Chadstone Shopping Centre

The three stars are for the range of stores (including some specialty food counters) and for the public transit. I can knock out a visit to Target, Coles, KMart, and JB HiFi all in one fell swoop. Plus, I can take the bus. It is crowded with teenagers, like all shopping centers and the shops are all the same — pretty boring. But, the convenience, especially as the only person in Melbourne without a car, sometimes wins out. And with 10 different bus routes plus a shuttle from the City, it has convenience in spades.

With Macquarie Centre (or Macquazza if you’re in the know) being heavily renovated I haven’t been to a real shopping centre in months. Enter Chadstone. I have heard about this place for years, driven past numerous times when in Melbourne but never been in.
Although I was excited to see my friend, I wasn’t that excited about the shopping centre itself. Oh what a fool I have been. Chadstone Shops is actual magic. Everything here is a better class of shop. Better cafes, better brands, better people wondering around all day making you wonder if the unemployment rate is worse than they say. Everything here sparkles like a tween vampire.
One drawback is that Melbourne transport isn’t actually that great outside the city centre so if you’re coming to Chaddy its drive, cab or the shuttle bus from Flinders St which only leaves at 10am and collects you at 3pm leaving you held hostage in «the Largest Shopping Centre in the Southern Hemisphere». Whatever. You wait till Mac Centre is finished Chaddy. Just you wait.

personally i don’t like it… but it is the biggest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere (so they say)… it’s got most things that you want in a shopping centre apart from enough car parks… on certain days sometimes it can take forever to find a space… this is probably one of the biggest reason why i don’t like chandstone… who really wants to spend more time looking for a car park than being inside the centre it self (yes i know first world problems :). if your looking for expensive designer crap then you’ll find them here but if your looking for cheap china made things as well then you will also find them here… as i said at the start it’s got most of what you want from a shopping centre…

Chadstone is a great place do come & do your shopping it has everything from Gucci to Kmart & everything in bettween.
The Cinema is being updated it won’t reopen till 2016 which is a bummer it will be worth it though with an imax in the planning.
There are so many food outlets there are 2 food courts & many restaurants so your not short of anything to choose from.

The day after chadstone’s VIP day is probably not the best day to plan a major spree here. A number of shops had run out of sizes. Staff seemed a little lack lustre.

Somewhere between the worst day of High School and Dante’s seventh circle of hell you’ll find a way to understand the abject horror and meaningless toil of Chadstone.
Big, dumb and full of mass-​prestige labels for big, dumb wallets, this is not so much a practical place for all your shopping needs but a way to spend a month of wages on a pair of Louboutins that really don’t suit you.
There’s a handful of okay food shopping and some discount stores. But chiefly, this is a church for the tasteless and inexplicably affluent.

Chaddy is the shiz. I love indoor shopping centres and once you sell your soul for a car park and get inside, there’s so much to do. I think most people could find shops here to suit their tastes and budgets. There’s even a pet store for your fur friends. Once you’re done shopping, there’s a food court and a couple of other fancier restaurants to get your grub on. You can go bowling or watch a movie. Literally, you could spend all day here having fun and frankly you’d want to to justify the whole car park thing. The centre itself is bright, clean and quite swanky (especially compared to Fountain Gate, Southland etc). Can’t wait to go back.

I really try to enjoy this place every time I go! But as I live in the city
1. I am the biggest city snob you’ll know, so i much prefer small business over massive franchises anyday
2. It’s not the easiest trying to get out there via public transport. So you can only imagine the fun I had bringing a vacuum cleaner that I bought from their back home.
I received some Westfield gift vouchers to spend and had a hard time trying to find some cool stuff to buy, and spent it as shops like Kmart and Myers of which was nothing different to what I could of achieved in the city.
However it is a really nice shopping centre! Massive and has sooo many shops, from your high end Paris end to your down town Brooklyn end! It’s a good mix

I think some shopping centres are just too big and maybe Chadstone is one of them. It’s renowned for it’s amazing shopping selection and fair enough, it’s good. Chadstone us where you go if you want to go shopping in Melbourne, right? Certainly ever since I can remember anyway.
Not really. You can find all these stores anywhere around Melbourne generally, it’s just they’re all in the ones spot here and that’s what makes it good!
Plus there’s a huge Apple store and we all love Apple don’t we? Can’t live without it.
Chaddy is a little out of my way, especially not driving… but if you want it all in one spot, Chaddy’s your man.
Have fun shopping, buy me something nice won’t you? It’s just been my birthday and I didn’t get any presents.
Thank you.

