Shopping is a must before you travel, shopping is exciting while you are travelling and visiting a shopping center in Los Angeles is a ritual when you are there for the first time.
You may have heard of Los Angeles, the home of entertainment industry, to be an expensive place. It holds true to an even greater extent when one is visiting the place. When someone is travelling, it is always important to save money or at least make better use of it.
It is not wise to give away your money like this especially when you are in a place stuffed with tempting things to buy. Key is to keep spending money throughout but save something good for later. If you think shopping in budget is not possible in Los Angeles then you are wrong.
There is a lot to learn from the following points:
- Bargain- Yes no matter how weird it may sound to you, it happens in city of LA too. Craze and urge for shopping remain the same across the world. Downtown, LA has got the fashion district where you can find over 1000 local garment manufacturers and designer stores which are full of latest men and ladies garments.
Venice beach is a great spot to buy stuff like sunglasses and original arts and crafts by local artisans at most reasonable prices. You can take them home for personal use or make your friends and family happy.
You can buy 3 souvenir T-shirts for $10. Also you can try doing something different like taking personalized T-shirts for your girls’ gang. T-shirt printing in Los Angeles is quite popular these days. Customize apparels in sundry patterns; designs give you a chic look effortlessly. - Mid-range and high end shopping- For this you don’t need special set of skills. For mid-range you can visit LA Farmers market, Santa Monica Place, Old Pasadena, Americana at Brand.
As far as your longing for high end shopping is concerned, list is endless. Beverly center, sunset plaza, west Hollywood and rodeo drive have exclusive designer collections for you.
What to carry away from LA?
Where there are your favorite celebrities either living or visiting every time, you want to take every bit of that place with you. Souvenirs are sweet gestures from the travellers to their loved ones back in their home town. You can get anything that suits your budget and meets their expectations.
