Located within the heart of Cramlington this is a popular place to shop with a good selection of…read morestores. I say good, not excellent, as there are a few gaps - it could do with a book/DVD/CD store as the selection in the supermarkets is limited to current hits and new releases. There are toilets in Sainsburys, by the exit near Johnsons the dry cleaners and down near Asda. Of the three, I recommend avoiding the ones near Asda as they often smell unpleasant! The car parking is free, with plenty of spaces at the Sainsbury and the Asda end, but the car parks are regularly patrolled and there is a three hour time limit and a no-return policy. Mind you don't get caught out as they do enforce it! ATMs are spread through the centre - Sainsburys, Barclays and the Co-op have machines outside and inside Northern Rock, HSBC, Halifax and Lloyds have them so you're never far from one. At the time of writing the centre is decorated for Christmas and Santas's postbox is popular with the children!

Mannor walks is a thriving local mall which is very popular amonst locals and the surrounding…read moreareas. There is a medium sized ASDA and Sainsburys store and due to be a M&S simply food opening in 2014. There is 80 shops overall in the mall. The shops are fairly good there is the usual Greggs, boots, HSBC, Barclays and other well known retailers. The mall has not been able to keep up with the times though. Unfortuntaly it feels rather dated, South mall is newer though and more modern. However it's encouraging that the old Focus/B&M store has been knocked down and going to be a large shopping complex, M&S, Dunlem mill, PCworld/Currys coming soon. So in conclusion, fairly good mall nothing like metro centre or Eldon square but perfectly adqate.

Small but great shopping centre which forms the heart of Blyth's shopping area next to the market…read moresquare. Stores include New Look, Wh Smith, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Thorntons, three card shops, Adams, a health food store, Bon Marche, sports clothes store, shoe shop, electricals store, O2, flower shop, Superdrug and an independant accessories cart. There is a centre monument of a strong man with small seating area. Photo booth and childrens play area at car park entrance doorway. Nice collection of stores, plenty of bargains available. Reliable security staff.

Small but great shopping centre which forms the heart of Blyth's shopping area next to the market…read moresquare. Stores include New Look, Wh Smith, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Thorntons, three card shops, Adams, a health food store, Bon Marche, sports clothes store, shoe shop, electricals store, O2, flower shop, Superdrug and an independant accessories cart. There is a centre monument of a strong man with small seating area. Photo booth and childrens play area at car park entrance doorway. Nice collection of stores, plenty of bargains available. Reliable security staff.

The Metrocentre is a large shopping centre in Gateshead, in terms of retail size, it is the…read moresecond-largest shopping centre in the UK. (As of October 2022) The mall offers free parking as well as having good public transportation links, it is around a 20-25 minute bus journey from Newcastle city centre, with an irregular train service, that pulls into the Metrocentre Interchange (attached to the shopping centre), which is even quicker. Anchor tenants include Marks and Spencer, Primark, Next, TK Maxx (featuring Homesense). There is also a large Odeon Cinema. Other stores include: Apple, Currys, WHSmith and many other large brands For a full list, you can check out their website: https://themetrocentre.co.uk/stores/category/shopping It is fairly easy to find your way around the mall, as the larger stores are signposted, if you're looking for a smaller store, it may be best to find out which of the larger stores is nearby, to make it easier to find though. There does tend to be a lack of staff around the mall to ask for help, which is disappointing. There is a good selection of food and drink options, mainly consisting of chains and fast food options, that have multiple outlets around the centre. For example, Costa and Starbucks have three stores, and Nando's have two. 4* - It may not be the prettiest mall in the world, with the centre surely showing its' age in the older parts of the mall, as it opened back in 1986, but it has a great selection of shops, in an indoor environment, well suited to a rainy, cold day.

The metro is a nice place in Gateshead were you can have a nice time at shops. It's also a good…read moreplace to hang about. 5 star!

