Ikea

It’s a big Swedish shed like the rest of the ikea shops. Nothing special or fun. Cheap food in café. Furniture of varying price up to a very average quality.
It’s a place you have to go if you’re furnishing a house cheaply or want a meal for 2 for under 10 quid.

THE LACK OF ASSISTANCE FOR DISABLED IS GASTLY TO SAY THE LEAST. my dad was left at 76 yrs old to dissasemble a wardrobe where the people in ikea put the back board on so tight that you would need a van to take the wardrobe away not a picasso like we had we had to dissasemble the wardrobe down but took an hour as noone in ikea would help as if they broke it they would have to be responsible well if thats the case then why work in a shop that involves assembling and checking items and leave an elderly man do it all alone not even help loosen the screws the backboard had to be physiclly punched off as nails in so tight that the claw of the hammer even a flat head screw driver couldnt prize the nails out so the backboard is nackered and will cost £11 for a new piece some bargain !!! they have disabled acess yes but being disabled in ikea is not a pleasent experiance to say the least comon ikea get into helping the disabled not inconvieniencing them

I have shopped at various branches of Ikea for years, but yesterday was the first time in my life where had been asked by the cashier to show a receipt for a large Ikea bag– full of items bought earlier. After our first buy we went to the restaurant and as it wasn’t busy and pouring with rain and we had time to spare we returned to the Marketplace and paid for a for a couple more items. It would have been a very clumsy effort at shoplifting if I had tried to sneak all those bar-​coded items out of the store!(or tried to remove all those sticky labels, not really worth the effort) and paid for just a mug and umbrella. Plus, to make matters worse, she didn’t give us a receipt for the mug and umbrella, so we could have been accused of stealing those as well!
What would happen in those circumstances if you couldn’t find your receipt and paid cash? I am normally pretty careful about keeping receipts but I was panicking as my daughter paid for the items on this occasion. Would we have proof on CCTV or the Ikea loyalty card?
I am going to think several times before shopping at Cardiff Ikea again, as they treat their customers with such contempt. If you bought something in other company stores and then returned for a forgotten item, I don’t think they would have the audacity to stop you without adequate reason.
It’s a shame because I used to be a loyal customer. I know it’s sadly a sign of the times, but don’t demean your customers.

IKEA are a shocking company and their customer services are rude and inept. i placed those words in parentheses because, it seems to me, they don’t really know what customer services means. I ordered a fridge freezer from them only to find out that they would only deliver on days when I was not available. I was quite shocked by their my way or the highway attitude and their unprofessional attitude when I phoned them initially. To their small credit, they did phone me back when i emailed them (having refused to spend twenty minutes waiting for a customer services rep on a mobile phone to the 0845 number they provided me with) but this experience was no better. Their customer services rep was completely closed-​minded to any compromise suggestion I came up with and I came to the conclusion that the call was nothing more than a determined effort to get me to toe the IKEA line an put up or shut up.
I’ll never use this appalling outfit again.

Right i’m going against the grain a bit here, as unless you’ve been living underground for the past few years you’ll know exactly what Ikea is and what it does.
If you don’t its the place that puts the weird adverts on around about tea time.
Anyhow, i don’t want to talk about the furniture, i want to talk about the nick knacks you can get here for mere pennies.
plants, cushions, kitchen utensils all for stupid prices, last time i was there i bought a baby fern for 69p! A living thing for under a pound! eewwfff bloody marvellous.
Now if the basement of this place doesn’t keep you happy, head up to the restaurant where food is also stupidly cheap but not stupidly disgusting. The food here is actually great and i think nowadays Ikea is more famous for it’s meat balls as it is its wardrobes!
I’d also like to give the car park a mention here, although slightly intimidating it just goes to show how logical the Swedish are. Put the car park under the store! Pure brilliance.

Most are familiar with IKEA across Britain, with it’s well known low prices on furnishings and practical house hold items. This particular store is of course no exception in terms of the products it sells, but I do however find it quite different to some of the others i’ve been to across England. A very odd, uniquely constructed building, It looks almost as if a large blue shoe box has landed on top of some stilts. This massive blue construction sits above the large car park, where although places are fairly limited, customers can usually find a space to park.
Inside, customers must travel up escalators to reach the second floor, where the café and snack bar are situated. The prices of the hot dogs, ice cream cones and chips are staggeringly low, even in comparison to fast food chains, which is a real attraction to some. The café also provides cheap prices, notably on its full english breakfasts. Personally I find the food from the café to be pretty grim. Aside from the food, the shop is very well staffed and stocked as you’d expect.

