Another one for all you shoppers out there. Once you've had your fill of shopping in the city…read morecentre (see my reviews on CastleCourt and Victoria Square), there's still a few places left to burn out the credit card. Just a five minute drive from the city centre, Boucher Road has quite a few shops in it, most of which are located in Boucher Crescent Retail Park or Shane Retail Park (see my review on Shane retail park). There are men and women's clothing shops (River Island, Next, Burton, the Jeanery...), a sports shop, HMV, Starbuck's, Boots... the list goes on. There's a hell of a lot of space dedicated to parking here, but it can still be very difficult to get a space on a Saturday or Sunday. It's not a mall type place where you can get lost in, it's one of those places where the shops are all lined up in a row and you come out of one shop and into the next one - good for methodical shoppers, or those who don't have a lot of time. The downside is that the traffic on the Boucher Road can be crazy between 4 and 6p.m. But, if you're a visitor and you're out for a day's shopping, get yourself a 'day ticket' (see my Translink review) and you can take a trip up here before/after shopping in the city centre.

Boucher Road Crescent Retail Park is a handy spot for shopping if you don't fancy going into the…read moreCity Centre. It has a huge variety of shops including River Island, Outfit, Lipsy, Newlook, Next, Boots and much much more. Oh and there's a few car manufacturers nearby if you fancy treating yourself to a new Audi TT

The magpie that I am loves sparkly things, and everything sparkles in here, and today so did the…read moreservice. I was just walking through to the Paperchase part and accidentally, totally deliberately, found myself in front of my favourite perfume. As I took a sneaky sniff a glamorous assistant appeared by magic and suggested that they had special gift sets round the corner if it was something I was interested in. When I explained I wasn't looking for a gift, it was just something I loved, she said she hoped Santa would bring me some and rushed off to a drawer where she produced some samples of it for me to 'keep me going til Christmas'. What a sweetie! Yes, House of Fraser is not cheap, but with lovely service like that (which has happened before) I'll always be back. I'll just wait until the sales.

I generally shop online for H of F. As too be honest the layout of the shop freaks me out…read more Of, I may on occasion, rush to the Tom form aftershave and give myself a blitz. But no one can prove nothing. Don't feel that the store has any soul.

We started doing our weekly shops online - I find I'd rather spend 20 minutes on the laptop at home…read morerather going on a Monday evening after work. I thought the website was simple and easy to use - you can add your shops to your favourites which is handy if you ended up getting the same sort of things every week. Sainsburys were doing £15 off your first shop over £60 and £10 off your next four shops over £50 - which was why we decided to shop with Sainsburys- I love a wee discount. You can amend your order before 11pm the night before your shopping is due to arrive. So If you notice you've run out of something you can just log on and update your order. Sainsburys do not process the payment until they've packed your order. You can also choose hourly slots for your shopping to be delivered - starting from as little as £1 ranging up to about £5. I also noticed that if your shopping costs less than £25 the delivery will cost £6 - ours would never cost less than £25 so we didn't have to worry about that. I would recommend shopping with Sainsburys online. I also find the quality of Sainsburys food slightly better than Tescos or Asda.

This is one of the larger Sainsburys I have been to and it has a few really great features. First…read moreup it has an underground car park meaning that if the Belfast weather is doing it's usual you don't even have to get wet while pushing your trolley to the car. There's a large alcohol, home and electrical section making this a real one stop shop. Hosed in the Kennedy thriving Kennedy centre there's not much to dislike about this supermarket. Although you can only buy your groceries at 1pm on a Sunday you are able to browse and fill your trolley much earlier and you'll avoid the queues when the tills eventually open.

The main reason I visit Debenhams is for their huge beauty and fragrance section. I recently took a…read morefaulty makeup brush to Debenhams without a receipt and this was replaced with no questions asked - altho I think this was due to the person who served me - a different sales assistant may not have been as helpful. I have also been to visit Debenhams a few times recently as they seem to have the best euro rate at the moment. If you exchange over a certain amount of euros you get a £5 off voucher to use that day - excludes beauty and fragrance.

