Lynn Mall

Lynn Mall is probably one of the smallest malls in Auckland but it does have most of the shops you’d expect a mall to have. There’s nothing all that special about it but it is in a handy location and they are remodeling to expand the east wing of the mall. They hold typical mall hours and there is a Countdown but the beer and wine is sold separately. The worst part about Lynn mall is definitely the parking lot but to be fair all mall parking lots that I’ve experienced in Auckland have been atrocious at best. I can’t quite understand how planers can get it so wrong every time. This one has confusing turn lanes, one ways and spaces that aren’t actually big enough for a car to fit. They also share the lot with a KFC and a Pizza Hut which along with the Countdown is the perfect mix of terrible! Your best bet is to go at off-​peak times for your car and sanity to go unscathed.

LynnMall has been around since 1963 apparently — and was one of Auckland’s first mall’s! Did you know that? I shop here infrequently as located in New Lynn, however they cater for all your needs with Number 1 Shoes, Cotton On, Countdown, Farmers, JB Hi-​Fi, Tank, retail banks and so forth. Great parking: 180 mins free. Most of the retail staff are friendly and communicative. LynnMall are undergoing some serious cosmetic work on the shop front — which will be greatly appreciated by the likes of me! They just need a decent coffee shop now!

Another typical New Zealand mall with all the stores you would expect to find in one. Except this one is not a Westfield and being one of the oldest malls in New Zealand I find it has that feel to it. It even has the history of the mall displayed in photo and written form down one of the corrridors where you can enter the mall. The place as a whole I find needs a bit of a doing up despite them recently renovating the ASB and ANZ banks within, especially as I walk by the foodcourt. I can count one hand how many times I have had something to eat there, so unappealing I find it alike many NZ mall foodcourts. One good thing about the place as I have stated before about other mall I reviewed is that it has a JB HI-​FI within its inner sanctums… heaven!!! This particular shop being more heavenly to me as I have made several of my more important electronic purchases here. Apart from going there the most common reason I go there these days is to do the weekly or bi weekly shop at Countdown… of which this branch is 24 hours. So I guesss after JB HI-​FI that is another plus having a 24 hour Countdown. But overall just deserving of a 3 star average NZ mall.

Over the year the mall is going down hill. All the big labels have moved out — recent victim Amazon surf shop. Nearly the whole place is filled with 2 dollar shop there’s like 5 in this mall. Come on are you serious.
I hope the revamp soon because I’m only coming here for farmers, jb hifi and the very occasional food court.

Is not much to say about this mall. It is pretty standard with all the standard shops that you would expect. The neat thing about this is that it has all the popular shops in one single location so is pretty convenient.
Parking is found on two different levels so I find that pretty convenient also new lynn is turning out to be a bit of a buzzing area so I find it quite easy to go and get the things I really need pretty quick if I am in the area

No matter how much you don’t want to, sometimes you have to go to a shopping mall, and if you’re out West, I reckon that a trip to Lynn Mall is the best of the bad bunch: it’s definitely not somewhere I’d like to spend a lovely day out at, but it’s saving grace is that it’s smaller than the horrible one out at Henderson. It’s also independently owned, so not controlled by Westfield, so sometimes they do some cool initiatives like free delivery for people who travelled there by public transport, and they have a 90minute weekly «Mall Walk» led by a couple of personal trainers.
It was also the first mall in New Zealand, and has quite an interesting display about its history in a little hidden walkway through to the carpark next to the Rodney Wayne.

A run of the mill shopping mall based in New Lynn. It reminds me of its cousin in Henderson, lacking inspiration and full of the same old shops you will find in any other mall. I will concede that malls fulfill a purpose for the people who live in the area — so they can do all their shopping under one roof. To that extent, Lynn Mall is a perfectly ok shopping mall. To those of us with an arty bone in our body, malls don’t exactly get our pulses racing — fat people scoffing hamburgers is not the sort of thing that makes people want to sit down and write a novel. When I lived in London, I had no real dealings with shopping malls — I came to New Zealand, got married and now I can’t seem to avoid them. Perhaps I should go live on an island or something.

Good old Lynn Mall. I remember the days we used to make the big shopping trip out here, stopping off at the movies afterwards if I had behaved. The movie theatre now is a furniture barn, and in similar fashion Lynn Mall hasn’t aged particularly well. It’s a servicable mall, and is better set out then St Lukes, but the whole place feels a bit tired. There are all the usual stores you find in a mall — nothing to set Lynn Mall apart from the ordinary. Their food court is pretty good, in a «mall food court» way — there is enough variety to satisfy a group of people. Lynn Mall’s main attraction is its proximity to the train station and other public transport hub, and when the surrounding area around lynn mall is finally finished being worked on, Lynn Mall may need to smarten up its act or risk getting left behind.

This was my childhood mall, and I remember it seeming huge and busy and flash. Coming back as an adult it seems … well none of those things, really. It’s an average-​sized mall, and quite spread out, so even with lots of people it doesn’t feel overly busy, and at times it can feel quite sparse. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing though, as it makes coming here far less of an ordeal than trying to navigate, say, St Lukes mall. Lynmall is laid out pretty well, so you can find your way around easily (I’ve found it to be the case, anyway).
As far as the shops go they have all the standard mall shops. Chain clothes, chain food, chain books, the stuff you’d expect to see. If you live out west, but not too out west, then this is a convenient place to shop, but I wouldn’t make too much of a trip to get here.

Malls come in all shapes and size, big, small, long, wide. Lynn mall is a perfect example of a shopping mall that caters to and serves its own suburban locality. The region of New Lynn itself is actually home to 15, 551 people, as of the 2006 census and is a place that is ever growing thanks to the urban sprawl of Aucklander’s seeking life outside of the central city. The size of the mall itself is actually rather big, with offerings of over 110 shops to take your pick from. While you won’t find anything unusual or different to what you would find anywhere else (as malls this size tend to verge more on the conservative side so as to appeal to a mainstream audience), there are great stores like a decent sized Farmers (very important), a JBHifi, No 1 Shoes, and a Noël Leeming.
It also has a pretty good selection of fashion stores such as Just Jeans, Glassons, and Hallenteins for the guys.
Most importantly the food court is really well stocked with all the well known fast food outlets, so you can park yourself up for a good feed after your shopping trip.