Ocean Terminal (Edinburgh)

...The mall in question was, OCEAN TERMINAL in Leith. Edinburgh has almost always been a prosperous city, but with the opening of the Scottish Parliament, it has become something of a boom-town with several areas undergoing major development. Leith is just one of those. The old port of Leith has seen a remarkable transformation in recent years from a crime-ridden, drug-infested, slum of urban decay and industrial degradation into one of the most cosmopolitan, ...
...OCEAN TERMINAL is a fairly new (2001) shopping and entertainment complex in the heart of the rejuvenated western dockland area of Leith. Developed at a cost £120 million, it comprises department stores and other retail outlets, bars, restaurants and cafés, a 12-screen cinema and a cruise-ship terminal. The whole shebang is centred around the Britannia Visitor Centre, where you can access the former Royal Yacht, which is permanently berthed here. ...

proxam 10.12.2003 (17.12.2003) · Read full review
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...altogether better shopping malls is Ocean Terminal, which sits in the port of Leith, a massive regeneration area for Edinburgh which is not dissimilar to Londons docklands. Leith is now an up-and-coming area that attracts developers, so it's an attractive place for a shopping development. Ocean Terminal sits alongside the famous Royal Yacht Britannia, and so has frequent bus links from the city centre, making it attractive to tourists as well as ...
...hard to come by. Ocean Terminal has been criticised for it's lack of shopping, and it was certainly a quiet place with little atmosphere when it first opened in 2001. It's taken time to fill all the retail units but it's now a far more lively shopping centre with a good selection of shops to choose from. I find clothes shops are always more abundant than anything else in shopping centres, and here you will find French Connection, Dorothy Perkins, ...

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..."Edinburgh waterfront welcomes you to Ocean Terminal. Being curious we packed the children in to the car and headed down to ocean terminal for the first time. Sit back and enjoy my review ===What is Ocean Terminal=== Ocean Terminal is a large (half million sqft) shopping centre set on the lovely up and coming waterfront near to Leith in Edinburgh. Set over three floors, ocean terminal offers a wide variety of shops, restaurants, and bars not to ...
...roof at Ocean Terminal. ===How to get there=== Thanks to LRT (local bus company) Ocean terminal is served very well with buses, you will see buses leaving Ocean terminal every 5 mins at peak times. Buses will take to you princess street and other surrounding areas to allow to you either get a train or connect with another bus. Car - If within Edinburgh you can expect to get to Ocean terminal with 30mins from most areas, Easy to follow signs from ...

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...to a shopping mall called Ocean Terminal which I must say looked stunning from the outside, especially as it was all decorated ready for Christmas. We went by car and parked in the large multi storey car park next to the mall and the parking here was free, which was a nice surprise. It is also possible to get to the Ocean Terminal by bus from Edinburgh City Centre using Lothian Bus number 1, 11, 22, 34 or 35. Ocean Terminal forms part of the redevelopment ...
...screen Vue Cinema. The Ocean Terminal also has a website at www.oceanterminal.com/home which gives all the details of what is there and also details of what's on at the centre. They have various events such as Farmer's Markets, Mall Walking (a fitness event based on walking round the mall) and special store events. We began by working our way up the escalators to the third (top) floor in order to take our tour of the Royal Yacht Britannia. The ...

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...means I can compare the Ocean terminal to them. To give you a unique Perspective. Little bit of Background, The Ocean Terminal is located, as the name would suggest, near the sea. It's ten minutes drive from the World Famous Princes Street in North Edinburgh. Follow the signposts from the Motorways or Edinburgh by-pass to HMS Britannia. It's about 10 minutes from Edinburgh Waverley Station and 30 mins drive from Edinburgh Airport. Possibly the ...
...light relief (shopping) in the Ocean Terminal. We'd briefly walked through to get to the ship, and once we came out, we decided to look around. Now in Manchester we have a similar Quayside development called The Lowry Centre, which is supposed to be a "Designer Outlet". I go to the Lowry Quite regularly, and it is boring, it has an M&S outlet, about the most well known shop in there. It's about as fun to visit as the Dentist. Compared to the Lowry, ...

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Ocean terminal has been open for years; part of the problem seemed to be they opened up to early when there were only the main shops set up. This totalled 5-6. The rest of the units hadn't been sold. Due to this it scared people off as they thought there was nothing there. Now after some time it has now got all units sold and all shops are open, unfortunately there is very little selection for males. As there are other Shopping centres in the Edinburgh ...
...no reason to visit ocean terminal. The only redeeming factor it does have it that it usually is very quiet which suits me fine if I need to shop. Also the cinema is deserted most nights, so if you want to snuggle up in the back row this is the cinema of choice. If also you are like me very tall 6'5" the seats they have cater for this, I think it's the first time I haven't had to sit with my knees under my chin. There are a few resteraunts within ...

John_severn 09.03.2006 · Read full review
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The main reason I go to Ocean Terminal is for the the cinema its the best place in Edinburgh to go since its free parking!!! The cinemas a good size and nice and clean. Its great cos you can actually get your tickets while getting your refreshments so saves queueing twice. They have a nice bar thats on the bottonm floor which is reasonably priced for town and gives you a great view of the docks. They have loads of shops which I can't really comment on as not been in ages during the day. ...

jojostevie 26.11.2008
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