Plan Your Woodbury Common Shopping Trip with These 5 Tips
1. Avoid Parking Problems by Taking the Bus
As the Trip Savvy travel site points out, many people in Manhattan don’t own a car. Avoid the mess of renting a vehicle just to shop for the day by taking the luxury bus to shop. Catch the Woodbury Bus departing Manhattan each morning at 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. from in front of the McDonald’s at 51st Street and Broadway. Adult fares cost only $42 for the roundtrip. You’ll ride in style in either a Van Hool & Setra coach bus or a Mercedes minibus. Choose a return trip of 4 p.m. or 6:30 p.m.
2. Research the Sales Offered
While Woodbury Common does offer a massive outlet shopping experience, the rate of discount at each store within the outlet shopping center varies. Typically, the stores offer between 25% and 50% off their regular retail store prices. If you want deeper discounts than that, you’ll need to research the sales. Woodbury Common offers a few center-wide sales per year, including:
- Presidents’ Day weekend
- Memorial Day weekend
- July 4th/mid-summer
- Labor Day weekend
- Columbus Day weekend
- Thanksgiving eve/pre-Black Friday
- Black Friday weekend
- Post-December holidays
The July 4th sale typically offers some of the largest discounts of the year. Retailers provide added discounts to the typical 25% to 65% discounts.
3. Add to Your Available Discounts With VIP Programs
Join the Woodbury Common VIP Club to land free extra discounts and access to special sales. The outlet mall will email you when it offers a special sale only for its preferred customers.
You can also register for the discount clubs or frequent shopper programs of the various stores located at the shopping center. You can use the shopper points you amass for gift certificates that let you further reduce the price of purchasing your favorite designers.
4. Take a Collapsible Suitcase With You
When you travel by bus to the shopping center, you can take a piece of luggage with you. Packing an empty soft-sided or rolling luggage bag can help you more easily carry your shopping booty. The coaches and buses used in transit use the design as those for overnight and long-distance travel, so you’ll have plenty of room for your shopping items.
5. Plan Ahead the Stores You Want to Visit
Woodbury Common provides a huge selection of shops — more than 100 retailers. You should plan for an all-day trip and map out which stores you most want to visit before you arrive. This lets you create a schedule so you can fit in all the stops you want to make.