My review isn't actually for Debenhams shop, we all know what they do. But I stumbled across…read moresomething interesting at the Benefit counter yesterday! A Brow bar! Yes you can go to the lovely benefit girls and get your crows, plucked shaped and waxed! Then have your make up re done by the same lovely girls right after! How great an idea is this! I thought it was great and was absolutely heartbroken I had only that morning attacked my own with the tweezers, i will certainly be coming here in a weeks time! Very cool!

On a recent shopping expedition I managed to lose my wallet, It transpired that I had dropped it in…read moreDunnes Belfast. As I retraced my steps and was ringing around I was fortunate enough to call Chriss (Not sure of spelling) She was very helpful and after establishing that it was indeed my wallet informed me that they had it. I called and collected it. Tremendous help from good people. Thanks Guys

Wow Dunnes has actually gone downhill quite a bit since my last visit to the Belfast megastore. I…read morepopped in when I was over here in October to see if much had changed and all in all, I was disappointed. I started with the top floor which was totally devoid of any people. Just overpriced homewares. Even the restaurant was all boarded up, and to enter the toilets you had to either insert 10p or get a token from a staff member if you show your receipt! It reminded me of the old dated system in BHS! The lift I used was violent and shakey, and it felt like the floor was about to fall through. Some maintenance in this department please Dunnes Even the food hall was a disappointment - dwarfed into a small hole at the back corner of the shop. Much smaller than I remember. It's all downhill from here. Sorry Dunnes, but I'll be taking my custom to Debenhams and House of Fraser...

For my 345th Yelp, I am sharing one of my favorite shopping places! I enjoy shopping at M&S,…read morewhenever I am in the UK or Ireland. I can count on them for clothes that suit both my style and my budget. Today they were short staffed. Very few registers open and no one on the selling floor to help when I needed it. This afternoon I purchased some jeans for myself, some toner and I grabbed my husband a few wee colognes from this place. The toner was a great buy for my travel weary skin. The colognes are outstanding, make hubby smell like the dashing Irishman that he is, and the jeans hit these curves correctly. Terrific food selections as well. Once I had them cater an entire Christmas Dinner. This was several years back. But again, Mark & Spencer's quality was evident; their prices are fair. Again...They never disappoint.

I was excited to visit a M&S while visiting Belfast and this particular location didn't quite live…read moreup to my expectations; as far as department stores go, this one felt like a basic Macy's back in the US. There was a major sale underway and the store was busy - but I didn't see anything that looked much higher end than an H&M.

This department store is fantastic! It is one of three stores in the Province. There are two in…read moreEast Belfast and the other one is in Ballymena. You can buy everything for the house from cleaning products to furniture and the nice thing is that the prices are very reasonable. I love browsing round the store as I always come out with something a little bit different for the house and if you are looking for a gift with a difference either for a wedding or child's birthday you can always count on finding it in store. So if you are looking for something of good quality and reasonably priced give this store a visit. You will always find the best selection of Christmas trees and decorations at that seasonal time of year which takes the hassle out of hunting around. Go on , you won't be disappointed !

Wyse Byse is a Belfast institution. It is what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris, Big Ben is to London,…read moreand the Leaning Tower is to Pisa. Well, maybe not quite, but it's certainly up there. It has everything you could possibly want, within reason of course. Furniture, stationery, toys, household appliances, confectionary, toiletries to name but a few. In fact there's so much variety that nearly every time I go and attempt to find what I need, I have to ask a member of staff where it is located. And they nearly always have it. In recent weeks I have purchased nail brushes, non-powdered gloves, a stapler, huge bags of sweets, hairspray...all cheap as chips too. Probably cheaper than chips to be fair, they're awful expensive these days. Cannot recommend it enough. Go and grab yourself a bargain!

Laura Ashley, certainly one of the best know and most loved department/homewares stores in the…read moreworld and one that if you are thinking of going to this review isn't really going to sway you all that much, if at all. You can get everything in here to made a home which is to say it has all sorts of soft furnishings, furniture, homewares and everything else that you can think of. The prices seem quite high to me, but thats just me and I don't have my own house but I don't really know. But I can say that nothing really struck me as paricularly cheap and this doesn't strike me as the kind of place that you would go if you were on a budget. The staff seem dead on enough and were friendly anytime I have been in, but they certainly didn't go out of their way to go the extra mile.

