Westfield Brandon

This is still one of my favorite malls. I have been going here since my daughter was born. I loved the nice nursing area.
They have lost one or two of my favorite stores but I’m not angry, they have enough to keep this girl happy.
I love going on holidays, their sales are always the best in town.
It’s kept fairly clean and nice selection of restaurants. One of our favorite places to eat was Ruby Tuesday. Again, I’m ok. Cheesecake Factory keeps us happy. I also enjoy going to Red Robin.
They closed down the White House Black Market, that is not good. They do have Express, so I still can shop.
I love that it is indoors. I always find myself stopping in, if I’m in the area.
The location is great. Lots of great places around that I love to venture to when I’m in the area. :)

A mostly generic, loud mall. There isn’t much here, maybe nothing that isn’t someplace else, in a better mall. It’s a weirdly laid out mall that is way beyond it’s «Best By» date.

Not as nice at international plaza, but it’s my second favorite place to shop. MUCH harder to park but the stores and food is great. No ultra high end dining but plenty of good food still.

nice mall store are good. food is good. whats up with the homeless asking for money they are right at the doors panhandling come on !

Such a great mall with all of the popular shops and restaurants. I highly recommend making this your shopping destination.

Shopping here reinforces why I much prefer SHOPPING ONLINE. I rarely pay for shipping, but even if I must, it’s worth it avoid the frustrations I encounter at this mall.
It’s well documented in other reviews how difficult TRAFFIC and parking can be.
The LAYOUT AND DESIGN is very confusing. I find myself looking for the mall directory often.
Unfortunately, the mall directory is not much help. It’s color coded only, so you just get an idea of which area of the mall the store is located.
There are no exact numbers to indicate exactly where a store is located. I shop with purpose – I’m not a browser, so it was disappointing to search and never find the store I was looking for.
Several KIOSKS exists as well. They are fine, however I don’t really like being approached and given a bag of goodies, only to have it taken away when I didn’t want to participate in some larger initiative.
I’m ok with kiosks in general, but warding off people who want to «reel you in» is annoying.
The mall is CLEAN with wide spacing. Not overly crowded, even on weekends.
This is coming from someone used to dealing with a crowded mall, often filled with tour buses of people.
The KID PLAY area is a huge hit – swarming with kids.
STORE SELECTION is decent. Little bit of everything.
If you need a mall, this one serves its purpose. I hope the reviews here will offer some guidance of what to expect.
Maybe I’ll return for the book store, Apple Store, or DSW, but otherwise, I’ll be at home, refining my searches, and clicking my virtual shopping cart.

Average mall that has a lot of stuff to entertain the kiddos. There even is a large merry-​go-​round, smack dab in the center of the mall, along with several very well planned play areas scattered throughout.
There is the standard food court, as well as a semi-​circle of more upscale sit-​down restaurants located a few feet just outside the mall, within walking distance. I ate at only one restaurant here, on a later mall visit –Red Robin– and felt the prices were highly inflated. My daughter and I had a typical lunch, with two lemonades, and our bill came to $ 48.00. More on that later in a Red Robin review ;).
This mall can be confusing, with all its corridors branching out in a seemingly helter-​skelter direction that seems like you’re in a maze. I suppose once I know the layout of the mall better, I’ll zip right through, knowing where everything is located.
PRO TIP: Go to this mall with someone who knows the mall layout the first time you go!
To walk from one end to the other, it was exhausting by the time I got back to my car. As a reference, it took me two hours in this mall to buy only three items, and I wasn’t browsing; I knew the three items I came looking for, plus I knew what stores to get them at. All three stores were located far from each other so that’s the reason for a lot of walking. Don’t get me wrong, I love walking and I’m not lazy, but this mall is NOT a quick trip, by any stretch! I did not expect to spend so much time here!
On the plus side, the amount of stores here is huge, and you should be able to find whatever you’re looking for. Not really excited about a couple of the anchor stores, and never shop at them, but don’t want to diss them, and won’t ding them for that.
I just feel that though the mall is very beautiful and modern and clean, it’s just too sprawled out for my tastes.
Two levels would have condensed this mall somewhat while it was in the building planning stages.