Yeah Ikea sells everything you could ever need for you home… Blah Blah Blah. They offer a delivery service… Blah Blah Blah… and now they even offer an assembling service Blah Blah Blah!
BUT I am reviewing something that over shadows all of the above… the MEATBALLS!
I love Ikea meatballs! You can get three sizes of meatball portions and I always opt for the large!
They are served wth fries and have a side portion of Ligonberrie sauce! Mmm Mmm Mmmmmmm!
The other thing worth mentioning on the menu is Ikea’s Daim cake! This is truely scrumptious! If after too many meatballs you cant fit anything else in… Panic not… Get a Daim cake to take away!
The food here, like the furniture is cheap and of a fantastic quality!
We hardlu ever go shopping here… we just take advantage of their great café!
P.S Get a Ikea family card to enjoy free tea and coffee!

We all know Ikea is a must for furniture hunters on a budget — not just in Cardiff but world wide — did you know that Ikea is the biggest furniture seller in the world?
But this review isn’t about the furniture — ohhhhh controversial!!! I hear you say.
This review is about the food. All I want to say is consider Ikea not just as a furniture store but a quite good cheap restaurant too. Its great value for money. You can get a cooked breakfast for 99p! Where else in the developed world can you get that? Ok the meatballs and the fish and chips are not as cheap but they are as cheap as a chip shop and you have all the sauce you could wish for and a table and chair to sit down and eat it at too!
One word of advice I wouldn’t take a first date here — I did once and it didn’t last long after we left the store — pity really she looked quite nice all dressed up.

Well I know for one fact that IKEA do not allow photos to be taken in less you ask the Human Resources department! Typical or what?! That’s the first place that I have told not take pictures of within a long time.
I know this because I was told off by the till area for not being able to take pictures without permission, but that was after I had been taking pictures already inside and plenty of staff where around who could have also told me off. Mind you the guy at the entrance did look a bit shifty towards me as I had my camera around my neck, but he did not say anything to me still.
It is a very useful and massive shop, based around the Cardiff Bay and it is free to enter. They have several sections of products such as; lights, bed duvets, candles, pictures frames, cloth hangers, plenty of storage items, mirrors, a café, a car park, a low deals offer, large lifts, escalators, and a Swedish food market area.
Entry is free; the staff do seem a little picky about certain things, but it is a very useful shop and our house and Caravan in Pembrokeshire are both full of IKEA items and products. I would still recommend it as a shop for everyone to attend and buy house items from.

Okay, I’m updating my review of Ikea simply because I only just found out about the wonderful selecion of food they have on offer to eat in or take home. The meatballs, gravy, chips and jam are absolutely delicious. GO TRY THEM!

As a student this Ikea was an absolute lifesaver! Some of the furniture in my student digs was beyond unsuitable, I could literally only fit around five pairs of jeans and five jackets in the wardrobe that was provided. Luckily I had some space left, so I ended up buying this clothes and shoe rack thingy, which nearly all of my clothes fitted in (I won’t mention the piles I left at home) for only £20.
And this is what’s great about Ikea, the good value! No matter how full my trolley gets I never get that sick feeling when the cashier tells me how much I have to pay. Low value often means ugly products, not so with Ikea, their products are bright, colourful, and rather trendy, I managed to transform my room on quite a small budget.
The only bad thing about Ikea for me was that all of my housemates had bought their stuff for Uni from here too, so it was an absolute nightmare working out what belonged to who.

There’s something about Ikea that turns me into a child and makes me want to misbehave. Maybe because all the toys are out to play with or maybe because my mental is age is closer to my foot size.
Since I’v moved, I’ve spent a fair bit of time in here replicating 500 days of summer and trying to make my house look a little nicer.
I am a candle fiend and have spent far too much money in here on them. I’ve also acquired the biggest tea mugs known to man, a small child can bathe in them. Oh I have to give a special mention to the chair I bought and built in a man like fashion. Sorry, back to the review.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a staff member that wasn’t a cashier so I would bother asking for help.
Prices are great here and is a great way to modernise your room with a budget.
Finally, if you want to treat a loved one to dinner, come here. The food here is so cheap, but actually quite nice so is worth a trip if you’ve spent 7 hours in the shop.

If you’ve ever been to any Ikea, then you’ll know what this one’s going to be like.
As Ikeas go, this one is a little bit more spacious than some (for example the Bristol one). The paths for the big trolleys are a bit easier to follow, and the car park is pretty manageable. However this extra spaciousness doesn’t stop it filling up with people every weekend. If you need something from Ikea, go during the week if you possibly can, it’s a much more pleasant buying experience.
When I’ve been there, the staff have been friendly enough, to the small extent that I’ve had to have any help from them. They were particularly helpful in the ‘seconds’ section, where there were staff happy to talk about what damage there was to any particular item, how it could be dismantled, that kind of thing.
The food in Ikea used to be a little bit of a draw– I know people who really do enjoy the bargain meatballs. However as the ‘restaurant’ gets a bit bigger and busier, the Subway-​style approach to catering gets exposed a little bit, and some of the ingredients are poor. However, the one exception is the Daim bar cake. It’s out of a packet and you can buy it in supermarkets but it still makes a trip to Ikea feel a lot happier.

