Eden, High Wycombe Reviews Summary

Category: Shopping mall

Address: Oxford Rd, High Wycombe, HP11 2DQ, United Kingdom

Phone: +441494768068

Rating: 4.1
based on 307 reviews.

Shopping Experience

Pros:

  • "Massive shopping centre. Bright and airy. Lots of specialist units as well as high street staples. Good range of eateries."
  • "Good shopping experience, has a good choice of shops and places to eat."
  • "Such a lovely relaxing shopping experience. Can also take in a film, go ten pin bowling & eat in one of the many restaurants."
  • "The shopping centre has an excellent range of shops and has adhered to social distancing very well."
  • "A wonderful and spectacular center where all your needs and desires are fulfilled in clothing, food, children section and many others."
  • "This is a fantastic hub of retail shops, flagship Topshop and large River Island, House of Fraser, Dorothy Perkins, Superdry, massive Marks&Spencer and Gap to name a few."
  • "The Eden Centre has everything you could possibly want to be shopping for. It also has many eateries, including cafés, speciality shops and restaurants."

Cons:

  • "Eden is never my 'go-to' destination for shopping, and it feels a lot more dated than it really is."
  • "Any shop that once was here has probably closed down and other shops have been and gone in their place too."
  • "Sadly, so many quality shops have left the Eden centre is looking very tired despite not being that old."
  • "A shopping centre full of national chain indentikit stores and devoid of any character."
  • "Like all UK High Streets, this place is suffering from diminishing footfall and thus many shops are closing."
  • "Not the most exciting shopping centre with quite a few empty shops."
  • "The Eden Shopping Centre seems to be mainly made up of clothes and mobile phone shops."

Parking

Pros:

  • "There is parking onsite and payment is made at Machines on the ground floor of the centre near the toilets."
  • "The layout is understandable and the parking charges are acceptable."
  • "Car park is big and I can always find a space."
  • "Plenty of parking at not too high a price."
  • "Parking is free for four hours in Sainsbury's if you spend ten pounds on shopping."
  • "Parking rates a fair and sometimes even discounts are applied from different vendors."
  • "The free car parking after 6pm was a good addition."

Cons:

  • "The only issue today was the parking took us over half an hour to find a parking space as for some reason they closed off the whole top floor."
  • "Horrible parking, ridiculous sized gaps and they want you to pay to shop there, utterly bonkers."
  • "Shopping centre good with a variety of shops. Badly let down by the multi storey car park."
  • "Unfortunately horrid car park, at least the orange one."
  • "It took us half an hour of walking around trying to find a machine that would take card."
  • "Parking space is tight."
  • "Good mixture of shops, the car park was a nightmare, took couple of minutes from ticket machines to car, took 45 mins to get out, it was so frustrating."

Cleanliness and Maintenance

Pros:

  • "The centre is tidy, clean, there's plentiful security around, and there are central toilets."
  • "You feel very safe shopping here and the cinema is a nice complex with 12 screens."
  • "Good selection of shops. Place was clean."
  • "Clean and tidy, looks good and easy to get round in a short time."
  • "Toilet facilities very clean."
  • "The venue is clean, tidy and modern, with shops all looking neat and energised."
  • "The shopping centre is well-maintained and clean, with a modern and inviting atmosphere."

Cons:

  • "The Eden centre is overall good but it can become dirty at points as the cleaning staff seem to be outmatched or don't care enough."
  • "Place has an extremely dirty feel about it, shop windows need a clean."
  • "Kids amusements need a serious clean, couldn't believe the dirt of the police car ride."
  • "Needs a good mopping, lots of broken tiles on the ground that need repairing asap."
  • "Eden Shopping Centre is very half of marking on accommodating and very cold place to walk through."
  • "The 'shopping centre' is covered between shops but there aren't any doors to the center so on a cold or windy day the weather blows right through the center making it very cold."
  • "Toilets are still manky and blocked but floors are clean and urinal area is clean but the ventilation needs a serious upgrade."

Accessibility and Layout

Pros:

  • "The Bus station is a large hub for connecting with all the local areas as well as the A40 and 740's busses connecting to Heathrow, Uxbridge and many more."
  • "The whole place feels pleasant and spacious enough to walk around."
  • "Very handy that the bus station is attached."
  • "Finally, it is easily accessible by car, bus and somewhat by train."
  • "The mall is easily accessible and there are many disabled parkings as well as a car cleaning service on the first level."
  • "There is disabled / wheelchair accessibility for the centre and most shops."
  • "One of the best shopping centre having a huge number of shops which mean you have a lot of quality product and a wide range of categories."

Cons:

  • "It's also pretty bleak in the winter, when it's like walking through a wind tunnel."
  • "Just a shame that this isn't completely covered as it's absolutely freezing in the winter."
  • "It's a bit of a track to get to some shops from the bus station, and as you leave the bus station be prepared to get blown to bits and soaked if it's raining."
  • "A few empty stores. It's very windy, no doors at either end."
  • "Poor design through the open air shopping section as when it rains the floors are extremely slippery."
  • "Place is a little bit of a maze to be honest. Every time I go there I get turned around."
  • "It can also be confusing to get around unless you regularly visit it - you're never totally sure of where anything is."

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