Laura Ashley is a lovely juvly store for lovely ladies and yummy mummies…read more They stock a lot of classy furniture, plush sofas and soft furnishings and lot's of other kinck nacks to make your home look beautiful. The kinda furniture you could imagine your posh aunt having. They do a lot of floral stuff, so if you like Cath Kidson and Avoca n all hat then you'll love Laura Ashely. The prices are high, but if you're an older lady decking out your home than why not splash the cash. The clothes here can be sometimes cool, floral tea-dresses with a 50's stepford wife kinda vibe, mostly they're aimed at women over thirty so not really for me. I still like to look though! I did once get a Laura Ashley little pink floral mini dress in Oxfam in Dublin for a fiver! Score!

This is a decent sized Next store and has all the essentials you'll be looking for - shoes, tops,…read morejeans, etc. It has both male and female clothing and caters for all occasions, whether you're looking for something to throw on while you lounge about the house or you need a whole new get up for a night out, this place should be able to accommodate you. Female shoppers will also be glad to hear that the majority of the floor space is dedicated to their clothing, with the men's making up the minority of the shop. There's also a homeware department on the first floor.

Next stores will always be engrained on my mind due to their 6am sale starts. Standing in a…read moreridiculous queue, with hundreds of other insane shoppers who braved the frosty weather to get a bargain. Madness. The next store situated at Boucher Retail Park hasn't the same level madness attached to it but is relatively bulging with promise and purchases. The Next clothing is range has always received great reviews as its washing quality is outstanding as well as the fit and finish of garments. You do pay for these finer details though, hence why there's such a rush at winter and summer sales. This store is well laid out with simple floor plans to promote products and key lines. The mannequins are always well dressed with a great array of accessories to match the themed outfits. What I always like about this store in particular is the range of footwear they have on display. They always have numerous size four and fives which are the popular choice for ladies of all ages.

Going to an all girls' school meant that the hysteria of formal dress shopping was heightened to…read morethe absolute max, with every girl hoping that the delightful pink dress they had just purchased wasn't the same as their best friend's choice. Cue delirium. Unfortunately (I think), those mad days are long since gone for me, but it's nearly that time for my little sister, so I do kinda get to relive the dream again. Yippee! I told her (yes, she didn't have a choice) that Posh Frocks should be the first port of call for ideas, and she happily agreed to take a look. Posh Frocks was one of the stores many of the girls ventured to in search of the perfect formal dress, and there were definitely some beauties bought there. The shop had, and still has, a reputation for good-quality, stunning dresses, and is one of very few formal dress shops in Belfast, so it is completely inundated with formal requirements from as far as Magherafelt (I was reliably informed by the extremely helpful sales lady). We were also told that many of the dresses sell out within days of first appearing...so we'd better get our skates on! There isn't a huge range of dresses, but due to the fact that new designs are constantly coming in, this doesn't really prove a problem. The dresses vary in price from about £100 to £300, with the more embellished ones coming in at £295, whereas the plainer ones are around £165, and the cocktail length ones are obviously cheaper. Having had lots of really helpful tips and information, and a good nosey around, the two of left with plenty of food for thought. I think I'm actually more excited that the little sis...

On our never-ending quest to find bridesmaid dresses for my best friends wedding (no, not the…read moremovie) we ended up in here. They have a vast array of gowns and dresses for all sorts of events and occasions, be it a formal, a gala dinner type event, or a wedding as a guest or as a bridesmaid. The woman in charge that day was SO helpful, and really cheerful and pleasant, she seemed happy to help, and genuinely interested, which is what you want in a good shopping experience. They had every colour, shape and style of frock, but not, unfortunately, every size, and my size 18 frame was not really catered for. There were a couple of dresses that sort of fitted, but they weren't proper size 18s, and therefore were NOT flattering. The price tags weren't extortionate, but they weren't cheap either. If you're skinny and have a bit of cash, this is a good place to get a dress that isn't from the high street.