Visited this shopping center to realize it is not for me, as I never find anything. Always crowded with everyone and their families roaming the mall. Parking is also always an issue.

Nice mall, but I’d really like it if there were more electric outlets for cell phones and laptops where there are seating areas (especially outdoor seating) Please and thank you!

First of all, as so many others have noted the entrance and parking situation are not great: the entrance leads you in off 60 and the puts you on a circular drive that I guess goes all around the mall: I parked by Dillard’s just as soon as I escaped the circus of traffic and could park, so I don’t know what else is going on with the parking, but it looks pretty awful. This mall is also, alas, not very pretty. It’s somewhere between middle of the road and upscale in terms of stores but the architecture is truly strange. The food court has odd brick-​enclosed pillars, the general enclosed areas are very generic and oddly dark in some parts, and whole layout begs for an explanation. The only one I can think of is that the mall is rather old and has been remodeled too many times without effort given to making it cohesive. The section outdoors where Dick’s Sports and some other, larger, stores went in is ok, and I guess newer. I would recommend someone from Westfield go and study the Florida Mall in Orlando, which is a fairly old mall also, to see how an older extant mall can be renovated in a pleasing manner.
As someone else noted, there is a strange «rear hallway» for some stores, like I think Apple technically is behind adidas and that area. It’s just really weird. They should have built a two-​story mall like Altamonte Springs in the first place, then they would have had ample room.
That all said, they do have some good stores. There is an adidas store now, an Apple store, United World Soccer which may only matter if you’re as insane about soccer as I am, but to me it was a huge draw; their Finish Line is large but not as nice as the Mall at Millenia’s, and I could go on. For things I like – sporting goods, sneakers, stuff like that – it’s a pretty decent mall. I actually made the decision, being from out of town and limited on free time, to come here instead of International Plaza mainly for the soccer store and they also have a Fly (men’s streetwear) store here, though the I-​Plaza Fly location is much better. So I guess study the stores they have, study those at I-​Plaza, then determine which suits you better, but for a general mall experience there is a lot of «how not to plan and run your mall» examples to be found at Brandon.

The family parking, Sesame Street play area, carousel, and nursing facility makes this place a very family friendly mall! Good selection of food vendors and restaurants.

I could have closed my eyes, drawn a squiggly line, and designed a better parking lot and mall layout than this mall.
Really, as every other reviewer has mentioned, the parking here is horrendous. The proximity to another shopping center and the tight spaces and lanes makes the chance of a crash greater than the Autobahn.
Once you survive the parking pandemonium, the mall is a short walk away, since the lots are small. But the inside is a little disappointing. While there is a lot of natural light, it just looks so stuck in the 90s and some parts of it look like an airport (and NOT Tampa’s). There is a little musty smell in some parts, specifically around JCPenney.
My other gripe about this mall is the layout. It isn’t on long hallway (UTC), a bunch of walkways with a hub (International Plaza or Countryside), and it isn’t even two intersecting hallways (Tyrone). It’s literally like some parallel hallways with incredibly tight hubs connecting them. I was so confused.
Nonetheless, there are some nice stores here. I’d say its about on par with Countryside in terms of shopping, with almost a mini Bay Street with a Cheesecake Factory and Bahama Breeze.
The food court has all of your obligatory restaurants, plus a Five Guys (yay!) and a Chipotle (meh).
I wouldn’t go out of my way to visit this mall, but if I was in the area and there was nothing else to do, it would be okay.

I like this mall. There are a lot of stores. My favorite store to go to in this mall is Sephora. I go there every time. I also go to Starbucks every time.
The food court is okay. There are a bunch of restaurants in the mall and surrounding area, and two separate playgrounds for big kids and small kids. I wish there was a movie theater located inside this mall, but there’s not.
I can spend hours in this mall. Thankfully, there are a lot of places to sit down and relax. This mall is fun for shopping, or just walking around and looking.

