Edmonton and the world famous shopping mall

When someone says to me "world's largest shopping mall", I'm thinking: "I'm there!", but if I had known exactly what it was going to be like, I might not have been so enthusiastic.

While it holds the world record for being the world's largest mall, the West Edmonton Mall is hugely overrated. True, it holds a water theme park, an amusement ride theme park, a casino, a 10-pin bowling alley, a mini-golf park, an ice-skating rink, but I'm not here to play, I'm here to shop!

The shops themselves are nothing to write home about either. Same old shops, and in some cases, there's more than one branch of some of the chain stores, at opposite ends of the mall.

In a word? Overrated!