, there are actually high street shops such as Marks and Spencer and Acesorize. There are over 80 shops here which range from perfume shops, clothes stores, homeware stores and toy stores with many more inbetween. The shops are semi-enclosed as there is a large over head canopy but as it is not fully enclosed, it can occasionally get a bit chilly. As well as the designer shops high street brands like Next, Marks and Spencers. Personally, I think that some of the shops here are a little overpriced although I have never really been into designer items anyway. The reason I like visiting the Ashford Outlet, is that there are certain shops that always seem to have massive sales on where you can buy named items at silly prices. For example, this weekend, myself and my boyfriend went shopping and found Lee Cooper had a sale on where T shirts were only £8 and you could get two winter jumpers for £15. There are many other shops which seem to have constant sales and these include Levi, Reebok and Donnay just to name a few. For shopping needs, the Ashford outlet does provide a wide range of shops with most items covered. The shopping environment is spacious and fairly relaxed with coffee shops dotted around the site, and the Food Court at the far end for you to relax and enjoy something to eat. Read the complete review |
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MetroCentre (Gateshead)
by vickijohn2012 The metro centre is literally about 50 minutes south from where I live and myself and all my family, if we need anything for holidays, christmas, birthdays, we always travel down to Newcastle and to the Metro Centre to do our shopping. With four main parking areas in the Red, Green, Yellow and Blue car parks, one of which is a ... multi-storey it has to be one of the easiest centres to find car parking spaces, apart from at christmas when it is a free-for-all. At christmas there are cars abandoned on the sides of the roads and on pavements. This happens to be the only downside to the Metro Centre, at christmas avoid it like the plague! Inside the metro centre you have four main quadrants which correspond to the different coloured car parks, my mum always parks outside marks and spencers as it is the most easily accessible and the easiest car park to exit back onto the A1, taking around 5 minutes max. Other areas in the Metro Centre include the village, which funnily enough is laid out like a village, it used to have a centre piece like a fountain in the middle but now it is only a walkway. This part of the metro centre used to have my favourite two shops in but now they have both closed down, old fizzywigs, selling old sweets and jelly belly jelly beans and wax lyrical which sold candles. When I found out these two shops had shut I was gutted, however the amount and choice of the other shops available make up for it no end. The shops which the metro centre offers spans from bridal boutiques, to your average high street shops such as HMV, from branded shops such as Levi Strauss to Gadget shops such as Hawkins Bazaar, from opticians to beauty salons, whisky shops to hairdressers. Many of the shops available are those which are able to be found on the high street plus many more. The metro centre itself encorporates many of the high streets in the UK, into one managable, easily accessible space. There are many seating areas, and information points which offer free maps incase you happen to become a bit lost, as the metro centre is very large. The maps are very helpful and list every shop in the metro centre on the back which is helpful to find the shop that you require. The metro centre offers many places where you can go and eat, from your average takeaway eateries such as McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, Burger King, to your high street shops such as Greggs, Baguette Express, Subway and Spud U Like. The metro centre also offers a chinese buffet restaurant, an american diner called Big Lukes, which is a buffet type menu, with chicken, burgers, pizza, chips etc. It also has a weatherspoons where you can grab a drink or some food, like all weatherspoons it is reasonably priced. The metro centre also has many booths where you can buy food and drinks, such as millies cookies, smoothie shak, pretzls. It also offers restaurants such as Chiquto, Frankie and Bennys, Nandos, Pizza Express and Zizzis. The metro centre also has many small cafes and coffee shops where you can buy early morning coffees and pastries, light lunches such as sandwiches, jacket potatoes etc, these include Starbucks, Costa Coffee and Muffin Break. Other amenities that the Metro centre has to offer is an Odeon Imax Cinema, which boasts the newest Imax technology, which makes the resolution a lot clearer and the 3D stands out a lot more. The metro centre also has NAMCO Funscape, which consists of ten pin bowling, dodgems and soft play, it is has said to replaced the metroland mini theme park which was in existence since I was a child. It also has a William Hill bookmakers for if you fancy a little flutter on a saturday. The metro centre also boasts a retail park featuring large versions of many stores such as, CSL, Gala Bingo, JJB Sports, Next, Staples, Toys R Us, the retail park also has fast food restaurants such as Pizza Hut and McDonalds. So overall the metro centre provides a fun filled and entertaining day out, there is everything that you will ever need located under one building, and I can safely say that the christmas decorations which are put out in December are some of the best I have ever seen, every year there is a santas grotto erected in the centre of the shopping centre. You can walk through and look at all the scenery, one year they had little gnomes and there was fake snow, it was beautiful, you completely forgot you were in a shopping centre. The food outlets at the metro centre are also top class and are well worth a visit, I personally visit Big Lukes as it is a buffet and you can eat as much as you like for a set price which is always a bonus. Read the complete review |
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Lush (Westfield Derby)
