What Kind Of Bride Are You Harrods?

The general rule of Harrods is if you have to ask the price you can’t afford it, there is a tourist section which is a lot cheaper still expensive but within budget. The very first time I went to Harrods I walked around with me jaw on the ground I don’t think I picked it back up of the ground till I left. I took my daughter when she was 8 she wanted to go to London for her birthday, we hit Harrods and I took her down to the café and we say at this exquisite bar, the men running it were so nice and friendly, she wanted a strawberry milk shake and pancakes, they made them right in front of her everything fresh, when they found out it was her birthday they pulled a cup cake out put a candle on it and sang happy birthday to her, the whole lot cost me 20 pounds but the birthday cake was free from them. There are two sections which are my absolute favourite one is the Jelly Belly Beans section and the other is the food court especially the macaroons

Harrods is not only for Millionaires, i visit on every trip to London and not once have I felt like I was being looked down on treat any different to one of there rich customers, unlike Fortnam And Masons in there i felt like i was being watched all the time, like i was there to rob the joint, i would never go back there, but love going to Harrods.

It’s fine just keep checking highest prices and yes it can be expensive but, you have to also realise Harrods offer the best produce and some of the finest designer gear available and stays ahead of any competitor as the most famous store in the world… I had many a visit there years ago, I had the Harrods store-card when Al-Fayed owned it. Service is 2nd to none I was there often and never queued to pay if there was just one person in front they opened another till to save the wait….Thats quality!!

1n December 31st 1992 I took stop over on my way back to canada and visited with my uncle, it was really different than the stores inside the malls . Main floor was really beautiful and contained tons of bakery stuff and staff wearing beautiful uniforms which make u feel that you are really in a place where rich come to shop as you were showing the prices of the articles. Thanks for the tour and bringing back sweet memories as well

This is such a gorgeous article thanks so much for posting it. I live not much more than half an hour from Harrods and yet I haven’t been in there in a while. I really love Harrods though. Back in the day I used to go in there for pens. I like to use real ink and fountain pens pretty much all the time and Harrods always had a great range. I’ve always lusted after a Montblanc Meistersück which was pen of choice for world leaders back in the 80s and the tradition, when signing East-West peace accords, always was for the great leaders to swap pens. So I always wanted a huge shiny Meistersück pen. They cost a bit more than £600, somewhere between £700-£900 last time I looked. I did use Montblanc ink though and that came in a bottle shaped like a shoe. The heel of the shoe contained an ink reservoir just big enough to poke the nib in without getting your pen too inky. They even used to make the old-fashioned Victorian blue-black ink, the type that goes on light and darkens as it oxidises. It’s said to be ultra-permanent. I heard record offices use that type of ink. Blue-black iron-gall ink in a glass shoe. Now that’s luxury!

I worked around the corner from there in the early 2000’s. Nice to spend my lunchtime occasionally having a mooch. Bought a Miele Dog & Cat vacuum from there, same price as anywhere else, and they delivered to my home in a green Harrods van 😂. Still going strong vacuuming up my labradors hair. They had a sit down food bar in the food area that served roasts etc, also an oyster bar…don’t know if they still do.

the saying “if you moan about the price, you obviously cant afford it”, is very apt…leaving Harrods you realise where you are exactly on the materialism ladder…i love going to this place if only for the experience, most “average joes” head straight downstairs to the gift shop for the over priced carrier bag and pen set..one thing that makes me laugh is you can go around the food hall looking at the scrummy £10.00 each pork pies…then once built up an appetite walk down the road to either the Tesco Extra on the other side of the road for a meal deal or McDonalds on the next block…(where the toilets were flooded with piss by the way)…Harrods, the only shop where there are more shop assistants than customers.

Twenty years ago when I went to Harrods the re was a doorman in green livery opening the door for shoppers and those door handles I remember shone like gold, then fast forward ten years ago when I went there was no doorman and just look at the state of those door brasses, I don’t mean to be picky but come on this is Harrods London where you simply don’t drop standards.🙁🙁🙁🙁

Yes I had a very sheltered entire life too! Hardly been anywhere done anything so I can’t really say I been their done that got the t-shirt,and no I haven’t been into Harris’s yet till date or a lot of other places thanks for you article at least I can see harrods on article, it must of been I nice experience I can imagine

Went to Harrods in 1996. So many people that we were just shovelled in I was able to divert and use the posh toilet with the marble and the expensive perfume and skin cream and was able to join the huge crowd. Next thing I know I’m outside on the street thinking what the hell happened. I literally got shovelled in one side and vomited out the other side and all I saw was a toilet the crowds were so huge it was like riding a wave. I gave up and never went back. Marks and Spencer was much better to shop at and had less tourists.

How are you doing master Tim thank you for sharing your trips with us you are as guide tourists for all people around world we as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English language as well the London is well for us from so many years people traveled there to seek medical treatment or taking English courses or study at university but we know the Big Ben clock for accuracy for massive hour bell green wich is center of world time for global system of time zones any way iam gathering main information about place you visited briefly here it’s harrods is most famous department store back to 1800s more than 300 departments with 11 million square feet of selling space largest department store in Europe harrdods dress code can be summarised as follows no beach wear no back packs no riff raff

Oh, yes. I just loved Harrods. No actually didn’t. Been there only twice in 15 years. The area or London is not quite my cup of tea either. Always because of overseas visitors and to get pissed in their basement bar. It’s a bit of a scam. THe most meorable thing about Harrods was fro me when I went there the first time and saw that they sold Wilthener Goldkrone as High End Deluxe brandy for almost 60 bucks the bottle. The brandy is in Germany sold under the logo Pennerglueck in every supermarket for 3 bucks or so.

