I use the Warrington and the Manchester stores, but this is also a comment on the chain. Apart from being an excellent, inexpensive and modern way to furnish your home, I find their customer service both in store and online to be one of the best companies I have ever dealt with. I tend to visit during the week in school term time though! read more

after damage to my property ikea didnt help one bit to get it repaired after months of fighting to get it repaired there contractor agreed to my joiner doing the job no help or good will from ikea very poor customer service and with 5 store visits i never got to see the store manager or head of customer service and never got one call from warrington poor show from ikea warrington and for that matter ikea head office read more

This is the best IKEA ive been too tho ive only been to birmingham, nottingham and manchester! Its massive make sure you load up your wallet and maybe take a van! The bargain corner is brilliant and ive had loads of bargains from there. The displays in store are well laid out and the goods are easy to find. The cafe is great value and theres lots of choice its great for kids. Also the snack bar and shop are good value. The carpark is huge so it can be a trek to the enterance. The returns dept can have huge ques, Accross the road is a big marks and spencer and next and mc donalds. Its east to get to off the motorway and is easy to spot a huge blue building! Be prepared for lots of roundabouts but its well sign posted. Its a brilliant place for furniture and furnishings, they seem to do 3 price ranges low, medium and high you get what you pay for but even the budget furniture is well built and good value for money. ERverything is flat packed to make it easier to get home. Once you have been you will be hooked! read more

Ikea Warrington is wonderful, I have shopped there for years now, and have never been disappointed with it. the goods are very versatile, and easy to put together, (I'm a 63 year old woman with arthritis!) I always go in the evenings, it's much less chaotic, and I usually have my evening meal there. I am now a member of the Ikea Family, which is free to join, and you get points each time you visit, which adds up and you get a money off voucher, also, you get free drinks with your meal and there are special offers just for 'Family' members. Last month I signed up for the Ikea mobile phone package, which works out cheaper than any I've tried for pay as you go. It's so easy get carried away and spend the whole day there,(and evening), but well worth it. I buy their double duvets, the cheap ones at under £3.00 to make into pet beds/blankets, they wash so easily and dry so quickly, you can get 4 good size ones out of one duvet!! Yes, I love Ikea.......... read more

We've all heard the comedians and men dragged around the store by their significant others joke, complain and moan about Ikea, in fact my husband and his best mate ring each other and say 'Guess where I am?' every time they get taken along to buy some home furnishings and whatnots. My nearest store in Warrington. There's a good sized carpark that gets full at weekends and evening when I am there. LAYOUT Toilets as soon as you go in and a creche. You can either go upstairs and see livingrooms, kitchens, study, bedrooms and childrens (there's some fake room set ups to look round, handy for ideas, as well as smaller items in baskets to buy), or nip round the back of the stairs and you'll find the 'market' where basically all the items you can fit in trolleys or big shopping bags are. There are 1000s of items on sale, homewares, door handles, candles, cutlery, bath towels, bedding, window furnishing, plants, toys...not to mention actual furniture for every room in the house plus the garage... it would be impossible to list them so check out http://www.ikea.co.uk if there's something in particular you are looking for. PAYING The main complaint by the jokers and Ikea mockers (and me!) is the ridiculous sized queues. I have never ever been to Ikea, done the shop and gotten to the tills to find them all being manned. Even on bank holidays and sale periods. To me this is just ridiculous, especially if you get to the till with only a bargain can't leave it behind vase or candle, and the extra curtain rings you actually went for. Ikea have installed self service tills, but whenever I'm queueing or using them they flag up for the assistant which is very annoying and holds everything up. COSTING AND RANGES The plus side is the amount of items you can pick up on any budget. My sister was moving into her first home, and I went with her armed with a list of furniture she needed (and a teeny budget) and we got everything far cheaper than we expected- all things she liked too, nothing bought just because it was the cheapest. Sofa, coffee table, lampshade, tv unit, shelf unit, wardrobe, bed, 2 bedsides, dining table and 2 chairs all for under £1000. She had enough leftover to get mirrors, pictures, ornaments too. I personally buy from the leksvik range which costs a little more but is antique style on a budget, with pieces that can be used throughout the home so you get a sense of unity. The larger Leksvik pieces cost circa £100 each but last longer, are better built and as I said their are pieces for every room in the home. There are more expensive ranges, but as these were out of my price range I couldn't and didn't consider them, didn't tease myself looking at them, so can't comment on their value for money and quality obviously, but an educated guess I would assume they are better quality, more popular with the public and more stylish. CONCLUSION So if you don't mind queing and are like so many are on a budget, Ikea is a great destination. read more

we visited ikea yesterday, to buy a mattress, we had not got a clue, a lovely lady I think her name was Micheal C came to our rescue and gave us plenty of advice on which mattress would be suitable for us, It wasn't an easy task for her as my back was bad, an she assisted me on and off the beds, we did leave with a lovely mattress, which we had fun unwrapping and watching going into shape, I would like to thank Micheal C for helping us out, I hope your manager see's this an gets to know what a great job you are doing. read more

omg every time i go i feel sick. i like the meatballs though. haha

I recently visited this place to purchase a small item that I couldn't get anywhere else. Hadn't been there for ages and had forgotten what a frustrating place it is. We went on Sunday, just as it opened, which was possibly a mistake, but beware avoid it like the plague at weekends. There is a designated route round the store and little scope for taking a shortcut to the department you want, so on such a busy day it was akin to being herded like a load of cattle. It turned out that the item I wanted was in the last area and despite their website telling me that the item was in stock it wasn't by the time I got there. Even a cup of coffee was impossible as the café was heaving with people, so we walked across to M&S which was also busy, but much better to get around. To be fair I have an IKEA dining set which has given good service so I know their stuff is usually reasonable. My comment refers more to the organisation of the store than their products. I still want the item I went for and can't buy it via the website, so we'll probably go again, but we've l learnt our lesson and will try and go during the week, perhaps in the evening, definitely not at the weekend! read more