Are Malls dying? Not here in Minnesota - Retail Therapy at the Mall of America | RV Travel

[Music] he hi everybody I'm Randy and I'm Diane and this is zeph travels and Diane are you ready for some retail therapy I am today we're visiting Mall of America which I understand from Randy is the largest or the biggest tourist attraction in the state of Minnesota it's the most attended most PE more people come to the mall America than any place else in uh Minnesota and 20% of them come from out of state like us right so this is a destination place it's it's right next to the airport you can actually fly in here and take a uh public uh train to the Mall of America there are two hotels here in the Mall of America a western and a Rison that you can stay at and the mall has 500 stores oh my goodness so let's go in and check out some of these stores all right [Music] so we it's probably a little noisy here we're going to do our best so you can hear us um we're going to pose the question while we're here the Mall of America is it the future of malls or is it a dinosaur already dying because malls are going away more and more cities malls are closing up and so what's the story here is this a a model that will survive and we're going to see more malls follow this or is it going to be you know the next mall that's going to close well I can't imagine it's going to close um it probably will be a destination true yeah yeah there's a lot of things here besides just shopping um so we're going to go check some of the stuff out and take you along with us as you can see Mall of America is embracing the future you can get your Amazon's packages delivered right here to the mall pick them up and do your rest of your shopping [Music] well we found our favorite store and spent some of our money so now we're going to continue on and check out other things in the mall [Music] this is the original box of 64 Crayola crayons that every child of my age wanted when they were that young and the reason they wanted it was because of the crayon sharpener in the back if you had this you were it [Music] r [Music] [Music] we found our way through the mall and it was kind of hard to talk in there so we're going to talk now more about the mall than we could inside yeah it's well it's a lot yeah I you could probably it's more than a mall yeah it's more than a mall but if you just went there for the shopping you said there's over 500 stores 500 Stores um some unusual stores some that you probably have in your own area but it was kind of neat to walk around you could easily get confused there's four floors there actually four floors three circles you know three floors that are circles that take you around most of the stores and then there's an entertainment section on the fourth floor which isn't all the way around right and then of course they have the what is it called Nickelodeon Universe in the middle yeah with all the rides so we walked around there watch the rides and uh we determined we we thought about going on at least one ride but because of what we're caring we just didn't want to risk yeah we didn't want to risk leaving the camera someplace or taking it on the ride at least the kind of ride we would have ridden right so we decided against it but they actually the rides look pretty good yeah they look kind of neat they're different rides different than you would see at you know like Disney or Universal they're more like you would see like at a Darian Lake or you know sixs yeah something like that and being in an enclosed smaller space they're kind of especially like the roller coaster type rides they're compact yeah so uh yeah but it it was fun it's definitely if you happened to be in the area I mean we made a point of coming here because it was on our way home yeah and you like I I said at the beginning this is you know Minnesota's number one tourist attraction more people come here than any other attraction in in the state and 20% of those people come from out of state like we did right so there's a lot of people coming here just like we do for the day or whatever you know the other 80% are people that live nearby that come here for whatever reason or business yeah it's right near the airport there's what two hotels right here so it's very convenient and they've got a lot of you know what I'd call um uh restaurants that you see in more in tourist areas like you know bubblegum shrimp and Margaritaville uhhuh yeah so the there's draws like that there's also some unique things like the Crayola land or Crayola Universe there's a big Eminem store Big M store Y and uh so definitely you know something that you could bring your kids and entertain your kids with right so there's more than just clothes shopping or whatever like we did right but it was a nice visit yeah it was interesting yeah I mean it was worth coming here and if we were in the area again I'm sure we'd stop probably yeah yeah you can spend a day here you can probably come here and just you know come here on your way through or or like us we found a place to Camp pretty close to it uhhuh um but you know the parking lot where we park there's room to park an RV so you could come with your RV a lot of the parking is you know covered in in parking garages so you gotta be careful about that but where we parked you could park in RV easily yeah so yeah it was it was a fun place to stop and visit so if you like this video please give it a big Thumbs Up And subscribe to our channel that for travels hit that Bell for notifications and until the next time we will see you down the road take care everybody bye bye a