Mall of America

Holy Moly! This place is huge.
We stayed at the Radison Blu connected to the mall. Walking into the mall from the hotel was really impressive. We wondered around for bit taking in the amusement park. I was looking for a backpack and we found the LLBean. After that we just started walking down hallways, picking escalators to go up and down. We got really lost at one point. Had to check the map on how to get back to the hotel.
There is every kind of store you would think a mall work have. Department stores, gift shops, etc. Even stores you wouldn’t normally find within a mall: Marshall’s, Best Buy. They have bowling alley, Crayola store, Minnesota store, Alpaca store. A variety of food options.
Very impressive.

My boyfriend and I were in Minnesota for the weekend and decided to check out the mall of America. Very easy to get to, the mall is HUGE and has plenty of parking. It has 4 to
5 levels with hundreds of shops and food choices. My bf and I stopped by a bubble tea lounge called chatime. Took a while but props to the workers. I ordered white peach green tea with pop boba and my love orderd strawberry banana smoothie with pop boba. I enjoyed mine. Great flavor ! The strawberry banana wasn’t really smoothie consistency, good flavor just wasn’t thick as expected. Walked around for the mall for several hours. There’s an aquarium and movie theater as well as an amusement park right in the
Middle of this huge mall. We had a blast ! Great adventure

lots of stores with amusement park inside! Don’t really have upscale stores and just your typical stores you find at your regular mall.
However, lots of updates going on so I think it will be better in the years to come!

American capitalism gone wild! Yes, it is just a giant shopping mall with an amusement park in it. But one of the days I was here that I was planning on going for a walk around one of the lakes, it was pouring out. So, I just walked around this mall instead and it was so big that it was actually fun to walk around and just check out all the sights, haha. In an era where the shopping mall is rendering itself more obsolete, this will transport you back to the day where they were a more commonplace thing.

I go here for movie screenings and nothing more. To me, this place should be called hell because if hell were an actual place, it would be this.

Look, it’s a giant shopping mall. Don’t get me wrong, the amusement park in the middle is extremely cool, but it’s a shopping mall. Whether I walk by one Sunglass Hut or five, it’s still a mall. Has all of my favorite stores which is great, even if it does take all day to get to them.
It’s something you have to see if you visit Minneapolis, but it’s nothing mindblowing.

You know, the first time I came here I was miserable. I thought it was way too big and just not a pleasant experience. But, it has grown on me. I can’t say I’m in love with the place but it does have just about any store I’d be interested in and now that I’m familiar wight he place it doesn’t seem so daunting. The ket for me is to stay away from the central area where all the amusement rides are, because rides = kids.
You can also get a decent meal here, nothing mind blowing, but certainly more options than you usual mall.
Stores: there will definitely be something you like here.
Parking is still upsetting and confusing I take a pic of my space so I don’t forget because, as I said this place is huge.

TIP #1– the larger department stores have valet parking, but the free garages are pretty well laid out to where you really aren’t walking far even in the free garages. And, bonus! If you time your visit to the mall to be in the garage around sunset, park in the ‘Arizona’ section (parking is divided up by state names) or follow the signs to enter at Nordstrom’s and you’ll get a killer sunset skyline view out the back of the garage!
If shopping is totally your thing, the mall of America is definitely your thing, but otherwise… It’s just a really big mall. We did find a few chain stores that we don’t have in our mall but really it’s mostly all the same chains you see everywhere else, just a lot more of them. Plus, a few amusement park rides.
TIP #2 — the mall has a couple of stores like ‘made in minnesota’ and ‘I heart minnesota’ that sell the type of souvenir thing you normally see at the airport (like tee shirts, magnets, coffee mugs, post cards, locally made candy, home team sports stuff, etc), with prices a good bit better than the airport. If you normally buy this kind of stuff at the airport and are going to the mall anyway, it is worth a stop.

