... James Centre across the road or on Princes Street. On top of that the selection in the shops is very small as each outlet is way smaller than is found elsewhere.
Recently all the shops have become main stream outlets, but a few years back there was a great selection of shops which you wouldn't ... Read review
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Advantages: Central Location, Princes street, Train station, Bus station. Disadvantages: Nothing worth going there for
...across the road or on Princes Street. On top of that the selection in the shops is very small as each outlet is way smaller than is found elsewhere.
Recently all the shops have become main stream outlets, but a few years back there was a great selection of shops which you wouldn't see elsewhere and boutiques. I remember watching people making candles and gadgets and the Jelly Bean shop, now all gone and replaced with Fast Food and other main ... ...was an immense water feature which ran the length and height of the mall. This has now been removed and replaced with nothing, just tiled over. What a disgrace.
Let's hope that this prime location on Princes Street could be used for a better purpose.
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I remember the day when I was younger going shopping here and thinking it was great. Great selection of shops, Brilliant layout, Good food. A Good day out. To be honest nowadays you'd be lucky to spend 15 minutes here without being bored or disgusted.
All the shops within the mall are overpriced in comparison to shops in St. James Centre across the road or on Princes Street. On top of that the selection in the shops is very small as each outlet is way smaller than is found elsewhere. Recently all the shops have become main stream outlets, but a few years back there was a great selection of shops which you wouldn't see elsewhere and boutiques. I remember watching people making candles and gadgets and the Jelly Bean shop, now all gone and replaced with Fast Food and other main street shops.
One thing that the mall used to have was an immense water feature which ran the length and height of the mall. This has now been removed and replaced with nothing, just tiled over. What a disgrace.
Let's hope that this prime location on Princes Street could be used for a better purpose.
Advantages: Its close to where lots of people work. You can get there during lunch. Disadvantages: Its running out of steam.
What on earth did they do to this place?
It may sound like an over simplification but I am pretty darn sure that removing the water feature from this mall was like taking its soul away. Why? There is nothing special about this old (but not old in the good way) building now; it does not feel like a mall, it feels like a collection of cheap but expensive shops.
The Princess Mall is getting quieter each day and more and more shops seem to be closing ... ...boards over window fronts than there are consumers in the shops.
The sort of thing that the Princess Mall tries to get you do include – stepping into a small OurPrice and buying a CD for around £15 when there are two HMVs and one Virgin MegaStore just across the road where you can pick the same CD up for around £12. Needless to say that the Princess Mall has no success in this attempt.
The silver lining in this tale is that this slump will not ...
Manx 07.09.2000
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