Planning on a shopping trip this weekend? If it’s one-stop shops inside a one-stop Shop that’s being contemplated, it’s got to be Araneta Center.
It’s a vast shopping complex interspersed with real main roads and streets, real traffic lights and other real things one sees in communities and cities. It’s not a mall pretending as a shopping city but an actual one dotted with malls, theaters, restaurants, fast foods, stores, hotels, stores, and other concessionaries—all amid crisscrossing busy streets and thoroughfares. There is even a police and a fire station in this shopping complex.
A weekend trip to Araneta Center answers all entertainment and hobby needs. Music and sports shops line along main roads. There are also individual shops selling DVD and cassette players and components, photography shops and travel and ticketing offices. This is aside from those found in big malls like Ali Mall and Rustans.
Other small shops line up along the sides of other big shops like SM Cubao and Automatic Center. A weekend trip may prove rewarding at the mushrooming smaller shops covering much of Farmers wet and dry market at the south end of the shopping complex. One may chance upon real bargain deals on fresh meat, fish, and vegetables straight from Baguio, the veggies center of Luzon.
A weekend trip to this shopping complex may also prove invigorating with spas and health and slimming centers in and around the shopping complex. Theaters and PC gaming centers are also well located in the area, plus hundreds of big and small eateries that keep weekend trippers’ appetite going. Luxury restaurants and fine dining are all around the Araneta Coliseum (or “big dome”) —the biggest indoor coliseum in the world in 1960, which is right at the heart of the shopping complex.
Farmers Plaza, the welcoming façade of the shopping complex along EDSA, is in itself a micro shopping complex complete with eateries, a drugstore, movie houses, and numerous shops and stalls. The rear end of the shopping complex contains a wide provincial bus station (for farther weekend trips), a shoe community where popular Markina-made shoes are sold at a bargain, and several more shopping centers and restaurants.
Two hi-tech light rail systems service the shopping complex—MRT Monumento to Pasay and MRT Cogeo to Divisoria.
Araneta Center is a veteran shopping complex in the country that continues to satisfy patrons on weekend trip shopping. It is an actual shopping city with communities and districts of malls and shops.
Related topics:
Capitalizing on a Weekend Trip
A weekend trip can always go smoothly with enough simple planning and lots of good attitude and positive thinking. Then any weekend trip, no matter the tavel hassles, will always turn out to be fun and relaxing....
The Taal Lake Yacht Club, A Great Weekend Trip
For weekend and day trips, the Taal Lake Yacht Club is truly a great choice. Environment friendly water sports and the Nature Trek are great specialties. This is one weekend trip you'll want to come back for....
Experience a Weekend Diving Trip in Anilao
Anilao, Batangas is a town that has excellent dive sites for beginners and experienced divers. Since Anilao is in proximity with Manila, this becomes a great place to go for a weekend dive. You'll find a huge diversity of marine...
A Weekend at the Ayala Museum
Ayala Museum can prove to be an educational weekend trip for the whole family. It reveals historical displays and collections as a legacy for more generations to come....
Ambling at UP Diliman
An accessible sanctuary to haunt on weekends is UP Diliman campus. For a weekend trip destination it can give one the quiet, recharging, and amusement one needs for an energized spirit to face new challenges in the coming week....
Hilltop Re-Creation Center in Laguna
A quick getaway to the hills is Rizal Re-Creation Center in Rizal, Laguna. It is complete with fun and sports facilities, conference rooms, comfy lodging, a stuffed canteen, pools, and fishing area. It is where body and soul are not...
A Short Trip to a Forest Right in Metro Manila
A forest reserve right in the heart of Quezon City where recreation and quiet walks can be enjoyed. A come-on for tourists just looking for a quick getaway from the bustles of city-life is the Eco Park in La Mesa...
Health and History in Quezon Memorial
Quezon Memorial Circle is just around the corner for most Quezon City and Manila dwellers, and a weekend trip can prove so prolific. Sports, picnic, reflections, dining, shopping, or a simple chat. It's gentle community and nature all in a...
Boracay Shopping
Boracay is one of the most famous, inviting and beautiful tourist destinations in the Philippines that feature several interesting and enticing shopping places. Tourists who are in search for branded apparel, swimwear and footwear should visit the boutiques at D...
Top Davao Restaurants – The Great Food Trip
With Davao City being a hub of gastronomic abundance, there is no doubt that Davao restaurants rank as some of the best and most unique in the country. Here are the top three....
