First visit to Ikea.

Gautama

I'm paying my first visit to Ikea tomorrow afternoon and have a couple of basic questions.

As I'll be arriving there about lunchtime, I'll grab a bite. Is the Ikea restaurant outside or inside the main store? And if inside, is it easy to get to or do I need to traverse the aisles first?

For arguments sake, say I was to just pick up one piece of furniture, how long would it typically take me to get from the front door to the exit door?

Thanks.

me_irl

As far as I can remember, when you go up the first escalators inside you'll notice the tills. Just on the left there is the restaurant.

Bit of advice I wouldn't bother going up the stairs again, just continue "backwards" through the flatpacks as I felt it was setup like a rat maze of showrooms.

They've probably changed it since... !

GarIT

Gautama wrote: »

I'm paying my first visit to Ikea tomorrow afternoon and have a couple of basic questions.

As I'll be arriving there about lunchtime, I'll grab a bite. Is the Ikea restaurant outside or inside the main store? And if inside, is it easy to get to or do I need to traverse the aisles first?

For arguments sake, say I was to just pick up one piece of furniture, how long would it typically take me to get from the front door to the exit door?

Thanks.

There is a place to eat after the tills, there is also one at the start but I'm not sure how you get into it, I've never done it that way.

The shop is laid out like a path you have to follow, it is over 2km, so it's a 30 min walk if you don't look at anything. I've done it in 45 mins alone when I knew what I wanted, and I've been there for over 4 hours when with a partner who wanted to look at everything. It really depends on what you look at and how quick you walk.

maximoose

Gautama wrote: »

Is the Ikea restaurant outside or inside the main store? And if inside, is it easy to get to or do I need to traverse the aisles first

Inside, as you enter and go up the stairs it's on the left. It's usually bunged.

For arguments sake, say I was to just pick up one piece of furniture, how long would it typically take me to get from the front door to the exit door?

The top floor (where you enter) is basically a product showroom, and the restaurant.

If you know what you are after go onto the website and take a note of the Aisle and Location numbers, skip the first floor and go straight downstairs to the warehouse and you can pick up your stuff and be out in no time.

Graham

When you get to the top of the stairs the main cafeteria is right behind you.

The shop is like a guided path but there are several short-cut doors on the main floor. You'll probably miss them if you haven't been there before.

Alternatively, when you've eaten, take the lift straight down to the marketplace on the ground floor. That will skip half the trek, keep an eye out for more shortcut doors on the ground floor, OR

as you get out of the lift on the market floor, look over your left shoulder. There's a corridor straight to the side of the tills.

My record is 15 minutes in and out with 2 new sofas