Why bother to go to Harrod’s, of all places, so you can tut-tut and whinge about the high prices? It’s a store for Russian oligarchs, Saudi princes and wealthier members of the British upper classes. OF COURSE IT’S EXPENSIVE. Sneering about the “insane”, “crazy” prices in Harrod’s is like going to Paris and complaining about all the people who speak French.

Tim I only recently discovered you on Youtube, reviewing holiday accommodation. I wondered why your website was called ‘Walk with me Tim’ since you go on holiday and review different hotels. I thought it should be called ‘Holiday with me Tim’ or ‘Vacation with me Tim.’ Now I see older posts and realise you walked about, showing people different places before you began reviewing hotels!

It’s lovely seeing these kinds of articles, especially for those of us who don’t travel much. It kind of reminds me of the Tiffany’s store I wen to in West Edmonton Mall once, that seemed exhorbitant for a mall where typical families shopped. I only went once, as it had just opened and I was a little curious as to what their jewelry looked like. I remember staring at a bejewelled key on a chain and guessing the price at $2000. When I asked how much it really was and the salesman said “$10000,” I just said “Oh” and walked out. I never went back. Very pretty things to look at, but I wouldn’t want to buy anything from there. Harrod’s looks to be the same kind of thing. The bears are a nice touch, they seem very charming. The chocolate bon bons are twice the size of ordinary ones sold elsewhere and they don’t look too appetizing, to be honest. It’s funny to see single watches being encased in showcase boxes 1000 times their size. I would probably tour Harrod’s as if it was a museum more than a store.

I went with school to London for a week, half of people got in, the other half got rejected until someone said go check other doors and at the end i got in myself. It’s an experience and an adventure. But I’m not a fan of these kind of things. A watch will probably cost 50k over there while I’m here with my smartwatch that only cost 300 bucks, but to be fair? I am more fan of my own watch. Price doesn’t make something better or more beautiful.

We visited Harrods this summer, as we spent a couple of days in London on our way to Bath. We also bought a couple of things, among others, chocolate, biscuits, coffee, etc. and I must say, now after consuming them, they were expensive but otherwise nothing special…..I bought in Paris and in Zürich similar products.

My wife worked for Fortnum & Mason, they and Harrods staff would play practical jokes on one another. One that F&M played was to call Harrods Food Hall saying they were the Natural History Museum and that a dinosaurs bone had been broken. They explained the bone was very near the same shape as a ham bone, the cold meats sales person said they did not have a carved bone ready but would slice one and send it round. A bone duly arrived at the museum by cab. F&M called back to say Gotcha.

Late seventies lived and worked in Stanmore Middx : While shopping in central London, my first stop after 10.30 AM at Harrods fish hall for freshly opened oysters and a glass of dry white wine while standing up next to the spectacular daily fresh fish display it was a unic work of art. then some time later salt beef sandwich with rye bread, sweet pickles,good old english mustard and a beer at the Brass Rail Selfridges. those were the days. love from Algeria

I worked as a traineee buyer at Harrods in the 1970’s when it was House of Fraser owned and still truly British. I worked there the day we were bombed by the IRA. Never to be forgotten. Also those hideous months of power rationing when we worked alternate days with portable gas lamps on the counters. But people still shopped !

I went to London with my nan in 1985 to visit her sister for the first time since WW2 (her sister being married to a RAF pilot). She couldn’t speak a word English and I was five at the time. Her sister translated everything for her but she wanted to visit Harrods with me on her own. I can remember some shopworkers trying to speak German because next to French and her native Dutch it was the only foreign language she could speak. How offended she was when people mistook us for Germans 😂. Harrods was overwhelming to me, as if they sold everything you could want. My nan held on to her plastic shoppingbag from Harrods till the day she passed in 2004. We all brought back Harrods bags for our nan when we grandchildren started to travel to London on our own (or on a school excursion).

I used to work years ago for a Saudi Business man who had a house in Montpelier Walk round the corner from Harrods. It was basically furnished from there. He was a British educated Anglophile with extremely good taste. I stayed there a few times when in London and it was surreal for a young lad from Scotland.

About 1998 i was 26. Me and a mate randomly drove to London about 160 miles away one Saturday afternoon. Got lost the traffic spat us out conveniently in Soho parked in NCP then done some wondering round,went in Harrods had to pay a pound to use the toilet then bought a Harrods shopping bag for the sake of it qued up behind some Arab guy had a wodd of cash with his wife n kids all covered in that jehab dress stuff never seen it before back then you know just the eyes showing. Hit the bars ended up passing Peter Stringfellow’s went in even spoke to him on the dancefloor with his teenage gf, also seen a famous curly ginger pop star with a stripper sat on each knee at the public bar plus it was £7.50 a pint of stella which was outrageous as our local was about a pound plus it cost 25 each just to get in but we pretty pissed anyway n just stumbled apon the place. We tried to blag up stairs vip area but couldnt. Any way we ended up in some dodgy 24hr rave club bought a sniff of something then sunday night crawled back to my car after obviously being enticed into a room by a lovely lady in a red light shop window only to find for the last 30 hrs we just happened to pick the most expensive carpark in the UK i checked my balance for the first time just had anough in bank to get car out. Id spent over a thousand my life savings took me yrs to save me mate owed my 300 but didnt see that again,needless to say ive not bothered with London since. Cracking memory tho.