Braehead Shopping Centre

Braehead is ok. I admit its not ny 1^st choice of shopping centre i generally prefer the fort as its closer.
The benefits to Braehead for me is the parking and the fact Benefit have a brow bar here in Boots so hello advantage points!
The food court has got a lot better over the years and there is now a Krispy Kreme which is always a bonus.
Overally its decent shopping centre but nothing that would drag me over here specially.

I don’t go to Braehead often since they moved WWE to the Hydro and I’m no longer queuing outside A1 Comics to meet some wrestlers. Yep, I have done that many times! Parking is good abd there’s decent bus links from the City Centre.
But I actually don’t mind Braehead. It has the best Primark I’ve found, a Lush, Waterstones, New Look, M&S, Superdrug amongst many, many others. And there are plenty of good places to eat to cater for everyone. When all that’s done, there’s a Krispy Kreme nearby!
You could definitely have a pretty decent shopping day here and grab lunch, i should really visit more often.

Compared to Silverburn and the Fort, Braehead (or Intu Braehead) is rather dated. It might have the advantage with a big Primark and one of the biggest Ikeas in the country. Upstairs, there is a large Next store with a Costa coffee on the top floor. At the other end of the centre, there is a branch of M&S but it isn’t really as satisfying as the ones at Silverburn and the Fort. There is a foodcourt but it is just the standard McDonald’s, Subway, KFC, Nando’s. BORING! Also the shops aren’t like the big flagship ones at Silverburn, they are smaller branches. There are signs for IKEA in the centre but it is in the retail park and quite a long walk from the main centre. There are several car parks with footpath systems for pedestrians and free parking. (Unusual for Intu centres.) If it is to compete with the likes of Silverburn, it needs a bit of a makeover.

Of the local malls, it’s my favourite. More shops than the others, bigger variety and a decent food court. Then there’s the arena that’s used for various events, including the comic convention once a year.
Parking is usually easy enough if you know where to go, even on a busy Saturday but pretty much avoid it in December. It’s not worth the stress.

Absolutely everything under one roof! Great place for shopping and ideal for wheelchairs and prams as easy access. Free parking too!

Braehead is probably my favourite place to shop when I can’t be bothered to find parking in the city centre. It has everything you need in one place and all your high street shops — minus a Zara, which they really need to open! It is all indoor which is excellent for all the gloomy and wet weather we get in Glasgow.
There is also a large food court with a good selection of restaurants like Handmade Burger Co, Pizza Hut, Filling Station, Prezzo and Nandos. There’s also your usual fast food places as well.

Not the nicest shopping experience. I go there as it’s convenient but prefer Silverburn (I’ll only pick braehead if I want to visit primark) or the city centre.
Decent size though always crowded. Lots of empty shops which is always sad to see.
Big food court which should cater to all tastes. Also nearby are Ikea, sainsburys, Next Home and, of course, xscape.
Go here if it’s raining :). They sometimes do shows or have reality tv stars visit, it gets mega busy so maybe avoid at these times ;)

Well Braehead i have to say i do enjoy a good trip to Braehead though it isnt the same when i enter and exit the building with HMV not being their :(, the layout is quite simple and easy to get about the shops a floor above and a floor below and several entrances from all sides of the centre. I prefer here to silverburn as it feels more like a shopping centre than a overated posh pit… it has more choice of clothing shops and places to eat and it also has xscape nearby. Going here on the weekend is a nightmare its always busy and people barging in everywhere i would rather go first thing in the morning.
Overall it is quite modern and has a clean look
has a good choice of shops and places to eat it also has plenty entertainment with ice skating or watching the ice hokey.

I do love a bit of Braehead as long as Primark is actively avoided late night or at the weekend!!!
There a good selection of shops and theres always a bargain to be had. The transport links are pretty good and it’s only 5 minute walk to Xcape which includes bowling, a cinema, indoor snowboard and a range of things to do and restaurants to eat at.

Reasonable sized food court, good selections of shops to choose from.
But downside to it is with it being one of the major shopping centres, others being Silverburn & East Kilbride the shopping centre is a place to avoid during weekends & even more so in the run up to Xmas.
Though there are ample car parking spaces & good bus links, it just seems to me that at times your kinda just in some over glorifyied cattle market being hearded in & out as fast as possible.

I’m not Braehead Shopping Centre’s biggest fan if I’m being honest. I feel like the only decent thing this place has going for them is the food court.
You can find anything here in abundance, don’t get me wrong you will find what you’re looking for, but I just feel like everyone is always rushing and desperate to get somewhere and pushing and flinging themselves willy nilly into oncoming pedestrian traffic.
The apple store in here is reasonably sized but it’s nowhere near as good as it’s city centre counterpart, and the staff are nowhere near as friendly or helpful. The food court is absolutely enormous though, with every fast food outlet you can think of, and a couple of lovely looking restaurants on the ground floor.
Come here if you’re in a hurry, you’ll fit right in. But for a wee day out that involves casual strolling, I’d head to Silverburn.

Where ever you go nowadays weather be john lewis or silverburn or East Kilbride they are all the same inside that offer the same goods and services. There is nothing here that you cannot get at john lewis in the city centre.

