This is a great shopping centre. It is right beside the train station, buses frequently pass by and…read morethere is always a car spot in the car park. The biggest attraction to this centre is IKEA. It is open long hours and there is designated parking areas for picking up that large box, which later will lovingly be put together! Ha There are a range of good restaurants at the centre and Reading Theatre. Be careful that you drive in only once to the car park. You can't re enter during the same day, this is to prevent people driving in and driving out within 3 hours and hope to get another 3 free hours of parking. The number plates are photographed. I have seen people argue at the gate while the traffic is building up... not a pretty site.

This is a giant mall! At the pace I walk, it would take all day for me to see everything. It looks…read morelike it was built in phases over time because there are so many different design themes. It has more than 350 stores and services including grocers, bookshops, lots of coffee shops, clothing stores, home stores, shoe stores and much, much more. There are children's play areas, food courts, bakeries, and at least one dentist. Numerous public art installations and water features are found throughout. As entertainment, it's great for people watching. If you're shopping and can't find it here, it probably does not exist.

Fantastic mall for the Northern Beaches. It has everything you need from high end to dollar stores…read more Hairdressers, cinema, travel agents, multiple food courts, kids play areas, plus Coles and Woolies. Good amount of outdoor and undercover parking. Very accessible by bus and on a major corridor to and fro servicing the Northern beaches suburbs.

Once upon a time, the Forest area had two great shopping centres - Forest Way Shopping Centre, and…read moreGlenrose Shopping Centre. Now that Glenrose is all but shut for renovations, Forest Way has emerged victorious from this age-old battle, if only by default. Forest Way is a large suburban shopping centre with many of the major players well represented; Woolworths, Flight Centre, Liquorland, McDonalds, Gloria Jeans and Franklins all get a look in. As what has been called a raging communist, I prefer to support locally-owned businesses - and Forest Way Shopping Centre has them in abundance too. Fancy a pet? A haircut? A dress? A coffee? A piece of fruit? All of these products are readily available from independent retailers throughout Forest Way. The opening hours are pretty standard, although Forest Way has one major convenience that others perhaps lack - a transport interchange. All buses to and from the area go through here. However, this has led to one major inconvenience for shoppers and commuters alike; a lack of parking. Despite the extensive car park, I can rarely find a spot to leave my car while I grab my dry cleaning or (more realistically) wander into McDonalds with a raging hangover. But the closure of Glenrose has left Forest residents with little choice - if you want to eat/get a haircut/clean your clothes/see KindiFarm/book a flight, you must suffer the indignity of driving around for forty minutes looking for a park. Not happy, jan!

From the owner: We are your local shopping centre for all your daily needs with over 50 stores and services under…read moreone roof including Woolworths, Aldi, Liquorland, McDonalds, Commonwelath Bank, Westpac, NAB, ANZ, St George, Australia Post, Roads & Maritime Services, F45, a Pharmacy, Newsagency, Butcher, Seafood, Fashion, Cafes, Takeaway, Optometrists, Hairdressers, Florist, Travel Agencies, Cobbler, Jewellery, Mobile Phone Accessories & Repairs, Car Wash, Dry Cleaners and Alterations Service, Solicitors, Kids OT, Physcologists, Learning Centres.

There's something vaguely nostalgic about an outdoor shopping arcade, in contrast to the monolithic…read moreglass complexes that now dominate the world of consumerism. In a world of that, The Forestville Centre is a bastion of olde-worlde charm.. sort of. It's a grouping of shops in the local area, with a strange distribution - three dentists? Really? But you can find most things you'd need to run to the shops for there - chemists, dentists, cafes, Coles, a bottle shop and yes, three different dentists. Most of the affiliated businesses are small and locally owned, adding to the overall non-mall like vibe of the place; Coles being the obvious exception, as well as Vintage Cellors and Michels Patisserie. This is added to by the friendliness of everyone - many of the business owners are on first-name basis with their customers, and you can't help but notice the amount of people saying hi to each other in the arcade.

Garden bed in front of Centre sign is terrible. Full of weeds. Better to have concrete than weeds…read more Is there no Centre Manager? Common areas need attention and sweeping, hosing. Not fair to collect rent and neglect the place.

Don't make a trek to Philip Mall expecting a high calibre mall full of fashion. It is a lovely…read morelittle local spot with the necessities of life. You will not find the perfect dress there, but you will find great coffee, a chocolatier, needed groceries and much more. The enviroment is friendly and a neighborhood hang out. It is a taste of community and I love it.

