Central Festival Pattaya Beach

CentralFestival Pattaya Beach is the largest shopping mall in Pattaya. Dominating the city’s skyline since 2009, it was the first shopping mall opened by Central Pattana, Thailand's largest retail corporation under the "CentralFestival" brand name. The mall covers an area of 200,000 square meters on 7 floors and houses more than 370 retail shops, 5 anchors including an entertainment complex, a five-floor central department store, a parking for 2,000 cars and has direct access to an overtop hotel with over 302 rooms and suites, the prestigious Hilton Pattaya. Covering the entire block between Pattaya Beach Road and Pattaya 2nd Road in Central Pattaya, the mall is situated at approximately Pattaya Beach Soi 9 with the main entrance opposite Pattaya Beach, while the other entrance is on 2nd Road. CentralFestival Pattaya Beach houses many high fashion brand stores, including Calvin Klein, H&M, Marks & Spencer, Nautica, Zara, Esprit, Lacoste, Adidas and Armani Exchange, to name a few, as well as many leading Thai fashion brand names. Beyond fashion, there are plenty stores selling the widest range of products, such as camera, computer, technology, jewellery, handicrafts, books and several Beauty & Healthcare clinics. The main anchors at Central Festival are the Central Department Store that has its own area on each floor of mall, SuperSports, Power Buy and SFX Cinema on the 6th floor with 10 theatres. Central Department Store sells a large variety of products ranging from up-market clothing, fashion and children’s accessories, silk goods, bedding, household goods, travel bags, toys, watches and jewellery. SuperSports provides a wide range of sports shoes, sportswear, equipments and accessories of the most famous sporting brand names at very affordable prices, with promotions they can reach up to 70% discounts. Power Buy is a well known electronics chain in Thailand selling all kinds of electric appliances, IT and digital technology. CentralFestival offers visitors a wide choice of options for drinking and eating, from the Central Food Court on the bottom floor, where you need to transfer your money into the Food Court Card before buying anything, to a large variety of restaurants, bars and fast food outlets on the third and fourth floor. In these floors you will find Fuji and Zen Japanese restaurants, Sukishi, Shabushi, Oishi Ramen, Pan Pan Italian Restaurant, Santa Fé Steak House, Sizzler and MK Restaurant, to name a few. In front of the mall there is a landscaped garden and several water features in a sunken piazza with fast-food outlets and bars with occasionally special events around high season.
Opening time: CentralFestival is open daily from 10.00 until 23.00.
How to get there: the shopping mall is located right the middle of Beach Road, so it is very convenient for anyone staying in Central Pattaya. For those staying a little further out like Naklua or Jomtien the mall can be reached by using a shared blue songthaew at a cost of 10/20 baht per person. Read More