IKEA Bristol

I can’t warn you strongly enough to stay away from this store. I canceled an order I had made after they failed to deliver two days in a row. It is now over two weeks later and I still haven’t gotten my refund. I called in a couple days ago to see why I hadn’t gotten my money back yet, and was told one of the items from my order had been lost, so I wouldn’t be getting my refund until they found it. That is stealing! I refused delivery, so the items were never out of their control. I can’t believe they would keep such a substantial amount of money for so long, and be so flippant about it. This is the worst customer service I have ever had to deal with.

Ikea the dreaded place to go for that house warming furniture, although to be fair they have a few good things for reasonable prices.
If you buy flat pack furniture make sure you spend the time putting it together, if you move it around problems. I know a few people who have had problems with this hahah.
Parking here is good although it gets busy.
There are people who know what they want when they go in to store and those who don’t, a deadly combination.
Overall not a bad place for those home needs !

I have such a huge love, hate relationship with Ikea. I hate the ridiculous layout & the aisle system to collect BUT I love how cheap things can be and how they have pretty much everything you could ever need all under one roof.
The store itself it’s HUGE and I get lost in their nearly everytime I go. Their different sections with fitted kitchens, bedrooms etc are handy to see items in a particular room & all items are made up for you to see before you buy, which is always good when buying furniture.
My favourite section is the children’s, they have loads of lovely wooden toys which are all very reasonably priced and actually last.
They also have a big selection of mini tables and chairs which are perfect for children.
They have a restaurant downstairs and a small food court selling a selection of Swedish foods.
I don’t really know why I dislike coming here so much, but I really do try to avoid at all cost. It’s so handy though and they have everything you could ever need so I will continue to torture myself with the odd visit.

It’s an IKEA. It works. The restaurant has meatballs (and on that day a pretty nice salmon lasagna), and the shop has the herring and Kalles Kaviar. So it’s a masterpiece of convenience and about as charming as a truck. Now, don’t get me wrong, I like IKEA, it’s just not very exciting! Oh, one weird detail. The only IKEA in the universe that spells «Välkommen» without the pricks in their greeting. Fix it!

This shop is for divorced people only as the products look as though they would only last a fortnight
This shop is situated in the Bermuda Triangle of Bristol, Its in an area where cars go in and don, t appear for hours due to the traffice chaos present in the area.
What can i say about this shop, well basically its not for me a pleasent experience. It appears to be designed for people who have nothing better to do than wander aimlessly around buying objects that look as though they were designed by morons and queing for ages to get out of the store. Then queing again for ages to get out of the car-​park.
NOT IMPRESSED
if you are at a loose end and want to be bored outta your skull on a Sunday afternoon I suggest this is the shop for you. why not bring all your family, Grans, Aunts, Uncles childeren, the kids next door, everybody else does just to add to the human blockages that exists in this store
Enough said. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD comes to mind

This Ikea fed me for about two weeks! A strange claim to make about a Swedish furniture shop, but when I was a student they gave out vouchers at my university’s Fresher’s Fair that offered hot dinners like spaghetti & meatballs every night for something like 99p. Luckily this Ikea was on my way home from University so it seemed rude not to. So have a look out for the coupons as the food here is very edible and great if you’re watching the pennies.
Apparently they do more than food… no, I think everybody who has been a student (or just needed cheap furniture) owes this Ikea. If you are just moving to the city and doing one of those mum assisted shopping trips, check out the pre-​boxed sets of kitchen equipment. Seriously mothers love them, they are hassle free and reasonably priced, and although you’ll probably only use about two of the objects inside the box it gives them peace of mind. Priceless.
This Ikea gets very busy, your best bet is to go first thing in the morning and avoid rush hour at all costs.

I used to come all the way up from Bournemouth to this Ikea. It’s like a two hour trip but until Ikea opened up in Southampton the other option was the hellish journey up to the Ikea in Croydon, on the outskirts of London. Now I live in Bristol, I go quite regularly but I still never fail to get lost. It is a complete warehouse maze. As much as I love all the cheap modern identikit furniture, my favourite bit of this Ikea is without a doubt the little food hall bit at the end. Not only have they been selling the lush Koppaberg pear cider for years (both alcoholic and non alcoholic) but they have Swedish treats such as chocolate and biscuits. The café is pretty good too, serving cheap tasty meals to fuel your shopping spree further. Very occasionally Ikea plays host to flash mob events so keep your eyes peeled.

