More Than A Sandwich

Castle Towers is like how in the 1950s people kind of imagined the future (without the hover boards). It is a market, an indoor market where international brands, well know stores and ease of access are part and parcel of the way we engage in consumer society. More of everything. Products, items and things available at your fingertips. Keep hearing the buzz from the ether that physical shopping is over, not according to the busy and active shopping centre I saw today. The place was packed to the gills. Thousands of coffee sipping people walking, talking and shopping until their hearts give out. Growing up in the product poverty of the 1970s and 1980s in comparison to Castle Towers Shopping and product Zanzibar is mind blowing. The entire design, the architecture and the ease of movement is a smooth and hypnotic experience. Clean, fresh and climate cool. The scents are not of the outdoor markets of ye olde times, where freshly butchered meat hung alongside the flies and stench of badly maintained sweets. Think how beautiful the toilets are. Clean and healthy to use. The entire system so wonderfully created from decades of investment and consumer addiction has produced this the Giza of shopping. So really shopping has become a pastime and the centre has opened its legs for those who wish to enter. A magnificent centre of consumer brilliance. If it’s hot visit to be cool, if it’s cold visit to be warm if it’s raining visit to be dry. This centre has everything and almost anything people want, need and desire. Regardless of the mom & pop stores of popular fiction (and that is a myth) shopping centres are the centre of the consumer universe and Castle Towers has played into that at the highest level. Though more parking is required because the dream of public transportation has failed the modern consumer. This the madness of thousands of cars hunting for parking spots reduced the ambience of a pleasant shopping visit to the rough and tumble of early humans hunting on the savanna.

Castle Towers Shopping Centre is a brilliant spot that has really improved over the years. I never would have given it five stars, a few years ago; however I'm now a converted zealot for the place. They've done an incredible job of upgrading the place, attracting new retailers and improving the parking. My family loves it there. We can do a full shop of almost anything, get lunch and the kids love it. Highly recommended and great spot. Love what they've done!

Although it doesn't have Daiso plus the Asian grocery is the expensive one, the parent room facilities are the BEST. Clean, rocking chair, heavy sturdy stepping stool, tap water temperature controlled, change mat provided, spacious, and never need to wait. Absolutely comforting breastfeeding experience even better than home. Feel 100% carefree when shopping here for over 3 hours, knowing the baby and myself fully backed.