Cascades Shopping Centre — Attraction in Portsmouth

Rubbish Shopping Centre.

Boring shops (the usual boring ones), run down place, water dripping everywhere! (damn lots of water buckets everywhere, we are like doing a cross country race while shopping there).

Finally spotted a nice little cafe with really good rating on Google but was kicked out by the rude security staff of the shopping centre saying they have to close! Shopping centre closes at 5? That’s why Portsmouth is named a dying city. I thought it’s close to ferry / cruise terminal and it would be a better city to visit as people would normally work harder and be more energetic. Holiday ruined by that security staff and the nasty Shopping Centre. If they intend to close at 5 sharp, they should have stopped people entering at 4. If someone enters before they stop people from entering, they should be given reasonable time to finish their shopping - that’s SERVICE!

The only star is to the staff of that little cafe. Thanks for your food and your...

This is the biggest waste of a shopping centre you'll ever see. Back in the day it was an amazing place to shop, full of big name shops and unusual shops. Best of all, there was an amazing food court with clear lifts to take you down. No there's several empty units, assumingly because the rental is hideous. The food court, now long gone, made space for the TK Maxx store, which is among one of the only stores that I use here. The only eatery is a Subway, which sits all by itself on the upper level. Empty units surround it. There is a Starbucks and a crappy cafè too. Cascades is a nice, clean building that deserves to be better and the people of Portsmouth deserve to be better. It's such a shame to see it go so downhill. It's not the demise of the high street is it though? When a few miles down the road WestQuay shopping thrives and even our own Gunwharf Quays is putting the...

Cascades shopping centre is basically empty these days, shoos that leave (due to lack of business and high rent) are just not being replaced. I can’t remember the last time I brought something in cascades as I’ve always left empty handed based on the lack of shops remaining.

Even the free ping pong area they opened (to fill the space of yet another empty shop!) was closed too.

The businesses left will get less and less custom as people realise it’s half empty shops now, it’s not even the small shops that are empty either with M&S and BHS gone and unreplaced there are big spaces of emptiness about.

I think cascades might want to reevaluate whether they’d rather have less shops on higher rent and no shoppers or attempt to lower the rent and entice new shops in to create an atmosphere worth shopping in.

Prime example of why people...