The Galleria Reviews Summary

Parking

Pros:

• "Parking options are great."
• "Easy parking."
• "Suitable car parking prices too."
• "Parking is excellent, and with a disabled badge it's completely free as long as you register (just one time)."
• "Parking is good, plenty of spaces and a good price."
• "Parking available with plenty of disabled parking bays too."
• "Cheap parking, can be paid next day via website for convenience."

Cons:

• "Leaving the car park is quite perilous."
• "Good choice of shops but parking is a pain in the backside."
• "Parking ridiculous £3 for Sunday."
• "Be aware that if you go on a weekend parking will cost you three pounds this is all day, but even if you pop in for 30 minutes it's still three pounds."
• "You have to pay for parking in the multi storey and the outside car parks."
• "Parking on the other hand is not that great, too expensive for an out of London shopping centre."
• "The parking is pretty extortionate during the week."

Shopping Experience

Pros:

• "This is a really interesting outlet. There is a great mix of shops, all selling their products at a great discount."
• "Good for university students, everything within walking distance."
• "Very large place with lots of good shops especially good for students because of outlet stores."
• "The TK Maxx is well stocked and always has a good choice."
• "A great outlet stores shopping mall full of famous brands for clothing and home accessories."
• "Shopping at Choice and Marks & Spencer was really fun for me."
• "Great place to shop. Plenty of choice for clothing, shoes, sports wear and homeware."

Cons:

• "The Galleria itself is nothing special despite having so much glass which should make it bright and airy it feels a bit boring."
• "This centre is basically an outlet shopping centre, but personally I thought the prices were still rather high."
• "Once in the Centre, lots of shops are closed."
• "A lot of the stock on offer was never in the main stores, so it appears that cheaply made clothing is made for the outlets."
• "The shops are not all outlet stores anymore and the range of shops is not what is used to be."
• "I haven't been in the Galleria for a long time and when I was in there about 4 or 5 days ago it was looking empty of shops."
• "Shops are small and not enough variety or quality in goods."

Family and Children Facilities

Pros:

• "Nice kids activity area and dinosaur rides attraction."
• "Dino 🦖🦕 ride is also available for children."
• "The play area for the young ones was amazing. Well laid out."
• "The only place that seemed busy was the kids play area."
• "Great for families with small kids, they have an arcade, soft play area and the other day they even had roller skating available."
• "There’s a large soft play adventure area for the kids."
• "In the middle is a great kids play area, with so much to do."

Cons:

• "Amazing kids play area in the middle (although a little pricey)."
• "The toddler section of it is rubbish."
• "The playing session is only 1 hour and a half for £5. I wish the time becomes at least 2 hours."
• "But the parking on weekends is full."
• "TRULY AWEFUL ACCESS FOR ANYONE WITH A PHYSICAL DISABILITY."
• "Disabled unfriendly. Rude staff. Birthday ruined by these awful people."
• "Only 2 stars as parking, especially multi storey is a NIGHTMARE."

Food and Dining

Pros:

• "The food and drunks were good, the fish was fresh cooked."
• "Good variety of food options; sadly missing a bar."
• "The choice of places to eat was excellent - a great variety to suit any pallet or pocket."
• "There also a food court with Nando`s, McDonald's, Prezzo, Real China and other."
• "The food places are nice and have a large range of different cuisines overall a good place to shop."
• "Dining options are varied, catering to a range of tastes and preferences."
• "Good selection of inexpensive restaurants."

Cons:

• "No decent cafes. All branded ones and very expensive."
• "The biggest problem of all was that there were no food restaurants."
• "There are only two coffee shops but nothing local of independent business just your Costa and Cafe Nero."
• "I think maybe there needs to be more places to eat."
• "The only shops of any good stuff is TK Max and Le Creuset."
• "Parking fees quite expensive and limited selection of famous brands."
• "Getting into the parking was confusing."