Major Shopping Malls

Hong Kong Mall rats have plenty of choices. Pacific Place, in Admiralty, has three floors of almost entirely luxury brands, while The Landmark and Prince’s Arcade vie for the custom of chic Central. Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong MTR station, in northern Kowloon, is worth the long trip from Central, for its variety and quality.

Causeway Bay has the big Japanese department stores, Sogo and Mitsukoshi, as well as the towering Times Square. Standard opening hours are daily 0930-1900 and later in many cases.

Hong Kongers bridle at the very idea of a sales tax, so visitors can forget about hoarding their receipts. Below are some of the major shopping malls in the city.

Cityplaza

Cityplaza makes for a pleasant shopping experience for families, especially for its indoor ice rink Ice Palace. It is also known for its spectacular Christmas Easter and Chinese New Year displays, as well as the art exhibitions held in nearby Devon House.

Cityplaza has a good ranges of affordable shops for adults and children's clothing jewellery home furnishing music computers and gadgets. It has less western feel than the malls in Central and Admiralty, many shops are local or Asian chains. There are western food outlets like Pizza Hut Mix and Pacific Coffee and American diner style Ruby Tuesday.

Within the Cityplaza mall are two department stores: Japanese UNY and local store Wing On. Another shop, Log-on, may be classified as a department store given its range of goods that includes clothes funky handbags kitchen utensils jewellery and skin care products.

Cityplaza has a Marks & Spencers selling men's and ladies clothing shoes and British packaged food such as crisps chocolate and wine. Other clothing shops includes the usual stores like Esprit Giordano United Colours of Benetton and Mango, up market brands like DKNY Armani Exchange and Tommy Hilfiger as well as some good sports shops.

The American Toys R Us as well as puzzle shops is a favorite for kids who can play on small slides and rides in Jumpin Gym which can also hired for birthday parties.

To get there take the MTR to Taikoo, or Buses to Quarry Bay.

Festival Walk

Perfectly located at the junction of the Kowloon Tong Stations, Festival Walk is heaven for expats living or working in the New Territories or Northern Kowloon. Festival Walk has a seven floor features as well thought out blend of stores. Ranging for designer labels cosmetics boutiques and hi-tech electronics outlets to polished eateries and family attractions.

First you will encounter Taste a large supermarket with an impressive range of imported products a western-style bakery an extensive sushi counter and an alluring selection of seafood fresh from the tank, if you're confused in where you heading just look in the information desks and to ask directions or pick up a mall guide.

Those in the mood for a bite will find several options on each level, from stylish restaurant and luxury chocolates to fast food while entertainment of a different kind comes in form of Hong Kong's largest ice rink and an 11 screen cinema both on the UG Floor.

Harbour City

Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui is by some margin Hong Kong's largest mall with more than 700 stores, over 50 food and beverage outlets three hotels and two cinemas across its four levels. The mall has been divided into four connected shopping areas.

Ocean Terminal should be your destination of choice if you're looking for children's wear and toys its in the ground floor for sporting wear and cosmetics level one or young and fashionable casual wear level two.

Marco Polo Hong Kong Hotel Arcade which features an enormous Lane Crawford department store a large branch of chic homeware purveyor G.O.D. and Grand Ocean one of the city's largest cinemas.

As you might expect from a complex of the size there are numerous entry points mostly dotted along Canton Road a thoroughfare that Harbour City dominates. There is a entranceway near the Star Ferry pier and Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station and a bus terminal are close by.

IFC Mall

One of the city's newest and most easy to find malls thanks to its prime location right next door to Hong Kong's highest office building the towering 88 floors of Two IFC. Accessible via underground walkways from Central MTR station and the Airport Express train line.

Malls houses over 200 shops and what are probably the city's most comfortable cinemas. It is also famed for its large City's large supermarket and for being home to Hong Kong's first branch of Spanish fashion franchise Zara, along with Mango, Evisu and Calvin Klein Jeans.

