The Valley Evesham Reviews Summary

Shopping Experience

Pros:

• "Great shopping centre. Lots of shopping including Barbour, Outdoor and country, Mountain warehouse, Fat Face, Pavers, The Works, Pro Cook, plus many more."
• "A really good array of shops here and places to eat and get a coffee. Lots of parking too (free) and nice to wander round."
• "Love shopping at the valley."
• "A smart and clean shopping location with some great shops."
• "A good amount of car parking with a nice range of shops."
• "Good range of shops. Well worth at least an afternoon out."
• "Great selection of well-known shops, all a good size."

Cons:

• "Has been substantially developed over past couple of years but there are lots of empty units and the deli has gone."
• "Out of town retail park with free parking on the half finished car park or it was when I visited, quite pricey in my view and not a great deal of shops to choose from,would I go again ? Maybe but not in a hurry."
• "Several stores and shops to look around and more promised. Not the cheapest place to shop and if travelling a long way you could be disappointed."
• "A little disappointed as quite a lot if the units awaiting new occupiers so did not take long to pop into the open one's."
• "I don't like this place at all. The range of shops along the alley is just BAD, practically just clothes and fashion shops and no kid stores, supermarkets or anything else like that."
• "Ok, but shops very overpriced expect to pay an additional 20% and shops not great."
• "Not much parking given the expanding number of shops."

Food and Restaurants

Pros:

• "Good sized restaurant, good choice of food and reasonable prices."
• "Lots of various shops to look around, lovely cafe with fresh food served."
• "Coffee #1 had best coffee, the crafty cuppa got my vote 👍. Good fresh food, good coffee and tea and reasonable prices, compared to other shops."
• "Great places to eat and a fabulous mini railway ride!"
• "More shops being added giving more variety, garden centre cafe is delightful with various food on offer and cake display will leave your mouth watering."
• "Lovely restaurant in there too with a few more coffee shops."
• "Great smoothies from the coffee shop on a hot day."

Cons:

• "Service at the main restaurant is verrrrrry slow and the food is suboptimal."
• "The food was Ok but too complicated to order."
• "Shop is great.well spaced out and attractive but I was very disappointed in the restaurant area."
• "The garden centre restaurant was unfortunately it's downfall and the reason I didn't give five stars."
• "The restaurants food was nice but expensive and not worth what you pay."
• "Bloody pricey food! Clothes shops here are OK, more outdoorsy or for older people."
• "Shopping great for me but awful restaurant experience, confusing signage, a Feta cheese salad with no Feta as they had none."

Family and Pet-Friendliness

Pros:

• "This is a fantastic place which caters for all the family from 1-100."
• "Also a miniature train which looks fun for kids."
• "Nice shopping and relaxing place with plenty for kids and adults."
• "The little train is a worth the trip. My kids loved it and then fantastic views and even a kids play area at the half way stop."
• "Our dog thoroughly enjoyed it too!"
• "The Staff are warm happy and very knowledgeable great with the children for any one with children this is a must!!"
• "Most shops are dog friendly which is great because our labrador can come shopping with us."

Cons:

• "However this morning my car and also my friends car was broken into and property stolen."
• "Crazy golf is priced between £6 to £9. They also have high ropes climbing structure priced at £17.50. A complete rip.off price."
• "Was disappointed with I Love Coffee. TABLES FOR OUTSIDE DINNING ARE NOT BEING CLEANED IN-BETWEEN CUSTOMERS."
• "The one big let down is the lack of a disabled electric door button to open the door to the toilet block."
• "Cotton Traders poor show standing at till with garment in hand, you chose to ignore me and attend to the lady waving the catalogue who wasn't even near the till."
• "I visited last Monday with a coach with are club and was very disappointed with you meals we had the carvery was not value for the money my company did not eat it it was just cool."
• "Had a tuna roll which was stale and very very boring. Cost nearly £6 which was disgusting for such a poor roll.salad was stale and seemed like it was from the previous day. Will not be going again,"

Accessibility and Facilities

Pros:

• "There is plenty of parking,but you may experience queuing traffic on the approach to this place and also on the surrounding roads because it is a popular venue."
• "A good amount of car parking with a nice range of shops."
• "Very clean public toilets."
• "Love the parking facilities, so easy. Toilets impeccably clean, which gets another star from me."
• "Free Parking is a bonus and beautifully presented loos!!"
• "Loads of free parking."
• "Plenty of free parking."

Cons:

• "Sat Navs do not recognise the post code. The access road is partially hidden by road works."
• "The car park was diabolical with loose gravel and no clear parking space dividers, this really needs working on ASAP!"
• "Car charging facilities are appalling - normally out of service."
• "There are several EV charge points in the car park, none of which were working today."
• "Not much parking given the expanding number of shops."
• "Garden centre restaurant rubbish. No sandwiches, cake expensive for small portions or inexpensive types costing £3.95!!!"
• "A little bit disappointed. The new craft shop had a lot of space but little in for a committed crafter unless you make cards."