The Pavilion Experience

Pavilion KL is the one of the latest and greatest happening in Kuala Lumpur. I was on a day trip to Pavilion Kuala Lumpur on Christmas eve. For your information, Pavilion KL is the newly opened (opened on Sept 20th) shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is located at Jalan Bukit Bintang. It’s one of the grandest malls in Malaysia, on par with some of the world class shopping malls such as the New York’s 5th Avenue, Tokyo’s Ginza, and Milan. The mall has seven floors, which has 450 outlets housing shops, food and beverages outlets and urban leisure areas. One of the features of this mall is it’s having designer brand products such as Aigner, Club Monaco, Coach, Ermenegildo Zegna, Hermes, Hugo Boss, Juicy Couture, Prada and Versace where you can’t find elsewhere in Malaysia.

Since it was Christmas Eve, as soon as I enter the building,  I was greeted by a giant Christmas tree-like decoration. I don’t think it looks like a tree. But it was awesome and makes the empty lobby lively. I could see scores of visitors snapping pictures of it. In front of the tree stood a stage where there was a choir singing Christmas song  which would be held later in the day.

A beautifully decorated
Christmas tree-like structure standing tall as soon as you enter the mall.

The shopping experience is very comfortable because of its large airy premises framed with high ceilings and wide corridor pavements and it is also complemented by an exciting tenant mix. It also has many leisure outlets such as GSC Cinemas, RedBox Plus or Times The Bookshop.

The hallway at the entrance showing
some of the world class stores. You can see strings of lights hanging from the
ceiling stretching a few stories long and they are simply amazing.

Wide walk ways, high ceilings and exceptionally large
stores are some of the unique features of Pavilion KL which brings a truly
amazing shopping experience to you.

While browsing one of the jewelery stores, I came across an interesting fact. Pavilion actually means the bottom part of a diamond, below the girdle. See the following diagram. This is true when I look at the information counter where I can see the anatomy of the building. Each floors actually resembles the shape of the bottom part of a diamond if you looked at the building from the top.

A diamond anatomy

The Pavilion KL is all about luxury. This is the place where it will give you a highly fulfilling and inspiring shopping and leisure experience be it a dining or a purely shopping experience.

Truly luxury! High end watches carrying a price tag of
RM171,000 and RM104,000 respectively.  That’s about the price of a medium end
apartment in Kuala Lumpur.

Speaking of dining, there are loads of fine dining restaurants at Pavilion KL. Besides, there is also a food court at the ground floor which caters to people who opt for a diverse level of dining experience.  I believe the food court occupies space of almost half of a floor. You can find a lot of cuisines of various ethics background. During Christmas eve, it was crowded with people! I could hardly find a table.

A panoramic view of the food court located at the ground floor at Pavilion KL.

Don’t miss the Pavilion KL if you are traveling around Kuala Lumpur. The Pavilion KL is truly an anchor piece of world-class urban development. Some of the latest and famous tenants that will be opening shops in Pavilion KL:

• Parkson (already opened and running) occupies an area of about 250,000 square feet where they have items ranges from household apparel to men and women clothing.
• TANGS (already up and running) A store of Singapore specializes in women clothes and apparels is making a big comeback to Malaysia with their presence here. I actually went in there to take a look and the store is super impressive with large space and very unique decoration that i have never seen
  in other stores.
• Harvey Norman (already up and running) A store selling household and electrical appliances such as laptop, camera, computers, furnitures, etc of Australia will add an outlet here in a big way.
• GSC (already up and running) The GSC (a theatre) is coming to Pavilion KL in a big way whereby it’s using the latest high-end sound system coupled with bigger halls to give you an extraordinary entertainment that will screen the latest shows in town for your enjoyment.
• Fitness First and True Fitness A modern day fitness center that you can join to sweat it out in this busy city.
• Times Bookshop A bookstore that will keep you and your children occupy for hours here.

Getting to Pavilion KL

My suggestion of getting to Pavilion KL is travel by train especially during holiday seasons because it’s very likely that you will be stuck in a traffic jam at the Golden Triangle area. If you are planning to drive there, try to avoid holiday seasons. I would suggest you to take trains instead. That day, I took a Putra LRT (Light Rail Transit) to reach the KL Sentral railway station. From there, I switched to Monorail. You have to walk out of the KL Sentral building to reach the Monorail railway station. It takes less than 5 minutes walk since the Monorail railway station is located right opposite KL Sentral building. From the Monorail railway station, I took the Monorail to reach Bukit Bintang. From Bukit Bintang railway stop, I have to walk about 5 minutes to reach Pavilion KL.

The Golden Triangle area in the heart of
Kuala Lumpur. This is also the place where the newly opened Pavilion KL is
located.

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