Ikea is absolutely brilliant in every way, especially for anyone who loves getting things for a good reasonable price! They offer the most amazing range of home-​ware, you could literally kit out your whole house from here for a small price in comparison to many other places. I have run this place dry during my three house moves at university, I went each year to get new stuff to kit out my house and spent next to nothing.
The one thing I would say is that all of the units that Ikea sells are flat packed, and you are expected to put things together by yourself when you take it home with you! Their instructions are also not brilliant, and occasionally they are missing things so you might have to pop back — but they are always happy to sort the problem for you. However, this fact is what helps make their products so cheap, so to be honest you can hardly complain — I bought a bedside table here for £8 and a shelving unit for £10 which hardly breaks the bank! Definitely give Ikea a visit if you haven’t been before, and what ever you might need for the home you can almost guarantee that they will have this available in the store!

I hate Ikea, and i am proud to admit it.
That being said they sell everything you might ever need to put in your house, and you can make it yourself. I am pretty sure that there Autumn range does in fact have houses in it, and you make them yourself.
I wish i was the Swedish guy that came up with the idea of it– genius. And i am jealous.

I love Ikea, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.
One of those stores that never fails to polarise opinion, it is pretty scary how in a matter of — what, a decade? — Ikea has succeeded in all but world domination.
Its recipe for success lies in the fact that it is just so damn cheap, and unlike so many other purveyors of cheap goods (Wilkinsons and Argos, I’m looking at you), it’s also kind of great. The furniture and various household tat doesn’t try to do anything more than cheap furniture and household tat should do — i.e. serve a purpose in a range of exuberant but functional designs.
A staple of the student’s bedroom, beloved by first time homeowners, a must-​do for interior design addicts… Ikea has something for everyone. The only problem is that that something for everyone rapidly turns into a lot of things for one person…

When I bought my own place a few years ago this place was a God send. Half decent looking furniture for half decent looking prices. Exactly what you want when you’ve virtually got nothing to your name.
The only down side to this is the quality of what you’re buying. It looks good, but it certainly isn’t high end craftsmanship. The blinds I bought from them a few years ago are starting to warp, the chest of drawers regularly falls apart and the light bulbs in the lights don’t last longer than a few weeks at time.
The other problem is the layout of the store, they’ve cleverly (or frustratingly depending on how you look at it) configured it so you have to go through virtually every single section before you finally get to the tills somewhere in the basement.

I know I know, its flat packed, its an almighty chain of superstores and cor blimey its so BLUE, but I have a soft spot for the store because they do get a few things right.
Aside from the giant-​sized furniture, this store is a great spot for finding unusual fabrics which are on the roll and a reasonable price. I also use this for buying cups and plates for parties that you wouldn’t mind breaking.
I like to come here late or first thing in the week (wouldn’t bother with weekends, far too busy) and go in with the serene attitude of the Little Book of Calm. I have actually seen someone have a panic attack in here so not for those who have a fear of mazes and the feeling of perhaps never seeing daylight again. I sadly have got to the stage where I know all the shortcuts …
You pay extra for using a credit card in here so bring a debit card or cash. There is a cash machine on the car park basement level to the right of the entrance door which is very handy for the whole of the Eastville business park.

They’ve probably got the busiest café in Bristol on a Saturday Morning. It feels like everyone with a car boot big enough to fit a flatpack in comes here. Getting a parking space can be a nightmare. Things don’t get much better once you’re in either. Throngs of people meandering around (although, like other Ikea’s you do have to follow the route that takes you past every single thing on sale), getting in your way.
It’s not that bad actually and only really on the weekend. I’m a bit of a sucker for Ikea really. It’s a great place for finding junk you don’t really need but might as well get, seeing as it’s so cheap. Yes, I know I don’t need ice cube moulds shaped like stars, but at £1.50 who can say no?
The café is my favourite thing about it. Go and get Swedish meat balls and chips. The nice Bristolian lady will dole out your allotted 10, 15 or 20, and you can feeling efficient and Swedish as you clean up after yourself (it’s the Ikea way).
Bristol’s Ikea is popular, but a good place to fritter away a tenner on Swedish junk food and a bit of tat.