This is full of interesting little shops my favourite by far being the cake baking/decorating shop…read morewhich has everthingvyou could possibly need to create beautiful cakes and buns including the largest range of edible dusts I've ever seen!

If you want a shopping experience with a difference then this is for you.For a start it's a little…read moreshopping center housed in a converted church and it's quirky name adds to it's appeal.You won't find the usual shops here but some very individual little shops that offer something different and more personal.There's a realy nice cafe worth a visit on it's own.Set in the lovely seaside village of Tynemouth it's well worth a visit.

Eldon Square is the main shopping centre in Newcastle city centre, it opened on the site of Old…read moreEldon Square in 1976 and at the time of opening, it was the largest city-centre shopping centre in the UK. It was known as intu Eldon Square between 2013 and 2020 but following the collapse of intu, it has returned to its original name of Eldon Square. At the time of writing, Eldon Square is the 15th largest shopping centre in the country in terms of retail size, there is a much larger shopping centre, Metrocentre around a 10-15 minute drive away, but despite being smaller, I prefer Eldon Square, I still think the mall is a good size and it just seemed to have a better atmosphere, being in the city centre too rather than a soulless out of town mall. The mall has a great number of stores and brands including anchor retailers Fenwick, John Lewis and Marks and Spencer. Other brands located here include Apple, Boots, H&M, Next, Rituals and the major mobile phone/telecommunications networks. For food and drink, you have the likes of Starbucks, Nando's, Pizza Express, Ask Italian, Wagamama and TGI Fridays. The mall staff were friendly, and while there wasn't really anyone dotted around the mall, the help desk was easily to find so I could seek assistance finding a store. The layout of the mall is a little confusing and I think makes it seem bigger than it actually is - it can be quite a trek from the Bus Station to the Apple end of the mall. I do think the stores do shut a little early for the centre of a big city, between Monday and Saturday, the mall shuts at 7 pm, with some stores shutting as early as 6 pm including John Lewis. Thursday is an exception, where all stores tend to remain open until 8 pm, and Sunday is bound by Sunday trading laws so there's not much they can do there. 4* -

Incredible pizza service members are very nice and helpful great atmosphere. What might have been…read morethe waiter gave us complimentary food just because he wanted us to try which it was incredible

This is a great plac if you want a trip out to a few shops and dont want to go to the city. It has…read morea boots good next shops currys and a comet a halfords who are really helpul. The food van on the left hand side is great for chips much better than you would get in the pizza hut next to the cinema, sorry is it pasta hut. One thing is they closed the only cheap shop down to make a horrid unhelpful argos so when you go to the cinema you are stuck buying there sweets There also have a borders and a starbucks, It is hell to drive around and walk around as there only the occiasional small path on part of the car park, the car park really sucks If you are at all affected by the credit crunch I would go elsewhere not a place for bargains

Just off the A19 the Silverlink has a good selection of shops, fast food restaurants and a cinema…read more(Odeon). The car park (1502 spaces they advertise) is always busy and the through traffic heavy so it's best to go earlier or later in the day rather than at peak weekend hours. Walking around the car park from one side to the other to get to the various stores can be stressful if it's busy and you're lugging bags or trying to corral small children and stop them walking into cars. Shops include a large Next, Boots, Argos, Halfords, Borders with Starbucks, Comet, Currys, JD Sports, Mothercare, M&S and restaurants are Frankie amd Bennys, McDonalds and Pizza Hut. There's plenty of shops to browse around and the stock selection tends to be good. My favourite is Borders where the book selection is excellent, the staff helpful, the children's area bright and welcoming and the Starbucks upstairs a welcome place for a break. There are frequently good special offers on not just books but CDs and DVDs. It's a convenient place for me to go and I can find most things I might want here, it's good for gift and present shopping. http://www.silverlinkshoppingpark.co.uk has a store directory. There have been some changes in the last year or so with Home Bargains being replaced by Argos and PC World replaced by Marks and Spencer.