I have a confession to make. I was a horrible child; a mother's worst nightmare. But let me get…read moreback to that... Having grown up in West Pymble I have been to the Philip Mall shopping centre in Kendall Street more times than I care to count. The Parkway Video was where we hired VHS copies of Beastmaster, Revenge of the Nerds and Conan the Barbarian. The fruitshop doubled as our lolly shop where White Knights, Toffee Apple's, Redskins, and Frys branded chocolate items were consumed. The fish and chip shop? I had so many scallops and soggy fries here it's a wonder I am not 1000 pounds. The current IGA was a Clancy's back then, the mascot of which was a Koala of Caramello's ilk. The pharmacy rounded out this side of the shopping centre, an absolute stalwart, it's probably the only thing that's never changed hands or brands (it's probably done both 10 times over). The other side had a gorgeous gourmet deli with all manner of smallgoods and providorial pursuits, which has since been replaced by a cafe. Next door was the new-comer, the Red Pepper chinese restaurant, which introduced me to sizzling Mongolian Lamb and became the regular chinese haunt for birthdays and special dinners - It's still here! A little further up was the aptly name Maxwell Swart, the dentist, clever clever... Witchery housed the finest in ladies wear, then the West Pymble Cellars for all your boozy needs, and finally the barber I never went to, became the pizza place I never went to became the.... well I dunno but I never went to it. Vinny's, and Samaritan bins loiter outside. There was also a Smith Foundation centre at the playground end of the shopping centre. Speaking of playground we should get back to my childhood mischief... Ok. As a child, as I stated, I frequented this shopping centre, so it was with a familiar ease that my mother allowed me to roam free in the adjacent playground. There was a metal slippery dip, metal monkey bars, a revolving egg (you know the ones you sit inside and spin the wheel, and then get out dizzy and vommy?), and the pinnacle of any playground the straight steel swings. These were the ones that Evil Knievels could send right over the top, in a 360 arc, much like the famed pirate ship at Australia's Wonderland, and unlike the crappy pirate ship at Luna Park. It was the latter of these, the steel swingset, that caught my attention, and being as dumb as a box of hammers I was blissfully unaware of the pendulum effects of the humble swing set. To me, it was a boomerang that never came back, and it was with this in mind that I gave the swing an almighty push away from me. I stood there, with my child brain and watched unperturbed as the swing came back at me to deliver an equally almighty blow. To this day all I remember is an explosion of stars as I hit the deck, mouth frothing with blood. You can imagine, I guess, the frenzy with which my mother returned from the supermarket, her young son bathed in a bloody swathe, screaming in shrill tones as concerned onlookers crowded around. I'm pretty sure I was "in trouble" as in "grounded" from then until I left high school hahaha. But yeah, such is my fondest memory of the West Pymble Shops. Ask me about my tongue scar sometime. The hole used to go all the way through, but has healed to a more palatable wound now.

This little shopping centre has loads of parking. Not many shops..... but lots of parking. A small…read moreWoolworths, a post office, a bakery, some coffee spots, a newsagent & some clothing for women. Add a chemist, travel agency, dry cleaner & a butcher it is a convenient pop in spot I guess.

This is a beautiful and immaculate neighborhood shopping center. We often run here for a quick…read moregift, groceries, or the post office. The biggest downfall is the parking. It is a constant challenge and we sometimes will go to Macquarie to avoid the parking

A great little shopping centre with all the good names. A couple of supermarkets a number of cafes…read moreand some very good speciality shops. This is the nearest shopping centre to my work and I am pleased it is here. I have had the pleasure of having students work in one of the fast chain food outlets that he did very well at. All the buses go past from the Ryde area to the beaches. It is a clean and friendly place. It is busier during the morning and mid afternoon. Most shops close at 4.30pm so it doesn't stay open late.

NO SKATEBOARDS. NO SMOKING…read more NO ROLLERBLADING. Rollerblading? Really? What does this look like, 1982? That sign is just one of the reasons I love the Quadrangle. It's been there forever, and as far as I know id the only Quadrangle shopping village in the world. There's some deeply unfashionable (yet reassuringly expensive) ladies fashion boutiques, an IGA (that used to be a Jewels, then a Franklins, then a Coles) with a crappy range, an amazing Butcher Boys, some kid of cafe that keeps changing hands, the Flavours of Peking Chinese restaurant that's been going since time immemorial, and a rather clean bathroom. I love it because it screams village, community, small-town suburban life of the kind that's dying and won't be around in 100 years. So come one, come all, eat and drink and make merry. But if you're on rollerblades, God help you, you take your business elsewhere. We don't want your kind around here.

All the old favourites are here: ranging from supermarkets, department stores, to fashion shops,…read morebeauty salons and eateries. The place is quite extensive and has two very large buildings that are over two blocks. The pace wasn't too bad today and although I did get lost and became disorientated when I left from a different exit I still managed to buy a bargain. I love the after Christmas sales and yes they still exist on the 9th January! Watch where you park. There are several entry points for the complex and parking ranges for free parking from thirty minutes, to two hours to three hours. I always head straight to the top and make my way down (a good principle in life...although you have to be careful on whom you tread on the ladder on the way up as you might come across them on the way down! ha) Yes this is a great shopping centre.

Yep, another one of those ridiculously massive Sydney shopping centres, that also happens to be…read morequite close to the railway station. It is quite well set up though and a pleasure to explore. This is particularly the case with the walkway from the station, which provides easy access to the facility. It is also rather easy to navigate, which is also quite beneficial. Sure, I'm not really a big fan of shopping centres, but this one was rather nice.