The Swedish shopping behemoth needs no introduction. Some people are almost obsessive about their cut-​price furnishings (I have friends from Cardiff who would drive here just to go to Ikea before they got one of their own), though as someone who isn’t particularly keen on DIY or shopping, I’m slightly ambivalent about the place.
On the negative side, it’s busy (busy, busy!), a bit low rent, and built on the spiritual home of Bristol Rovers (sniff), though on the plus side it’s convenient, easy and cheap. File alongside capitalism, broccoli, cheap cider, organised religion and processed cheeses under ‘necessary evil’.

love this place!!!
as everyone will undoubtedly know this is a massive swedish furniture and home goods store bang in the middle of bristol.
The restaurant is fab with a good value and varied menu and a little play area for the children. Also there is a crèche with a ball pool so if you want to shop in peace you can dump the monkeys and really get on with it in peace. On the way out they can have self serve ice cream to relieve some guilt
FANTASTIC

I’ve been an Ikea convert for over 10 years now, and especially recommend the storage systems like bookcases for good quality and nice looking solutions.
This branch of Ikea is easy to get to, but, unless you go in the evenings and not during school holidays, parking can be interesting. Plus, the backup at that exit of the M32 on weekends is mainly due to Ikea, so be prepared.
My husband HATES going, so we tend to go at quieter times and with a shopping list in hand. But, even with a list, you can come across interesting items to add to your basket, and can end up spending more than you planned.
I rarely have a problem with items purchased and find that flat pack items can be easily assembled, though it can take a bit of patience (and following of directions).
Best advice: learn the shortcuts, look online or in a catalog first to note what you want and plot your journey ahead of time. And, check out the food section past the tills for interesting Swedish delacies and if hungry, get a cheap hot dog or ice cream.

When Dante wrote the divine comedy, he could not have predicted Ikea, or he would have written about 8 circles of hell.
When you enter Ikea you are forced to do so from underneath, working your way up into the belly of the beast. Once inside you find yourself disorientated and lost, you try and keep your loved ones close as you negotiate your way through the pulsating mass of people wandering endlessly through the complex maze the Swedes have concocted for us. It is enough to make you stop and wonder if it’s not just a shop, but also a terrible social experiment in which we are forced into an endless world of product names we can’t pronounce, and collections of little allen keys which are truly the mark of the middle class who can’t quite afford to shop at Habitat.

Ikea does stock some really useful and affordable furniture and in the past I have bought a computer desk, shelves, CD racks and other useful items from this store.
More often though I spend an hour wandering throught this huge Skandinvian warehouse only to leave with a frying pan a vegetarian hot dog and a couple of strangely shaped cheese graters!

The BUSIEST shop I have EVER seen. I made the mistake of going on a Saturday morning, a mistake I’ll never repeat. The access to the store by car is quite complicated and totally unable to cope with the number of people that drive there each weekend– the traffic backs up out of the car park, joins the Tesco traffic, jams up the roundabout and starts to tail back up the motorway! Thinking of going at the weekend? You’d be better off taking a day off work and going during the week.
Once you’re there it’s a big straightforward Ikea store. The canteen sells super-​cheap but bland food. In typical Ikea fashion you have to walk around following one prescribed path so if you’re hoping to go straight to what you’re looking for, or you’ve forgotten something and want to go back, I hope you have a good sense of direction.
Decent straightforward furniture, reasonably helpful staff, but just waaaay too busy.

This review centres on the Ikea café.
The Ikea café is famous for one thing — meatballs. Served with gravy, berry jam and chips, this is quite possibly worth the 70 mile round trip, even if you don’t actually end up buying any furniture.
Tasty.