Recommend me a shopping destination (south) please.

kitschkitty

Hi everyone,

Can you recommend your favourite destination for a day out shopping (places with a really good market would be fab too).

Somewhere we can get to by train from Portsmouth. Not too far away or expensive!

Bored of always going to the same places/same suggestions...

London, Brighton, Southampton, Winchester, Chichester, and smaller nearer places.

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Guildford. Pleasant town with a cobbled High Street and famous clock. Two departmant stores - Debenhams and House of Frazer- a shopping centre (currently behing refurbished but many shops still open) and all the usual shops TK Max, Monsoon, Marks. Clarks, Gap and a lot of upmarket shops as well

Lots of places to eat at all price ranges if you don't want to picnic in the castle grounds.

There is a small market in North Street on Saturdays (and I think Fridays too) but it is mostly fruit and veg.

*manda*

You've already kinda named most of them- the only other one in addition to Guildford would be Salisbury that I can think of which is nice for shopping. Not sure about markets as I look for charity shops.

If you were prepared to make more of a day of it Bristol is great and there are direct trains from Portsmouth

k0nstantine

Two of my favs are Bristol and Bath, although they're possibly a bit far away. If you're ever considering going somewhere for a short weekend break, then definitely look into Bath. It's a lovely town.

kitschkitty

Thanks everyone, I shall add those to my suggestions list.

Me and my mum like going shopping, (we like a few decent charity shops too so that's cool) and occasionally we do go for an over night stay somewhere, my hubby mentioned Bath too he reckons it's very nice!