Great shopping centre. The place is massive. You can find anything you need here and more.
Parking can be a nightmare
Wear comfortable shoes as you will be doing a lot of walking. Bit there is plenty of nice places to stop and have a coffee or a bite to eat.
A visit to chadstone is a must

All my friends and colleagues love Chadstone! I know why they do now…
If you don’t mind being on your feet for a whole day and doing a fair bit of walking, then you’re gonna love it. Otherwise, don’t even think about it or do visit but book yourself in for a myotherapy session the next day!
Chaddy (as they call it!) has literally everything — from Computers & Electronics: Apple (I love Apple!), JB Hifi, Dick Smith to fashion retailers (it is after all the fashion capital of the world): Armani Exchange, FCUK, Armani Jeans, Ben Sherman, Super Dry, Bossini, Burberry, CK to name a few… Various eateries: Burger Edge, Wagamama, Salsas, Sushi Izakaya, Jones the Grocer, Laurent and heaps more; banks: BankWest, HSBC etc… Hoyts CInemas and plenty more.
I was not that impressed with the layout before but, since it’s been renovated, it looks pretty good now.
The only downsides that I can think of really are that it’s quite a fair way out of the CBD and the only way to get there is by car of by bus. You could take the train to Hughesdale station but you’d have to walk about 15 mins. It’ll take you some time trying to find a car park as well as it’s generally so busy all the time.
It’s worth the trip though and a definite must if you’ve got friends or family visiting from overseas.

There are more stores in this shopping centre than I need. Its not all about my needs.
But if you need anything be sure to rely and expect to find the best stores in this shopping centre.
If you are wondering what is it that they have. Well go and check it out. I am not going to tell you.
OK! OK! I will tell you a few that I remember is Nike, Adidas, Apple Store, Myer, Zarra, Oxfod, yd, Kmat, Pappa Rich, Noodle Box, Hoyts Cinemas heaps more that I don’t have the time to tell you about it.

One of the largest shopping center in Victoria.
This is the place where your sense of direction put into test. Try to visit this place for the first time, without any help about any directions in the building.

While its an amazing place to look at, I really dont feel that they have enough there to bring in the shoppers. «What do you mean by enough?» I hear you all ask! Well I feel that there are not quite enough specials in this shopping centre, and when there are specials they all seem to be marked up!
Great to look at, not so great to shop.

Instead of prison, they should just hand out sentences to people to
drive around the suburb sized car park of Chadstone for an entire 24 hours.
The trick would be to manage to find a car space at the most possible closest
space to the front door several times an hour, or Even get a car park that isn’t
some 13 miles from the entry point in the first place. It’s absolute bedlam here.
To try and park without going into a misanthropic seizure of absolute
rage and frustration at the inordinate amount of time it takes to find a space is a tall order. More so when there’s fifty other cars competing for every space.
Let’s not for get the mind benignly confusing directions, as well as the 4 levels of car park hell, that are on some strange alignment, and when you attempt to meet friends, you are in the same spot but two different locations simultaneously.
Then trying to exit the location from a different point then you entered and trying to
figure out how the right direction to get back home, without a Melway or Gps.
The end of the sentence would be a four hour shopping marathon where you wont
be fed, and have to carry everything back to your car.
The end result of which you will be stuffing about in the car park for several
hours banked up behind a seemingly endless on slaught of cars, just to exit the place. But before you go, you have to do a lap of the surrounds and try to figure
out just where exactly, on earth you are.
Oh look, One star

my cousins took me here because it’s «the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere»…just so i can say i’ve been there
S.: that’s not hard, considering there’s only africa and south america to compete with
HAHAHA! alright~ with that said
size/​/​*****
this thing was definitely quite big, but hands down only about the size of a random mall in Shanghai or the one at the chunnel exit in France
stores/​/​**
not anything i remembered or would buy, but that’s also because most of the stores carried at the shopping centres have comparable alternatives elsewhere

