Funky looking store with great range of clothing inside.Mens is located upstairs up a big staircase…read morebut for disabled visitors or those with pushchairs there is a small lift to use located at the back of the store.There are changing rooms downstairs which have fantastic mirrors in them ones where you can see from every angle.There are alot of til points even though on the busiest days i have still had to queue a while as they are never all open at the same time.The last visit i did have here was a bit frustrating as i wanted a refund and there was no one on the tills that could do it and i was left waiting for about 20 minutes in the end !! Apart from that ive never had a bad experience.High fashion in a great looking store

This store is very funky and when you walk past you can't help but walk in and have a look…read more The ladies section is downstairs and the mens section is upstairs. River Islands range of clothing is great. They sell a great range of ladies clothes, also boots and shoes and a great range of accessories, i.e. handbags, belts, purses. You never have to line up for long to pay for your goods. The tills are always open and you get serve really quickly. Its very easy to walk around the store because it is very spacious with lots of space, which is ideal if you have a little un'. The changing rooms are really good. Nice and light and very big inside, which makes changing a much nicer experience. The worst part about the store is you can sometimes be waiting along time to get served, especially on a weekend.

A huge New Look on the upper floor at Bluewater. I actually find this store a little too big as I…read moreoften struggle to find what I am looking for. It can get a bit messy in this store at weekends and busy periods. There are plenty of changing rooms (found on the mezzanine floor at the back of the shop), though these are often quite tatty. Each time I have been in the store I have had to queue for quite a while, even though there are a lots of tills open.

Great store,very big range,friendly staff.They have womens wear,inspire(plus…read moresize)kids,tall.Footwear,accessories gifts and also make up.The changing rooms here are excellent and they also have one located downstairs for disabled users and mums with buggies something alot of other stores dont have.The store is always well presented and the staff are very helpful.They are also a good mix of ages and sizes and dress superbly not only showing off the clothes but offering good fashion ideas. There are two banks of tills and they are always adequately staffed with fully competent members of staff.I am a regular shopper in this store due to the high standards i receive

Has been at the centre before Christmas,and although very new ,is a clean tidy shop…read morewith good space between the displays.

Primark is one of Lewisham's major stores and the area would be much poorer without it. Primark…read morestocks the locals with affordable, fashionable casual and office wear. It can get exceptionally busy in this branch and the queues can be huge at the tills. When they have decent clothing for under £5 that I wouldn't mind wearing out occasionally, you can understand why the queues get so long. Alongside T.K Maxx, Primark is one of few reasons Lewisham is worth visiting.

I tend to go to the Primark in Marble Arch (well when I can be bothered), but once in a while when…read moreI'm in Lewisham I will have a rummage to see if they have anything new. Sometimes you'll be in luck and there will be that dress or top in size 8, but other times they'll be loads of styles you like but nothing in your size which can be frustrating. Nevertheless, for bargain underwear, socks, vests and tee's you can't really go wrong. You can easily walk out with a huge bag of shopping and not have paid more than £30. It can get particularly busy at the weekend, and sometimes you question whether it's worth queuing for those £2 socks..

I love the clothes here but tend to avoid this particular shop as I find it hard to access with the…read morebuggy, and also staff can seem a bit offish. They sell both ladies and girls clothes and accessories. Not the biggest of stores but a good selection of items. Prices are on the more expensive side bt worth it as the quality is great and clothes really last. Based in the Blighs Meadow complex its easy to locate, plenty of parking in the car park if you can find a space as can get busy!

It's now an Accessorize, no longer a Monsoon, so no clothes but lots of accessories. Lovely new…read moreshop fit with great products!! Worth a shopping trip. Staff are really friendly and willing to help. Still lots of parking near by and near to the new M&S store.

It's so lovely to go to Hobbs and this branch in Bluewater is no exception. The staff are friendly,…read morekeen to help and really enhance the shopping experience. This branch has two lovely big leather sofas with lots of newspapers and magazines so people waiting while you try things on can sit and relax in peace. There is also a Hobbs concession in John Lewis but this is the place to go first in my opinion.

