National Geographic

what a great store! my favourite part of the shop is how at the back they have all the amazing and cool posters, some are very expensive but they are really funky!

I went to look around the shop and it was exactly as I would have imagined it. It is just like the pages from National Geographic simply lept out and came to life!
The clothing is top notch for extreme climates but they also have inespensive tourist t-​shirts. The staff are excellent and when one gave us the wrong directions another corrected him and then he found us and corrected himself too and apologised!
The stuff in here is fascinating and perfect for kids of 4 — 104! I went to the café for the extremely reasonably proced cocktails and they had a lovely summery strawberry something which was amazing!
Who would have thought — cocktails at the National Geographic shop! I have been meaning to come for awhile and I’m pleased I finally did!

I love travel and I love cocktails, so why hadn’t I visited the National Geographic store before last week?
I’m such a heathen, in that I visited the café for mojitos before I visited the store — but while the cocktails were pretty run of the mill, the other exhibits in the shop were fascinating. There was an Ecuador photo exhbit while I was there that held my attention. If you love the exotic travel images that you see all over the pages of the National Geographic then you’l be thrilled to discover that you can also by them in the store.
The shop takes up three whole levels, and the highlights are definitely the travel luggage section — I want a National Geographic Holdall! and the freezing chamber where you can test out the clothing in extreme temperatures of up to –40.

Nice big shop over three floors that has a fairly small range of stock artistically spread out. High points are the photos on the ground floor and the bad weather testing cabins on the sub-​ground floor, where you can test out the goretex to see if it works or not. I wasn’t brave enough to ask but I suspect you could have quite a nice few hours down there. Some nice vases and plant holders, some nice leathery wallet things.

I agree with the other reviews on this store — it is an absolute revelation and wonder. I guess a lot of companies are multi-​tasking these days and probably National Geographic have moved beyond just magazines for a number of years now but this store brings it all to your in bricks and mortar. The store on Regent Street sells everything from clothes, to cameras, to pictures, to gifts and it even has a café and a spectacular gallery of giant photographs. It’s a beautiful store and absolutely massive. I wonder how long it will last in this current economic climate — let’s hope for a long time.

Stumbled on this place whilst walking up Regent Street — the photographic exhibition caught my eye. The shop itself is laid out really well, lots of space and you don’t feel bombarded with merchandise. But the best part for me was looking around the gallery — wonderful photography from the National Geographic archive. I hope they rotate the exhibits regularly so I have an excuse to go back.