Mall of the Americas

Over the years, this mall has decreased in quality. I honestly just can’t understand this mall. They decided to remove GameStop, The Arcade, TigerDirect, and AMC Theaters which were basically the best parts of this mall. I don’t understand why they would want to build a Costco in place of the Theatres if there is a Costco a few blocks west of this mall. On top of this, there are numerous shoe stores and a few clothing stores, none of which I am interested in. The only good thing about this mall is the Food Court with their Subway and Magic Grill but even so, they can do better. I give up on this mall.

Very quiet place nice to chill. No complaints at all. Easy to get here. The place looks old but, who cares? At least I don’t. Not overcrowded you can take your time to look around peacefully. It’s the first time I’m here but not disappointed. Not five stars because not to many stores and small food court place.

R.I.P Mall of the America’s, your day has come! This mall needed to have been revamped like 20 years ago! I heard in the news today that it has finally closed down and I couldn’t be happier! The flagship store was Marshall’s and although there’s nothing wrong with Marshall’s, but when it is the mall’s main store than you can only imagine what the rest of the stores are going to be like! This mall wreaked of disgusting, old, moldy smell and the décor was from a time of a very tacky era! I can’t wait to see the new and improved shopping center! Hope they make it a giant IKEA or something useful like that!

This mall is great ! Great because now during the Christmas season seems like it’s the ghost of Christmas past & future. Past because the mall was once a very popular mall filled with happy family’s shopping and heading to the movies.
Now as a comment by John the mall is mainly with store closed, old décor, Cuban stores, and only know brands footlocker, Ross, Marshall & GNC. Oh wait they have the only radio shack know in Miami as if they didn’t want to show case how old they are.
Future of any mall that allows thugs to run the mall. Again as stated by an earlier Unilocaled (John) the mall is filled with shady people who are wearing a du rag and fubu sweaters. It’s safe to say about 90 percent of the customers are there for suspend license.

Even though I don’t frequent this mall anymore, it holds a special place in my heart.
I came here a lot as a kid with my grandma and aunt. Back then, it was a bustling mall with plenty of good stores, and competitors like Dolphin and Sunset were not yet on the map.
When I started dating my now-​wife, I brought her here for movie dates. (And one of my closest friends at the time tagged along for many of them.) We didn’t want to deal with the crowds at Dolphin or have to pay for parking at Sunset. I remember seeing many great movies here over that three-​year span, from The 40-​Year Old Virgin to The Dark Knight.
In 2008, we felt we had outgrown this mall and have been going to Sunset Place ever since, which is cleaner and more modern. Yes, having to pay for parking sucks, but I’d rather do it for a better overall experience.
If you want to avoid lines (especially when you’re planning to see a big blockbuster like The Avengers), this mall fits the bill.

6÷27÷2015 11am-​2pm
Had a long lay over for my flight so I decided to stop at this mall and catch a movie. There is nothing here worth stopping for. Seems about 60% of the stores are closed. This place is clearly old with outdated décor and the movie theater needs to be bleached and all the carpets steamed cleaned because the AMC theater smells of mold, stale air and urine. Do not waste your time visiting this place.
Tourist from Ohio.

This mall doesn’t have much to offer if you’re looking for higher end or designer stores. It showcases smaller stores which are more boutique shops on a beach. It has a food court offering a wide variety of food but definitely isn’t the place to stop if you’re looking for designer brands or styles. Better for a last-​minute shopping stop or to grab a bite to eat.

I love going to the mall but this one I don’t like so much. Don’t have many options and is hard to find what you want. I’d like this mall have more variety and will be better. However have some nice stores and also very cheap cinema.

OK I used to love Mall Of The America’s but now it’s turned into a complete dump like the Desoto Square Mall in Bradenton. I went to shop a little bit with my friend and saw a movie at the AMC theater. OK first off the AMC movie theatre needs a serious cleaning ASAP. The staff is extremely rude and are totally confused they’re terrible at math and don’t know how much money they give back to their customers. There are so much stuff thrown on the floor I found 5 3D Glasses on the floor Popcorn Bags with Popcorn on the floor, Skittles Sour Patch and millions of soda cups on the floor and bottles and I found a dead roach in the women’s restroom barf wtf they need to clean this dumpy movie theater. The whole mall itself is a dump it is so dirty and can just barf all day. The kids play area is disgusting I saw so much dried up vomit on the floor and the store FINAL ROUND used to be awesome now it’s a complete disaster. Its shouldn’t be called Mall of The America’s anymore it should be called Mall Of The Idiots and I don’t mean the shoppers I mean the workers and staff and managers. This place used to be great but now it’s another version of Hell and a complete nightmare I won’t return again no matter what

uah ein gruseliger platz! wirklich gut war nur der kubanische kaffee für 30ct! ansonsten muss man da nicht gewesen sein…

