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for Merry Hill, Birmingham

Rating Summary based on 17 reviews

  • 5 Stars
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  • 4 Stars
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  • 3 Stars
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  • 2 Stars
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  • 1 Star
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  • 29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 chrisandmark_is_here

    Member since 03/07/2011

    Reviews written: 573

    5 Stars Having a Merry Old Time! Review with images 19/11/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Fabulous shops, a good range of places to grab a bite to eat, lovely surroundings and the car park

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Gets very busy on Saturdays - 10,000 parking spaces, most taken, at least 2 people per car.....

    The Merry Hill Centre contains over 200 different stores so obviously I'm not going to spend time discussing the merits of each one, rather I'll concentrate on the ones I visited today and tell you about the shopping centre as a whole. The inside of the centre itself is absolutely gorgeous and has the feel of an upmarket shopping mall; the water features, benches and greenery displayed give an almost outdoors feeling despite the fact that from the moment you enter Merry Hill you're inside. It's amazingly light and airy in the Centre considering how much is packed into one building, with much ... more
  • 43 of 43 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    katygriff

    5 Stars Shoppers Paradise 24/01/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great Shopping

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None for me

    Every year it is inevitable that I will visit Merry Hill at least ten times because me and my Mom especially love it there. It is basically a massive shopping centre which is indoors so you don't have to worry about rain and you can spend hours looking around although it never seems busy for some reason. We choose Merry Hill every year for us to do our January sales shop too because there is so much on offer. Let me tell you why I love it so much! Ok so where is it? Merry Hill Shopping Centre Brierley Hill West Midlands DY5 1QX Now to get there by car from where my parents live is easy because ... more
  • 39 of 39 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    dibalmond

    5 Stars All Your Christmas Shopping Under One Roof 22/11/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages everything under one roof

    Disadvantages Disadvantages not local

    Christmas Shopping can be a nightmare at the best of times, but when you have a 3-year-old toddler in a pushchair it becomes your worst nightmare. I can recommend a Shopping Centre that makes Christmas shopping more of a dream than a nightmare. First a bit of history… Merry Hill is located in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands. It was originally the site of an Iron and Steel works, started by the Earl of Dudley in the early 1850’s. Due to the recession it closed down in 1980. In the mid 1980’s the Merry Hill site was purchased by Black Country Developers Richardson ... more
  • 29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mamba17

    4 Stars Great day shopping 05/03/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Shops

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Parking

    On a rare occasion I like to go for a hardcore shop and the place I usually go to is Merry Hill in Dudley in the West Midlands. It is a massive shopping centre home to literally hundreds of brilliant shops where you can get anything from clothes to DVDs. Now if you are like me and literally cannot stand shopping on a regular basis, stay clear of this place, it will be your hell, however I must admit that it is a fantastic centre to go to in order to have a real shop. With me this is once a year, but I do come back with dozens of bags as the variety and quantity of shops is brilliant. To get ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    miggimoo

    4 Stars My corner shop! Review with images 20/05/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages High Street shopping undercover

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Christmas time can be a nightmare

    I thought i'd write a little review of the Merry Hill shopping centre, as it is a place which i visit almost every day, and i class it as my corner shop. I literally live within 5 minutes walk of the centre, and there's ALWAYS something that either myself or my girlfriend need to buy, so Merry Hill is always the place we go to get it. Merry Hill shopping centre is located in Brierley Hill, just outside Dudley, in the West Midlands. It used to be the location of an old Steel works, but was transformed in the mid 80's, to make way for what was then a small retail park. It has gone through ... more
  • 15 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    SusanLesley

    4 Stars A big attraction here UPDATED 19/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Under cover, good range of shops

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Gets very busy

    Merry Hill is a big out of town shopping complex, just outside Dudley in the West Midlands. It was built on the site of former derelict factories and is signposted for miles around so you can’t miss it. There is plenty of car parking space, unless you’re daft enough to go just before Christmas of course, and then it gets VERY crowded indeed. I haven’t been to see this for myself as it would freak me out completely, but it does get mentioned on local radio and television when the car parks are full and people are queuing to get in. It also tends to get crowded at weekends and ... more
  • 31 of 31 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    JADELOUISESILVA

    5 Stars Merry Hill Madness 01/07/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages get all the shopping you need in one trip

    Disadvantages Disadvantages takes all day to get through the crowds

    Merry Hill is a retail facility which was built between 1984-1989 with extensions still been built today. It occupies a 125 acre site with two levels of covered mall shops, a retail warehouse park, a 10-screen multiplex cinema and 10,000 car parking spaces. The lettable floor areas of the various elements of Merry Hill are: Covered shopping - 1,055,000 sq. ft Retail warehouse - 320,000 sq. ft Multiplex cinema - 40,000 sq. ft Other retail - 100,000 sq. ft Total 1,515,000 sq. ft The covered malls provide over 185 shops and kiosks, a department store, several large variety stores, 2 supermarkets ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Anna145

    5 Stars Merry Hill is heaven for shoppers 09/09/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages lots of shops, good security,parking,food

    Disadvantages Disadvantages the centre is full with people at Christmas and it is hard to get a parking space.

    Merry Hill shopping centre (Brierly Hill in West Midlands) is a must for everybody that likes shopping! It has all the shops you could possibly desire under one roof, ranging from department stores ( Marks and Spencers , Debenhams,BHS) to supermarkets, clothes shops,health stores you name it it will have it! Shops are clearly signposted and there are maps located around the centre. There are many security guards around, so no need to worry about pick pocketing. For parents Merry Hill has a creche called Snappers, It looks really enticing from the outside with ball pits, slides and climbing ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    dave27

    4 Stars Good shopping bad Saturdays 13/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Most of the shops you want

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Naff parking system

    We've moved away from our Midlands roots now, but when I was in Stafford, me and my wife spent many a lengthy Saturday afternoon at Merry Hill Shopping Centre. It's one of your typical out of town shopping malls - you know the sort of thing, all the standard department stores, all indoors, well laid out, difficult to find the places you want, hell to get parked. Given that that's the general description of most of this type of thing and they're all much of a muchness, I actually used to quite like going to Merry Hill on a Saturday. It wasn't quite as good after we'd had kids and they tended to ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    jo1l

    3 Stars Miserable hill 02/08/2000
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages all under one roof

    Disadvantages Disadvantages poor public transport links ,poor range of shops ,disappointing

    Merry Hill is not actually in Birmingham its near Cradley heath and Dudley If you havent got a car forget it the public transport links are simply awful!Its not worth the hassle of getting up there because when you do its a very medicore shopping centre. Its really just full of shops that decamped up there from Dudley town centre. It's full of your usual high St stores and not alot else really! As shopping centres go this one is not in the same league as say Meadow Hall or the newer Trafford centre. I would not recommend you travelling a great distance to it as you'll be very disappointed ... more
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