This place has many great outlet shops. We needed something like this in North County. It has a nice coastal breeze and beautiful scents from the nearby Flower Fields. For a nice day out shopping I would definetly recommend coming here.

PROS:
CONS: Parking is tight!

Lots of great stores to choose from. Oh and there is also a variety of food choices such as Rubys, Rubios... etc. the landscape and scenery is beautiful. It is well kept.

PROS:
CONS: Parking is hard to find

The place is very nicely situated with the flower farm in the background. There is generally an ample parking space and they provide valet parking too. The place is clean and it is always a pleasure to walk around to shop for bargains or to just simply get some exercise done (there are 90 stores to look around in). The area is nicely landscaped, the toilets are very clean and private and the staff are friendly and approachable.

I found out about the Carlsbad outlet just a few years ago. Since then, I always think about hitting the outlet on my way down to San Diego. It's the closest Chelsea Premium outlet to Orange County, and has a bunch of stores that make the drive worthwhile. There's Banana Republic Factory Store, Ralph Lauren Polo, a Crate & Barrel outlet, Gap outlet, and tons of other stores. Probably the only store missing that I'd like is the Ann Taylor Factory store. You can find really great deals here at Carlsbad, so much that I feel like I'm wasting money shopping at the regular stores! Oh, and there's a Rubio's here. What can be better, outlet shopping and fish tacos...