6/16/11

Shopping Centres in Kuala Lumpur / Klang Valley.

Some people were asking me where are the best places to shop in Kuala Lumpur - I had to explain one by one on the different shopping centres and so on... hence, I have decided to put this up - a blog on 10 Prominent Shopping Centres in Kuala Lumpur / Klang Valley. =)

Suria KLCC.

Suria KLCC is Malaysia's premier shopping centre located at the base of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur City Centre based in Kuala Lumpur. It houses mostly luxury and fashionable shops such as Aigner, Louis Vuitton, Moschino, Prada, Brioni, Marc Jacobs, Hermes, Salvatore Ferragamo, Frank Muller, Bally, Coach, Hugo Boss, Karen Millen, Paul Smith, Fendi, Piaget, Miu Miu, Calvin Klein, Stuart Weitzman, Gucci, Chopard, Versace, Emilio Pucci, Burberry, Chanel, Tod's, Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani, Ermenegildo Zegna, Rolex, Alfred Dunhill, DKNY, Jimmy Choo as well as cafes, restaurants, a 12 screen cinema, a concert hall, an art gallery, and a Science Discovery Centre, over 6 floors.

Pavilion

Pavilion Kuala Lumpur is a shopping mall situated along the Bukit Bintang district in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Opened on 20 September 2007, it consists of four major components; a retail mall, an office tower, two residential and a proposed hotel. Pavilion Kuala Lumpur contains over 450 retail shops that are spread across seven levels. There are a number of double-storey flagship stores, of which some are street-front fashion boutiques which constitute the shopping mall, such as Burberry, Esprit (occupies four floors), Gucci, Hermès, Hugo Boss, Aigner, Juicy Couture, Prada, Versace, Salvatore Ferragamo, Ermenegildo Zegna and others.

Mid Valley MegaMall

Mid Valley Megamall is a complex comprising a shopping mall, an office tower block, 30 signature offices and 2 hotels located near Bangsar area. It has about 430 shops on five and a half floors. It has five anchor tenants; Carrefour, Jusco, Golden Screen Cinemas, Metrojaya and Harvey Norman. It also houses an 18 screen Cinema. Then there is a state-of-the-art bowling centre, a One-Stop IT Centre, two mega food courts and also a mega bookstore called MPH.

Gardens Mid Valley

The Gardens (also known in full as The Gardens at Mid Valley City) is the second phase of Mid Valley City, which also houses the Mid Valley Megamall. High end stores are located in the Retail Gallery. Anchor tenants include Robinson and Isetan. Louis Vuitton, Coach, Kate Spade, Ted Baker, Karen Millen and Hugo Boss are among the tenants of this upmarket mall. Other brands include Club Monaco, Lacoste, Nine West, Banana Republic, Esprit, Aldo, Armani Exchange, Massimo Dutti, Gap, Guess, Miss Sixty, and BCBG Maxazria.

Starhill Gallery

Starhill Gallery is an upscale, luxury retail mall located on Kuala Lumpur's famed Bukit Bintang district. It features more than a hundred renowned luxury timepiece and jewellery brands and dozens of other contemporary luxury labels. Some of its more notable brands here include Armand Nicolet, Audemars Piguet, Bedat & Co, Blu, Bvlgari, Cortina Watch, Davidoff, Hublot, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Khronos-Unique Horlogerie, Korloff, Kwanpen, M Missoni, Maurice Lacroix, McQ by Alexander McQueen, Richard Mille, Roger Dubuis, Steinway Lyngdorf, Tag Heuer, The British Master, Ulysse Nardin & Reuge and Vertu.

Lot 10

Lot 10 is a shopping complex within central Kuala Lumpur's shopping and entertainment district, Bintang Walk. It serves the wealthy and it is the equivalent of other city's high-class shopping such as Fifth Avenue or Knightsbridge in the 1990s. The outlets are mixtures of high end and middle level products such as Timberland, Ed Hardy, Topshop, Nike, Esprit, and G2000. Other notable brands include Vincci and Tangoo.

Fahrenheit 88

Fahrenheit 88 is a shopping mall located in the Bukit Bintang shopping district. Fahrenheit 88 have 280 retail shops. The tenant mix includes fashion and tech gadgets, and food and beverage outlets, targeting the young and trendy urbanites. The anchor tenant for food and beverage is Celsius KL which is located on the lower ground floor (LG2-01) and is now open for business. Other tenants include Uniqlo, Pacific Coffee Company, QuikSilver and Afternoon.

Berjaya Times Square

Berjaya Times Square Kuala Lumpur is a twin tower complex containing a shopping centre and five star hotel. Currently, it has space for more than 1,000 retail shops, 1,200 luxury service suites, 65 food outlets to suit many tastes and entertainment attractions such as Asia's largest indoor theme park, Berjaya Times Square Theme Park (formerly Cosmo’s World Theme Park) and Malaysia's first-ever GSC MAXX (formerly IMAX) 2D & 3D theatre which is located on the 10th Floor. Berjaya Times Square Kuala Lumpur is currently the 5th largest building in the world by floor area (7.5 million square feet, or 700,000 square metres).

Sungei Wang Plaza

Sungei Wang Plaza is a popular shopping centre situated in the Bukit Bintang area of Kuala Lumpur. The mall is well known for gathering a variety of products under one roof, including clothes, soft toys, games, watches, bookstore, lifestyle items and entertainment. The sixth floor of the mall has been established as T-zone (aka. Trendy Zone on The Roof), which generally caters for teenager fashion clothes, shoes and other trinkets. A lot of local designer clothes and accessories can be found with affordable price.

Low Yat Plaza

Low Yat Plaza is an established commercial shopping centre specializing in electronics and IT products. The shopping centre offers a great variety of single products with its collection of inter-chained stores. This is in contrast with streamlined arrangements in other electronics malls. Therefore, Low Yat Plaza allows the consumer to have greater buying power and freedom in selecting the products or electronic parts they wish to purchase. Most parts that are sold here are bargainable and many stores also offer their services to assemble the parts a customer purchases.

There you go - the shopping centres. Next up - I shall blog about some street shopping. =)

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