centre:mk Reviews Summary

Shopping Experience

Pros:

• "This is a great place to shop, several businesses including Argos/Lego Store/John Lewis etc etc all together in a large shopping centre."
• "The centre has a large selection of shops, food outlets along with many stalls and coffee shops to treat yourself."
• "The shopping mall offers a wide variety of stores, including popular brands and local boutiques."
• "Centre Milton Keynes is a fantastic place for shopping. It offers a great range of shops as well as restaurants."
• "One of the best shopping centres in the country. Lots of shops and restaurants and coffee shops and it is spacious and very clean."
• "The Centre:mk has every type of shop you could possibly imagine, and loads of places to eat too."
• "Centre:mk is a fantastic shopping centre that offers a great shopping experience, plenty of dining options, and a clean and well-maintained environment."

Cons:

• "It's not the treat it used to be...unless you're happy to wonder round for hours, making a list of what you then have to order online!!"
• "Most shops now are either high end or closed down, nothing really to attract me to shop there anymore."
• "Slowly getting worse, not enough of a variety of shops too many clothes shops, coffee shops etc."
• "Not enough clothes or shoe shops, far too many food outlets."
• "This place just gets worse with even more shops boarded up."
• "It’s not what it used to be. I feel like there used to be far more shops I’d step foot in."
• "A lot of empty shops."

Facilities & Cleanliness

Pros:

• "Usually kept clean."
• "The toilets are clean and massive so that is good."
• "The shopping centre is cleaned regularly and there are plenty of seating areas and restrooms available for shoppers to use."
• "Toilets are always clean and well maintained."
• "One of the most striking things about Centre:mk is how clean and well-maintained it is."
• "Great facilities for baby changing as well."
• "Toilets are cleaned continuously and easy to locate."

Cons:

• "Public areas are dirty and everybody looked *miserable*."
• "What they did to the decor near the toilet facilities is awful and it always stinks."
• "They've closed toilets, taken away seating, there's litter and the parking charges are disgraceful."
• "Walked up and down looking for the one set of toilet. Really not impressed as all maps are electronic and basically don't work."
• "Toilets are very hard to find and are only present on one side in the centre of the facility."
• "Too many empty units though - something needs to be done to use these spaces."
• "The shopping centre has gone downhill over the years. There are a lot of empty units which is sad."

Parking

Pros:

• "We decided to visit the theatre whilst there managing to park outside quite easily."
• "The multi storey car park is good value for money."
• "The new multi storey car park is great and well priced at £1 per hour."
• "Plenty of cheap parking if you avoid the spaces right next to the center."
• "Lots of parking spaces (some free for 2 hours) and easy to access and navigate."
• "Parking very easy & cheap at 50p per hour."
• "Parking is easy to find and cheap."

Cons:

• "The price for parking is ridiculously I rather go to bletchley town center or Newport pagnell."
• "It is a travesty that you have to pay to park here."
• "Too busy. Parking is too expensive."
• "But the parking is so expensive. £2 an hour."
• "Parking isn't free."
• "Parking in the adjacent multi storey car park isn't the cheapest."
• "The really tight parking spaces and not free parking."

Ambiance & Decor

Pros:

• "The building looks really nice and modern with plenty of seating area."
• "I love the decor. I love the effort put towards it."
• "The design is elegant yet simplistic, with plants and greenery near the entrance, enhancing the quality of air and overall zen."
• "Lovely Christmas feeling, the centre is really well decorated, Beautiful decorations, and the Christmas market was the best we have seen locally."
• "It's so light and airy and there are fantastic planters with greenery to give you a kind of orangery feel."
• "It's like a proper winter wonderland scene."
• "The displays they had there were stunning as each scene looked so magical."

Cons:

• "Xmas display was poor!"
• "What they did to the decor near the toilet facilities is awful and it always stinks."
• "I am ABSOLUTELY HEARTBROKEN, SPEECHLESS, LIVID AND INCREDULOUS after witnessing the repulsive carbuncle that's sprouted up at the John Lewis end of the centre."
• "Ugly shopping centre with a sprawling layout."
• "This place is massive and very confusing. It's also very unbalanced as the most popular shops are all bunched up at one end."
• "The shopping centre has gone downhill over the years."
• "Went today 14th and the centre was absolutely freezing in fact it was warmer outside!"