Top Ryde City Shopping Centre

I want to love this place, I really do. It's just that it was designed with too few lifts at the Coles end. It's always the point of conversation when you are waiting for the lifts to come, only to have to let them go because they are too full. People actually get in to go the opposite way and then catch the return ride so they can actually get in. Also the WIFI sucks. It is soooooo slow and you can't rely on your own phone as the place is really a hole in the ground and very bad reception. They need to up their game there

The carpark must have been designed by someone who wanted to make our lives difficult! Decent range of shops, huge woolies and Dan murphys. It's ok as far as shopping centers go.

Pram friendly escalators on the right main side of the centre. Very busy on weekends but there's lots of browse and a nice piazza style food area.

Very busy. Very hard to navigate. The complex itself is very clean but getting into and out of is like a labyrinth.

The media went on about Top Ryde Shopping Centre being the largest shopping centre in Australia at the time, so I hoped it would be jam packed full of different stores. In reality, the number of stores is quite limited. Even (pre refurbishment) Macquarie Centre had a larger variety of shops. Top Ryde Shopping Centre itself is massive. The atrium voids make it seem larger than it is however. It takes ages to walk from one end to the other, and there are franchise type stores scattered through the middle so that when you have a trolley it's hard to get past other trolleys or oncoming people shopping. Food shopping in general there is not so convenient, having to cart everything quite far distances and navigating the too narrow walkways.Shops like Golden Banana have a lot of produce but the shop itself has not been designed in scale with how much they're selling and the number of cashier points. It ends up being overly cramped and not enough space in ...read more