I love it here the Primark is amazing, the indoors Starbucks. It's really good better then…read moreBournemouth Gardens.. good restaurants here too! This place is my second home

Poole Dolphin centre is what was the Arndale centre and serves as the main shopping centre for…read morePoole. It is joined to the quay by the high street. Stores in the Dolphin centre include big names such as Boots, New Look, Top Shop, and Beales. The variety is quite vast and caters for all needs. There are plenty of shops that are set on two levels with plenty of parking in pay and display multi story car parks. The Bus station and train station are joined onto the Dolphin centre so access by public transport is just as easy. The Dolphin centre boasts many coffee shops and food outlets allowing everyone to take the weight off and enjoy a little bit of a break. The Dolphin Centre is always clean and tidy but it can get busy especially on Saturdays and sale times. For a days shopping why not try Poole.

One I usually avoid if I can help it! This is a review for mainly the beauty department, as the…read moreclothing isn't relevant to me personally. The store is in a great location in the centre of town, so really convenient for browsing or picking up a few things when you're out shopping. Debenhams also offers a great points-based reward card for cosmetics purchases, the Beauty Club Card, giving you a £5 discount for every £167 you spend - there are better reward programs out there but always helpful if you shop here often. The customer service, however, is my main complaint! Most of the time there will be absolutely no-one to be seen at a counter. When I've asked other staff members to help me, even when I know the exact item I want to purchase, they're quite unfriendly and seem like they'd rather be doing literally anything else than serving me and act like my business is a huge hassle and inconvenience to them. Many times I've just gone to buy the same thing in another department store up the road instead! Conversely, when there is someone at the counter, on several occasions I felt like I was being forced into a purchase, as if the staff were completely desperate to get rid of certain products, rather than considering my personal needs or being genuinely helpful. A miserable and stressful shopping experience! Additionally, I would NOT recommend the Benefit Brow Bar at this location! I'd heard so many good things about Benefit and wanted to get my overgrown brows shaped in time for my upcoming holiday, instructing the technician to leave them full with a natural shape, as I only wanted them tidied up. Rather than using the vacant treatment room, she waxed my brows in front of all the customers (and this was quite a busy day) and I noticed a few laughing and sniggering at my discomfort. It was much more painful than any brow waxing I'd ever experienced as she kept waxing the same areas over, and when I looked in the mirror.. nearly all of my brow hairs were gone! Instead of full, luscious brows I was left with two skinny tadpoles and an expression of permanent surprise. I started to cry a little after seeing them and she had the audacity to ask if I wanted to make another appointment! Needless to say I will NEVER go back and had to use so much makeup to make them resemble eyebrows for months afterwards. If you want value for money and a pleasant shopping experience, stay well away! Although Debenhams have a rewards system and sometimes have deals worth browsing in the sales after Christmas, I won't be coming back any time soon. There are other department stores in town selling the same products with far better customer service!

To me Debenhams is now a thriving and really good department store. The broad range of clothing is…read moreespecially good as is the homewear. Staff are helpful and unlike some stores the racks are full of different sizes. Well-located in the town centre it is easy to pop in on a Saturday or in a lunch hour and you can always find what you re looking for.

Club card is pointless when the app won't load as you don't have enough Wi-Fi in the store. what's…read morethe point of promoting the club card when it is not really a card and instead is another flimsy app that requires the internet to work? I could have saved my self money but had to pay full price as your app is glitchy. why not go back to having an actual card that did not rely on the internet to work?

Again I wasnt aware this store was here. Sells all the usual basic food tesco items. sadly does not…read moresell the econmy range. Does stock any offers tescos may have going on which is handy if you are unable to get to the big tescos, can also use your tesco clubards here and any vouchers you may have can also be used here

A fantastic jewellery shop in the heart of Bournemouth…read more If you love silver you need to look at this place. It has a fantastic range of earings, bracelets and necklaces, rings and toe rings. A lot of the jewellery is made with gems so there's a whole range of colours to choose from. Some are dainty and some are quite exuberant, and all points in between. The prices are very good too, in my opinion. At the back of the shop you start seeing polished stones as items on their own and then there's incense and burners and natural oils and all sorts of 'new age' type items. There are also some really interesting books on sale. The shop is busy, students from overseas find it, au pairs find it, everyone finds it. The service is good.