If I lived here I would probably be spending a ton of money every weekend here. Again I was here on business and had to check out this mall. I always heard things about it and had to see for myself. The mall is like 4 — 5 floors. They have lego land, roller coasters and other rides. 1. I felt like a little kid being in lego land. 2. Of course I did the roller coaster ride lol.
I was having a blast here. There is a giant food court and every store you can think of. Some of the stores repeat but they offer other things the other store doesnt. I came in here thinking eh I will probably only spend like 200 dollars at most. NO I ended up spending $ 600 !!! LOL I had to stop myself because I had to fly back home with all this stuff. Thank god it was all clothes and I had room in my suit case for all of it. The baseball cap I bought I could just wear.
Definitely worth the trip lol.

Really want to come back here! Second Largest Mall in America with more than 400 stores! Love the giant Legos and indoor nickelodeon theme park the kids really enjoyed it’s. You’ll need a couple of days to roam this place it’s HIGE!
Don’t forget to check out the under ground water tunnel that was probably the best part of our trip!
I think this is the only mall in the world that has a Sigma store. Which I didn’t know about back then.

Ladies and Gents: This is the Grand Poobah of malls!
The question isn’t which stores are housed here because ALL of the stores you could think of (and then some) are represented in The Mall of America.
Anything you want to eat, you got it! Reading through the directory of restaurants sent me to sensory overload. So many options, such little time.
They truly out did themselves with the theme park. I was skeptical at first about how an amusement park could fit in a mall but really it genius.
All hail the mall of all malls! Sorry I doubted you.

The Mall of America is AMAZING!!! So much to do and so much to see! The amusement park is great! Zip lining over the amusement park is available and so much fun!
Most stores are typical stores you find in any mall but it’s fun to check everything out anyway. The Mall of America has everything you’ll need or want. You can spend an entire day here without having to leave the mall for anything.
My only suggestion? More seating areas. The mall is so big that it can be very tiring to walk around. A few extra benches would have been nice. Make sure you wear comfortable shoes, you’re going to need them!

MOA is a shopping EXPERIENCE. An icon. Not just a place to go buy something. And that is at once it’s greatest strength and weakness. As a local, this is a place I come in the dead of winter when it’s minus temperatures outside, and I’m looking for something to do. Really, MOA is an entertainment venue. I mean, we’re talking a theme park, a marine aquarium, movie theater, and numerous places to eat and drink. The place is HUGE. Four stories, and full-​size retail stores like Best Buy are simply one more suite on your stroll through the aisles. Massive parking garages. Nearby hotels to house the tourist crowd, and a stop on the light rail system — enough said. It’s a destination in itself.
But the shopping. If you’re looking to spend the day browsing, it’s perfect. Unless you’re in the international armaments business, I doubt there’s anything you could want that isn’t here. But if you need to grab something quickly and be on your way, I’m not sure it’s the best place for that. To be sure, there are some stores, or stores of a certain size to be found only here and nowhere else in the Cities, but unless I’m looking to burn a morning or afternoon, I don’t usually come here to shop. I’m not trying to knock MOA when I say that if I’m looking for something and I just want to run in quickly and grab it and move on with my life, there are other malls in the Cities that I prefer to shop.

You can spend hours running around this place!
The mirror maze is small and really enjoyable for children.
The aquarium I would highly recommend. The tunnel is awesome and watching the Sharks swim over you is too cool!
Dicks Last Resort is a little hard to stomach if you’re not in the mood. Unfortunately we walked out and went to Benihannas. We watched a table of 80 year old people get drowned in napkins and couldn’t understand what kept them coming. The menu didn’t have anything impressive on it. We left when the waiter started scratching his stomach and lifting his shirt… Yeah. Unsanitary. Juan at Bennis is an awesome chef he does really good tricks.
Twin City Grill — 5 stars highly recommend!
Don’t go to the first food court you see near the mirror maze it’s awful.
The stores aren’t anything different from a regular mall. The alpaca store, the animé store and the gift shops are a good «different» stores to see.
Vom Fass is a whiskey tasting place that’s literally a lick of taste but they sell really cool home made liquor so deff stop there.
The wine and spirit store has hand made hats and scarves for bottles that are really cute on the cat shaped bottles they display up front. They’re stitched by a 70 yo woman that privately sells them to them. It makes a super nice gift to bring home.
Hard Rock Café has good drink specials at the bar upstairs!
Have fun!