by catsholiday Lush Store Derby Westfield Centre My very favourite shop in the Westfield centre in Derby is one of the smaller shops on the bottom level just close to the customer services desk and opposite the main Boots entrance. You can smell the shop a long time before you actually get to see it. My nose is trained to sniff out a Lush ... shop wherever I go and so far I have found them in Oxford, Manchester in the UK, Brisbane in Australia and two in the two Macy's shops in Chicago in the USA. That is quite an achievement considering my husband refuses to go to any shops when we are on holiday unless it is to buy food. This however is my main fix and the shop that I must visit at least twice every month and often a lot more. Apart from the fact the smell calls me in I also love the happy welcome that you receive from all the staff there. They are so keen to share the love of the products and will happily talk for ages about the benefits of each one, advise you on which might be best for your skin and also demonstrate how wonderfully luxurious they feel when you use them. Over the last couple of years I have enjoyed two facials in the shop with my son's girlfriend once and a friend on the other occasion. We made our own face masks and then were given a wonderful facial using Lush's products. After this we were each given a pot of the face mask, as well as samples of all the products they used on our face plus others as well to try. All that was free and yet we had a great time and were treated as though we had paid for a salon facial. In this shop in the front window there is a table which has different new items set up depending on what products are new or if there is a new campaign that Lush is supporting. This is where you will see what is the latest event or campaign or product of the moment. As you enter the shop this table is on the right and then at right angles to this is the table which is filled with ice and where the fresh face masks are on display. As you walk round on the right hand side the next section is facial care with cleansers, creams, toners and so one. Everything in Lush has an open tested with a plastic spoon so that you can try the product in the shop. This is not only allowed but is encouraged and if you are not trying the products then someone will come over and suggest you try them. The next section is one of my favourites. It has all the present perfumes that are sold by Lush including the oils at the moment but i do know some of these are going to be discontinued in the shops and will only be available on line after Christmas which is sad news for me. Moving on around the shop we come to the gift boxes all ready wrapped in recyclable paper and beautifully colourful. Next we come to the massage bars which are pure luxury. The creams and body treats come next. In the corner is a sink and a tap which gets used a lot changing the bowls of water which are used for giving the customers a chance to experience the bath product's scents in water or to try the scrubs on their hands and so on. I have never been in the shop and not seen at least two people being given a try of a product using a bowl of water to wash it off or watch it fizz or to feel how soft the water is once the product is added. Moving on passed the sink going around to the back of the shop we then come to the scrubs, deodorants, shower jellies and shower gels. All these need to be tested and experienced as they are really very different and last ages. We now come to the new very different makeup range called Emotional Brilliance. The makeup is all in little mascara type pots. The mascara comes with the usual brush but all the other colours can be used for eyes or lips depending on how daring you are. They can be used to draw fine lines or be blended. I have used 'Passionate' on my lips and the colour stays for hours, it is really great. After putting on the colour you can add lip gloss to keep the lips moist. Toothy tabs are next and then we come to the staff door out to all the storage and more I suppose. A smaller stand lies parallel with this back counter and this is where you will find all the bubble bars and bath melts. I can spend ages sniffing these to try and choose my latest treat. To the left hand side now and heading from the back of the shop towards the front. At the back is where you will find all the hair care from solid shampoos through to liquid shampoos, hair treatments, conditions and hair styling products. You can spend another happy time in this corner sniffing all the wonderful solid shampoo bars and testing the conditioners. Once again the staff are always thrilled to explain which product would suit you best. They will also give you samples if you are not sure which would work best for you. The counter takes up most of the rest of that side of the shop but in the middle is the huge display table full of the wonderful coloured slabs of soap and piles of bath ballistics all ready for you to sniff and if you want o see what they do once again someone will be more than happy to show you. You can try the soaps in the shop and watch and sniff and feel the water into which you have watched a bath ballistic do its stuff. Along the front of the counter you will find lip glosses to try and lip scrubs and sometimes a small table just beside the counter has something special that they want to share with you. You might find a small box of sample collections put together for feet treats or a stay in with the girls box or maybe e a perfume display or sometimes a mix of products with the same sort of smells that you can buy and layer the scent on you. This shop has to have the happiest feel about it and the greatest customer service that I have ever come across. Once I bought a small box of samples and when I got home I found I was missing one of the items. I phoned them. They told me to tell them when I next came in and when I went back and gave my name I was given two of the item to make up for the error. Apart from the fact the shop has such lovely product and great staff the ethics and philosophy of the company have to be admired. They refuse to buy any products that have ever been tested on animals. They buy Fairtrade where possible and support so many small charities and campaigns such as stopping oil palm plantations destroying the rainforests in Borneo and so on. The company have very strong beliefs and stand up for great charities and campaigns. They have been very supportive towards charities in Japan since the Tsunami; they have run campaigns to fight against animals testing, as well as campaigns to highlight the danger of destroying the rainforest and planting oil palms and so many more. Their Charity pot sales all go towards smaller less known local charities and all the money made from that is donated except the VAT which is their contribution to the government's coffers. This is a shop from a brilliant ethical company which sells wonderful products; many are fun while others are really great skin care products. The shop is welcoming and the staff fun, knowledgeable and very helpful. This is my favourite shop and I spend a lot of time in here. Thanks for reading. This review will be posted on other sites under my same username. İCatsholiday Read the complete review |
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