EK, East Kilbride Reviews Summary

Category: Shopping mall

Address: 300 Cornwall St, East Kilbride, Glasgow G74 1LL, United Kingdom

Phone: +441355243291

Rating: 3.9
based on 321 reviews.

Shopping Options

Pros:

  • "Full of mobile phone shops so you're ok for getting a new mobile."
  • "Great size shopping centre with ample parking."
  • "Loads of ships to choose from, I meant only to go for a few little things, but ended up there shopping the full day and had breakfast and dinner before I came home at night."
  • "There is still a large variety of shops, food outlets, and entertainment venues."
  • "It hosts a luxe too range cinema hub restaurant chains a gym leisure activities a library and a vast selection of bars and some bars serve food till late there are night clubs takeaways and a bus station that commutes to most places so easy to get to and 10 mins walk from railway station and 5 mins from local parks and swimming pool with built in skate park at side of swimming centre."
  • "Huge, sprawling shopping centre with a wide variety of big and small shops. It's pretty retro in parts and seems to be constantly being worked on in little sections. Surprisingly good options to eat and drink."
  • "A large shopping center with all of the popular high street shops under one roof."

Cons:

  • "East Kilbride is nothing like it was in the past. The selection of stores is poor."
  • "Really went down hill, couldn't believe it actually πŸ˜ͺ not worth going as hardly any shops as most went out of business and very old and dirty looking."
  • "No longer any restaurants except for cafe's and a Nandos situated now at the arse end of the centre likely to close as its always dead as I walk past."
  • "Very limited shopping offer."
  • "Once always busy is now a cemetery of shops which appears to be getting worse each visit."
  • "The centre is very run down and lots of closed stores and more closing down, this perhaps could be a factor."
  • "No worthy clothing shops available, and no advertising in shop windows to suggest anything is on the horizon."

Facilities & Cleanliness

Pros:

  • "Great shopping centre very clean and very friendly and all shops under one roof from clothes to places to eat with gym cinema and ice rink so plenty to do great place with plenty shops and can take your time with pub a must for a punnt or food all great no fear of getting wet."
  • "For a local indoor shopping centre it has everything to offer without and whilst getting busy it’s manageable at peak times. Plenty of places to eat from light bites on the top floor cafes and bistros to the larger chains."
  • "The place is well maintained. The toilets are kept clean and tidy."
  • "One of the best, well laid out Debenham. Helpful staff in each depth."
  • "Fantastic shopping centre with a great mix of shops, cafes, restaurants and leisure activities (ice rink, cinema, climbing wall place, soft play, library)."
  • "Large indoor centre with a large variety of shops, from individual units to large well known stores. No concerns with disabled access and toilets are available on ground as well as on upper levels using the lift."
  • "A great shopping centre with a fantastic range of stores, everything you need toys to designer clothing food stores and outlets but also hosts activities like a climbing wall and ice rink, it has something for everyone."

Cons:

  • "It was cold in there had to eat with my coat on."
  • "Big negative it's very hard to walk from one end to another if disabled."
  • "The staff are like machines and don't offer to help. All round a bad Primark."
  • "It feels almost like a shell of what it used to be with a lot of the shops closed or emptied."
  • "Place is a ghost town, mostly charity shops and other shops struggling to stay open, leaks everywhere, wet floors, barriers and cones in walk ways."
  • "It saddens me to see the demise of this once great shopping experience...No supermarket, no cloth shops."
  • "Most dead shopping centre I've ever been to. OMG don't get me started on the temperature freezing my bottom sides man fr get this place out of here man literally surrounded by sheep's and fields why does this place even exist 2/10."

Parking & Accessibility

Pros:

  • "3 hour free parking on Saturday and free parking on Sunday."
  • "There are free parking after 4PM on Thursdays & all day Sunday."
  • "It's free parking after 4.30pm Thurs and free on Sunday and few weeks leading up to Christmas."
  • "Free parking after 4pm and Sunday plus up to 3 hours on a Saturday."
  • "Free parking is available after 5pm Thursday for late night shopping, Saturday your first 3hrs of parking is free and Sunday is free parking all day."
  • "Parking spaces are plentiful and reasonably priced."
  • "Came here to take my Children Ice Skating but this place has everything bars, Restaurants, Coffee shops. And a added bonus of Free parking."

Cons:

  • "Can't believe this place still charges for parking!"
  • "They charge you for parking which is driving people away to the retail parks."
  • "Parking is far too expensive when you consider places such as Silverburn and Braehead where there is no parking."
  • "Not happy that I need to pay for car parking. I tend to go to Braehead or elsewhere."
  • "Β£3 for parking for the number of shops a bit expensive considering Silverburn and Braehead are free."
  • "Parking charges are outrageous! Β£7.00 a day to come to work within the centre."
  • "Lot's of shops closed and you have to pay for parking."

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