It has the goods, literally. The only place you will find more brand new goods in Sydney is Westfield mall in Pitt street or the one at Bondi Junction, or if you have a credit card and an internet connection, on eBay, Amazon or aliexpress.com.
The best part of this mall is that it has an Aldi, which means you can do an entire shopping cart worth of groceries in under $50, and for the two things you didn't' find in Aldi, Coles will happily charge you your other $50.
You can drive, you can park, shop, eat, watch movies, go to the gym, buy clothes and even play video games. The only thing it's missing is a hotel to sleep in and you could stay there forever. Actually, maybe there is a hotel there because there always seems to be a heaps load of people just walking around. They are not zombies, for they are clearly responding to all the shop window fronts, though Australian prices would cause even the zombies from the walking dead to react in shock and awe.
The mall even has a gift card shop and a post office, so you can stay in touch with your loved ones if you get lost in there.
If you value your sanity, don't attempt to buy clothes in this here mall. While it is a real mall, all the clothing shops interposed b/w juice counters and apple stores and bankrupt dick smiths and what not just give of a dead, sad vibe. Like this where all the uncool people come to shop because they can no longer be pushed to go to the cbd to buy some spiffy clothes. Sure, the cbd has the exact same outlets, but at least you have a chance of getting hit by some sunlight or rain out there.
To quantify the rating in a numerically robust method:
Pros:
+2 stars for Aldi
+2 star for the Hoyts Cinema
+1 star for the AC in the summer
+1 star for the fact you can't conceivably starve here, long as you have money or friends with money who frequent the mall
+5 stars that u can park in this mall for free and walk to Malacca straits just a block away for lunch/dinner - it's awesomely awesome. So awesome that it gives Mamak a run for its money. Buy a drink from liquor land and head over to Malacca. This will be your best day at the mall ever. Do it.
Cons:
-2 stars for the overpriced popcorn at Hoyts and the shit movies
-1 stars for the AC destroying the very world
-3 stars for the soul crushingly boring food court whose very highlight is a sad sad Nandos competing with a Subway for title of best food in the mall.
-1 star for the completely interchangeable kMart and Target stores. For the life of me I can't figure out what the difference is or why I would go into one over the other. WHAT THE F IS THE DIFF B/W THEM? Why can't they merge and save the world much angst from this existential question? I once had a dustbin to buy but it's just too much to choose b/w these two stores so I went all the way to Ikea and bought one there instead.
-2 stars for having a shit ass store called Home something which ALWAYS has a 60-80% going out of business sale.
-1 star for the way overpriced book store. It's Amazon's best advertisement in Australia. One look at the prices convinced me to buy a Kindle and save 80% on most books. read more