Some great shopping destinations in KL are as follows.
- Sungei Wang Plaza - this is a more "local" shopping centre which sells a large variety of stalls in a huge shopping centre. This shopping centre has some excellent hair salons, beauty salons, tailors (you can use The Page for suits and Lester Wong for women) and plenty of stalls to purchase all electricals. A lot of the clothing seems to be either by Malay designers in the "Designer Wing" or from Korea, China, Japan, Italy, France and Thailand.
- Bintang Walk - has several shopping complexes along it including Bukit Bintang Plaza, KL Plaza, Lot 10 and a very upmarket shopping centre called Starhill, which is attached to the JW Marriot hotel for those with expensive designer tastes. Here you will find chains such as Guess, MNG, Top Shop and more. Across the road is the swanky new Pavillion shopping complex.
- Petaling Street - this is in China Town and is the best place for branded accessories, such as the "Gucci" bag. In addition they sell a lot of other great gifts for those at home and delicious fruits. You might want to avoid going there on a Friday afternoon as the traffic is too terrible due to Friday Prayers. Usually here you can lower the price as much as three times lower, paying RM50 - RM150 for a "Gucci" bag.
- Suria KLCC - a very upmarket shopping centre in KL which carries a lot of designer wear as well as the chains you see all over Asia such as Marks and Spencers, Zara, Zara Men and Levi's. It also has some excellent stores for children on the higher levels. Here you will find Bvlgari, Tiffany and Co, Cartier etc...
- Mid-Valley Mega Mall - this is near Bangsar which is a very hip and trendy place with excellent restaurants and bars. Around a fifteen-minute drive from KL centre. This shopping centre has everything you can imagine.
- Low Yat Plaza - this is the place to go if you need any piece of technology, the entire plaza is made up of technology retail outlets and stalls with MP3 players, DVD cameras, computers and etc. There will always be exhibitions of the latest tech on the ground floor (to help whet your appetite and loosen your purse strings). Here prices are very much negotiable; never take the first quote. Generally, the higher you go up the levels, the lower the price will drop. But not always... Just walk around and don't be afraid to ask. This place is unlike Petaling Street where a drawn-out discussion about prices is practically a promise to buy and if you don't buy, be ready for a shower of curses. There are two big tech outlets (Thundermatch and All IT, as of June 2008) located on the two topmost floors. Prices are pretty good at both places. One of the best things you can do for yourself is to surf the price guides for Low Yat at its online forum Lowyat.NET (http://forum.lowyat.net/). The forum members are very active and will speak out if a dealer's price list is unreasonable. So you will be able to get a fair idea of what the prices should be.
