Uncasville Shopping

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Smuggler's Hold has everything a Jimmy Buffet fan could want. The store is conveniently located next to the Margaritaville restaurant. The store carries Jimmy Buffet themed shirts, towels, bathing suits, accessories, glasses, margarita machines, Margarita mix and much more. A person could totally outfit themselves from head to toe Jimmy Buffet apparrel and then have their matching margarita glasses.....if they desire to do so.

We always stop in after having a drink, meal or snack at Margaritaville just to browse and for me to drool over the Margarita Machines. My favorite was the three pitcher Margaritaville machine. That's definitely something I'd enjoy having around.

What to buy: Everything a Jimmy Buffet fan could want and more....

We are not big Godiva chocolate fans but we do enjoy their chocolate dipped strawberries. The store carries a nice selection of loose and boxed chocolates as well as the dipped fruit. We decided to buy a few strawberries and bring them back to our hotel for later.

What to buy: Anything chocolate you would like from bars to truffles. Our last trip here we bought some hot chocolate for $11 for the tin.

What to pay: Affordable

Cache is a women's clothing store that carries dresses, skirts, tops and accessories. Cache is not a store that my wife usually shops; she find most of their items a bit too flashy and some down right gaudy for her liking. Our last visit to Cache Liz found a simple tube style dress in a blue pattern in the store display window. We both liked the color and thoight it might just look nice. We decided to stop in for a closer inspection. I found Liz her size and off she went to the fitting room. After a quick pop out og the room for a "Honey what do you think?"; we were both sold on it. The colors were eye popping and it fit perfectly. Liz changed as I took the dress to the register for payment.

The dress was $103 with tax which is very inexpensive in my opinion. I didn't like though, that the sales clerk kept trying to selll me accessories numerous times before the transaction. Even after Liz joined me and said no she kept at it. My wife finally said; "No all this jewelry is just too tacky looking for me"; then she got the message.

What to pay: The dress was $103 with tax. Not a bad price for a dress in my opinion.

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Coach is a store for women's handbags and accesories. The store has a variety of handbags in diferent shapes, sizes,colors and fabrics to choose from. They also carry fragrance, shoes, sharves, wallets, key chains, jewelry and other accessories to match.

The staff is always very friendly and greets each shopper as they enter the store. The merchandise is well displayed and the rotate stock fairly regularly. My wife and I always stop into this store; you never know what might "catch" the eye. Our last visit there were a few bags that caught my wife's eye but not in sizes that she prefers; we were able to go online back at home to find the correct size in two of the bags they had on display.

What to buy: Anything from a coach key chain to travel bags, shoes, scarves and jewelry.

What to pay: Affordable

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Lush is a store that carries a varity of bath products, lotions, hair products and cosmetics. They have bath bombs that fizz in the bathtub in variety of scents. The bubble bars are also a favorite especially the Turbo Bubble Bar; my wife is a bubble bath girl. The Phoenix Bubble bar is really good with a cinnamon scent. My wife likes the frosty bar; it's nice but I wind up covered in glitter from it.

The masage bars are awesome and are always on our shopping list especuially the strawberry fields which smell like fresh strawberries, the Wiccy Magic Muscles Massage Bar which is awesome when your muscles ache and the Soft Coeur which is a honey chocolate massge bar (it's lickable).

What to buy: Our last visit here we bought more massage bars: a Soft Coeur and a Wiccy Magic. They even threw in a free massage bar tin and a sample of one of the body scrubs.

What to pay: The massage bars range from $8.75 to $10. The bubble bars are from $4.95 and up. The bath bombs are $6.95 and up.

I enjoy going into a Lush store, the wonderful scents that eminate as you walk by usually will lure me in. Whenever I find a Lush store I venture in stock up on some of my favorites or to check out any new scents.

Lush prides itself in providing fresh ingredients which are made by hand, are environmentally safe and are not tested on animals. The products range from bath and shower items like the bath bombs (one of my favorites) to the bars (some in really cute shapes), sugar scrubs and buttter creams. They also have a line of hair and facial products as well as some fragrances that come in a solid form in cute tins.

What to buy: The bath bombs are my favorite items here with scents ranging from the Sex bomb, Luverly, Absolute Delight, Sicilian, Waving Not Drowning, and Sakura. There are many others, but I usually stick to these.

Cache is another store that is found in most shopping malls the specializes in womens upper end clothing and accesories. I say upper end becasue their lines quite stylish and are mostly dressier items to be worn at parties or on evenings out. You will also find a smaller selection of casual attire.

The window display caught my eye with somre really nice blue dresses and tops, so I decided to take a look and see if there was anything that I would like. I didn't purchase anything to wear, but I did find a really nice necklace that went well with an outfit that I have at home, so I purchased it.

What to buy: Everything from women's casual and dressy dresses, pants, jeans, sexy tops, jewelry and accesories.

I picked up a nice necklace.

What to pay: Depending on the item, prices can range fron abuot $58 for a blouse to over $200 for a dress. The jewelry and accesories are mid range anywhere from $28-$58.

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Yankee Candle makes a pretty large selection of scented candles that come in all sorts of jar sizes, tapers, tea lights, car scents and air freshners.

At one point there was a Yankee Candle fragrance in every part of my home as I loved their scents (still do like some), but I've replaced it with a French line I discovered during one of my visits to Paris.

I do still enjoy some of the seasonal scents and will occassionally stop in and grab a jar or two to have at home when I run out of my other favorite scents.

What to buy: Sunflower was one of my favorite scents (they no longer make it) as well as Cotton Linen.

What to pay: Prices vary on size and are quite reasonable.