Isle of Wight Reviews 

Jingle bell Christmas shop in Shanklin, superb service bought a item in 2023 while visiting. Telephoned Lisa to see if I could get another item mailed to me.
Lisa was so helpful ordered on a Sunday arrived by the Tuesday, great service well done.

I got an appointment at Barnetts hair salon on Friday 1st September, where Jo the owner hacked at my hair,
I stupidly was persuaded to have it coloured the following Friday and had a conversation with Jo about what she was going to do , she said she was going to give me a base colour of brown,got her colour book out and persuaded me to go for bright copper colour going through it using foils she said it would take about two hours. The following Friday 8th September I arrived for my appointment. I sat in the chair she asked what are we doing today I said I was having it coloured, what did we agree on she asked so I said a base colour of brown with bright copper running through it using foils you said, she got her colour book out and looked and then said which one , pointing at the hair samples I said one of those, sha then said is there anything else there you like so I said how about the red, thats nice a bit bright she said, I don't mind I said thinking that I was going to have red running through my hair. At NO point did Jo say she did not have the time to do my hair the way we agreed. She mumbled something about needing a base colour and went off out the back. A few minutes later she returned with two colour mixing bowls, then proceeded to start colouring my hair, not with a base colour just with the bright red. Whenshe had finished she said it would be ready at 2.10, while she was putting hte colour on my hair she said that she was short staffed
one stylist had gone to a wedding, one was on holiday and one had phoned in sick. Why she did not tell me she did not have the time to do my hair the way we agreed I do not know. When I saw the end result I was upset it was not what I wanted at all and she knew it. This woman is vile, she was so rude .
She more or less banged my head with the hair brush when she was blow drying it , all because I said I did not like it , it was not what we talked about the week before. She then took me to the till had the absolute
cheek to charge me £72.00 for a crappy colour and cut. Her attitude was F*** off! Then if you don't like it. I am surprised she has any customers. If you can't do something the way you agreed to do it just explain, a choice of a wash and blow dry, or if she said I could have an all over tint I would have chosen a different colour but she never said anything , all she was interested in was getting the money for a really bad job! Don't go there EVER!! A HORRIBLE WOMAN

The needles chair lift is well worth a visit. £8 to go on the chair lift return and you can get off at the bottom if you wish to go onto the beach then you can get the chair lift back up.
Lovely view of the Needles

We had expert advice on a new battery charger for our car / van. Such a pleasant experience to talk to an expert . We ended up buying a slightly better product than intended - more expensive , everything about our buying experience was excellent . Well done Halfords

Avoid car hire on Isle of Wight.
Best to use buses and taxis though these may add to travel time.
In spite of being very careful to avoid the high level of parking restrictions on Isle of Wight in September 2022 (off peak), we were not surprised to receive a £95 fine via Enterprise.
Visitors are advised Not to use the little London car park at Sea Street Newport PO30 5BW where the payment system is not intuitive.