I don’t even know how this mall is still open they are no major stores this mall needs renovating the theater looks old

I am so ashamed that I came here earlier I didn’t even bother to check-​in on Unilocal.Firstly, let me start you off with a tidbit of history on what is possibly going to be a long review on this mall. I will try my best to be Politically Correct.
This building itself was brand spanking new when My Peoples, los cubanos, started coming to Miami in masses. Once named Midway Mall because it was once the last frontier «midway» before arriving at The Everglades. I remember it being anchored by a Richard’s and Jeffersons. The anchor stores kept changing through the years with prominent Department Stores. Most have gone out of business since. This mall was a failure since its inception. First, the popular saying around town was, «who the Hell wants to drive all the way over there?» Kendall and Doral barely existed back in the day.
Today this mall, in my opinion, is just like 163^rd Street Mall in North Miami Beach. A desperate attempt to save a preexisting building from the wrecking ball. Even much like Northside that once was anchored by a JCPenney and Sears. 163^rd Street Mall was the same blueprint as Dadeland Mall before Dadeland was expanded.
So what happened, you ask? Why is one nicer than the other two aesthetically? Well, for one, more Hispanics came in drones expanding Miami further west into The Everglades. Which mall do we spend millions on and gets revitalized? Look, if you really don’t know what I’m getting at here, let me know and I’ll draw you a picture. I’ll even get all Helen Keller on you.
In came «Mall of the Americas.» Because in Latin America this is exactly what a modern mall would look like. Just like the other two these days, here you will find nail places, Dollar Store-​types and wig places. Only difference is that here they cater to an Hispanic clientele. To be fair there are other known stores inside the mall. Most cater to bargain basement deals. The best thing about this mall is the Food Court and the Chongas you’ll have fun Instagramming pictures of behind their backs.
Long story short and to finish this review, do I recommend any locals purposely coming here to shop? Not really unless you’re looking for that generic Chonga outfit for your Prom. The large known stores still here you will find somewhere else closer to you. Rumor has it, this mall is about to hit another rock bottom. Part of the reasoning of me coming here today. Enjoy it while it’s still there. It was surprisingly not filled to the gills.

Really, this place is a joke. We decided to take the bus to this place thinking it would live up to its name, omg, what a joke. The best store by far is Payless and that should say a lot, or maybe there is a Foot Locker store. I was completely disappointed. I got to see a little more of Miami but it was definitely a waste of time.
I didn’t get to go to Aventura Mall but hear that one is exceptional.

This is the saddest mall I’ve ever seen in my life. I didn’t recognize most of the store names, and though this isn’t a always a bad thing (I can often go for cute boutiques), in this case it was. I went there for the first and last time to jewelry shop with the beau; we walked in and almost immediately left. The only jewelry stores we saw (to be fair, we didn’t exactly scour the place) were a place that claimed it housed «fine» jewelry (but actually sold mostly very obviously plastic stuff) and a stand being run by a lady who didn’t seem to speak English. Anyway, I never knew a mall could actually make me feel upset, but this one did. It was just so depressing and dark and sad and none of the stores were the least bit appealing. I may visit again just to show my friend how depressing and awful it is because it’s actually sort of a novelty.

This mall is just… depressing. It’s a ghost town; hot, humid and dark. The busiest «store» is the DMV, which should tell you a lot about this mall.

Ke$ha in brick and mortar.
Oh, you need more? The hottest of messes. The triflingnest of trifling. The low-​budget sequel to the Heath Ledger/​Jake Noonecanspellthat movie BrokeDOWN Mountain. Are you for real, Miami? Mall of the Americas? Like this:
? No. Not close. I see what you try to do. I see you try and take a little piece here and a little piece there to try and make this old bag attempt to look like the ‘hey ‘dere’ real deal… but no.
The parking spaces are too narrow for good drivers. For the drivers that populate this mall, it’s an insurance adjusters’ dream come true. The bands of roving hoodlums that populate the empty concourses are something out of Mad Max. The legions of screaming children (‘Can you hear them, Clarice?’) are annoying at best and disconcerting at worse (why is everyone screaming? This might be a rhetorical question).
This *has* to be prime real estate; treat it as such. Why the owners would allow it to languish and die is beyond me. Give me the money and I would turn this bad boy into something of note. Get it together, folks. Customers: come here only by necessity. And by ‘necessity,’ I mean the DMV (which gets its own ghetto fabulous review/​rating).

