Hey everyone this is Orlando Streets and this is my video tour of the Orlando Premium Outlets which is located about 21 minutes from Downtown Orlando on International Drive.
This outlet mall opened sometime around 2005 -- has roughly 180 stores in nearly eight-hundred thousand square feet of total retail space.
It is the largest outlet shopping mall in Florida welcoming more than 17 million visitors every year.
There is limited parking here so it may take time to find a space. It may also be a long walk from your car to the mall so please keep that in mind. Valet parking is available.
Once you find parking shopping is easy here. Finding your way in and out of each store is seamless and window shopping can be fun.
It used to be that outlet malls were discount malls located in the hinterlands along some freeway.
Growing up in California we used to see them out in the desert in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes we would stop and buy something, like a t-shirt or cold beverage and look around a little. For me these outlet stores are more of a novelty.
That said this outlet mall is different. If you look really hard there are some heavily discounted items, but for the most part it really is just fancy stores mixed in with stores you're already familiar with.
Notable stores include Armani, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nike Factory Store, Disney Outlet, Forever 21, New York & Company, Victoria's Secret, and Salvatore Ferragamo.
Sound familiar? Well it should. Most of these stores can also be found at your local mall.
This outlet mall has 22 restaurants including Chicken Now, Five Guys, Sarku Japan, Panera Bread, Lobstah Trap, Sundial Café, Charley's Steaks, Sbarro and Vinito Ristorante.
I told my wife this morning that I was putting this video together and she said, "oh yeah, that place is fun". I think that sums this mall up pretty well. It is fun. Fun for people to shop and fun for people like me to window shop.
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