Michaels

Good selection of items… Anything related to drawing, painting, arts and crafts. A bit more expensive than Hobby Lobby, which surprised me because the store looks kind of ugly and disorganized.

The poor girl at the register was totally overwhelmed. We came here during the day on a weekday and there was 8 people deep in line and they would not open another lane or assist her. This is not good. I would hate to see how many lanes they open on the weekend.

Excellent resource for school supplies, craft needs, holiday décor ideas… so much! I love this place for yarn, painting supplies, organizing baskets, floral arrangements, DIY invitations… I could go on forever. This trip I returned a couple items I received for Christmas. I already had these tools for knitting or I wouldn’t have required the return. The return process was easy with a gift receipt and I was issued store credit.

Always friendly people there. Only bad side is when they get a lot of people in line they don’t seem to open up extra registers to make it faster for checkout. Prices are moderate depending on what you’re looking for and you can get discounts there only place I shop for my arts and crafts.

Crafts, crafts, and more crafts! I like to go to Michaels because I feel they have a variety of supplies. It can get a bit overwhelming but the store has plenty of signs to direct you to the section you need. Every time I have gone there seems to be only 1 cashier and a line even though the store isn’t that busy. I recommend downloading the Michael’s app for the coupons!

Get more cashiers.

For the crafty enthusiast, next to Hobby Lobby this is an excellent place.

Wow. Crafts galore, anyone?
Well-​stocked and clean, this Michael’s is the place to hit up if you don’t have time to drive down to Samflax. The staff is really friendly and will try their hardest to give you whatever discounts are availabe (students get discounts and on Tuesdays, so do AARP members). The only bad thing would probably be the lack of staff members around; so if you need help, you’ll have to either scour every aisle or go to the front or flower area for help.

I really like this store and prefer coming here over Joann’s just across the street.
It’s always well kept and gives me great craft ideas. I do find it expensive, however, but really have been pleased with the quality of their products. I’ve also found their staff friendly — although I’ve never asked for help with anything but the checkout process has always been smooth.

Took my three year old daughter here tonight in the pouring rain and wind to paint flower pots for Halloween. Last Sunday they had a circular in the paper saying from 6−8pm they were having flower pot painting for the kids (if you purchase the flower pot) in honor of Halloween. We went through the b.s. of getting there through the traffic on Alafaya and the rain and arrived a few minutes after 7pm. We scurried through the downpour and into the store. We walked around looking for the area they were painting in and much to my dismay there wasn’t one. I found an associate in the store and stopped her long enough to ask if they were indeed hosting it. She looked at me as if I had horns and made it more than obvious that she was not happy I was interrupting her sticker arranging (or whatever menial task she was doing at the time) to ask her one simple question «Is your store hosting flower pot painting tonight from 6 – 8?» She had NO idea what I was talking about and knew nothing of it even though she worked there. She called up to the front registers and instead of relaying the question properly she asked curtly «Do you guys know if we are hosting flower pot painting classes in the near future?» I tried telling her again that this was a one time event for Halloween that was scheduled for tonight only… but she waved me off and flatly stated «They don’t know» and practically ran off before I could say anything else.
Disappointed and feeling terrible for my daughter who had her hopes up high to «Paint with Mommy» tonight I grabbed a Hello Kitty sticker book and headed for the registers upfront. When I mentioned to them as we were paying for our purchase how disappointed I was that I drove all the way for nothing… They just stared at me blankly, no apology and stated that since nobody was there at 6, they went ahead and closed down early. I reminded them that it was Friday, there is traffic and bad weather and what a shame that is for anyone that planned on coming and they couldn’t see it fit to fulfill what they had advertised which was two offer it for two measly hours…(Not like the store was packed and they couldn’t afford to assign one of their über friendly associates to manage it). Once again they said nothing.
I went home, and called the manager «Stephanie» at the store and voiced my concerns there. She said that the person running the event told them that it was only from 6 – 7 (their own flyer did NOT state that, it said 6 – 8) and they went ahead and closed at 7. I also made note that when I mentioned how poorly I felt I was treated by the young girl I had originally asked about the event she said NOTHING and once again NO APOLOGY was offered. She also never even asked who that person was. So I can only assume the surly girl I talked to was actually herself all along, or that she has not a care in the world as acting store manager whether her own staff treats their customers poorly.
I have had several instances at this location of shoddy customer service (i.e. When I ask them to fetch something for me off the shelf, etc.) This will be the last time for a LONG time if EVER that I return to this store. I find it odd that they spend quite a bit of money advertising in the Sunday paper every week and have Halloween events for kids to drum up extra business. They CHARGE you for the items they”re allowing you to decorate and yet they can’t even follow through with the advertisement to gain that potential revenue.
HOBBY LOBBY HERE I COME!

This Michael’s is bigger than the one in Oviedo and stocks more professional floral arrangements, which are gorgeous and reasonably priced!

Great new Michael’s store. The staff is super friendly and the store is always clean. Great selection of Rubber Stamps and Scrapbooking.
The only complaint is that it seems there is only one cashier on duty everytime I go in there so be prepared to wait in line.
Michael’s offers great coupons via email newsletters and an iPhone app!

super clean and new and gigantic. went with my daughter, ucf student, to get stuff for her class. reallllly nice. just like all the rest but not crowded and messy. staff were nice too.

I went to Michaels today for it’s opening day. I was looking for a certain type of gouache paint and to my surprise, 2 different employees were extremely knowledgeable on the subject and helped me to buy what I needed. A friend told me that Michaels has more fine art supplies than Jo-Ann’s and they were absolutely right! If you’re a UCF student in need of art supplies beyond what Jo-Ann’s has, but you don’t have a way of getting all the way down to Art Systems on SR 436, this location should be really convenient for your basic needs!