Chadstone Shopping Centre is the largest mall in the southern hemisphere and whether you love the place or hate it, that fact is still certainly something to be proud of.
Personally, I find Chadstone a very useful commodity for consumers.
~ Coles and Woolworths for groceries.
~ JB Hi-​Fi and Dick Smith for your electronics.
~ Fashion boutiques (what mall doesn’t have these?!).
~ Loads of choices for food.
~ Its very own Hoyts for movie-​goers.
If there’s a Zombie Apocalypse, I think I’m going to head straight to Chadstone, board myself in there, and use it as base camp. You’ll never run out supplies — SMART!
However, despite the usefulness of Chadstone, I’m still not really that impressed. I guess impressive architecture is fairly important to me — I don’t want to go to a boring collection of stores that’s purely convenient. If I come across a massive shopping mall such as Chadstone, my instant reaction would be that I want to go exploring. But there just isn’t that much to explore.
Honestly, I’d rather Melbourne Central any day, but 3 stars because Chadstone isn’t bad — just not my particular cup of tea. Size does not necessarily directly translate into quality.

I’m not a Chadstone fan. In fact, I’m not a fan of shopping malls in general. I hate them on principle, for the fact that they’re a facsimile of a city but without the character or the principle or the joy. I hate the architectural tricks they use to keep you isolated and inside. And yes, I used to hate it whenever my business dragged me out to Chaddy.
But I had to go out there the other day, and it wasn’t awful and now I’m all confused. I mean, yes, the fact that they built a massive shopping centre that isn’t near any real public transport is still a bit baffling.
But it’s full of skylights and, except for the complete absence of clocks, they don’t pull any architectural voodoo to confuse and disorient you. I mean, admittedly everything looks the same, but that’s the nature of franchise stores.
So I guess, if you have to go to a shopping centre, you could do worse.

Chadstone– The fashion capital.
You know, that’s not their slogan for no reason. Chadstone really IS the fashion capital. This huge shopping center based in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne and is only 20mins from the city. It is the biggest shopping center in the Southern Hemisphere!
Chadstone is a very popular shopping center that boasts over 500 stores, including large department store such as David Jones & Myer, as well as international luxury brands such as Louise Vuitton, Chanel, Gucci and more!
Whatever you are in need of, you can almost certainly find it in Chadstone; they cover most popular brands, as well as a few boutique concept stores.
Now this place isn’t just a fashion capital– it also has its fair share of practical stores. There are electrical stores, storage stores, game shops, chemists, joke shops and photography stores.
Retail aside, Chadstone also offers many small cafes, 3 food courts, bowling, supermarkets, day spas and a Hoyts cinema.
If you and your wallet are looking for a big day out, look no further!
Free shuttle bus available from the city too!

I really don’t like shopping at Chadstone. In fact, since it expanded to mean that spending an afternoon at the shops now means planning ahead and bringing a sherpa, I’ve liked it even less than I used to.
I think it’s a combination of the halogen lighting (I’m a fan of natural light) and the endless stream of impersonal shops all designed for mass consumption and instant gratification. I’m not opposed to these in principle (for instance, I don’t sit around at parties and wax lyrical on the slow destruction of society through capitalism). Yet something about the large numbers of people wandering aimlessly through such a large constructed reality designed entirely to take one’s money away from them in exchange for goods that will help a person conform into a standard is quite disturbing. Orwellian even.
After the Christmas rush and the Boxing Day sales, I vowed to avoid the centre like the plague. Admittedly I haven’t been so successful (it does have a Lord of The Fries, after all), so I have instead maintained a polite distance akin to when your friend has a rather strange fungus growing on their face.