Braehead is a great shopping experience, but not so easy to go by bus, bus stops change so often, leaving one confussed where to go. Car or taxi is a must. I love Lust, body shop, BHS, M&s, and a few clothes shops also. There is a shop for everyone there and it has late night shopping in the lead up to xmas, midnight i believe.
There is a food court both upstairs and downstairs, to which you will find loads of tasty bites to eat there, my favourite being pitza hut.
It tends to be very busy, but most shopping centres are all the same this time of year.

Like most retail parks, Braehead is an absolute nightmare to get to without a car unless you fancy getting various different buses until you eventually end up here.
I like Braehead, it hosts some of my favourite shops such as Topshop, River Island and New Look all under one roof. I also like the fact that they have a Lipsy store where you can get a gorgeous selection of dresses for the Christmas party season or other special occasion. It’s also great for presents as you can get goodies from Boots, Lush and there are various different jewellers too.
I was very sad to see Whittard of Chelsea close down but I guess not enough people were after tea bags on their shopping spree.

It seems now that the more luxurious Silverburn has snatched Braehead’s crown as the best option for an out of town shopping trip in Glasgow, but as far as these giant, soulless retail expanses go, Braehead still delivers all you need.
If you think up a name of any High Street store. it’s probably here. There are few surprises, but it’s clean, shiny, warm and with the usual food halls and snack outlets to ease the boredom of wandering round the shops.
It’s not a tourist attraction, but it does exactly as it’s supposed to, and very well, so picks up four hard-​earned stars from me.

Breahead is a huge shopping centre just outside of Paisley. There are a host of shops from a huge M&S to all your usual topshop, hmv and boots. A real host of choice and quality.
One thing you can be garanteed about Breahead, it will be abolutely choc-​a-​bloc at Christmas! However it is open till midnight int he run up to the holidays which is a seriously good time to get some proper Christmas shopping done as it is never as busy late at night as you think it will be.
Been going to Breahead for years and I do like it a lot. It has however lost some of its better shops. The Warner Brothers one at the front with batman coming out of the window was always a favourite of mine when I was younger but that has left only to be taken over by another clothes shop. And, unfortunately, Paisley town centre has suffered the negative consequences of such a large shopping centre opening on its door step and is now rather redundant.
Breahead is good blitzing your Christmas shopping of someone nice to go in the car if you’re going to treat yourself to spending some hard earned cash! They usually have some kind of entertainment in the centre of the mall for the kids so they won’t get bored either! And an ice rink at the other end! Gosh, the more I think about it the more I want to go back! What a great wee place!

This is a really accessible retail park with lots to offer. Unlike some that are situated in areas you can only get to by car (or with difficulty), as Eleanor says these shops are only across the road from Braehead, and consequently the bus stop! And with the massive car park it’s unlikely you’ll struggle to squeeze into a space.
As the girls have said, there’s a few great DIY stores here, including B&Q and for classy home interiors, Next. It’s the usual retail park experience but the Next here has some gorgeous wallpaper and furnishings! Bizarrely, I also found my favourite lamp in the whole world from this very Next and have continued to use the lampshade despite the fact the years have made it look battered… slightly worrying that I won’t throw it away! Perhaps another venture to the Next in this retail outlet is in order, it never fails to make a happy customer out of me!

Attached to the Braehead Shopping Centre is the Braehead Retail Park. To be honest, most visitors to Braehead probably do the sensible thing and stay in the shopping centre, forgetting all about the Retail Park. I say the sensible thing, because the shopping centre is warm and dry and has all the best shops — whilst the retail park is generally cold, windy and wet and contains the shops that didn’t fit into the centre.
Of course, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Braehead Retail Park boasts a whole host of home décor stores, including a deliciously big Next Home store and a German kitchen specialist by the name of Kütchenhaus.
It also has useful shops such as Curry’s, Halfords and PC World — in fact the general shops you expect to find in a retail park like this one.

A big mall with lots of high street shops. Same old, same old.
I remember when Braehead opened it was a big deal, and we made the journey across the city (twice the distance to the city centre from where I live) to see it. I remember being disappointed even then. The fact that it has an ice rink is still kind of cool, I suppose. Other than that, it’s not worth the extra distance. If you live out that way, though, it’s probably a good alternative to the city centre crowds and cold.
There are some good superstores, like Next Living and one of the electrical stores (Comet? Currys? One of those!) in the next complex along the road, which is good if you’re looking for that kind of shopping. Ikea is also close by, which is a bonus!
Overall, not that different than your general city centre high street shopping. The food court has a fairly big selection, but nothing special. Great if you live in Renfrew, not so much if you’re travelling farther than you would into town.

Went to Braehead after it had just opened and it became the regular place for weekend shopping.
Recently though it has been doing a couple things that have grown to become very itrritating. The central area will often have large kid-​friendly activities which turns it into a mob scene (right now it is the monstrous christmas grotto). You can avoid this by going upstairs but often you find a multitude of others doing the same thing. So trying to get from M&S to Sainsburys becomes a nightmare.
The carts in the pedestrian walkways make it seem a lot cheaper.
So, it is better than a lot of places around Glasgow like EK and such — Yes.
Is it falling behind the newer complexes like the Fort and Silverburn? Yes.