It’s not often that I get overwhelmed shopping - lets face it they don’t call me the Shopping Queen for nothing and yes all the stories are mostly true - but today was definitely a first for me, even if it was only temporary.

We decided, in our infinite wisdom whilst on holiday in Auckland, visiting Dress Smart at Onehunga Mall on the middle weekend and when it was really raining outside, was a good idea.  Well it seemed like such a good way to spend an afternoon, until we got there.  Why should we assume that half of Auckland didn’t have the same idea, come on, really, they can go anytime.   Why today?

Our first experience of ‘How to go shopping in the most stressful way’ was entering the car park.  You see there seems to be no rules at peak times, it appears you can park anywhere, you don’t have to give way to your right and even if you see a car park first it doesn’t automatically guarantee it’s yours.  Note to self, need to swat up on car park rules at peak times.

So once that was out of the way we proceeded to wait politely at the elevator and arrived on the top floor, as the doors opened I don’t think I could believe my eyes.  Everybody was there and they seemed to have brought their friends too.  I was paralysed, couldn’t work out which direction was best to go in as there didn’t seem to be much room anywhere.

The walkway between the rows of stores isn’t very wide so three people and a couple of their friends can make it look busy, the shape of the Mall is the most confusing I have ever seen and there is a huge degree of what’s a bargain and what’s not.  I mean the Max store  had everything under $50.00, yet the Cue store apart from the rack down the back could have been in Newmarket, the prices weren’t low at all.

All this aside, if you block all the people out and focus which I did there are some really good bargains to be found.  We bought a Wetsuit from the Ripcurl shop which I have been looking for, a fantastic Puma jacket below half price and my husband actually bought a new suit.  Wow I know, didn’t we do well and we came away very pleased with our purchases saying yes we would definitely go again.

www.dress-smart.co.nz  has all the information you need, there is a free bus service from the city Monday to Friday and the timetable and locations are on the website.

151 Arthur Street, Onehunga, Auckland.
PHONE 09 622 2400

Directions

From Southern Motorway
Take Greenlane East exit. Turn into Greenlane Rd. Left into Great
South Rd. Right into Campbell Rd for approx 2Km. Left into
Onehunga Mall Rd. Left at roundabout into Arthur St.

Public Transport Guide
Phone Maxx 09 366 6400
www.maxx.co.nz

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