Blanchardstown Shopping Center

I find myself in Blanchardstown shopping center at least once a week! Mostly for the cinema because it’s my favourite one to go to (buttered popcorn, hot cheese with the nachos). Have a serious addiction to them nachos. But anyways it has a huge Penneys which I also prefer rather than the one in town or Dundrum. It’s more spacious and kept tidy, whereas town is jammers and your left with nothing. The shopping center has two floors and has all the shops you need and want. Topshop, ZARA, debenhams, SCHUH, JD sports, BT2, marks and Spencer’s, body shop etc. I love how they have a build a bear and mothercare downstairs too :). They have the inglot and sugar dolls nail salon. Then you have a huge selection of food and drinks. Love the Aunties pretzel bakery downstairs nice little addition not too far from Starbucks. Kay’s kitchen is also downstairs which I love for lunch time. If you want something else for dinner go outside the front doors and there’s a Nandos, Eddie rockets, and milanos. Over on the other side of the shopping center you have the outlet sections with GAP, Nike, Smyths etc. And you can get more grub at Wagamama, captain Americas or TGI Fridays. All the parking around the buildings are free and there’s hundreds of spaces. Also facing the shopping center is the huge leisure plex for the kids if you wanna go bowling or Qzar. So blanch has everything! Beats most places for me.

It’s hard to imagine what we did before the Blanchardstown centre opened. As I live within ten minutes of Blanch I remember the excitement of it opening and makes me feel very old that it was 20 years ago.
The centre has come along way over that time especially over the last two years with the opening of new restaurants like Nandos, Milano and Wagamama. It also has an amazing Penny’s and the biggest TK Maxx in Ireland. Aside from the shopping and eating It’s also my go to place for the cinema.
There are 3 retail parks in addition to the main centre & I have heard there are plans for another big extension but it doesn’t look like any work has started on that for now.
What I love most about the centre is how it’s ever changing. With every visit there seems to be a new shop or restaurant open — in the last few months Tiger and Toys’R’Us have popped up so you never get bored of shopping here.

I’m not really a shopping centre person but when it’s 8 o’clock on a Thursday night and I need hair dye, a new outfit for the weekend, dog food and the weekly food shop there’s really only one place to go. And in fairness where else can you do hours of shopping see a movie and have dinner without paying a cent for parking ??
The food side of the centre has improved massively in the last year — it used to just be fast food but now they have Wagamana, Captain Americas, Milano, Nandos amongst others.

One of seven wonders of Dublin :)
You may come here and spend the whole day doing various things. Mostly shopping. It’s so big, that you might get lost a little bit.
I’d say this is the best place for big time shopping.

My first and favourite shopping centre. Between the retail parks and main centre there is nearly any shop you could ever need and tonnes of free parking!

Parking aside which is really only an issue at weekends and for the month of December… This shopping center has pretty much all you need from electronics, food, cinema, clothes etc. Yes its no Dundrum with the fluffy hairdos and the paid parking which appears to be a magnet for some.

I like Blanchardstown Shopping Centre a lot. It may not have all the glamour of some newer shopping centres in Dublin but it has everything you could possibly need and if there is anything missing from the centre then the chances are there’s a store out in one of the retail parks surrounding the centre.
I love that the new part of the centre was built on the end with relatively no fuss at all giving us lots of new shops without holding us back while we waited for it to be built. I love that they have so many food and drinks options as well as a cinema, leisureplex AND theatre just in case they weren’t enough!
I love that even in the middle of Christmas Week there’s always ample parking! I just love Blanchardstown. Definitely my favourite shopping centre in Dublin.

Blanchardstown has a great variety of shops available. It is defiantly one of the best shopping centers in Dublin. It has a large screen cinema, Bowling and leisure plex for entertainment. It has 3 retail parks also with a great variety of shops. With free car parking!
The only grievance I have is the lack of healthy food options. The majority of food places are fast food of quite expensive. I think it defiantly needs more variety for restaurants that provide all day breakfasts and healthy food options that don’t break the bank.

Look, I’m not the biggest proponent of shopping centres. They’re too packed, too bright, too hot, too packed, not enough independent shops, and eh, they’re too packed.
So Blanch is no different. It’s always rammed. It has the usual mix of high street shops and cheap eats. It does have an added benefit (depending on your perspective!) of being surrounded by outlets and bigger retail parks as well, so you can do your clothes shopping in the centre, then get your house-​y stuff in the bigger ones on the outskirts.
If you’re into getting all your shopping done at once, and don’t mind shopping centres, to be honest, it’s not half bad. It does seem to have a greater selection of more ‘value’ shops than Liffey Valley and Dundrum if you’re on more of a budget, which is good.
Pro Tip: I have found on two occasions that all the carparks were full except the multi-​story one on the Debenhams /​M&S side, so if you’re having problems finding somewhere to park, give that area a goo.

It’s a brilliant shopping center! Honestly, I cannot think of anything this place needs. It has great stores, great places to eat and a whole lot of parking!
I never go to town to do my shopping since learning to drive. I will generally only come here, often to just spend some time wandering around the furniture stores.

One of the better malls if you ask me. Very nice lay-​out, good assortment if shops, and places to eat, drink or relax after a shopping spree…

Blanchardstown Shopping Center is a great alternative to heading into the city centre to do your shopping. What I love about it is that you have a majority of the stores that you have in the city centre but in one place. It’s great for cold and rainy weather when you don’t want to treck around outside. Although they don’t have Brown Thomas, Monsoon and a few other store favorites, they do have BT2, Mark and Spensers, Frech Connection, Debenhams and a wide variety of stores for men and women.
You can do your food shopping at Dunnes or Lidl, homeware shopping at Home Store and More or TK Maxx or if you’re looking for some gear to get fit for the upcoming summer months, you can stop at the Nike store or Halfords and if you’re looking to get your nerd on, stop at Harvey Normans or Compu B.
If you make the treck to Blanch, don’t forget to treat yourself to a little something from Manning Bakery on the first floor near Dunnes. Only the best sweets and pastries in all of Dublin!