BIG STORES
Harrods
The mall Harrods is a great store that is placed in Brompton Road, a street of Knightsbridge's neighborhood, in full center of the city of London. Besides the stores, the group Harrods possesses the Bank Harrods, the real estate agency Harrods and the air line Harrods.


Harrods London has a surface of about 20.000 square metres distributed into five floors. The closest underground is Knightsbridge.
The current owner of the store of London is the Egyptian magnate Mohamed Al. Recently, these stores have been rewarded with Imperial Mark - a former royal certificate with more than three hundred years of antiquity, after being taken off of the royal certificate of the duke of Edinburgh.
Harrods is in 87-135 of Brompton Road, its schedules are from Monday until Saturday of 10:00 to 20:00 and on Sundays of 12:00 to 18:00.


History
Harrods had origins in the East End of London at the beginning of the reign of queen Victoria. In 1835, Charles Henry Harrod established the shop in the sidewalk of opposite his house, in Stepney. Harrods, worried by the epidemic of cholera that was flogging London, knew a merchant who wanted to get away from the rent of a store of ultramarine in Knightsbridge, that´s why the shop was moved in 1849 to what at the time was the semi-rural Brompton Road.

Harrods grew and the shop acquired several contiguous buildings. It had a great transformation in 1861 when Harrod's son, Charles Digby Harrod, took charge of the business. On December 6, 1883, a fire destroyed the buildings of the stores, giving to the family the occasion to reconstruct them to a bigger scale.

In 1959 the House Fraser bought the stores. Harrods has been attacked by IRA in three occasions. It suffered many hurts but in spite of it re –opened before three days . Harrods was bought by the brothers Al in 1985 by 615 million pounds, since then the space of sales has been extended to include those who before were zones for the personnel and the storage, on the top basement and the floors.


TO EAT IN HARRODS

Certainly, why not ... in Harrods it is also possible to eat, and they are multitude of restaurants of Different types :
- American type, years 70
- Self-service, to eat rapidly,
- Japanese
- The luxurious Georgian, with a pianist chhering the food.
– A Spanish restaurant of snacks (tapas-bar).

As a curiosity we have to say that in Harrods's restaurants we will be able to taste Harrods beer, exquisite but expensive, a very typical exquisiteness of London.


Buy in Harrods

These most famous big stores are in Knghtsbridge's zone, closely together of Hyde park or Buckingham's palace, for saying some references known. They raise in a majestic and unmistakable building in the most animated commercial street. Harrods is one more point of any tourist visit to London and it is obvious on having entered that one sees many people walking and being photographed but a few buying. And it is that Harrods has reputation of being expensive, a bit in the general line of London, though since in everything there are products to better prices and everything depends on the pocket of the visitor.


Harrods has 7 floors.

The lower ground :




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Vocabulary

¿En qué planta se encuentra la ropa de. . .?
- What floor does one find women's clothes?
- What floor does one find men’s clothes?
- What floor does one find children's clothes?


¿ Cuánto cuesta esto?
How much does this cost?

¿ Se puede pagar … ?
-Can I pay with credit card / con tarjeta de crédito
-Can I pay in cash? / en efectivo

¿Dónde está el punto de Información?
-Where is the Information point ?

¿Tienes de esta prenda una talla . . .?
-Have you a bigger size of this . . . ? /Más grande
-Have you a smaller size of this . . .?/Más pequeña


¿Cuál es el restaurante . .?
-Which is the cheapest restaurant? / Más barato
-Which is the most expensive restaurant? / Más caro
-Which is the restaurant with best food? / Con mejor comida

¿Dónde estan los baños?
-Where are the toilettes?

¿Me puede indicar por donde salir?
-Can you indicate me the exit?

¿Cuánto cuesta el parking?
-How much does the parking cost?