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( World Famous Up Market Department Store )





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Harrods Official Web Site Harrods at Night

The original Harrods Store in Knightsbridge offers a worthwhile experience even for those for whom shopping is a turn off. The 4,000 staff at Harrods includes 500 specialists embracing 72 different nationalities. Experts in almost every department advise on each and every aspect of the store's 1.2 million goods and 50 separate services.

Many departments have their own separate advice desks to answer customer queries. The attention to detail is endless
Most people marvel at the luxury merchandise and services only purchasing a bag of sweets from the food hall. But ...

The store occupies a 4.5-acre site and has over one million square feet of selling space in over 330 departments. This makes Harrods one of the largest department stores in the world.

The store's 330 departments offer a wide range of products and services. Products on offer include clothing for every sort of customer (women, men, children, and infants), electronics, jewellery, sporting gear, bridal trousseau, pet accessories, toys, food and drink, health and beauty items, packaged gifts, stationery, housewares, home appliances, furniture, and much more.

A representative sample of store services includes 28 restaurants, serving everything from high tea to tapas to pub food to haute cuisine; a personal shopping-assistance programme known as "By Appointment"; a watch repair service; a tailor; a dispensing pharmacy; a beauty spa and salon; a barbers shop; Harrods Financial Services; Harrods Bank; private events planning and catering; food delivery; a wine steward; bespoke (customised) "picnic" hampers and gift boxes; bespoke cakes; and bespoke fragrance formulations.

Up to 300,000 customers visit the store on peak days. More than five thousand staff from over fifty different countries work at Harrods. A fleet of fifty delivery vehicles make up to 225,000 deliveries every year. Approximately 11,500 energy-efficient light bulbs turn Harrods into a beacon of light each night.

Opening Hours 
Main Store
Monday to Saturday 10.00am – 8.00pm
Sunday 12.00pm – 6.00pm

Selected food halls
Monday to Saturday 9.00am -9.00pm
Sunday 12.00pm-6.00pm


Getting to Harrods:
Harrods is adjavent to Knightsbridge Underground Station in the Piccadilly Line.
The store is a short 5-10 minute walk to the South Kensington Museums at the next station down the line at South Kensington.
The very popular hop on, hop off London tour buses of course also stops at Harrods.

The tour bus is on the Museum Link service that connects the museums at South Kensington just of the road from Harrods to the British Museum.
Most of the main department stores and showcase stores for the chains in London are not near Harrods but along Oxford Street.

Self Guided Kensington Walk Including Kensington Gardens/Hyde Park
Join us on our step by step self guided walking tour of London's Kensington district.
We start with a walk in the park, Kensington Gardens visiting Kensington Palace then on past the Albert Hall to South Kensington Museums before ending in Knightsbridge for Harrods and Harvey Nichols Department Stores.

Simple to follow instructions and street map and best of all its FREE!

Kensington Walk Details

Harrods Department Store

Self Guided London Shopping Walk Including Harrods
Join us on our step by step self guided walking tour of London's shopping districts.
Besides the department stores of Oxford Street we visit the specialist shopping districts, Saville Row, China Town, Bond Street, Charing Cross Road .. before ending in Knightsbride for Harrods and Harvey Nichols Department Stores.

Simple to follow instructions and street map and best of all its FREE!

London Shopping Walk Details

Oxford Street Department Store