Sovereign Shopping Centre Reviews Summary

Parking

Pros:

• "Plenty of car parking spaces not only for disabled people but now a couple of places for electric cars and to charge them up."
• "The parking is so easy and affordable."
• "Located in Boscombe, it has large car spaces, wheelchairs accessible entrances, and wheelchair accessible shops."
• "For shopping in Bournemouth this is the easiest to access shops in one area, and the cheapest parking."
• "Good value parking though, £1 for two hours."
• "Great little shopping centre in the centre of Boscombe plenty of parking in the multi-storey good value for parking just £1 for 2 hours, disabled access, lifts to shop floor."
• "Managed to get everything I needed including a new car key and with parking being very reasonable £1 for two hours."

Cons:

• "Avoid the car park to the rear at all costs, it is very poorly run."
• "The parking is good for money but needles are always seen here on the floor."
• "Parked here late evening to see a gig at the O2 academy. Had to climb over a short walk to get back into car park, as all the doors were locked."
• "The pay points were a little hard to find and pedestrian paths were not clearly marked."
• "Must read the parking signs if you arrive late from the times specified you will be locked in costing you £35 to be released."
• "Shopping Centre is fine just shame about the parking chargers machine was out of order was told to download a app horizon parking what a rip off that is as had to pay more than parking charge if machine was not out of order."
• "The parking should be free with a 2 hour limit. It's not."

Cleanliness & Maintenance

Pros:

• "We like this shopping centre overall. Easy access from the carpark, working lifts, a general clean and welcoming feel."
• "It's always clean. Also you can sit down in the middle there and have a little massage in one of the chairs."
• "Always seems clean and tidy apart from the stairwell from the car park, that can smell a bit!"
• "A good mix of every day and slightly more fringe interest shops, always very clean, with modern, well kept toilets."
• "The Centre is clean and tidy and there are seats scattered around should you (me!) need to rest your weary feet."
• "The environment is also very clean and encouraging."
• "Both public toilets and disabled toilets and baby changing facility's which are usually kept in a clean condition."

Cons:

• "Visited specsavers and appalled at the amount of litter left on the pedestrian area."
• "Half of the stores in this place are constantly closed."
• "Rundown not looked after. It is sad to see it this way. It needs some love and care and marketing strategy."
• "Areas that are unclean and not very nice."
• "Public toilets locked, witnessed two blokes urinating in the car park."
• "What really let's the whole place down. Is THE DREADFUL TOILETS. Like something from the 70s."
• "BUT beware the candy island. Put the money in, turn the handle and get hardly any candy!"

Shopping Experience

Pros:

• "Fantastic Shopping Centre, Great range of shops and great to see a Shopmobility Scheme at Lifestyle & Mobility."
• "A whole array of shops under One Roof including, Lidl, Sports Direct, JD Sports,CeX, Jemini Jewlers, Warren James, peacocks, wilko and many more."
• "Two main reasons to visit this shopping centre. 1: Frog Bros Comics is a great comic shop with very friendly and helpful staff. 2: Gamerz is an alternative to chain stores like Game."
• "Interesting shopping centre The new mixed with secondhand shops Record shops here and antique shops Also very nice open cafe which serves excellent coffee."
• "Very good variety of shops lidl, jd. Sports direct, pepe &Co Wilkinson, game etc great crowd, market on Thursdays and Saturday. Ambience superb."
• "The Sovereign Centre, will always provide the most pleasurable of shopping experience's!"
• "Great place to grab a coffee or a bite of lunch followed by shopping from a wide range of shops."

Cons:

• "Wasn't particularly engaging... a seeming lack of any visible security staff aren't helping matters."
• "The shops are good except for when shop lifters are on the loose which is a lot."
• "Experiences vary from shop to shop. Decor is close to depressing."
• "Visited for a specific shop, Google led me there... We looked for somewhere to get some lunch, found a café which was dreadful."
• "After not visiting for a few years it was quiet and not as busy and vibrant as it used to be."
• "Like any other shopping centre but found I had to keep checking that I still had my wallet and my ring, a lot of scrouts beggars and drifters."
• "It's gone downhill over the past few years but there still are some good shops but I would say to make sure you keep your wallet safe as I had mine stolen there."