Christopher B.
Yelp
Having passed this mall every time I head towards Hartford (from out of state), I always tend to see this mall from I-84. I always tend to fail and resort to not going into this mall for some reason. However, today, when my brother looked at his GPS device and found this mall, my mind just didn't click that these two were the same. The directions were messed up but doable. But the fact of the matter is, when I got into this mall, I wasn't too thoroughly impressed with it. It's got two levels of stores, but those stores that are present, I kept chugging past. I was un-alerted to the fact that there's a parking garage here (until I checked the one and only map inside the mall later into my "walk".
I had parked down near Sears, so after leaving Sears and heading into the mall, the first thing I came to was the food-court. I had never seen such a tiny food-court this close to an end cap store-big chain department store. It had about 4 food places here (besides the IHOP later in the mall).
Now, after passing this, I walked down the corridor towards the Macy's entrance, so I did come around to seeing their glass elevator. It's rather large, but surrounded by what smelled a bit like cigarette smoke. I know there's a Gloria Jean's coffee shop nearby, but this shouldn't have caused that smell.
I did some shopping, though no items were bought at the Shopping World store - an imitation of Burlington Coat Factory paired with a HomeGoods store all in one location (along the same line as an Ollies, but selling some items piecemeal from Target Corp.) That was rather disappointing, but that's a story for someplace else.
During my time into this mall, I perused through the FYE location (which is nothing like any of the FYE's I know near me). It had no DVD's and few CD's, it had tons of miscellaneous goods but those were overpriced and due to sales taxes, I didn't really want to buy anything here.
Overall, although my brother and I were unimpressed with this mall, it's something to look into. I had seen tons of traffic in the mall with walkers galore, but I half expect most of those to be locals looking for a great shopping location and not much from travelers who are generally unimpressed with the selection of stores - much to the dismay of finding stores most would find elsewhere. Sorry.