Charlestown Shopping Centre

This shopping center deserves more stars. It’s underrated IMHO.
Let me explain why. Firstly, it has everything you need from a shopping center to do your shopping. Dunne’s Store is great and big. Then you can finalize with butcher shop, € 1 place, pharmacy, sports shop, carphone warehouse etc. that’s shopping for you.
Want to hang out or have a lunch? There’s a place that robs your pockets. That’s right — Eddie Rockets. There’s some lunch cafeteria. Ice cream shop.
Feel sick? Go to medical and dental centre. Or visit Boots pharmacy.
Need a haircut? Barbershop and hairdresser is there for you.
On a parking level you can get your shoes fixed, keys cut, get some flowers etc.
One thing that this place lacks is entertainment. Actually, there’s a kids train that drives around with wagons. At least kids can be entertained.
Spacious underground car park. With, I think, two hours free time.

Great local shopping centre for us, decent sized Dunnes, reasonably priced butchers, a good Lifestyle Sports, a Heatons which is rare to come across anymore and a good sized Boots among a few others. Definitely not a substitute for say Blanchardstown or going to the city centre but ideal for the weekly shop & any other minor running around you might have. They also have an O’Briens, a Bagel Factory and an Eddie Rockets that delivers! If they threw in a Penney’s or a H&M I think it would be perfect for what it is!

Charlestown is a bit of a random shopping center. From the outside it looks impressive and big, but on the inside it’s empty, cold and lacking in any kind of substance.
I visited recently to make some last minute Christmas purchases and really found myself stuck for options. Dunnes is your usual affair, if a bit small. I would generally shop at GameStop, but that aside there is literally nothing in this place.
I would save yourself the journey and head out to Blanchardstown or the Omni Center for a better selection of stores.

A nice shopping centre, especially considering all the free parking on offer (well for 2 hours — after that 1.50 per hour). This centre main shop is Dunnes Stores which is a big flag ship but other than Dunnes, there wouldn’t be much else to visit this shopping centre for. Although there is supposed to be cinemas to be built in the future this would bring so much more to this place.