preloaddefault-post-thumbnail

If you’re going to brave the streets and stores on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), you might as well head to one of the best shopping hotspots in the country. (Our featured image screams “ka ching!” and is by ell brown.)

Here’s our pick of the 5 best shopping malls in America.

Mall of America – Bloomington, Minnesota

If you go by the numbers, there’s no contest. The Mall of America has around 520 stores, some 50 restaurants and attracts more than 40 million customers every year. To put that into context, if you spent 10 minutes visiting every store you’d be in the mall for 86 hours! Not only does it have more stores than every other mall in the US, it has also got the world’s largest indoor amusement park and a huge aquarium. Oh, and there’s no sales tax on clothing in Minnesota. Black Friday specials

Cheap Flights To Bloomington

King of Prussia Mall – King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

Located outside of Philadelphia and sized at nearly 3-million square feet, the King of Prussia has more retail space than any other mall in the country. With more than 400 stores, it’s also the biggest mall on the East Coast. Black Friday info

Woodfield Mall – Schaumburg, Illinois

Woodfield is the fourth most-visited mall in the entire US (Mall of America is the first), and with good reason. The many of its specialist food, fine art, jewellery and clothing stores are the largest of their kind in the country. Woodfield has some 300 stores and 31 restaurants in total. Woodfield Mall sales and offers

Sawgrass Mills – Sunrise, Florida

Few places in the US feature Sawgrass Mills’ large mix of budget outlet stores and high-end fashion boutiques. Its 350 stores are spread between an enclosed core, outdoor entertainment zone and an outlet strip. All the deals and offers

South Coast Plaza – Costa Mesa, California

If it’s chic shopping you’re after, look no further than South Coast Plaza. There’s no better evidence of the luxury and designer couture in residence, than the fact this mall rings up more sales than any other in the country. An Orange County landmark, it featured in the movie Clueless and on The O.C. South Coast Plaza holiday information

Written by insider city guide series Hg2 | A Hedonist’s guide to…

About the author

Brett AckroydBrett hopes to one day reach the shores of far-flung Tristan da Cunha, the most remote of all the inhabited archipelagos on Earth…as to what he’ll do when he gets there, he hasn’t a clue. Over the last 10 years, London, New York, Cape Town and Pondicherry have all proudly been referred to as home. Now it’s Copenhagen’s turn, where he lends his travel expertise to momondo.com.

Explore more articles