jad n rich

With more rain on the way and visitors from melbourne saturdays looking scary, whats the biggest shopping centre in brisbane and does it have anything much other than the usual target, coles, kmart, myer etc

Ta

jdjnr

Not sure about brisbane - but melbourne has the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere apparently ( Chadstone! ) - its enormous so if they are coming from melbourne then any shopping centre you do bring them to in brisbane will seem small by comparison!!

Sorry i can't remember any shopping centres in Brisbane........

Jon

Suni&Jay

Not for long , they are building the biggest in Gold Coast

Jonahs_mummy

Coomera/Helensvale? In that area isn't it? For the moment the biggest on the GC is Pacific Fair www.pacificfair.com.au

Centurion

Maybe Indooroopilly, west of the CBD

http://www.indooroopillyshopping.com.au/

Of course everywhere has the usual Coles, Myer, David Jones etc but there are some decent speciality shops amongst the 250 on offer....

Suni&Jay

Yep. thats the one, when they finally build it

jad n rich

Indoorpilly sounding the biggest so far, any others? Or wet saturday suggestions for visitors to brisbane.

Been to chadstone melbourne, it was at Xmas was expecting some christmas wonderland but all it had was some very minimal Politically Correct abstract decorations, put me off a bit. Loved the car park tho, huge.

MrsDagboy

Try Logan Hyperdome. Indooroopilly is lovely, or Garden City at Mt Gravatt or even Carindale. All good.

diddy

There's already a new Westfield at Helensvale, but it's not that big?

andrew63

Logan Hyperdome is the largest "single story" shopping centre in the S. hemisphere - allegedly!

Andrew

moneypenny20

We passed an enormous looking thing on the way home on Friday - will have a quick look - Carindale - looked horribly big to me (Don't ask me why we went past that, I managed to miss the turning for the gateway)

ozzieeagle

Sorry, but the new one coming at Hoopers crossing, here in Melbourne, is supposedly going to take that award.

Plus just in case, you wanted to claim the tallest building, The almost completed Eureka tower is now the tallest Residential only building in the World, and the tallest in Aussie. The mast on Q1 makes it taller, however the highest habital floor on the Eureka tower makes it claim the tallest building.

http://www.infolink.com.au/articles/3d/0c00253d.asp

LOL,....

Mind you who really cares...

Ceri

shopping? :scared: Don't you like your visitors then?? lol

What are your visitors like? family with kids, or single people etc.

Anyway if I were you visitor I would not want to go shopping especially if I were from Melbourne - surely they have hell of a lot better shops than we in Brisbane have.


If they were my visitors I'd get them some waterproofs and still go out , get the a flasks, some sarnies and the rucksacks... (no wonder my mother in-law doesn't come to visit me anymore lol)

Anyway, some other suggestions:

Bowling, meal and a drink
museum. meal and drink in southbank

Touristy things:
underwater world meal and drink
or what about the Ettamogah Pub and gift shop for the touristy thing

Or skip all those things and just go straight to the drink/ pub bit lol

Have you got a covered patio? what is wrong with a nice meal outside with a good bottle of wine ( or two or three)? and watch the rain in good company - Just have a good old chin wag with good food and wine.

cheers

ozzieeagle

Thats what I'd like, with one addition, Q'land to us Mexicans = to Seafood


Seafood platter anyone.