Visiting Ikea on Bank Holiday Monday - will it be a nightmare?

mgdavid

Can't comment other than to say I have taken advice and never visited IKEA.

arbrighton

I wouldn't go on a BH unless paid, preferably a 7 figure sum! However, we're lucky enough to live within 1/2 hr of one, and OH work is nearer than that so he just goes in after work.

BlondeHeadOn

doodle-bug wrote: »

Yes - a nightmare! But worth going around.
If I need to go to Ikea (our nearest is around 60 miles away) then we go on an evening. Pick my husband up from work and go straight there - they are normally open late.

Now that's a good idea! Thank you!

BlondeHeadOn

Well the consensus seems to be that it's not at all a good idea to go on a bank holiday! That's great information, thanks to all who responded - you have just saved me from what sounds like a nightmare visit!

All I want to do is to go and try one of their sofa ranges, as I am thinking of buying the 3-seater Ektorp sofa. We already have an Ektorp chaise longue bought for £22 from ebay and it is so comfortable - I love it! So I was thinking about getting the 3-seater sofa in the same range.... it looks exactly what we want, but it seems a very daft thing to do to buy it without ever having sat in one. Hence the trip to the store to try it out.

I am dreading trailing round an Ikea store to be honest, but I don't suppose there is anywhere else to try out their sofas!

j.e.j.

What you really want to do, so that you don't stand out from all the other warring couples who go around furniture shops on a bank holiday Monday, is take your bloke with you, and have a domestic about the colour/size/price of the sofa you're intending to buy

Better still, if you've got any kids, drag them around with you too, and shriek at them (when you're not shrieking at your husband) to behave and stop jumping on all the furniture.

BlondeHeadOn

j.e.j. wrote: »

What you really want to do, so that you don't stand out from all the other warring couples who go around furniture shops on a bank holiday Monday, is take your bloke with you, and have a domestic about the colour/size/price of the sofa you're intending to buy

Better still, if you've got any kids, drag them around with you too, and shriek at them (when you're not shrieking at your husband) to behave and stop jumping on all the furniture.

It's likely to be that good eh? I shall have to start practicing to fit in....


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I might just stay at home and eat chocolate instead....

FredG

If you are going to visit on a weekend pack the following:

Earplugs
Baseball bat
Cattle Prod
Crash Helmet

All essential protection against the Ikea hordes.

Spendless

BlondeHeadOn wrote: »

It's likely to be that good eh? I shall have to start practicing to fit in....


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I might just stay at home and eat chocolate instead....

Take my husband with you. Something happens to him the moment he enters an Ikea and he forgets all room sizes, dimensions and layouts of rooms in our house and insists they are all different.

BlondeHeadOn

FredG wrote: »

If you are going to visit on a weekend pack the following:

Earplugs
Baseball bat
Cattle Prod
Crash Helmet

All essential protection against the Ikea hordes.

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Threebabes

We go all the time.

Go for opening. As stated it has a one way system as such to lead you round. I would prefer during week or evening but if push come to shove (literally ;-) ) I would go on a bank hol.

Food and drink is very cheap if you fancy a cuppa.

Enjoy