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Florida Mall is located on the intersection of Sandlake Road and OrangeBlossom Trail. It’s a covered and air conditioned mall, so it’s ideal for hotdays to cool off or wet days to keep dry. It’s the largest mall in central Florida with some 250 stores and a foodhall. It’s open from 10 am to 9pm Monday to Saturday and Noon to 6pm onSundays. So depending on your shopping threshold you can spend anything from aday to a few hours in the evening shopping. We normally go late afternoons fora couple of hours and then for a meal in one of the local restaurants. The mall has 3 major department stores Dillard’s, J C Penny and Sears. Allthree are very much like Debenhams in the UK, in fact Debenhams has models itsself on one of them. While these department stores carry similar stocks, besure to visit them all to compare prices before you buy, as unlike the UK, thereis often a price difference between them for the same product. Compared to theUK prices for clothes are very competitive, I buy my casual trousers (Hagger orDockers) and shirts (Hagger checks) there at one third to half of prices in theUK. Levis are also a good buy, but you’ll probably get a better price at theBelz or Premium discount Malls (however beware as these discount Malls can carryseconds and ends of lines). Two must visit stores for teenagers are “Abercrombie & Fitch” and “Old Navy”who sell fashionable casual clothes. Abercrombie & Fitch, are quite expensivebut very fashionable, the music in the store is great, but loud. Be sure tocheck the sales rack, normally at the back end of the store. Old Navy are muchcheaper and carry some good quality clothes. Tee shirts, shorts, trousers andjeans are the better buys. There are many many other stores selling everything from CD’s, sweets (candy)to the latest fashions. There is even a Clarks Shoe store. So, shoppers willhappily browse for hours. The food hall is large and very noisy at busy times. It has a wide choice oftypes of food with everything from a Subway Sandwich to Thai food to Pizza, sothere will be something for everyone. Alternatively try Ruby Tuesdays, which isadjacent to the food hall. They have a good bar with draft and bottled beersfor those that have a low shopping threshold. The food is good and they have agreat self service salad bar. Alternatively try the Olive Garden which is justoutside the Mall on the opposite corner of the Sand Lake Road/Orange Blossomtrail intersection, for Pasta and Pizza. Some tips - The car park is huge. Ensure you remember what entrance you used andwhere your car is in relation to the entrance – otherwise you will struggle tofind it again
- Films are released on DVD in the US before the UK. However, don’t buyDVD’s unless your home player is multi regional. The US is DVD region 1 andthe UK is region 2.
- Don’t buy games (i.e. Play station games). The US TV standard is NTSC andUK is PAL, so NTSC games won’t work on UK TV’s.
- US music CD’s work fine in the UK
- Take a tape measure to measure clothes if you are buying for someone elseas US sizes are different to the UK’s.
- Goods can be bought with Credit or Debit cards. Also most stores willaccept US Dollar Traveller Cheques as if they were cash, and will givechange. I’d suggest carrying some form or picture ID as stores sometimes askfor these.
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