The Oracle Shopping Centre

The Oracle is great, a place for everyone really. OAPS, young children, busy mums and even miserable teenagers take delight in wandering around. Wide variety of shops, and plenty of cafes and restaurants. Tbh, it’s pretty awesome. But because of this fact it does get rather busy, but if you don’t spend the whole time complaining about the other people in YOUR shopping centre, you’ll have a great time.

The Oracle is all it was planning on being: a great venue for shopping, eating and night entertainment.
By day, you can buy high street desinger clothing from Morgan to Timberland and by night you can go drinking, dancing or to the ten screen cinema.
The only downside is there’s nowhere you can quickly grab a chocolate bar or packet of sweets to give you that sugar rush needed when shopping.

A decent layout for a mall and a good selection of both independent and chain stores offering a diverse shopping experience.
The mall is easy to navigate and, even when busy, does not feel crowded. All the main names are here and the department stores such as Debenhams are vast and competitively priced.
Car parking is good and not too expensive.
The mall also offers a nice selection of food outlets.

The oracle is the best place to go
has wide variety of shops from boots, debhanhams, new look, H&M and very expensive House of fraiser
you get excellent fresh juice in the first floori love it.

Wer is Reasind ist kommt unweigerlich am Oracle vorbei. Ich will nicht sagen, dass Reading nicht mehr zu bieten hätte, allerdings muss ich sagen, dass es schon eins der großen Hightlights ist ;) Kleine und auch größere Geschäfte findet ihr hier. Klamotten, Dessous, Parfum und jede Menge Nippes, eigentlich ist hier für jeden Etwas dabei. Und wenn nicht,. wenn ihr bis zum Ende des Orackes geht gelangt ihr direkt in die Innenstadt von Reading mit viiielen vieeelen anderen Geschäften und spätestens JETZT ist man pleite :)

The oracle is a indoor shopping mall, with lots of main high street names being located there, such as HMV and Debenhams. it also has a wide variety of food from old orleans to the slug and lettuce.

The Oracle shopping centre is a multi-​story complex that has a wide variety of clothes and entertainment shops. There are also several restaurants in and around the centre, which cater for all tastes.
Although the centre is often very busy, the complex is large, light and spacious so it does not get too crowded most of the time.
There are maps and signposts around so you can find your way if you get lost looking for a particular store.

I live 5 minutes walk from the Oracle shopping centre and go there either for shopping, a meal or just a walk about once a week.
the Kennet Canal flows through the middle of it, cutting the Vue cinema and some restaurants and parking off from the main Oracle.
The range of shops, cafes and restaurants is fantastic.
well worth going to do your christmas shopping.
Traffic can be a problem at weekends.

There is defintely something for everyone in the Oracle, Reading. A comprehensive enclosed shopping centre with a wide range of shops to cover most people’s needs. The centre is propped up at either end with big department stores (Debenhams & House of Fraser) and in the centre there are of clothes shops, book shops, jewellers, perfume counters, a hairdresser and plenty of coffee shops to sustain you whilst you go bargain hunting.
If you are looking for something more substantial to eat on the riverside there are a wide range of fast food units and restaurants /​bars. If it all becomes too much there is even a cinema to relax in after a hard days shopping.

You have to love the Oracle. If you remember just how bad shopping in Reading was before the nice clean white interior of the Oracle was constucted as a litttle oasis of heaven in Reading, then you know what I mean!
They have (almost) everything under one roof, and even better you can park insideso if its raining you need never know! the only thing I would say is it can be little busy of a weekend afternoon!

I love the Oracle! Really good shopping centre, centrally located in Reading and offering ample parking apart from peak times like Christmas (stay away then). Loads of high quality shops packed into one area so you don’t have to walk miles carrying heavy bags. The riverside area is a great places for restaurants and there is a huge choice of different eateries. Great for a day out!

The Oracle has been awarded several awards since it opened in 2000. These include the Police safer parking accreditation The Park Mark Award, BCSC & ICSC Awards for Best New Shopping Centre 2001, and they have even won and award for Winner of the Loo of the Year 2001 and 2002. It stands to reason then that this is a pretty decent shopping centre.
The entire mall, as well as the Riverside, is always spotless, with waste bins in several convenient locations, of which are seen to be emptied regularly. The Oracle is also a complete non-​smoking zone, although areas within The Riverside and its bars and restaurants do have smoking areas.
The choice of restaurants, bars and retail outlets far surpasses anything in the nearby towns.
I would highly recommend it for a day out!

A great variety of shops within a vaguely compacted space (or at least it’s not traumatic to get from one end to the other) located in the centre of town. You can find almost anything you want here and once you’ve shopped til you’ve dropped it’s not far to go to treat yourself to a meal out or a film at Vue cinema. The one big negative to this place is the cost of the parking, but if you can get here via any other means then it’s irrelevant.

Very clean and modern, with loads of great shops if you have the money for them, set out over two levels, mainly clothes shops and department stores, but also a games shop, hmv, body shop, a couple of phone shops and a large boots. Oh and a millies cookies too :)
But my favourite thing about the oracle is the bit along the riverside, it has loads of restaurants and bars of all different types, there are loads to choose from.
You can’t beat sitting out in the sun by the river, watching the world go by with a cocktail and maybe a doughnut to nibble on.
The parking is really good too, a huge multistorey, right next to the shopping centre. The train station is just down the road and there are loads of buses available too.
The cinema is good too :)

Large shopping centre in Reading. Great place to shop, large selection of stores. The Riverside offers a great selection of food places as well as some eating places within the shopping centre.
Parking can be a little pricey and the car park can get a little busy at times, but there’s very few shops missing from the Oracle.
Offers great links into the town centre too.

Lovely place, certainly in the summer it’s beautiful outside. Good selection of shops. I personally find it all very generic and over-​priced, but that’s just how malls are.

My oh my, what a wonderful place to shop! This is a mecca for shoppers, 2 floors full of Retail heaven, with the largest of stores inside. The Boots in there has 2 floors to explore, and there are all the usual suspects, House of Fraser, HMV, Mango, Zara, The Disney store, New look and many more.
It backs on to the Riverwalk, a gorgeous place to go for an evening, with a choice of eateries, Nandos, the Slug and Lettuce and of course McDonalds. There is a Vue Cinema, and some Bars on either side of the river, with bridges to walk accross, and deep steps that you can sit on in the sun to eat your sarnies.
You could spend a full day and evening here.

The oracle shopping centre is a amazing place to shop with a variety of many different shops you will never have nowhere to go. You could grab a bite to eat in one of the many shops and resteraunts like subway, burger king and mcdonalds, or you could go for a peacfull walk down by the riverside. Whatever you decide to do, it will be your best ever shopping experience.