Forever 21 is now open at The Avenues. The store has a small section open to the public on the top floor. The ground level is still under construction. The whole store should be open in a month’s time.

Prices ranged from KD2 for a tank top to KD11 for a tracksuit jacket. Most shirts were in the KD5-KD7 price range. Items being snatched up were the I love Monkeys t-shirts and Sexy Back short shorts.

After my successful attempt of getting a map from The Avenues, I decided to try my luck at Marina Mall. The last time I was there they were unhelpful claiming a map didn’t exist. This time was different! They gave me a mall directory! Unlike The Avenues, I didn’t like a single thing about this map.

The map labelled only 7 destinations, “The One“, “Vavavoom“, “H&M“, “Zara“, “Virgin“, “Cinema” and “Game Wizzz“.

Please take a look at the map and tell me if you could find your way if you were lost in Marina Mall.

Please let me know in the comments what you think of the map and if you think I should still create my own map for the upcoming Guide to Marina Mall!

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!