Originally Posted by
sydunipete
It also depends on what you're looking for. Most shopping centres (Westfield, Macquarie Centre) have the usual run of major stores, but there are also specialist centres such as DFO for more outlet style stores and Homemaker Centres if you're looking for larger items (but I presume not).
Macquarie Centre is a good size with a wide range of stores and eating places. It's also easily accessible from the CBD by train/metro and bus (slower and less comfortable).
If you want to make a day of it, Macquarie Centre is a short bus ride from North Ryde shopping centre and a bit further still to Rhodes which has a good Vietnamese style food outlet doing decadent Banh Mis with fresh roasted pork, rice noodle salads and rice paper rolls.
I'm not looking for anything specific. I've been to Sydney twice in my life and each time just visit the tourist sites and walk around CBD as that's where unusually stay. I'll also be staying at the Sheraton Hyde Park for my upcoming trip. I guess I want to see what the malls in Australia are like? Not that I'm saying it's special or what not. I just want to check them out. I don't expect to shop much or things to be cheaper than the US.
Originally Posted by
IMOA
Gotta say, I work in Macquarie park and the idea that someone would want to go to Macquarie centre is a little frightening, it’s somewhere you go if you have to get something but it’s not somewhere I could imagine visiting by choice. Personally I’d get off the train a few stops earlier in Chatswood, the shopping centres aren’t as big as Macquarie but put them together and they’re bigger which a much more interesting variety of stores.
What's wrong with the mall? What are these interesting stores that you have in mind?