I love shopping and roller coasters and this mall has both! There are so many shops there, we didn’t finish it in one day. This place is huge! Lots of places to eat to. Free parking.
Kate Hudson was there for her book signing, was pretty cool seeing her.
They usually have different events going on here, just check out their website. They had a karate demonstration going on too. Very entertaining!

One of the highlights of my Minneapolis/​St. Paul visit outside of seeing Target Field for the first time was, of course… the Mall of America! I’m not a big shopper but with the Mall of America being such an iconic part of Minnesota, I had to gather up a shopping list and check it out.
It’s mentioned that it’s the biggest mall in the country. And for me, it was certainly the biggest I have ever seen. It has 7 levels of shopping, and my goal, no doubt… was to traverse all 7 levels! It took me a couple of hours to do. I did buy stuff that I needed. And when I was finished, I wasn’t really tired like when some people say «they shop until they drop». Well I survived!
The Mall was very clean and well kept. They have your usual, typical mall stores and more. After I finished my shopping, I went to the food court and had a relaxing lunch. The Mall also has a very colorful indoor amusement park with rides for kids and a LEGOLAND as well. That was a real highlight and fun to check out. Also, I had no issues with parking! I went midday during the week, so kids must have still been in school.
But overall, I enjoyed my time at Mall of America. It was a nice way to spend a few hours during the day. And I’d recommend coming here to anyone visiting Minneapolis.

I believe it is still the largest mall in America. Four huge levels full of name brand stores and tons of restaurants and entertainment.
Apple, Forever 21, Microsoft, Disney, Lego, Oakley, Sunglasses Hut, Sears, Hot Topic, Spencer’s, Lids, Foot Locker, and tons more.
There are a bunch of fast food options in the food court as well as scattered throughout the mall. There are also sit down places as well.
Noodles and Company, Cold Stone, Twin City Grill, Subway, Sushi, an Italian place, Rainforest Café, and much more.
There is a decent sized amusement park with roller coasters and Ferris wheels. There was an arcade too.
Other entertainment included a movie theater, comedy club, and bowling alley.
Indoor parking garage attached to each floor.

There are only 2 reasons why you should go here.
Reason 1 — You really like shopping. This place has 4 floors of stores. Don’t expect anything too unique though, I found a bunch of repeat stores and places I would find in my local shopping mall.
Reason 2 — You have kids. The roller coasters and rides are Nickelodeon themed. Appropriate for a 5 – 13 year old, not for a 23 year old on a business trip. I just went on one to say I went on an indoor roller coaster…
If you’re an adult that doesn’t fall into one of those reasons, just explore the city and downtown!

Holy crap, what a fun mall! I can’t even imagine growing up in Mpls and having this place to hang out at. I was a mall rat as a teenager and it was just a plain old shopping center. To have all of the stores, restaurants and roller coasters, to boot!
The mall was beautifully decorated for Christmas, with twinkling lights and Christmas trees. Yes, it was packed but the place is so big that it wasn’t a bother.
We had to wait a while for our hotel shuttle, and they have a designated area to wait for shuttles. What I appreciated was that there were several heat lamps to stand under and keep warm during the wait. Nice!

We came here mainly to eat, and check it out get it off my bucket list. Ever since I heard about this mall when first being built and taking the title for Biggest Mall at that time I’ve wanted to come here. Tidbit: Did you know Ala Moana Mall carried that title before.
Parking was a little hard because we weren’t sure where everything is. It was busy. Didn’t park as close as we wanted but didn’t mind the walk.
Upon entering we notice the Aquarium. I love the water and fish but didn’t have time for that. Had to get back on the road and wanted to have more time to explore this huge gigantic of a mall. Moving pass the aquarium, there was a gymnastic troupe performing. They were mesmerizing to watch. I love watch the Olympics, especially gymnastics. It was hard to walk away but M finally pulled my arm and off we were.
I don”t know how many stores there are but it was a overwhelming. You cannot spend a day here to see everything. However, the rides really caught my attention there amidst the large lego display.
Maybe someday I’ll be back there again and be able to spend a couple days to really check it out. Atleast now I can say I’ve been there and it is amazing as everyone says it is.

