Market City Shopping Center — Attraction in Honolulu

Please notice that this is a review of the Shopping Center alone, and NOT a review of any of the stores located there! I try to avoid this place in the PM and on weekends like the plague! Why? The asinine parking lot! First of all, it's just wayyyy too small. Secondly, they seemed to have brought parking lot designers from Maui to scope this lot. (If you haven't driven around in a large Maui parking lot, you've missed one of the Wonders of the World - as you're trying to leave, you start wondering if you'll ever make it out!) Thirdly, to get as many parking spots as possible, they made each spot BARELY big enough to fit a MiniCooper! And finally, this Tonka-sized fiasco carries over to the traffic lanes - people have to stop to let each other move sometimes. So, if you have a car you don't want banged, if you can't come during weekday AM, use a Uber! HINT: I do have a secret area I always park, because it's always empty - I guess folks think it's too far...

Love this shopping center; it is one of the most useful little collections of store types & various services that I know of. 24 hour grocery shopping? Yes: Foodland. Pharmacy? Yes: Walgreens. Take out/dine in? Of course, what would you like: thai, BBQ, hawaiian, chinese, italian? There's also a Ben Franklin craft store, a T-mobile, a hair salon, a dry cleaners, Kaimuki Self Storage, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, a freaking donut shop, and lots lots more...all crammed into a pretty smallish strip mall. As for parking, traffic flow could be a lot smoother, most notably in the loop that passes in front of Foodland. But besides that the parking lot is pretty awesome: thanks to the genius placement of shade trees it's not hard to find a shaded parking stall any...

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