Priory Meadow Shopping Centre Reviews Summary

Shopping Experience

Pros:

• "This is absolutely worth visiting. There's so much to shop. Looking for anything, there's likely a shop that has it."
• "The actually priory meadow shopping centre is very clean and tidy."
• "Contains a wide range of stores, including multiple clothing, food and drug stores."
• "It catered for every age, sandpit for young ones, bouncy wires for older kiddies."
• "The shopping centre has a good atmosphere and I have never witnessed any problems within the centre."
• "Lovely place to go shopping lovely spacious place, loads of lovely popular shops! with little car rides and things for the children to go on if they get bored shopping with parents."
• "The shops there are quality big brands with a nice array of clothing shops and a few eateries."

Cons:

• "Dismal, depressing 'shopping centre'."
• "Sorry to say shops are dreadfully no good shops in Hastings its full of cars using it as a drive through your better off going to Eastbourne or ashford."
• "Used to be very nice with lots of shops. Now its just shoe shops, coffee shops, and job centres!"
• "The shops are a bit limited and as a whole the shopping centre could do with a bit of a revamp."
• "Ugly and rubbish shopping."
• "Too many of our favourite stores have closed and left the town & some recently too, as far as a good shopping trip goes, it's a poor choice!"
• "Not a very big shopping arcade when you compare it to others nearby shops not great inside not any real decent shops no proper clothes stores I wouldn't rush to visit here."

Parking and Accessibility

Pros:

• "Parking is generally easy in the multi story car park and is quite reasonable price wise."
• "Plenty of parking at a reasonable price."
• "The center sits right in the middle of the town centre, about 5min walk from the train station."
• "Easy access to high street and beach."
• "There is loads of parking here, and the charges are similar to other shopping centres."
• "They offer decent parking and toilet facilities."
• "It is walking distance to the seafront and has about 1,000 carpark spaces inside the building."

Cons:

• "Car park payment system is rubbish."
• "Stupid lift system to car park where levels in lifts don't match levels in car park and having to go up in one lift, cross the entire car park and then go down."
• "Parked for 2 hours and was charged 20 pounds at the gate!"
• "Ample parking but more expensive than the multi storey next to Eastbourne Arndale."
• "Spinned around for a good 10 minutes to find the entrance for the shopping centre parking as the GPS was inaccurate."
• "Parking adequate, Number Plate recognition, but It fails to read my number!"
• "Parking is difficult, and badly laid out for deliveries."

Facilities and Cleanliness

Pros:

• "Social distancing was in place and working well. Most people were wearing masks. Sanitizer at every shop entrance that I went in it."
• "The central square has often activities for children: the last time I went there was a giant sand box, before that a hedge maze, a bungee harness etc."
• "Centre is clean."
• "Shopping centre staff are always so helpful especially security and cleaners who helped me find shops."
• "The shopping centre is always clean and safe, toilets are clean as well."
• "Also have clean toilets and a baby changing/feeding room."
• "Clean shopping center with car park has lift to all floors and toilet facility's."

Cons:

• "Little shopping centre with everything close by. But free parking is virtually non-existent (meaning quick trips can be more expensive than they need to be)."
• "Once again after an event in Hastings the shopping centre is locked and you can't use the car park pay machines inside."
• "Gents toilets on ground level closed for past week, a regular event, not convenient for elderly gents."
• "The centre is always leaking as well."
• "The floor is akin to the surface of an ice rink."
• "Pretty good shops, definitely a bit outdated and toilets are absolutely disgusting."
• "Not good to have rest rooms on first floor, I often see mothers of toddlers or older people quite desperate for a loo."