Der absolute Wahnsinn für Shopping-​Süchtige, eine Katastrophe für die City/​Downtown Minneapolis.
Niemand muss in die City fahren, alles ist überdacht und zur Krönung gibt es einen kleinen Freizeitpark im Innern.

Riesiger Einkaufstempel mit eigenem Indoor-​Vergnügungspark. Ja, es gibt hier sogar eine Achterbahn sowie Wildwasserbahn. Sowas gibt’s halt nur in Amerika! Ein Vorteil ist weiters das riesige Parkhaus, sowie die eigene Öffi-​Anbindung mit Straßenbahn direkt im Untergeschoss.
Es gibt unzählig viele Geschäfte in allen Preisklassen, allerdings verläuft man sich durch die schiere Größe dieses Einkaufszentrums sehr leicht.
Definitiv ein Highlight in der sonst nicht so spannenden Metropole Minneapolis.

Le Mall of America est grand. Je pourrais m’arrêter là pour la description.
Sauf que j’aime bien donc je continue. J’y ai passé quelques heures lors d’une longue escale à Minneapolis; très bien indiqué, dix minutes de métro (un métro PROPRE.) depuis l’aéroport et on y est. Atterrie tôt le matin je né pensais pas pouvoir y aller avant l’ouverture, mais après renseignement, si, on peut. Le centre commercial est ouvert au public bien avant l’ouverture des commerces, ce qui donne l’occasion de se faire une séquence Shining dans les couloirs vides et peu éclairés. Je voulais aller voir un film mais j’ai préféré prendre un café et continuer de marcher, j’aurais regretté de m’endormir devant le film et rater mon avion.
Le problème étant que j’étais sur place tôt et qu’à l’ouverture des boutiques il était déjà temps pour moi de regagner l’aéroport. J’ai pu noter certaines adresses qui valent le coup: la grande librairie où j’ai eu envie de tout acheter (les anglo-​saxons ont un truc pour les belles éditions), la boutique de sport avec des posters dédicacés de joueurs de foot US ou de baseball, une boutique Converse, les sculptures en Lego (HA), enfin, tout, pour tous les goûts. Je comprends que ça né plaise pas mais ça valait le coup d’y passer.

Wow what a big Building.
Nice to stay here.

Hier in der Mall of America gibt es jetzt direkt gegenüber vom Apple-​Shop im Erdgeschoss nun auch einen Microsoft-​Shop ! Ist genauso aufgebaut und vom Prinzip ähnlich wie «Apple-​Shops».

Ein Einkaufstempel par excellence! Ohne Plan geht dort leider gar nichts, denn dann verläuft man sich. Auch die Galerien bzw. Fotogalerien sind dort einen Besuch wert, auch wenn man nur schauen möchte. Selbst der Vergnügungspark mitten im Center hat seinen speziellen Reiz.

Es ist GROSS!
Nur um allen Nicht-​Eingeweihten mal eine Vorstellung zu geben: dieses Einkaufszentrum (… –monstrum) hat einen eigenen Vergnügungspark. Mit einen Achterbahn. Drinnen — überdacht!
Es gibt unglaublich viele Geschäfte dort und als Besucher sollte man auf jeden Fall mit einem Stadtplan bewaffnet und gut zu Fuß sein. Oder man machts wie einige bewegungsunfähige Amis und nimmt sich so ein Elektro-​Gefährt^^.
Ein Erlebnis nicht nur zum Einkaufen — aber eben ein gnadenloser Konsumtempel.

Das für mich coolste Einkaufszentrum der Welt!
Hier gibt es alles! Tolle Läden, Unterhaltung, gutes Essenist einen Besuch wert!