City Mall Kota Kinabalu

City Mall Kota Kinabalu is located on Jalan Kolombong, about a 15 minute taxi ride from the centre of town.

As a suburban shopping centre it services the sizable communities closest to it and manages to offer a nice variety of useful shops, although not so many of which are of famous brands.

Giant Supermarket is one of the anchor tenants, with a department store being the other. The rest of the shops comprise restaurants, clothing, accessories, optometrists, a food court, a bookstore, some electronic and computer shop and the mandatory collection of fast food joints, which you can offset with the sizable fitness centre.

City Mall’s only downside is that over weekends and public holidays it turns into a traffic nightmare. With only one way in and one way out, and effectively 1-lane traffic on the centre property, combined with much less parking than it has visitors – lots of patience, and a full tank of fuel to get your through the crawl, is required if you even want to get near City Mall.

A Starbucks Coffee facing the main road is a good place to hide out until traffic clears enough to make a clean getaway.