I am a personal stylist and enjoy taking my clients to their now preferred high end quality shop…read moreHobbs, not only because of the clothes, the colours, the display but their feedback to me is that the 'staff are brilliant there'. This makes such a huge difference for the return of future custom. Other department stores and boutiques could take a massive leaf out of this particular branch up and down the UK. Michelle-Claire x

Wandering through Southside shopping centre the other day - yes, Southside, in sunny Wandsworth…read moreTown the Playa des Americas of South London. Minus the fun-loving atmosphere and scantily-clad girls, but with the concrete high-rises and cheap dodgy cafes serving faux-British food. I digress. . . . Wandering through, I notice the plethora of fashionable yet affordable clothing shops going up. Next, Gap 'coming soon', Burton, Primark etc . . but none of these does it for me. Nono. I stroll into River Island. That's right, the dry 'island' in the middle of the fast-flowing 'river' of people in the main concourse. What AM I wittering on about? Anyway, what I realised about this place is that they've tapped into the current trends and produced a range of menswear that really delivers. Simple summer designs on quality-feeling fabric at reasonable prices. Many of the shirts have that button half-way up the sleeve so you can permanently achieve the rolled up look, and the range of t-shirts perfects the 'what's that? A pattern? Yeah, sort of but it's really faded through continual wear and surfing' kind of nonchalance. I came out with a t-shirt that makes me look like a sailor in a good way. I think. Anyway, pop in, Southside's coming up in the world!

This is my favourite Hobbs - it has a good light and space and an extensive range of NW3, which is…read moremy favourite line. I like the way the separate rooms seem to be neatly categorised into casual wear, work/formal wear and wedding outfit. It used to be the flagship store until it became the Covent Garden store (which I find a bit too frenetic and crammed full to properly enjoy shopping there). My only slight gripe with Hobbs is that they don't tend to put mirrors in individual fitting rooms, thereby forcing you to venture out in order to review whatever you've tried on - I always feel a bit like a meerkat popping my head out from around the curtain to check the coast is clear before breaking from cover. This has the obvious benefit to them of enabling the shop assistants the opportunity of sidling up to coo in your ear about how awesome you look. It has the obvious disadvantage to you of, if you actually look ridiculous and can't quite pull off the look as you'd hoped, you have to share this humiliation before scuttling back out of sight. However, on this occasion, I rather enjoyed it - partly because I'd managed to pick out items that I looked alright in and didn't mind mincing around in front of the mirror for a bit basking in the affirmation of the shop assistant. The girl in the changing room opposite was looking for a wedding outfit in anticipation of her first summer of friends' nuptials (and Hobbs really does excel in the wedding guest arena). It was quite fun watching the array of dresses as she tried to find the perfect combination of classic sophistication and summery youthfulness, together with just the right cover-up for those overcast afternoons to be spent shiveringly clutching a glass of bubbly whilst simultaneously trying to stop ones skirt billowing up and heels sinking into the lawn, waiting for another interminable photo session to end. Ah yes, I do love a good wedding. And when you're sharing mirror space with someone, it seems at best impolite and at worst a downright disregard for duty, not to volunteer your own impartial view of which outfit works best and join in the pondering of whether a flowery statement dress is versatile enough for multiple wears and questioning of whether a blue jacket would look better than the pink which might be bordering on orange. Between her, me and the shop assistant (who seemed genuinely nice) we managed to wile away quite a bit of time indulging in contemplation of the various options. This occasion also happened to be one of those new season weekends where Hobbs generously offers 20% off purchases. The shop assistant was kind enough to alert me to this and let me know that I could still join their mailing list if I wasn't on it already, and benefit from the discount. This was in stark contrast to the time I had wandered into the Hobbs on South Molten Street brandishing my glossy card discount voucher, whereupon it was inspected with the distrust of a school teacher presented with a dog-eared pencil written scrap of notepaper purporting to explain how ones homework had come to be eaten by the dog. It's a bit of a trek for me to regularly frequent the Kings Road branch of Hobbs (not being a Sloane Ranger after all), but if in the area, I find it's definitely worth popping in. I may or may not have purchased something on this visit (this isn't the kind of information I like Mr W to know too much about) but if I had, I'm sure I would have been pleased with it. Oh who am I kidding - we all know I did, and I left with a spring in my step. I like to think my co-shopper did too.