The shopping complex is full of expensive shops (if you've been to Bicester you'll understand what I mean) on 3 floors.
However, there's only 1 lift in the shopping complex which was out of order on Saturday, the day of our visit. As my husband walks with a rollator, he doesn't climb stairs or go on escalators. I went to complain to the people in the management suite and they couldn't have been more helpful! Offered to loan him a shopmobility scooter and Shona came with me, took me in the goods lift so that I could get back to the level I'd left my husband at, and agreed to look after his rollator for us while we shopped. She gave me the office number so that when we were finished she would meet us to collect the scooter and return the rollator.
We bought some a two pack of photo albums as a birthday present from The Bookstore but, quite frankly, there's nothing that cheap about the shops here. I did try on some dresses in the M&S Outlet Store, they were (supposedly) £39 reduced for £70 and, frankly, they were ok but nothing you'd say "oooh, that's nice" so I didn't buy anything.
The main allure of this shopping precinct is that is has loads of parking (expensive £5.50 for just over 3 hours!) the cinema and numerous restaurants. You have a choice of: Cabana (Brazilian); Cafe Nero;; Chaboba ('Cha' means tea in Chinese and 'Boba' is one of the names given for the tapioca pearls usually found in Bubble Tea. These are the two main characteristics of a typical bubble tea originating from Taiwan ); Coast to Coast; Costa Coffee; Frankie & Benny's; Handmade Burger Co; Jimmy's World Kitchen (every type of food you can think of !); Las Iguanas (Brazilian); Nando's; Ping Pong(Chinese); Pizza Express; Pret A Manger; Prezzo; Starbucks; Subway; TGI Friday's; Wagamama, Wenzels and Zizzi! As fussy as my husband and I are, there are at least 6 of these that we would be happy to go and eat in!
I picked up a leaflet giving maps but the maps were so tiny I could hardly read them! It's a fairly compact precinct so you don't actually walk great distances. read more