IKEA

I am a massive IKEA fan! Each one is the same… but different. Most have their basic products, but sometimes their minor product range is different depending on the location and country.
I know this for a fact, as I’ve been to IKEAs in nearly every western European country and USA! «Why?» you might ask?! Because it’s so much fun! And I can Always rely on a scrumptious and affordable meal in their cafes!
This location is basically the same as all the others, but in my opinion it is much larger! One of the biggest buildings in central Coventry! It has 3 floors of parking and 6 or more floors in the building total!
Your main starting point is on the floor with ‘showrooms’. You can find this floor via the 4 massive elevators from the parking garage. Once you manage to make your way through that, the next level down is smaller individual items for sale, like kitchenware, bedding, storage etc. Then the final level down is the massive warehouse of huge items in boxes to buy. I hope you wrote your item # down somewhere or took a pic on your phone, because there’s never many people on this floor to help you!
Before the check out, be sure to stop by the discounted area. These are the items that someone returned, partially broken, or old showroom furniture. The checkout queues are usually a bit of a wait, but this location has a self service area if you only have a few things.
I suggest eating at the café before you shop. At this location it is located on the top floor, near the toilets, and conveniently before you begin with the showrooms. Sometimes I get carried away that after shopping I have so much stuff my trolley won”t fit in the café seating area. If that happens, put everything in your car and head back up. (Hassle) The café offers a wide selection of full meals at very reasonable prices. And desserts, drinks of all sorts, etc. There is also an area for nursing and a small kids play area.
Coventrys IKEA won’t let you go home hungry! They’ve even got a second smaller café down stairs on the groundfloor, and another quick one after the tills! Also after the tills is a small geocery store with packaged goods to take home and make for dinner. And don’t feel bad about dragging you little ones through the place for a couple hours… because there is actually a daycare center here to let them get off all their steam!
Tips and Tricks:
Join the IKEA Family card program to get a free type of insurance on faulty products. This card also gets you free coffee or tea any time of day… and discounts of select main courses. It also allows for you to know about upcoming events. Last but not least, scan your club card receipt after every shop for a special spurise!
Use the loo before you shop, because once you’re in the IKEA «maizes», it takes quite some time to actually get out!
Allow yourself enough time to lose yourself in the creative mindset of what your potential home or office space could become! This is a creative space!
Coventrys location allows you to validate your parking ticket after shopping. Also if you enter your car around the secret back side entrance, you can save some time and park on the ground floor. This is also useful for walking around the city center so not to navigate stairs or elevators.
Enjoy & good luck!

I’m lucky enough to live slap bang inbetween two Ikea’s! Aren’t I lucky I hear you cry?
If I lived in Coventry I’d probably be in this one an awful lot more than I am.
It’s like 6 floors high which means the restaurant shows great views across the city. But I was in a rush on this day. A Saturday.
Saturday afternoons bring out the kids with nothing better to do. And parents who who don’t know how to push a trolley or walk faster. My friend seemed shocked by these things but I’ve no idea why we were there on a Saturday.
Store greeters and friendly staff make up for the busy store and you feel like there’s someone to help you should you wish it.
Even the checkout experience was swift yet it was pretty busy.

Everything you need for the home is here under one roof.
Beware once you enter you are unlikely to reappear for a couple of hours later or more. The layout is set out that if you only need one or two items, and want to make a beeline for the checkout you have to go through the whole of the store — clever tatics!
Ths staff here are friendly and are on hand to re-​direct you to the correct place, or can help with a specific question.
There is ample parking (they have their own multistorey) just make sure you get your car parking ticket validated at the till so that the car parking is free :)

great store, really big, best thing is the good location

The best place in coventry honestly, if you have not been to this ikea you really should take some time out and plan a visit the staff are amazingly friendly they helped me out so much and made sure all the questions i asked were answered so thankyou. The food area is very good and the price is low so its a all round good experience for me and i will be visiting this store again most deffinatley