There is also a range of beauty and cosmetics shops on the ground floor, including Estee Lauder, Prada, Clarins L'Occitane and Nina Ricci.

It has a few well-known restaurants Lumiere and Isola being two if them that enjoy great harbour views. For a quick bite and a coffee you have Pret, Costa Coffee, McDonalds and Mix for healthy wraps and juices.

Musicians sometimes perform in the mall at weekends and there are usually impressive decorations and fun for kids around Chinese New Year and Christmas.

The Landmark

The Landmark is probably Hong Kong's most exclusive shopping destination a reputation that was sealed in 2005 by the addition of Harvey Nichols department store and the opening of the adjacent Landmark Mandarin Oriental one of the city's finest hotels.

The Landmark features five levels of high end boutiques principally fashion and cosmetics. A particularly pleasant feature if you stop for a coffee or a bite to eat at the airy Landmark Café located on its own 'island' in the centre of the atrium on level one.

An arty water fountain completes the complex's look and adds to the relaxed and sophisticated atmosphere.

Here you will find attractive boutiques belonging to the likes of Louis Vuitton, Lanvin, Loewe, Paul Smith, Dior and Tod's. the Landmark is the mecca for shoes with favorites Manolo Blanhnik and Jimmy Choo having stores here.

Langham Place

Is a 15 storey mall of 59 level office tower and 665 room, five star complex and its design is as impressive as its size. It has Hong Kong's only immense rooftop screen that shows psychedelic patterns and rolling clouds as well as two of the territory's longest escalators within a mall, called Xpresscalators which together measure 83 meters.

Every mid-priced brand known to the city can be found at Langham Place anything from clothing sports shoes and personal care to audiovisual and mobile phones.

Seibu department is present as well as a branch of local interiors shops G.O.D. and Japanese pseudo department store. Lo-On a good place to head for affordable jewellery and watches, the Spiral corkscrew collection of shops on four floors that are buzzing with alternative fashion for hip teenagers on level 12 and 13 there are range of restaurants bars and cafes also mall has a six-screen UA cinema.

Pacific Place

Mall exists as part of the Pacific Place complex which includes office towers five star serviced apartments, The Atrium and Parkside and a conference centre. Its one of the most glamorous malls in Hong Kong it has three class department stores Lane Crawford, Seibu and Sogo.

The Lane Crawford is impressive particularly the men's fashion department on the ground floor. There are plenty of designer shops on the upper floors of the mall, including Prada Burberry Gucci and Dior and Aquascutum.

If you're looking for jewellery or watches there's Tiffany's, Cartier and Bulgari. There's also audio-visual experts Bang & Olufsen music shop Hong Kong records, the mall has a good quality food court with Korean Japanese Thai and Chinese dishes on offer.

Many cinema-goers head to Dan Ryan's Chicago Grill for a burger or steak after a movie in the UA cinema in the ground level.

It has a direct air conditioned access to Admiralty MTR underground station. Smaller malls Queensway and the Admiralty Centre are also linked by walkways to Pacific Place.

Times Square

Is a Hong Kong landmark and meeting point with its towering outdoor television screen; located at the heart of Causeway Bay is a shopping district with hundreds of shops line the streets in the area. And the mega-mall that is Time Square shopping centre has more than 230 shops and a multi cinema complex.

The mall is designed so that all the shops form circles one on top of another with balconies looking down onto central plaza below. Shops are conveniently arranged so that similar stores are on the same floor. For example most of the sports and outdoor gear shops are on the 6th floor.

They have restaurants offering variety of Asian Cuisines and a few western.

Time Square has a branch of Lane Crawford department stores a well as a City's super. It has an extensive range of shops from children's clothes to fashionable trainer shops selling gadgets and audio-visual equipments and Belgian chocolate.

The mall has carpark 700 places and is open 24 hours seven days a week.

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