City Mall in Kota Kinabalu is the newest, completed shopping centre in Kota Kinabalu to date.

This mid-sized shopping centre is located on the Lintas/Kolombong highway, just past the turn-off to Damai in the direction of Kolombong. With a variety of shops, including a multitude of eateries and restaurants, combined with boutiques, jewelery stores and computer shops, it’s a popular shopping and hang-out destination.

City Mall is on the fringes of Kota Kinabalu, about 5 minutes from Damai and 8 minutes down the road from Lintas. City Mall is approximately 20 to 30 minutes drive from the centre of Kota Kinabalu, depending on traffic conditions. For tourists taking a taxi, the fare should be between RM15 and RM20 depending on your starting point.

City Mall is serviced by a selection of unscheduled minibus taxis, but is not on any set bus routes as far as we are aware. No other forms of public transport is available to this shopping centre and few, if any, hotel shuttle busses frequent this mall.

For those who are driving, when City Mall is at her busiest, parking is inadequate. There is one underground level of parking and several around the perimeter of the mall. Additional, temporary parking, has been made available towards the back and right of the mall, to help cope with additional parking during peak periods.

City Mall is a spacious shopping centre consisting of 3 main levels and a mezzanine level. It has open areas with wide walkways and shops both inside the shopping centre, as well as the outside areas. The anchor tenants are Giant Supermarket, CT Department Store and Popular Express Books.

The main food and beverage outlets are located along the shopping centre’s front and includes Veda Blue, Olde Station White Coffee, Pizza Hut, KFC, Starbucks Coffee, Big Apple Donuts and Old Town White Coffee. On the mezzanine level with outside entrances, you’ll find San Francisco Coffee and Halo Cafe.

On the third, or top, level of City Mall, is Food Paradise food court. A wide variety of cuisine is on offer here at affordable prices. The variety of cuisine include Malay, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Western and several others. Popular for the affordable range of food and drinks, Food Paradise is usually bustling with a lunchtime and snack crowd.

The bigger tenants of City Mall, especially those located inside the shopping centre itself, usually close around 10pm. The outside tenants, in particular the restaurants and coffee shops, tend to stay open until late, and it’s not unusual to find them open past 11pm on a week day and past midnight on a weekend. Most of City Mall’s tenants open around 10am daily.

For a varied, unhurried and uncrowded shopping experience, the place to be is City Mall in Kota Kinabalu.