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KL City is a city of mall rats and for all you mall lovers, there’s a new mall in town to check out – Tropicana City Mall. Conveniently located along the Sprint Expressway, I like the fact that I don’t have to pay toll to get to it and that it has free parking for the time being! :)

Tropicana City Mall is a bit of a dead place with several stores and restaurants still closed. I have seen some signs for Wendy’s Fast Food, San Francisco Steakhouse and Sushi Tei but it is still a mystery as to when they might open. Their current list of tenants open look pretty impressive for a neighbourhood mall but mall traffic still seems a little quiet. The mall boasts 4 floors starting with a Lower Ground floor which houses a Carrefour. All floors look down into the centre concourse which at the moment is only inhabitated by an inflatable castle for children and a stage for Chinese New Year.

So is the Tropicana City Mall still worth a visit? Definitely yes!

Despite its quietness, I still do enjoy dropping by every now and then, especially since my favourite store, Paperdoll Boutique, is right there! ;)  There are quite a number of boutiques already open and Borders is right on the first level together with some pretty decent restaurants such as Pho Hoa which serves absolutely great pho - Vietnamese noodles.

The mall aisles are wide and it is a nice change not to have to jostle with lots of weekend shoppers or wait for a restaurant to dine in. I find the Carrefour pretty well stocked as well and it because its new and clean, I find it a better shopping experience and shorter queues compared to other Carrefour hypermarkets. Some interesting stores there are the kitchen and home speciality stores such as Kitschen and Akemi Uchi which carry really nice kitchenware and bedding!

Some grouses I do have is that the toilets are very far away and located behind the main doors of the mall which I find rather dangerous as you never know who might be lurking around those toilets. There is also a lot of renovation on-going in the mall which means a high number of foreign workers who tend to stare as women walk past which is pretty creepy. I also personally find the mall layout rather confusing and recently only found out I was taking the long route to some of the stores! Perhaps due to the low human traffic, I find the mall freezing cold so do wear something warm when you intend to visit!

Otherwise, the car parks are bright and best of all, the parking is still free till further notice so why not check it out the next time you’re in that area? Free parking nowadays is hard to come by! :)

The mall is open from 10am to 10pm from Mondays to Sundays and free shuttle services are available from the Kelana Jaya LRT Station.