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After the successful reception of The Complete Guide to The Avenues, I decided I would follow up with more guides to shopping malls. I wrote about Soug Sharq but didn’t include a map as the mall is very easy to navigate. Several readers did bring to my attention that a map of The Avenues does exist. I was surprised since the information desk did not provide one to me when I asked for one and the same for my friends.

I went back there yesterday and requested a map at the information desk. The man asked, “Why do you need a map?” What kind of question is that? After explaining to him that I get lost in The Avenues (not true anymore because I have my map), he handed me the Mall Directory.

Have you seen the Avenues Map that they hand out at Information? It’s very pretty, unlike my map that I put together haha! I’ve scanned it so that you can take a look at it if you haven’t seen it already.

What I like:

• They list the stores both in Arabic and English.
• They also have the map and the store names color coded to match.

What I didn’t like:

• Stores were listed by number. In order to find the number you had to hunt below the map under different categories such as “Cosmetics/Perfumes“, “Fashion - Women” - “Jewellery/Watches” for the name of the store.

That meant if I was lost in The Avenues first I would have to find the store I was standing next to, locate its number on the map, then hunt below again for the name of the store I want to go to, and then try to locate the corresponding number on the map again.

Thank you for the pretty map but I think I will stick to my ground floor and first floor maps!