Before I moved to Tampa, every mall in close proximity to me was at least 45 minutes away. Since University Mall is notoriously rachet, I would usually end up at Westfield Brandon for my shopping fix. I always liked Brandon Mall because they had quite a few stores that you couldn’t find at other malls in the area, like Torrid and Cotton On. But with time, the stores have expanded and you can find the same things in Tampa and Wesley Chapel. I really don’t have a need to drive out this way to shop anymore.
Westfield Brandon is like a miniature and slightly less upscale version of International Mall in Tampa. There’s a nice selection of restaurants in addition to your typical mall food court. You’ll find a Bahama Breeze, Ryuu Japanese Steak House, Cheesecake Factory, and California Pizza Kitchen. There are also quite a few restaurants and other shops surrounding the mall, including a Smokey Bones, Macaroni Grill, and a Target.
The worst part about coming here is that the traffic situation is horrendous. Don’t even bother trying to come during the holiday season! Regardless of time or day of the week, it’s like being in the middle of rush hour trying to get out of the parking lot and onto Route 60. If there was a parking garage to offset the lots, I think it would really improve the entire experience.
While Westfield Brandon isn’t necessarily a bad choice for shopping, it just isn’t the most ideal for me personally.

Pretty much the best mall ever for a mother with little ones. Super nice nursing room with toys to keep the other kids busy, tvs, couches, etc. the play area is also very cool! Great stores and great restaurants!

I would be writing a four star review, but as mentioned in several other reviews, the entrance and exit to this mall, as well as the parking, is absolutely horrendous.
This is a nice sized fully functional mall, with most of the common retail stores that other malls have. Though it is common for some malls to have movie theaters, this one does not, due to a theater being located on the other side of highway 60. Also, there is a decent selection at the food court. Personally, I kinda like Five Guys Burgers.
The mall is well lit, and has always been very clean in my experience. But, like I mentioned earlier, there are only three ways in, and three ways out. Every entry and exit is a choke point, with cars backed up in every direction.

I just moved here from South Florida and have been to several malls and outlet malls from West Palm Beach to Miami. This mall possibly has the worst parking lot and entrances/​exits as drivers are very inconsiderate about the «right of way» law and haul butt inside the lots where there are obviously many pedestrians coming and going from the mall and lots.
The store selections they offer at Westfield is borderline generic. There is nothing luxurious about the interiors and layout of the mall compared to the other malls. A local told me that its an apocalypse there during the holidays and Black Friday– absolute murder just to get around the lot.
If you’re a mallrat… I guess this mall is for you as there seemed to be a large number of males loitering the lots and inside the mall. I just don’t see myself shopping here for several reasons.

I’ve read many reviews for this mall, and many are written along these lines: good stores, good restaurants, but taking *stars* off because it’s too crowded (or not enough parking).
I guess if the mall sucked folks would give a couple stars for the great parking situation and then take stars away for the lack of good stores/​restaurants?
Malls are crowded. Good malls are even more crowded. Dead malls are dead for a reason.
This mall has Panera, Cheesecake Factory, and 2 Starbucks! The Lucky store just left, but they still have lots of great stores (Aldo, Dick’s, Sephora).
Aside from the occasional gang member with pants down to knees sighting this mall is fine for me.

I don’t come to the Brandon Mall often because first of all the traffic is a nightmare. The architect that designed this mall gets an F. The traffic design is circular and there are two large plazas (target plaza and toys r us plaza) that can only be accessed by entering the mall area. These plazas contribute to the overall traffic nightmare. I normally and would rather go to Westshore Plaza or International Mall before I go to Brandon Mall. I never go to the mall at all from Thanksgiving until MLK weekend because of the traffic.
The mall added some stores a couple of years ago that I do like DSW, Cache, White House, Black Market, and Dicks. Today I had to go to Hallmark but found some good buys at a 60% off sale at Loft.
I give the mall a 3 because of the awful traffic pattern, because the parking is awful you can never find a space and because they need more variety in the Stores.

I do not like mall crawling so to me a mall is a mall is a mall!
Always clean and neat, large food courts a several good restaurants make it easy to take your time, shop, enjoy something to eat and shop some more. This is not an upscale mall by any means but for the average shoppers it has everything you could need.
The parking is a nightmare here. This mall is always crowded since it’s the only one for quite a few towns (unless you like to go into Tampa) so most times you cannot find a spot to park near the store you’d like to go to. Very frustrating!