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Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer on the launch of the new Mānawa Bay outlet mall · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Our travel expert Megan Singleton joins us. Now, good morning,
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  Speaker 2: good morning. Now, not that I am grasping for material
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  Speaker 2: possessions after reading my life Hacks from a Buddha, but
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  Speaker 2: I am quite interested to know what you discovered at
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  Speaker 2: Marnaba Bay because this is the new Auckland Airport outlet mall.
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  Speaker 2: They've been promoting it for quite a long time. It
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  Speaker 2: looks like there's amazing sort of shops out there and things.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe you took a trip.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm actually out here as we speak. Hi.
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  Speaker 2: How's traffic? Is it really busy?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is really busy. Look, there's fourteen hundred car
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  Speaker 3: parking spaces. So while I would say from where I'm
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  Speaker 3: sitting in the car right now, it looks absolutely packed,
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  Speaker 3: there are still some spaces around. You can't come and
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  Speaker 3: from Puanui Road even though that's where you see it.
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  Speaker 3: So where it's located and it wasn't quite where I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was. It's right down by the estuary of
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  Speaker 3: pu Andui Road past Butterfly Creek if you were leaving
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  Speaker 3: the airport, so it's a bit of a hike. You
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't walk here from the airport. But I do think
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  Speaker 3: it does create a great layover opportunity because I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if you've ever you know, well, I've certainly got
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  Speaker 3: friends and family that come through and then they've got
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  Speaker 3: several hours between their international fight and their domestic flights,
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  Speaker 3: and there's really nothing much to do unless you go
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  Speaker 3: all the way into the city or into Manacaw or
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  Speaker 3: something like that. So there's a hundred shops out here.
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  Speaker 3: There's sort of all the main ones that we know
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  Speaker 3: and love, but including there's Tommy Hill Figure, There's Calvin Klein,
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  Speaker 3: Hokers Shoes, Huffa. People are walking around, I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: what costs living? Cross Screen Cheska. People are walking around
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  Speaker 3: with their rollin guns bags and the cafe for Lint,
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  Speaker 3: the Lint Chocolate Cafe. The line never died down. I've
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  Speaker 3: been out here for about an hour and a half,
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  Speaker 3: still huge, Like I don't know, people are just keen
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  Speaker 3: as mustard to be out here shopping, eating. There's a
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  Speaker 3: food court, there's an outdoor play area as well, which
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  Speaker 3: would be quite good. If you've had kids on are
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  Speaker 3: playing for hours an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's diage.
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  Speaker 3: You give them a bit of a run around.
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  Speaker 2: It's really interesting the way you're talking about it, because
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  Speaker 2: I thought this was just another outlet like the big
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  Speaker 2: Dressmartin Onni Hunger that was available for shoppers, and I
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  Speaker 2: was thinking, what an interesting place to put it. We
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  Speaker 2: don't want lots more traffic going towards the airport because
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  Speaker 2: we want to be able to get to our flights,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we want You don't want a lot of
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  Speaker 2: traffic going out there. But I see what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: So many hotels out at the airport. Now we often
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  Speaker 2: have family coming up from different parts of the country.
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  Speaker 2: They have a night at a hotel, then they fly
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  Speaker 2: out the next day. I get that. Now, this then
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  Speaker 2: provides people with something to do, somewhere to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's only open ten till seven. But it
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  Speaker 3: is seven days. But I still think we're lacking out
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  Speaker 3: here an evening restaurant kind of situation, like when you're
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  Speaker 3: dropping people for late flights, or as you say, people
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  Speaker 3: have got an overnight unless they're anything in their hotel restaurant,
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  Speaker 3: and not all the hotels have them. We're still a
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  Speaker 3: little bit lacking out here. I think somewhere you know,
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  Speaker 3: to go to for dinner, there's a food court, there's
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  Speaker 3: a say the More closes at seven. So yeah, but
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  Speaker 3: that's what that's what I think. The whole the whole
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  Speaker 3: angle is for me and for travelers and stuff. You're
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  Speaker 3: sort of they're off. You'd come down past Jk's Gulf World.
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  Speaker 3: You wouldn't go all the way into that airport road,
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  Speaker 3: but you'd Yeah, you still are causing a bit of
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  Speaker 3: at the moment, you're causing a bit of a rackets
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  Speaker 3: with the traffic getting here, but you know, it's quite
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  Speaker 3: doable for a pleasant day, and yeah, lots of reasons
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  Speaker 3: to get out here. I think.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm pleased to hear Megan that obviously it's it's
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  Speaker 2: going off with the bang and that they're having a
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  Speaker 2: good owing weekend. Are you just going to are you
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  Speaker 2: just is in the car and recover now, or are.
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  Speaker 3: You going yes, no, I'm gone, I'm done.
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  Speaker 2: I've done.
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  Speaker 3: No, there's a lot of people. I mean, if you
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  Speaker 3: don't like crowds, you don't come today anyway, wait till
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  Speaker 3: little they're actually running really especials until today, so they
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  Speaker 3: hasn't had a soft launch from Thursday to Sunday and
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  Speaker 3: then I think it sort of kicks into regular gear
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  Speaker 3: from next week. So we'll see how if it sort
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  Speaker 3: of cools off a little bit. But you know, as
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  Speaker 3: i'd say, with fourteen hundred car parks, they expect it.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what. The design of the building.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at it right now. It's so fantastic. It
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  Speaker 3: looks really really good right on the edge of the estuary.
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  Speaker 3: They've planted it well, it's just going to be a
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  Speaker 3: great little spot.
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  Speaker 2: Megan. Thank you for heading out there and checking it
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  Speaker 2: out for us. That was Manama Bay.
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