The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront Mall
posted by Paul
To give you an idea of it's size, the V&A Waterfront mall in the Table Bay Harbour reportedly has more than 400 shops and over 80 places to eat, ranging from take-aways to superb restaurants. Kerry-Anne and I love walking in and around the mall - even though we don't go there with the intention of shopping. There are hundreds of unusual items to admire and the atmosphere is light and airy, buzzing with tourists and local residents alike.
I don't believe that any visitors to Cape Town miss out on a trip to this place. If you have, I'd be keen to hear what happened to make you miss it.
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Hello from Ohio. It is slowly looking more like spring and less like winter and while our President has his head under a Bush (I was kind) if it gets much warmer and dryer we will need global relief.
I noted your comments about this monumental Mall—Victoria and Alfred Waterfront Mall.
And then I looked at the photo. And I see three potential customers. I see one person, seated, and assume he or she is a shop clerk.
It looks like the mall is short on customers.
I can't even begin to guess what the smallest shop size rents for but it must be more than I have to live on until I kick the bucket.
Those three guys and you two and a few hundred more will have to spend a lot of money to keep the place open.
It happened here. Big, super malls, high rent, hopeful shop keepers and when the novelty wore off the shops closed and the mall parking spaces begin to look tattered and before you know what happened it is closed.
I hope your beautiful mall doesn't go through this routine but it needs more customers already.
Did I say I liked the photograph?
Nice photo - we spent a lot of time in this mall and did some of the trips out to Robben Island etc from the wharf when we were in C T a few years ago. The food places are great and I spent quite a bit of time and money in a gorgeous little jewellery store and have some beautiful brass and ebony earrings from there which I love.
We had been in Planet Hollywood, earlier in the day the bomb went off.
There was also a bomb around that time in one of the markets in town which we went to a lot - can't remember its name - has lots of fabulous artifats. One of the women who had a stall there lost an arm - terrible!!
a very elegant place ...
like the perspective of the photo... says so much!
Hi Abraham - well spotted, but Paul neglected to mention that the photo was taken at 10pm on a weeknight... :) The mall is a whole lot busier than that during trading hours, and I don't think it's in danger of financial collapse any time soon. The Waterfront has a huge number of visitors each year (many of them overseas tourists), and I'm pretty sure that the majority of the shopkeepers here are doing very well indeed.
Oh it's very suggestive. I love particularly those arcades (se well enlighted) and your photo is superb,
I wouldn't have missed it for the world! I had the best Calimari I have ever eaten there in one of the restaurants, not once, not twice, but three times. The variety of shops makes it an interesting mall.
>kate, that must have been good calamari indeed. Personally, we really enjoy Ocean Basket for seafood - it's not an expensive restaurant, but I have never yet had a bad meal there. We'll have to post a picture sometime. (There is a branch at the Waterfront, by the way.)
the waterfront will undergo a R7 billion expansion before 2010. To get some idea of the upgrade, the current expansion of the entrance of the waterfront about 10m to the front is costing around R200 million including the new parkade.
Now times that by 14 and you'll get an idea of the scale of the planned investment.
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