An unusual IKEA to say the least. You park in it, and then go up in the lift — a little like you would a town house
Note you do have to pay for parking unless you get a TILL RECEIPT proving you have spent £10 or more.
The store is excellent. Large eating area at the usual value prices you get in IKEA, and an excellnt childrens area are the picks. Be warned the kids play area gets packed and you can have to wait on saturdays or school holidays — so might be best to phone ahead if your kids want to play
Great products in ikea, although I think the prices have eeked up a bit over the years. I still recommend for the colour and creative thinking which is used so often within the store. Great location with the sky dome and the city near by.
IKEA is a place to go as well as a place to shop

A high rise Ikea? So different from the usual two storey branches!
This place is huge. We waited forever for the lifts, I think they could have done with double the amount. In the end we walked up the stairs to the top floor, no wonder we were shattered by the time we had worked out way though the rest of the shop — good job we ate at the café before we began.
It’s a nice change to have a city centre shop, and it is certainly popular

Ikea is an experience and a whole day out. You could seriously get lost! This ikea is situated in the city centre which is so benificial and adds to the appeal. Although it may mean you have to apply for delivery which is no big deal as they are so efficient.
The variety is vast and the ideas ingenious. The best thing is that the prices are fabulous which means that you do tend to pick up bargins as you wander around which do then mount up.

I usually shop at Ikea Wendsbury so I was delighted that the Coventry on opened, as its much more local to where I live. Well I visited it this year and I can honestly say it was the worst ever shopping experience of my life. The staff ignored us (especially in the Café) the layout is appalling and there seems no end to it. I stayed fairly cheerful as I was wandering around the shop, but started to wonder how close the exit was (there is no signs or indication of anything there): — So approached a lady security guard in a cheery manner and asked her if she could let us know where the exit was
She then said I am not talking to you sir as your being aggressive but will take to the lady with you. I was ‘shocked silent’, horrified, hurt and painfully offended.
I will never, ever step foot into this shop ever again and cannot ever remember another shopping experience make me feel so wretched and feeling like crying.
Take my advice if you live anywhere near Ikea Coventry Visit the Shop in Wensbury instead.

This is a great ikea, it is huge and not cramped up like so many other Ikeas. There is a large car park where you can park free if you spend over £10. The café is realy big and as always serves great meatballs! Never seems to be massive q’s at the checkout and never had any problems getting the item I want. Very handy to get to also being just off the ring road.

Heres a warning to anyone who last visited Coventry a few years ago-​things change. I am from Coventry but live elsewhere now and visit a few times a year to see family. I left it one day and came back a few moinths later to see a. a spacelike pod had landed opposite the market and b. the whole traffic system had changed to accomodate it. Working out how to get into the city centre without going down bus routes, avoiding pedestrian only areas is a nightmare anyway even if you do happen to work out how to get off the ring road. the ringroad exiting and entering is a neat trick. It was built by people who think we all have two heads so we can look left and right at the same time. Actually it was built by my dad and his Irish buddies who Im sure did it for a laugh, another trick to play on English people, not from any malice you understand, they did it just because they could.
If you are still alive and have geographical skills learnt in the SAS then you’ll arrive at the car park without getting any traffic tickets. Its big its Ikea its central whats not to like. Get in there and have some Swedish Meatballs to get you over the shock of the ringroad.

A city centre Ikea is a great idea! I definitely visit more often now, as I just pop in if I’m in town. The café at the entrance is a great idea, although prices are a lot lower in the actual restaurant. The only down side is, if you just want to pop in and pick something up quickly, it’s more or less impossible. They make it so hard for you to get outta this place! You have to get an escalator down all the floors, it seems to go on forever!

The new Ikea store has brought the Swedish name to the midlands, apartfrom the store in wednesbury which would take 45 mins to get to. So this is much more convenient fro everyone in and around coventry.
The store has 6 floors, yes six. And the level you start on is… six. So you pile into the industrialsized lifts and up you go.
Its layout is the same as any ikea store with the café and goods on mainly onelevel.
you go down one floor and you go through more items spread out. The floors are huge with so many products available.
Then to get to the self service area you need to go down three travelators.
Then from here you can go the checkouts and to the lifts again. You are on floor three and need to go to you car parklevel so down to 1,2 or ground.
This store is really good. Lots of choice like any other ikea store, so no real differences except its in coventry

Ikea is great! The best part is the food, yummy and cheap! Oh and the furniture and cushions and candles!
The only problem with this store is having to pay for the carpark if you don’t spend £10. And the lifts are a little annoying but worth the effort.

