Market Gates shopping centre (Great Yarmouth)

Advantages: Lots of shops & good parking facilities
Disadvantages: Could spend a lot of money here!

Market Gates shopping centre is situated smack bang in the centre of Great Yarmouth. You can't miss it. There are 2 ways you can enter the centre. One way is from the Market Place. As you walk up to the shopping centre there is Dorothy Perkins and Boots on the outside and D2 on the other side of the entrance. From this entrance there are big automatic doors and a huge Market Gates sign at the top. This is the only entrance which is suitable for wheelchair/disability ...
...2 computer games shops in Market Gates and 2 card shops. There are benches situated in this shopping centre which is handy if you are worn out and need a short break. You will also find Iceland in here where I go quite a lot. There is a large cafeteria called 'The Lighthouse' which can be accessed by either the market entrance or up the esculator opposite McDonalds. 'The Lighthouse' is, however, right next to the esculator. There are toilets in ... Read review

Advantages: Some good shops under one roof
Disadvantages: No longer than 10mins entertainment

...but it was like a market town discovery, and this was just independant shop after independant shop. Now call me a yuppy, but I was looking for some big brand shops and was thinking that Yarmouth must have some big indoor shopping complex similar to that of where I am from. Combine this with beginning to see people with big brand bags, I felt like I was getting warmed, unless these independant shops had ran out of blue and stripey bags and were having ...
...for food that I found Market Gates shopping, which looked rather impressive from the outside with quite a few people around and a busy bus station nearby. Entering through the entrance facing McDonalds, it was very interesting to see that the first thing you come across is a set of escelators. It was even more confusing that they seemed to be the other way around to how they would be in Cambridge, I thought I'd just gone a couple of hours down the ... Read review

Advantages: Parking onsite
Disadvantages: Slope at begining hard with buggy's/wheel chairs

The shopping Centre: Market gates is a enclosed Shopping Centre in Central Great Yarmouth. Its not as large as most shopping centres but has enough space for 39 retail outlits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where to find it: Follow signs to town centre and market gates it situation next to the main market place area. If you follow the sign to town centre you will come across market gates ...
...10am to 4pm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shops: Market gates shops include the following Boots - Big RetaIl chain that sells cosmetics, medicines etc. Wilkinsons - You can buy just about anything here like DIY stuff, Stationery, Toys, books etc. Mothercare - Sells baby items like clothes, prams etc. Iceland - Supermarket which focus's on frozen foods New Look - Top Womens clothes ... Read review