The best street for shopping in George Town is Penang Road . Here one can buy cameras and portable radios duty free.
- Always ask for a warranty card for cameras, watches and electronic goods.
- Make sure that the voltage of the electronic items is compatible with the voltage at home.
Start your shopping in Penang Road at Jalan Macalister. Take the walk-over at Jalan Burma until you reach the police station. It's lovely to walk along all those little shops on Penang Road ! Opposite the police station is the wet-market. After Stepping into the wet-market. one can smell the fish, although there's a lot more to buy. When you use the stairs and go up, there are also clothes available. Listen to the dealers and their prices.
Once you get outside, you should take the first road on your right: Lebuh Campbell. It's not as busy as Penang Road , but it's also a nice shopping street. If you take the first street on your right again, you are in the street at the backside of the wet-market. In the morning they sell all kinds of goods:
- fruit
- fish
- antique household
- Chinese clogs
If you keep on walking you'll see a big round building. This is the Komtar (shopping mall).The Komtar is the most famous and oldest shopping mall in the centre of George Town . It has :
- four levels and air-conditioned.
- 64-floor round building with mostly offices.
- cinemas with the latest movies.
- two department stores: Superkomtar and Yoahan.
In the middle of the shopping centre, at the tourist information, one can buy tickets for the elevator . You have to be at street level to take the elevator. When you're up, you'll be amazed by the panoramic view, you can easily see the Penang bridge and Butterworth, which is on the mainland.
At street level there's also a bus station.When one staying at the Rasa Sayang Resort or the Golden Sands Hotel one can take the shuttle bus to town.
- The shuttle bus stops at the Shangri La Hotel in the centre of George Town
- Once one get off the bus, one can go into the hotel and take the escalator to the second floor.
There you walk right into the shoe-department of Yoahan.You can also make a trishaw ride when you get off the bus. Several drivers are waiting for you to take you for a ride in their trishaw. You can have lunch or dinner at McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut or one of the many Malaysian restaurants.
The Prangin Mall is the latest shopping center.
It's built right beside the Komtar. You can reach it by crossing a very heavy road. Please pay attention when you cross the street. You can also enter the shopping complex from Yoahan (in the Komtar) by crossing a sky bridge. In the complex there are also:
- restaurants
- lot of shops and
- a good supermarket in the basement .
- where one can buy anything (from liquor till baby food). You can find easily copied software in the upper levels.
Outside, at the corner of Jalan Macalister and Jalan Dato Kramat, you'll find "Gamma". A 30-year old department store with a supermarket on the ground floor.
Another interesting shopping mall with various shops is: 1-Stop.
- It's a shopping complex for the ordinary people.
- There are no expensive stores, like Gucci.
- It's situated in the Midlands.
- It is situated at the beginning of the city near the Berjaya Hotel and the Hawker Stall centre, called "Safari".
On level one, you'll find the supermarket "Tops".
- This is air-conditioned.
- This is owned by the company of Ahold (Dutch).
- On the groundfloor clothes, suitcases and handbags are sold.
- one can buy a lot of copied software, Play station- and Sega games.
- On the rooftop of "1-Stop" is also a swimming-pool with slides for the children.
In "1-Stop" . one can take the elevator and go to the top level. There's a bowling centre and a hawker centre at the top level.
- Don't forget to have lunch here!
- It's much nicer than the McDonalds down below.
- Do you want to have dinner? You only have to cross the street and walk to the Safari Hawkerstalls or take a walk to Gurney Drive hawkercentre.
When you're staying in Batu Ferringhi it's easy to go by local bus. A lot of taxi's are waiting to bring you back or to take you to the center of the city. Of course you can also take the local bus!
- Another interesting shopping mall "Island Plaza" :
- situated in Tanjong Tokong and is air-conditioned.
- it has so many international shops, like Nike, Giordano, Guess, Fila, Versace and British India.
Just outside the shopping complex, across the street, you'll find more local shops. These shops are all new (2001). You should also have a look over there.
The shopping centre that is furthest away from the city is "Bukit Jambul":
- Air-conditioned.
- It's nearby the airport.
- It has many levels and many little shops (414).
- Besides a food-centre there is also a bowling centre and a cinema.
- The complex cost RM 350 million and is the biggest in Northern Malaysia.
- At the ground floor used to be an ice-skating rink, but it's closed nowadays.
- The latest air-conditioned shopping complex is " Gurney Plaza " :
- It is situated between Gurney Drive and the Jalan Kelawei.
- It is very modern and has a lot of international shops, like Versace, Nike, Giordano, and British India .
- Outside the shopping complex are a lot of restaurant like the Dome, Starbucks. one can rest a while when you're tired from shopping. Have a drink or a dinner!
In the basement is "Color Foto President". Here one can put their digital photo's on cd-rom.There's a good parking garage and the mall is on walking distance from 1-Stop.
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