ELEGANT CHIC

Had been to the newly opened 360 mall at Al-Zahra area with my family and I must say it’s just awesome!

There are plenty of free parking lots as well as paid ones. Unlike the Airport mall, they charge you a very nominal and cheap amount, just 100 fils for the first hour and 50 fils for each extra hour. Better to pay than heading towards the free zone as you wouldn’t be able to find an inch of space.

We parked our car on the first level and as we enter inside, we are welcomed by a beauitful floral décor in bright orange hues with a dash of red and yellow. As usual, I was mesmerized by seeing that, that I forgot to snap a pic! (***knock knock on my head***) :P

After the décor, we come to this view…

I remember seeing Damas on my left and on my right, the first shop I saw was Nespresso. They do have a tasting counter where you can try out de-caffeinated ones, flavored ones, you name it, they got it! Plus, they do have coffee machines for sale. Try it out! :D

Then comes a couple of shops like MANGO, GAP etc… which aren’t open yet. Go little further, and we see another décor. This time it’s blue in color.

Marks & Spencers, GUESS, Coffee Republic, , A Pea in a Pod, etc., etc… Oops I lost track :D

I went and checked out the restrooms… Clean, neat, looong… Me likey!

It seems this mall has allowed only BKME to open a branch since the owner of 360 is a relative of BKME’s chairman. It got 10 ATM counters all over, plus, you did find an Al-Ahli ATM too.

On the ground level, there’s one more Marks & Spencers, Caribou Coffee, Monte Blanc, ... Oh and there was one place decorated with mirror and some décor with a plain black background. Looked somewhat attractive. Anyone would try to get a peek. There was something written in Arabic and I was too lazy too read it. We go in, expecting it to be a diamond shop or Swarovsky or something and, voila! It’s an exhibition displaying the life of Umm Khultum!!! Yes, you heard it right, Umm Khultum.

Alrite, alrite!!! I’m talking as if I know Umm K. Well, to be frank, we didn’t have the slightest idea who she was, although I remembered reading that name somewhere in the newspaper yesterday morning. Once I reached home, I googled her up….

She was an Egyptian singer, songwriter and actress. We liked the exhibition, although it felt more like we were in a haunted house and, it also reminded us of the museums we visited last year in Egypt. It was pitch dark with few spotlights sprouting from here and there.

We head towards Basement 1. There’s a mid-level between ground and B1. Didn’t check out that level. At B1, there’s Geant, BKME , Freedom Furniture, Dunkin Donuts, Al-Muzzaini Exchange, Scale, Vitamin Shop, Toys R Us, etc…

Freedom Furniture has got a pretty decent collection of furnitures as well as household and crockery items.

We thought of taking rest at Dunkin Donuts but it was too crowded. We head to Geant. The moment we enter, we felt the place looked familiar as their arrangement is exactly like Carrefour at the Avenues.

Geant even had an offer on big red onions. Unlike Lulu, they had it for 0.075 fils/kg , and there was no rush! (Click here for a prev. post so as to understand why I mentioned this) :D

After all the shopping, just beside Geant we order hot chocolate, café latte, and tea from Enjoy (I think tht’s the name, I’m not sure, I was too exhausted to even check that!) Why hot drinks in this melting summer you must be wondering? We were literally frozen since we spend sometime next to the frozen sections (at Geant), and since the place is new, their air-conditioners are super-chilled! :P

Couldn’t visit the upper-most floor where the theatres are located… Who wouldn’t be exhausted roaming around the whole place for about 5 hours!!! Will try it out next time…

Ouchhhh!!! My feet still hurts :(