This is definitely a mall that was great in the ‘80s there is no doubt about that. Its dying and that is sad. I am going to milk it for all its got, because the fact of the matter is that it has Marshall’s, Old Navy, Ross AND theatres that aren’t full of the trashiest teenagers in town or idiot tourists who have no manners (cough, cough Dolphin Mall).
When I want an experience to browse, check out shop windows and have a coffee I will go to another mall. When I want to go grab what I need without having to sidestep all the douche bags and their women who think that walking into you is their right, then I come here. They even have a place that has great wraps with grilled veggies and a juice cart that has the best lemonade.

This is a seriously sad mall. I had some time to kill before a flight from Miami to LAX, and the mall was close, but boy does it fall short of its grandiose name! Half the storefronts are empty, and the other half are no-​name flea market level shops.
There’s also a creepy little play area with coin operated toddler rides, with periodic canned children’s laughter funneled in from hidden speakers. Yikes. Honestly, I don’t know why anyone would ever come here, it’s just depressing.

This place is OK for me, compared to that cluster fuck Dolphin Mall, I can usually find a decent parking spot here and there clothing stores, shoes stores, discount stores, computer stores, electronic stores and music stores. There are also pretty decent movie theaters, so my basic needs are pretty much covered.
I am not not one to go on shopping sprees, but rather go for something specific and leave, and when I come here, I can usually achieve this in a pretty short amount of time.
It is kind of sad to see how empty this place usually is, but for my selfish shopping needs, it works fine. I am in and out in a flash.
3 stars nothing more, nothing less.

Aside from the fact that everyone there speaks Spanish, this mall belongs in a cornfield in the middle of Nebraska, not in one of the world’s most vibrant cities. I’m really not clear on why it even exists, given that Dolphin Mall (which rocks) is right nearby.
I stopped by for the first time, specifically to make a trip to Old Navy for cute Canes tees. I was pretty horrified by the condition of this place. The word raddled comes to mind. Like, seriously, WTH? This mall appears to have died a slow, painful death many years ago.
The Old Navy was ok … I did find what I needed.
As I strolled through, I felt like every creepy old man in the vicinity (which was the majority of the mall’s inhabitants) was staring at me, as I made the mistake of wearing short shorts on this outing. Ew.
The Halloween store on site actually has an awesome selection — hence the one additional star. They also have the trashiest Dollar Store I’ve ever seen (which is saying something), and some ghetto-​ass clothing/​shoe stores selling stripper gear and thong bathing suits. Awesome.
I can safely say I’ll never be back.

I agree about just tearing this mall down and start over again. Do not go here. There are about six stores in the whole entire mall, all are really boring and ghetto. This mall has a history though. One of the stores used to be a pot manufacturing plant, until they got busted. And you have a high possibility of getting stabbed here.
DO NOT GO HERE! I REPEAT DO NOT GO HERE!

I too recently spent a few days at the New Horizons Computer Learning Center ensconced within this mall. It’s funny to see nostalgia for this place in some of the other reviews — I’m definitely going to be showing my age here by noting that I used to go to this place back when it was called Midway Mall in the early 1980s! My grandmother and I would take the bus over there. There was something that I liked about this mall, I don’t remember what. I think there were candy dispensers I liked or something. Oh, and I used to go to the Midway Skating Center across the street on Sunday mornings to skate and play Pac-​Man and Super Breakout, while totally jamming out to hot new songs like Afrika Bambaataa — «Planet Rock» and New Order — «Blue Monday.» I hold huge nostalgia for this area, I remember it as if it was yesterday.
Imagine my shock, to have walked inside recently — I swear the place still looks the same as it did in 1981 — similar layout and shabby décor!!! I could also swear that a couple of the same stores are still in there… there’s still a luggage shop and photo framing store that I’m pretty damned sure existed in the ‘80s. Otherwise, you’ll find Old Navy, a Ross, a couple stores selling fourth-​rate mens formal wear, and lots of stores selling cheap, slutty womens clubwear. I have to say, I got a kick out of walking through the place. Hey, it’s comforting to know that next time I need luggage, I can come here and spend next to nothing!
I didn’t brave the food court, instead choosing to drive off-​site to the Doral Ale House for lunch.
So laughably bad, it’s actually pretty cool — check it out!

I’m enrolled at one of the tech schools in this mall in order to get some computer certifications. As a design professional, I’ll give mall management kudos for the adaptive reuse. Anywho, I got in with an hour before class and decided to explore said «mall».
I think it’s the first time that a Unilocal review quotes another one but I have to agree with Danny that the place has become chongaville. There are like 20 different chancleta stores, a bellydance wear store run by a creepy looking dude, and a menswear store that looks like straight from Guido central casting. Let’s not forget chongawear central US Tops, AND they don’t even have a Starbucks!!!
They only get two stars because the school does have the latest technology and the windowless computer room does give you a realworld feel for Telecom buildings.