If jewellery, crystals and new-age items are on your shopping list, then there is nowhere else in…read moreBournemouth like it. As soon as you walk in the door the staff are smiling, the aromatic smells hit you and the quiet music soothes you. It's like walking into a small haven of peace and quiet. There's a great range of gifts and if you can't think of what to get someone for Christmas and would like something a bit differnet and perhaps quirky then take a look. Good value too.

It is a humble shopping complex. But it should be the time to upgrade the building now when there…read morehas been a huge investment in the seafront areas. I would like to see a covent garden in Boscome, it will save my time and money to travel to London. Leisure is an added selling point, but parking charges is not for sure. epan

This is one of my favourite shopping centres…read more When I need to go and collect a number of bargain items, then it's ideal. There are a number of discount stores (99p, Wilkinson, Peacocks and Poundland) all close together. The only downside is the parking - it seems to go up everytime I go up so would recommend parking elsewhere in Boscombe and walking in.

This store sells linens, throws, cushions, fabricstowels etc…read more The quality of the goods seems really good, and they have a wide range of co ordinates. The clour schemes are tasteful and I think the prices are fair. If I was revamping a room, this would be one of my first stops. The staff are helpful with out being invasive. Thing is this is in a complex with other competing stores. But I do think this has a better quality.

Never been in one of their stores before but now I have will defo being going bak again. brillant…read morechoice of items for the home and with very good prices for the items you cant go wrong in buying items from them.

ASDA is a grocery chain- a larger store chain in the UK. This location is right by the train…read morestation in bournemouth and was honestly a life saver for me as a traveler hanging out in this comfy college beach town. This store was massive and felt like the Walmart of UK. The prices were quite cheap and sold every type of thing from garden tools, economic clothing, basic electronics, food, soaps, and other housewares. It made my stay here economical and convenient as I was able to buy some food for a train ride to my next adventure or a low key dinner in my hotel room. there's a clothing section so that if you're in a pinch and need clothes, this place would be reasonable. certainly not the most fashionable and sizes are larger but hey, it's a beach town so comfort is the fashion here The produce section is actually very affordable and was how I managed to keep my produce load up while traveling. I would grab a bag of watercress, spinach, arugula mix and pair it some fruits on sale in my hotel room. they were all fresh, none were rotting or spoiling and were good priced. There's a good cold foods section- rows and rows of it. The only down side to this place is a hot foods section. Thus, if you're looking for a hot bar besides rotisserie chicken, there's not that great of a section for this and no where to sit and eat unless you paid more. There's even a clearance section for the cold foods if you had a home and stove to cook some stuff fast. There's also a money exchange and other random services here. in otherwords, a great community jack of all trades store here. Nothing fancy but definitely inclusive, affordable, large variety, large and pretty clean.

A for awesome S for super…read moreD for delightful A for amazing Not as good as Tescos sadly but still it works- maybe lower some of your prices but other than that you good

You can't really go wrong with M&S, but recently my wife has found some of the staff a bit off-hand…read moreand unhelpful. Having said that, the store is massive and the range of clothes, homewear and food very good. The quality is as always excellent and with a cafe and free parking the shopping experience is relaxed and easy.

This particular marks and spencer is a very nice brach. On the upper floor there is a nice cafe…read morethat serves hot and cold food. Also, as well as large clothing sections, there is a large home & furniture section on the bottom floor, and there is also a very nice food section, with self scan tills for convenience, as well as normal tills. It is a very nice shop, always tidy, with a lot of clothes on the racks at all points.