They double charged our card and were very rude when rectifying their mistake. We waited hours the next day for our order and then the lorry wouldn’t stop as it said there wasn’t room outside out flat. Ikea should have warned us of this in the store.
A manager called me later and was unbelievably unhelpful and did not apologise for the error and charged us again to redeliver the goods the next day.
Customer service is non existent, they have no head office and this affects their customer service. I have never been dealt with in such a manner by a retail company and would not go near them again with a ten metre pole.
The furniture is above average for the price but if there is the slightest thing wrong with it or the process of getting it then God help you because Ikea will not.

I love Ikea. Even if you’re not looking for furnature, for some reason it is still such a great place to go. I love the way they lay out the display rooms, it doesn’t seem at all boring walking around thinking about how you would love it if your kitchen looked like that, even if you don’t even own a kitchen!
After walking around the displays you have the treat of visiting the basement where it is impossible to leave without buying something. I usually bring home a stray cushion, a photoframe, even a pot plant! Always candles too. There are so many candles! The layout makes it easy for you to grab what you want as there are always lots of everything.
For some reson, it always seems like a great idea to visit the hot dog counter in Ikea. Nowhere else would I be drawn to this. There is just something about Ikea, I can’t really explain it, you’ll just have to go and see what I mean.

Unlike some other IKEA stores, Cardiff IKEA is very easy to find. It’s close to other retail parks meaning you don’t have to make a special trip just to get there. There’s plenty of covered parking below the store and lots more room in the outside car parks.
Inside there’s everything you’d expect from IKEA and more. There is a crèche, a café and a separate takeaway section. There’s a separate entrance specifically for returns to you can access what you need very easily. There’s also a small food market there as well as vending machines to grab a quick drink.
Overall you get the excellent IKEA value with the added bonus of it being in a very easily accessible location.

Ikea Cardiff has been a fantastic place to furnish and make a house a home. Great kitchen accessories which make cooking a far more fun experience and ideal storage containers which are both attractive and practical. Bathroom accessories are also bright and useful as well as good value.
The ranges of furniture are ideal as they start at very reasonable costs and work their way up to solid wood of good quality as well as being easily assembled. Anyone who loved lego or meccano sets will be in their element making ikea furniture.
I’ve been nicely surprised by the service in Ikea Cardiff as well with helpful and friendly staff.

One of those stores that you mean to go in for one thing and hours later you emerge from the dark depths of the store loaded with items!
While the quality is generic and simple, their items are functional and excellent for those on a tight budget.
Located in the Channel view area, if you don’t drive, you can get the Number 9 bus (Sports village).
Everything you need for the home and then some!

Ikea is a great place for essentials such as Cups and Plates for your kitchen and bathroom accesories. It’s has a variety of styles both classic and modern at reasonable prices. There are plenty of carparking spaces available. There is also a restaurant which sells delicious food at very cheap prices!

I absolutely love IKEA! The ranges are so affordable, and so different to your usual homeware shop.
The childrens crèche is a godsend, they can play for up to 40 minutes in a childs paradise, and you have a beeper that goes off when you need to collect them.
The food in the restaurant is tasty and well priced, and if you sign up for a family card you can get free cups of tea!
This is probably the only shop that I actually look forward to taking the kids!

Als wir vor 2 Jahren aus Tan yr Eglwys in Mach ins Alte Schulhaus in Machynlleth umzogen, brauchten wir dringend neue Möbel, da wir plötzlich nun so viele Räume mehr als vorher zur Verfügung hatten. Möbelhäuser hier in Mittelwales gibt es aber keine guten. Einige Waliser fahren gerne nach Llanidloes zum Möbelgeschäft Hafren, doch das ist mir etwas altmodisch. Bei unserem Umzug mußten wir folgendes bedenken: dies ist nicht das Haus, wo wir immer wohnen werden /​wollen /​können. Wir wollten also das Haus gemütlich einrichten. Im vergangenen Sommer boten wir B&B an, ich biete auch CouchSurfing an, etc. Also ging’s mit einem kleinen Transporter, den wir geliehen hatten, zu IKEA nach Cardiff. Dies ist das einzige IKEA in Wales.
Es ist eigentlich ein IKEA wie es jeder kennt.
Wir kauften auch im Lebensmittelshop ein paar schwedische Sachen: Käse, Holundersirup, Marmelade, Fisch nachdem wir 4 Stunden bei IKEA eingekauft haben. 2 Schreibtische, Lampen, Beistelltische, Handtücher, Bettwäsche, kleine Teppiche, Regale, etc. waren im Einkaufswagen.
Ich war hier insgesamt vier Mal. Von Machynlleth bis zum nächsten IKEA, diesem hier in Cardiff, muß man 3 Stunden Fahrzeit rechnen, mindestens!