Southside Shopping Centre - Wandsworth Reviews Summary

Shopping Options

Pros:

• "At southside mall you will be able to find great stores, ones like Primark, Poundland, boots, Robert dyas including many others in fragrance, household items, toys, personal care, nutrition, chocolate, restaurants and children's entertainment."
• "It has a variety of shops for everyone and cinema + restaurants."
• "Everything you need shops wise, from Poundland to Planet Organic and a big Waitrose and Sainsbury’s."
• "I love shopping here because there are many shops inside the centre such as Boots, Superdrug, TKMax, Uniqlo, Gap, Primark, H&M, Office, Decathlon, Holland&Barrett, Pandora, etc."
• "A great shopping centre featuring all the usual suspects, cafes, coffee shops, restaurants, fast food, multiplex cinema, a wide variety of shops from Poundland to Primark, and designer shops like Uniglo to Gap."
• "It's not as big as most shopping malls, what it lacks in size it more than makes up with the quality of shops, there are some nice food joints, a brilliant multi screen cinema and it has public toilets."
• "This shopping centre is ok, there are the usual shop's you find in most centre's and high street's... but its not the best of shopping centre's, it lacks any decent clothes shops, and has no atmosphere, I don't go there unless I have to."

Cons:

• "So sad to see Debenhans closed also Trespass closing down and many more will follow."
• "The turnover of shops is very high - nothing seems to be able to stick around for long."
• "It's a mall like many without any outstanding shops that invite to browse around."
• "Not the biggest shopping centre and not the best or the most shops to choose from, but does get the job done with most of the necessary shops."
• "This place coming like a ghost town....no one shops here anymore..too many virus's on the shop floor."
• "I wish they had more interesting shops in Southside Wandsworth shopping centre."
• "Decent shopping centre, but lots of churn with the smaller stores here over the years so you often see things closing down or closed."

Customer Service

Pros:

• "He then explained that he had noticed her from before. Now that's what I call great customer service...Will definitely be returning again with friends."
• "Really lovely, welcoming and helpful staff."
• "The staff in every store is so friendly and the prices are extremely fair!"
• "Security and staff working for the shopping mall are helpful and friendly."
• "The Entertainer-Very lovely staff."

Cons:

• "Be careful with Toys R Us, they dont give any refund if you return the item, the manager just insults the customer."
• "Waitrose-so rude and cold people on the tills, they are looking to you like you are going to still the products you bought."
• "This place would have received a five star rating but the bar staff let them down."

Parking & Accessibility

Pros:

• "Parking was easy in the multi storey car park."
• "Car park is free after 7pm when you validate your ticket if you watch a film."
• "Sheltered Parking available."
• "There is a car park available and after a certain time in the evening you can get a discount if you present your ticket in the cinema."
• "U can park in sainsburys free if u buy something from there, or free if blue badge holder."
• "Easy to get to via earlsfield or Wandsworth town overground, east putney tube, and it has its own (surprisingly reasonable) car park."
• "It's very easy to get to with a bus stop right outside."

Cons:

• "The parking situation though is appalling which very little places to park and when there are places the cost is extortionate which is ridiculous."
• "When paying for parking make sure you have cash. None of the machines accepted any of my cards."
• "Parking available, but expensive."
• "NCP car park charges unreasonable. £1.60 per hour but although the sign says up to the hour then the charges increase, if you go over by 1 minute you still pay the second hour charge."
• "Zero visible signage in the carpark for the shopping centre, only small sign hidden by a parked car next to the right door on our level, invisible from any distance."
• "It is not ideally located for those having to go there from far. Some busses, but the nearest station is Wandsworth Town overground (10min walk at least)."
• "Paid parking is never nice. other shopping centres offer free parking."

Entertainment & Activities

Pros:

• "Decent amount of shops for retail therapy, entertainment in the form of cineworld and the new sports bar and plenty of choices for dining from pizza to nandos to noodles."
• "Recently it's also gotten mini golfing and bowling along with many restaurants both inside and out of the centre."
• "So much gaming and fun activities this is just a few in sent in photos."
• "Can keep them entertained for hours with karting, golf, bowling and the arcade."
• "Best part is the gamezone The Gravity - car race, virtual reality games and many more..."
• "Go-karting, arcade, darts, golf, live musical entertainment, bar, food, Vr simulation, shopping…. All in one place, it’s literally south west Londons best activity spot for all to enjoy ‘in my opinion’."
• "The recently revamped Cineworld is very very stylish with a sleek black look and a decent amount of screens including the 4DX where you experience a movie as if you’re on a gentle rollercoaster."

Cons:

• "Lots of shops but if you go when the kids get out of school you might want to turn around if you're looking for a pleasant shopping experience."
• "I was sitting at Nando's for about an hour with intentions to go to the cinema afterwards. Cinema was fine..but deary me, the hooligans in the shopping centre banging tables and riding boris bikes for about an hour by the five guys diner, appalling."
• "Also seems to be full of 'youths' from a certain cultural group acting how they usually do (being loud, riding bicycles inside, intimidating others and shoplifting); there's been a few stabbings in and around the centre over the years."
• "Not very exciting, the usual kind of shops, but way too many teenagers running around creating problems."
• "Shame that the centre can be flooded with brash and aggressive school kids."
• "The food wait was ridiculous (1 hour wait)."
• "It's not an acceptable consumer experience to arrive at 7pm to a mall that advertises that it is open until 9pm and find 90% of the stores closed."