NatWest

This is a great branch! Recently redesigned there are some very funky new machines for paying in cash and cheques (pretty much the only reasons I ever need to come into branch these days)
The machine scans in your cheque and detects the amount it’s been made out for (good handwriting recognition skills!) and it even prints an image of it on your receipt if you like. How funky! (some may say I’m easily pleased!!!)
Never seems to be big queues any more when I bob down (usually on my lunchbreak) so I’m in and out quite quickly and painlessly, which is frankly, all I’m looking for in a bank!
So that’s about it! It’ll meet all your banking needs pretty quickly and easily with a bit of technological geekery. Hurrah.

This Natwest is the Goliath, the Big Daddy, the High Priestess of Natwests in Leeds. It is the largest Natwest and stands in pride of place in the banking district in Leeds near the Slug and Lettuce, HSBC and just around the corner from Tesco Metro.
I rarely need to visit here now, since moving nearer Headingley, but every so often there is the odd transaction that must take place and I will be in town to do so.
The plusses — there are more tellers here than the other Natwests which means service is faster, they have a helpdesk at the centre of the building which is actually helpful if you need advice, they have plenty of quick deposit and cash machines inside if you can’t/don’t need to wait to see a human being.
The minuses — with so many more tellers you will find the odd occasion when they are busier as everyone will come here and my favourite — they still close at 1.30pm on Saturdays, which is totally and utterly useless. If you work normal 9 – 5 days, like most of society, what might be handy is a bank that you can visit outside of your half hour lunch break or Saturday hangover. Useless, unhelpful, annoying … (enter bad word here).
Nothing much more exciting to report. It’s big. It’s a bank. That sort of thing.

I find this bank to be pretty efficient — the one near the markets is now a thing of the past for me since realising I culd go here. I don’t find the queues too bad and there are enough cash machines to provide a speedy service for withdrawals.

A bigger natwest than others in leeds. It has inside cash machines which is good for those who want a bit more security. Like most banks you have a long wait in queues, but overall, its good!

NatWest is a good bank on the whole, and this bank is laid out well and there are private rooms and comfortable seating areas, as well as cash machines and paying in machines and a customer service desk. Though whatever time you go in, there is bound to be a very long queue. Waiting about 15 – 30 minutes isn’t uncommon, I have found, which is really disgraceful for a city centre bank.