MattW

Got a Virgin Experience voucher for £250 but there is nothing much i fancy so thought I might as well do the personal shopper stuff and get £200 of clothes (for 225). Nearest to me is:

Reading
Cardiff
Birmingham
London

Reading is crap, I don't fancy fighting the hordes in london, so anyone know what HoF is like in Cardiff and/or Brum?

sti-04!!

They all had a sale on Saturday just past. Upto 25% off although most of it was 20%, i still saved a fair bit.

MattW

Good point, need to ensure I hit a sales day!

jimmyv

The Birmingham branch is alright, certainly a fair size with good mens dept (excellent tv and home entertainment dept, could spend hours in there). Only downside is its in Brum

boomer

Brum (ex-Rackhams) spend a fortune tarting up the place when Selfridges opened in the Bullring. The basement went "no straight lines" (again, probably mimicking Selfies) and is probably the best floor (kitchen, food, wines and spirits).

The "mens floor" has never really appealed to me, but i am not a designer junkie. If your "experience" lets you, go sub-ground

mb

little-ginge

They have recently opened a House of Fraser in the Eden Shopping Complex in High Wycombe..

apparently the center itself is shoite, but House of Fraser are normally quite good

Iwan

Cardiff one is nice, as is Cardiff city centre these days since they cleaned it up and redeveloped it.

Youknowsit clart.

Edit: Oh also there's a place in Cirencester (Rackhams) which is part of the HoF group if you just want somewhere to spend your voucher - might be worth seeing if you can spend it there.

MattW

reet clart!

If it was just a voucher i would moochy into town, this has to be at the specified locations.

Iwan

Ah gotcha, must learn to read post properly......

No idea about the Brum one, but Cardiff is deffo very nice.