O2 Center Finchley Road

Parking here - What a rip off! After spending £26 on cinema tickets and validating the parking permit for a "discount", I found that the "discount" meant that we had to pay the price that's posted on all the signs around the car park. Chap in the office tells me that the "official" rate is £5 per hour. C'mon, who are you kidding? This is a pure scam.

I agree with some of the other viewers. Slightly over-rated - cinemas probably the best thing about this place. Nothing special overall.

Car park is a rip off, free car park for 2 hours if you spend £10 at Sainsbury, Homebase gets you 1 hour free, otherwise you need to validate the ticket for 50% off of the full Rate which is not properly displayed, rates displayed everywhere are the discunt rate, so if you go and see a movie like we did today, the discounted rate you lay for 2 to 3 hours is £4.

O2 centre is nothing special. No real attractions apart from vue cinema with automated ticket machine and a few food place. very dull.

Went to the Cinema there, not much else going on there except for a Habitat and a sainsburys.

it is a strange place, with restaurants opening onto the main thouroughfare, it’s like eating oustide, inside? Particulary Nando’s. If you are going out to eat go to a dedicated restaurant with four walls. Upstairs is not as bad, or chilly. There is a selection of restaurants, a pricey health club, a cheap wetherspoons, the obligatory Starbucks and a big Sainsburys. Across the car park there is also a Homebase.

Used to be a rather nice place and had a few aquariums, but in recent (and neverending refurbishment) all have been removed to make space for another coffee place. Amongst its facilities it has a chinese place (a bit pricy), Fine burger bar (good quality food), italian restaurant (nice pizzas), Cumin - indian place (pricies are slightly above the budget level but the good is of high quality),Wetherspoons bar (with a big glass windown to watch over the busy road underneath) and the Vue cinema

Was one of my favourite hang outs because theres so much to do there. The centre itself is quite big and fits a variety of restaurants such as Nandos and Fine Burger Co aswell as the vue cinema, and a Starbucks and a Sainsbury’s. Along with this, there is a large bookshop, i think borders. The place itself is very nice and clean, and the cinema in particular is large, and shows all the latest and best films out at any time. Location wise, brilliant with the tube and buses just outside of the door, and open for long periods of time. Really nice place to go to and spend a few hours, with an easy route from here to the centre of London

The O2 Centre is a great place to be. It is more of a entertainment hub rather than a shopping centre. It has many restaurants and bars including: Yo Sushi!, Weatherspoons, Nandos, Walkabout, Fine Burger Company, Zuccato and Starbucks. There is also a multi screen Vue cinema and health centre. There are a few shops including a Waterstones, Habitat and Sainsbury’s.

The original O2 was based around the theme of water and as such had many fish tanks and one big one beneath the escalators which had many fish and a turtle. However, the O2 centre is currently undergoing a face lift and as such these features were removed. They are promised to return, however not in the same format. Instead a coffee shop is to be placed under the escalators.

Despite it undergoing maintenance the O2 Centre is stll a fantastic place to hang out grab a bite and catch a film. I look forward to seeing how the renovations work out.

The refurb couldnt have made it any uglier but it has to be said this is still a dire use of everyone’s time and a very good space in NW London. THe sainsbury’s is great but all the restaurants lack any buzz and there seeams to be a contagious depression amongst everyone who works in them. Why not just stick to the high st?

Fantastic place in the North Western part of London. This place has what you’d look for in a night out, Cinema, a great Weatherspoons, few bars, varied range of places to eat from tasty chicken at Nando’s, to traditional food at Spoons, or an Indian, or perhaps some Chinese food or a burger at the burger place.

Great fishtanks around and they will keep you entertained. Couple of shops around, book shop and also Sainsbury’s if you want to pay a visit.

The cinema is great, good for taking the opposite gender there with the liftable arm rests.

A great place to go to when you’re in Swiss Cottage as there are restaurants, cafes, a cinema, a pub, a gym and a HUGE Sainsburys.

The cinema can be somewhat pricy, but thats London for you.

I like going to teh cinema here the seats are very comfortable although price might be a little bit higher the elsewhere its worth it. Also there are great places to eat in the complex.

What I particularly like about the O2 Center is the food hall particularly Nando’s and the Wetherspoons.
They’ve just done some work at Sainsbury’s. It’s bigger now and there is a cafe. And for girls, a bigger clothes section :-).
I’ve heard the book shop is closing down and that there were massive discounts. I might go and have a look…

This is a handy centre to live near as it’s packed with places to see and do. There’s a book shop, gym, cinema, Sainsbury’s, a wide range of restaurants including Indian, Italian, American, Japanese. There’s also little carts peddling cheap bags, sweets and jewellery.

There’s also a cool pure glass lift and a big aquarium on the bottom level. There used to be a nifty fountain thing happening along the escalators to the upper level but it is currently being refurbished so will have to see what they do with it.

The O2 centre is a mini version of the one in North Greenwich and houses The Vue cinema, which because of Orange Wednesdays is very busy on that day, but has a great atmosphere with so many people under one roof. There is also a Nando’s and a Weatherspoons with their Curry and Steak nights throughout the week.

The layout gives the place a lot of room to move and the escalator goes straight up over a huge fish tank, which is always full of our finned friends. A great place just to chill out.

I like this place because they have many things to choose from under one roof, you can go to the cinema or to Nando´s. My favourite place is the huge bar the second level with the big windows. You can see what´s happening on the street while you are having a nice chat and your beer.