Shopping in San Marcos

Just yesterday we went to San Marcos shopping paradise where there are a lot of shops located in one area. There’s two huge outlets called Prime Outlets and Tanger Outlets whereby in each of the outlets, there are a huge variety of individual shoplots situated side by side along a single row and they’re all concentrated around the main point of the place. It’s something like a shopping complex but instead of every shop being in a huge contained air-conditioned building like Piramid or MidValley, here it’s open air.

Each of the shops is on its own. Because they’re on their own, they require more spaces hence the whole area is pretty huge! You’ll have to walk a long walk from one end to another end in the heat (luckily it is shaded). I saw there’s even a mini bus to fetch the shoppers from one place to another quickly (still not air-conditioned which makes me think that people here REALLY love the sun). It’s a different concept from what we usually have in Malaysia but in my humble opinion, I rather stick to Piramid and Mid Valley even though I like the sun but I don’t like it when I’m all sweaty while shopping.

Rows of shops

There aren’t many places to rest except a few benches far in between and the restroom (toilet) are definitely rare. Anyway, the goods in most of the shops is quite cheap (if you’re working in US and some still cheap if you’re not) as most of them are having summer sales.

Someone bought a few Coach bags... ;-)

I bought a Levi’s jean (loose straights, my first Levi’s jean :D) for $34, one Dockers original style khakis for $29.99 (really cheap!), one Timberland shorts for $15 with coupon (again, extremely cheap!) and wallet, $17+ with coupon and my Nike athlete shorts, $24 (not cheap, still overpriced as always). All in all, I spent about $200 or so. Not bad for a one day shopping spree. I didn’t get any shirts because the smallest size is S and it’s like the L size in Malaysia… May Yeng told me that her friend (a guy) bought a girl’s shirt in US because of that… The last thing you’ll see me wearing is a girl’s t-shirt… >.<”.

The result of the shopping spree by 4 Malaysians, most of it is from Hann Huei. He scored almost $1000 getting a first placing beating Hon Mun! This guy shops like there's no tomorrow...

Humble me... I got the last placing... only spending about $200 :D