Sydney Shopping
Sydney offers fantastic shopping opportunities. It doesn't matter what you are looking for, you will find it here. Most shops are open between 9am and 5:30pm on weekdays but on Tuesdays you can do evening shopping until 9pm.
Oxford Street
One of the best shopping districts can be found along Oxford Street through Darlinghurst, Paddington and Woollahra. Designer shops, galleries, tattoo parlours, booksellers, furniture shops wall to wall - and an abundance of cafés to boot. On the clothes racks you will find Japanese and Belgian sizes as well as Australian brands like Gary Castles and Nine West. Collette Dinnigan's store is at 33 William Street, and a couple of doors further along, at number 39, there is Belinda Serper's super-coola shoes and bags. Buses 378, 380, 382 to Paddington Town Hall.
Pitt Street Mall and George Street
Pitt Street Mall right in the centre of the city - at Sydney Tower - leads to several large shopping centres, such as The Strand, Centrepoint, Mid-City Centre, Sky Garden and Sydney Central Plaza with the city's largest food court. More shops than you can manage in a week. One passage leads to Queen Victoria Building, an elegant shopping and restaurant mall in a palatial one-time vegetable market dating from 1893 which now houses designer clothes and quality souvenirs. Galeries Victoria, 500 George Street, is one of the newer shopping temples.
Myer & David Jones
Shopping malls and small stores are the mainstay of Sydney's shopping scene, but these two large department stores are holding their own.
Myers
Address: 436 George Street
Phone: (02) 9238 9111
David Jones
Address: 86-108 Castlereagh Street
Phone: (02) 9266 5544