"Definitely somewhere to visit if you're local to it; plenty of free parking."
"Parking is really easy with exact amount of spaces shown in the car park."
"Large enough car park you should not have a problem getting parked and it's free."
"Plenty of parking, easy to get around."
"Wide selection of spacious shops, loads of parking."
"Great selection of shops surrounding a massive car park with a Costa somewhere in the middle."
"Excellent parking,and it's free,good variety of shops,coffee places,toilets & easy access of A66."
Cons:
"The relatively recent redesign of the car park is one of the most dangerous things I've seen for a long time."
"New road layout is stupid and the new trees take up half of about 4 parking spaces all at once."
"Parking is awful, layout not great."
"Difficult to know where to park with the likelihood that if you want to visit several outlets you will have a lot of walking to do ...or reposition your car."
"The new parking system in my opinion is a death waiting to happen."
"The car park layout is terrible and the crossings are dangerous."
"Absolute nightmare to try and find a parking space on a weekend."
Shopping Experience
Pros:
"M&S has managed to remain open as one of the only upmarket supermarket offerings within the Teesside region."
"Great selection of all the big name and branded shops."
"A great selection of shops all together in one leisure park."
"There's plenty of shops, plenty of places to eat, and lots of places to park your vehicle."
"A good variety of shops and food shops, and a supermarket."
"A lovely spacious shopping centre. Good variety of shops and eateries."
"The selection of shops is excellent, with a good mix of fashion, beauty, electronics, and homeware stores, catering to all budgets and tastes."
Cons:
"Not really a lot there anymore, nothing to get excited about."
"Since the closure of burtons, top man, top shop & whatever else was going on in that huge shop they were all in, its become rubbish for men to shop at this park."
"Teesside Park is not only starting to look its age, but quality retailers are leaving, replaced with lower end of the market retailers."
"Shop selection is ok but not great and certainly not worth the hassle of driving around the carpark."
"It's a huge retail park filled with everything."
"A few shops have now shut down and are stood empty."
"Not a great selection of shops any more, and more leaving regularly."
Customer Service
Pros:
"Excellent service & the telephones were speedily answered & extremely helpful."
"Always a pleasurable shop! Staff in Holland and Barret and Curry's most helpful."
"Experience in Morisons great staff are lovely."
"Most, if not all of them have wheelchair access and all of the staff we encountered were kind, courteous and very helpful."
Cons:
"Frankie and bennies doesn't look after the customers more bothered about playing silly games on the phone."
"Staff member was uninterested, didn't want to help."
"Mothercare staff need to learn to smile or at least try, overall appearance needs updating starting to look very dated."
"Asked staff to clean a table and response was we havnt got enough staff on."
Facilities and Amenities
Pros:
"Plenty of eateries to choose from."
"A wide selection of junk food outlets in and around the retail park, including Nandos, TGI, KFC and now Tim Hortons."
"Teeside park also holds an entertainment location - Hollywood Bowling, Casino, Pizza Hut, Burger King."
"There are children’s play areas and a sand pit that have been set up for the summer holidays which my daughter loved."
"Loads of shops here. Loads of places to eat. Really nice cinema complex."
"There are lots of cafes and stopping places."
"Clean toilet facilities too."
Cons:
"Not enough toilets or places to eat/drink in retail park unless you want Greggs or Costa biscuit."
"Big impersonal shopping park along American lines."
"The new shop fronts have removed the old canopies, which now mean you get soaked if it's raining."
"The appeal of visiting in any season is massively impacted by the choice to remove rain covers that used to go around 90% of the place."
"I don't think there is toilets or if there is I didn't see them."
"Couldn't find anywhere to eat, gluten free and would have been nice to sit down for a break."
"Could do with better cafes, more independent one's rather than rubbish chain one's, there is already two Costas on the site & they're building a third."