Beverly Center

10/28/08

Better choices in Los Angeles....Here's my list:

by melinda100

I am a native of LA and this is my least favorite place to go to. They recently "upgraded" parking with automated tickets and no attendants make things worse.

I recommend:

The Westside Pavillion (off Pico & Westwood)~beautiful atmosphere, elegant, great stores

OR, if you want to be outdoors: Century City Mall or THE GROVE in Los Angeles. CC mall is huge and you can easily get lost if you are new.

The Grove is by far many local's favorite with great restaurants, easy parking and a great atmosphere! Also, there are plenty of children's stores, a lawn where kids love to dance & play (they often have musicians perform) and fantastic restaurants.

Hope this helps! : )

• Pros: Close to home, usually can find what you need, convenient
• Cons: Parking is a pain, no atmosphere, nothing outdoors

08/31/08

Go to THE GROVE instead!!!!!!!

by lanasmommy

HORRIBLE, CONFUSING PARKING. You can only park on certain floors and the elevators do not access all of the floors ... you have to go to certain elevators to access certain floors. It's is a horrible, horrible mess. I have shopped there three times now and have hated it every time. I will NOT be going back and can NOT recommend this to anyone. The shops are pedestrian, there are NO children's stores, no toys any where, no play areas and the food court ... the food HORRIBLE. Even the Panda Express had hard, over-cooked entrees with under-cooked veggies ... the sodas were flat and little syrup. I threw that meal away and went to another vendor and the food was worse. I pitched those two meals and headed for Starbucks. Even the Starbucks was a 4 on a scale of 1 - 10, with the line long, the staff curt, my order wrong. The stores are beyond average, NOTHING special. The facility was nothing special, drawn out, 3 or 4 floors of boring, uninspired stores with little to offer ... and nothing new and exciting. There were hard benches to sit on with no atmosphere anywhere. With a location like this, the mall could have been .... SHOULD HAVE BEEN fabulous. Instead ... it was a huge disappointment. What a grim excuse for a mall. Nothing to see, no where to go, nothing for families, terrible food (and a dirty food court in desperate need to cleaning and wiping down) and simply the worst parking in all of LA county. If you want a great shopping experience ... go to THE GROVE. NOW THAT is nice shopping!

• Pros: ABSOLTELY NONE, NOTHING, NADA, ZILTCH
• Cons: What a grim excuse for a mall.

07/16/08

poor customer service

by 1Marina

I was at the Beverly Center yesterday with a few friends. The stores are large and the place is spacious; so although it was crowded, it did not feel crowded. My friends wanted to go into the Louis Vuitton store; I don't care for the bland style (lacking versatility and creativity) but decided to engage their interest by keeping them company since they are likely to buy something. The store was crowded but it did not excuse the salesman's rude horrible energy; his job requires very little in order to be done correctly. He could not be professional enough to get into a case without being unprofessional, rushed, and obviously stressed. I enjoy art and quality but LV is the McDonalds or art and fashion. ..As if it is not bad enough that the store hardly contributes to the betterment of anything but materialism..

07/08/08

Parking situation puts damper on shopping experience

by jenheidir

Beverly Center has a great location, bordering Beverly Hills and WeHo. Plus, it has a solid variety of stores, from cheaper clothing options like H&M to couture like D&G. Plenty of shoe, make-up and accessories shops are also present, along with a movie theater. However, I hate having to pay on average $2 for an hour and change or shopping. And since stores don?t begin until the fifth level, you?re forced up several flights of escalators or stuck waiting for the elevator (I?ve always have had to wait at least 5 minutes). Another downer: There?s not a lot of food options besides the food court itself. There?s only one sit-down restaurant that I know of at the mall.

• Pros: variety of stores, movie theater
• Cons: parking, lack of sit-down restaurants

11/23/07

Convenient, kinda average, but an institution

by jericsmall

The Beverly Center mall in West Hollywood (or is it Beverly Hills) is a great mall. It's convenient (for this West Hollywood resident) and has the main stores I love, like Macy's and D&G. The food court, thankfully, is hidden way in back, way upstairs, cuz it's hideous. Otherwise, I like the Beverly Center quite a bit. Parking tip...go up to the 5th floor and pay attention to where the escalators are. You want to avoid the elevators at all costs!

• Pros: Godiva! Mmmmmm
• Cons: Food court (blah)

03/12/07

not my favorite

by tyneshad

Although this mall does an excellent job of mixing up big name stores with smaller boutiques, the atmosphere feels more like a museum than a place to shop and have fun, which is what fashion is really all about. The hugeness of the mall intimidated me and I just didn't want to touch anything for fear I would break something.

11/21/06

Shopping mecca!!

by chiario

Something for everyone....from H & M to Louis Vuitton. Easy parking and loved the sports bar.....a great place to relax while hauling shopping bags. This place has everything....for everybody.

• Pros: Variety of stores
• Cons: $$$

11/15/06

Great location and good stores.

by digdoug2001

There is something for everyone here. From the ridiculously expensive to the more down-to-earth affordable places. The Macy's Men Store is seperated from the rest of Macy's...kind of cool if you want to get away from your girlfriend and pick something out for yourself for once! Uh, anyway...they have a really cool shoe store but I can't remember the name of it. The parking is easy and they have decent food there as well. Pretty good for a mall.

• Pros: Location, Variety, Parking

What every mall dreams of becoming when it grows up.

by Contributor

In Short
An eight-story behemoth that towers over La Cienega, the Beverly Center is truly L.A.'s one-stop-shopping destination. Macy's and Bloomingdale's anchor the nearly one million square feet of real estate, which includes trendy eateries, a Loews Cineplex, and the country's very first Hard Rock Cafe. The 160-plus retailers include exclusive Rodeo Drive-quality boutiques and standard mall staples such as Victoria's Secret. It's also walking distance from hip neighborhood shopping districts on Beverly Boulevard, Robertson Boulevard and Third Street.

07/21/06

south coast plaza vs. beverly center = beverly center by FAR

by rachel1215

The Center has tons of parking, is spacious, and has not only unique stores but the larger department stores here always carry the most merchanise than most other locations-new items and sale items. Great place for people watching--sometimes a celeb or two. The only mall that I don't go to in my work-out clothes--dress to impress.

Also--they tend to have really cheap movies that have already been playing for awhile. I went on a Friday night and it was dead so we snuck into a couple of films and made a night of it. They sometimes play double features too.

• Pros: huge chain stores (forever 21--it has everything at this location), easy in-n-out parking thats also cheap, people watching