Central Festival Samui

Central Festival Samui is the largest shopping and entertainment complex in Koh Samui, with more than 200 stores and outlets of international and local fashion brands, plenty outdoor and indoor restaurants, cafe shops and recreational activities as well as the Major Cineplex cinema featuring three screen rooms. Officially inaugurated on March 29, 2014, the new mall has completely changed the face of Chaweng Beach. The Central Festival's design features and details are unique to Koh Samui and offer customers a distinctive, resort-style shopping and entertainment experience under the "Reminiscence of Southern Lifestyle" concept. This modern and trendy shopping complex also boasts some original architectural features as its central open-air atrium, a beautifully landscaped garden complete with benches and a kid's playground. Located in the central part of the famous seaside resort, between the Beach Road and Chaweng Lake, it extends on three floors with over 90,000sqm of retail space divided in four sections: Chaweng Port, Bird Cage, Fisherman Village and Beach Town Market. Central Festival Samui will be able to comprehensively respond to customer needs thanks to its main magnet store, namely, Central Department Store and other great anchor stores such as Tops Market, PowerBuy, SuperSports and B2S. Next to the main entrance of Central Festival on Chaweng Beach Road, "Chaweng Port" features restaurants and bars on and around a large outdoor terrace. There are a total of 21 venues dedicated to catering spreaded over two floors including Wine Connection, Starbucks, Copacabana, The Thai Kitchen, Swensen’s, B Bistro, Zazen, Zen Sushi, Kushi, The Coffee Club, Auntie Anne, Black Canyon Coffee and Haagen- Dazs. Located in the central part of the mall and decorated in Sino-Portuguese style, the "Bird Cage" is the fashion zone of the shopping complex. It hosts about 20 large outlet stores such as Supersports and Uniqlo, as well as smaller boutiques offering all the most famous international brands such as Rip Curl, Playboy, Oakley, Geox, Giordano, Camel, Esprit, Jaspal, Adidas, Psylo, Natural Art Gallery, Helen Mark, Jim Thompson and so on. Showcasing the colonial-style architecture, the "Fisherman Village" zone hosts Central Department Store, a large shopping store where you will find a vast choice of branded clothing and accessories as well as a children's playground and seating area for the parents. On the second floor, there is "Pirate Adventure Horror House", which reconstitutes an old pirate’s galleon. Set next to the second main entrance of the shopping complex, the "Beach Town Market" zone houses a partially open-air food court on the ground floor, as well as "The Pirates of the Caribbean" by Mario Land, the Major Cineplex cinema and an XD Theatre on the second floor. Furthermore, there is a Night Bazaar to attract tourists in the evenings. Central Festival is definitely the shopper's paradise of Samui. Read More