West Orchards Shopping Centre Reviews Summary

Shop Variety and Quality

Pros:

• "Fantastic selection of shops and food."
• "Variety of shops - clothing, food, beauty, opticians, novelty specialist shops."
• "It has all the shopping like M&S, Vision Express, Costa Coffee, Debenhams and many more for all your shopping needs."
• "West Orchards is a superb and vibrant arcade in Coventry with lots of different departmental stores."
• "A comprehensive shopping centre, Plenty Of Choice For All, From Fashion and Fragrances, Latest Tech/Gaming."
• "A great shopping experience with a plethora of options for dress fashion and foods."
• "West Orchards Shopping Centre has a great choice of shops selling many different products."

Cons:

• "Most of the shops here are closed down now so it's quite boring really."
• "Considering the city is one of the biggest in the UK the range of shops is frankly shocking!!!"
• "Past its prime. It has gone down hill since the closure of Debenhams."
• "No good brand shops but only m&s which short of options too."
• "This little shopping mall in city centre coventry is short of good shopping options."
• "Not sure what has happened to this place but it's pretty run down now."
• "We need more shops, some nice new ones as that is what it is lacking."

Food and Restaurants

Pros:

• "Debenhams and M&S have good restaurants within their own premises and many other retail outlets also occupy the centre."
• "Important thing is the food court which had KFC, McDonald's and many other."
• "The best shopping experience. Their food court is always neat and you can just relax with a cup of tea or coffee and lighter snacks."
• "Good food choices too."
• "Has an excellent choice in food court with many named food retailers such as macdonalds, coffee shops, bakeries, eat in or take away."
• "A good range of food at the food court on level three. Lots of variety."
• "Food Hall upstairs as well with KFC, McDonald's, Subway, a neat little breakfast place where you can buy wraps, full breakfast, etc."

Cons:

• "Stopped eating in the food court year ago now it is a fast food chavfest."
• "The food court consists of your standard junk-food chains."
• "Food area dirty, cold and poor selection."
• "Food court in the shopping center is not maintained. KFC is the cheapest version of the franchise."
• "Chopsticks was a major let down, NO taste at all."
• "Had a Chinese from the new chopstix eatery in west orchards Coventry, both me and my partner had food and found that the food was terrible!!!!!"
• "The santa and VR sleigh ride was awesome."

Accessibility and Facilities

Pros:

• "The whole complex is wheelchair accessible and is open from around 9am to 5pm."
• "Plenty of parking places with easy access and affordable price."
• "The centre is bright and clean."
• "Excellent toilet facilities, always clean."
• "Easy access for disabled."
• "There is an escalator between floors and a lift ensuring wheelchair access."
• "This shopping centre is more accessible than most so it's great if you're disabled or have a blue badge."

Cons:

• "Good shopping centre with WiFi however only one out two lifts working so was long waits with pushchairs."
• "Beware the parking charges are extortionate £10 if just over 4 hours."
• "Not good if you have limited mobility. Downward Escalator permanently off to main Post Office."
• "The only criticism at the time of visiting was the male toilet not working."
• "The toilets stink terrible!"
• "Constantly broken car park entry or exit barriers, car park doors so heavy and hard to open."
• "My mum uses a mobility scooter, 9 times out of 10 there is only 1 lift working and you have to wait an hour plus for It to stop."