We all know how great Ikea is, how lovely the products are and the prices are reasonable and I think that other reviewers take that into account instead of reviewing just this Ikea.
I know it sounds picky but I don’t like this Ikea. After spending years travelling to our old ‘locals’ Birmingham or Nottingham, I was pleased to finally have one on our doorstep. However, I can’t get on with it at all.
I appreciate how they have fitted it in to a city and not popped it on the city outskirts as they originally planned but in being ‘the tallest Ikea in the world’ or something is it’s problem if you ask me.
When we have to go we want to put the kids in the crèche — which is fantastic by the way — we have to park in level 2 or 3, wait an incredible time by the lifts before thinking sod it and going down the stairs to the bottom so we can register the kids at the crèche for about half hour later. Then we do the lift/​stairs annoyance again to go right up top level (6) to start browsing. When it’s time to get the kids to the crèche, you have to take escalators to level 5 then find the long escalators down to the bottom — there are short cuts to miss out the long windy guided walks round the shop but you have to be clever and find them as they are unmarked. Kids safely creched, grab a coffee for something to do while you play the lift/​stairs game then go and find your partner.
Then it’s the same 45 minutes later when you have to pick them up.
Maybe I’m being a little bit unfair because it’s fairly well put out and the café is fine and the views are great form the higher windows albeit it’s a view of Coventry.
BUT it’s the annoying lifts and the fact that you have to pay in the car park that puts me off.
I’ll be going back to Nottingham next time I want a flat pack wardrobe.

A massive selection of different styles to choose from at various price ranges — where else can you find all this in one place?
Friendly staff :)
This is the first ever city centre IKEA store and in my experience isn’t as busy as the out of town stores. No school holiday nightmares or mammoth sale carpark queues so far.
If you do experience a significant problem it is worth complaining as I find that they usually compensate you.
Cons In my experience a trip to IKEA is never without difficulty of somekind. Missing screws, out of date instructions, wasted journey because ‘in stock’ items are actually ‘out of stock’, the list goes on. The incident most prominent in my mind is the one when they delivered half of someone else’s sofa along with ours and left it in our hallway for 5 weeks. Eventually we had to put it out in the street and phone them to say we would wait 15 mins for them to get it, else we would go out and leave it on offer to passing strangers.
I usually wait a good 6 months following such incidents before eventually caving in and going back there for something. At least we no longer have to drive all the way to Wednesbury in order to rectify the mistakes.

Ikea is Ikea but this one has a great City centre location. It does get really busy at the weekends but in the week it is a good place to go as it’s not quite so busy.
The resturant is quite good for a cheap and easy simple meal don’t expect too much! The meatballs are very traditional for Ikea as they are sweedish meatballs. They come with new potatoes and a berry sauce and gravy which is really nice.
And the food court at the back is great, Cans of koppaberg and fab biscuits! They have a selection of sweedish food stuff which is good fun to look at. They also sell hotdogs and icecreams too.

What can i say about ikea apart from its great.
Maybe not as good as people were expecting but nevertheless, THE place to go for furniture as well as many other things.
Store its self is like no other IKEA. First to be built in a town center with other stores like nottingham being built on the outskirts of the town near major roads/​motorways.
Inside it offers great products at great prices. Yes, they may not be the best quality but ⁹⁄₁₀ its stylish and will last. My Number 1 place for furniture as well as cups of tea (Only because its free with an ikea family card).

Ikea needs no introduction but this one, located in the city centre, differs from the nearest one near Birmingham: it is not very busy! The shop is the same size, allowing for different layout of course, and you will feel inclined, compelled, (or is it you will have no option but) to follow the winding alleys through the whole three levels. Be organised and check through the catalogue what you want before you go. I don’t recommend browsing their website, I have always found it clumsy and difficult to get a good overview.
What I love there: the soft blankets, the cheap kitchen stuff, candles and vases, and rollmops from the food shop!

I always liked shopping at Ikea because its a whole new experience for those who haven’t been. Luckily this Ikea is located very close to me so I can either go get a quick lunch/​dinner or buy a few things for the house. The designs are innovative and stylish, yet it is compromised by durability issues. Highly recommended and allow up to 3 hours shopping time as the place is massive.