Great India Place Mall in Noida

This is a huge mall. It can take many hours to navigate all the different sections, and there is a fair chance of becoming lost (or rather, trying to find a shop that you have found earlier). And if you have made an arrangement to meet somebody over there, then it can get difficult; because it is very crowded during the weekends and even during the normal daytime, and also because it can get confusing.
However, these could be counted as negatives; but the positive is that this is one mall that can help you to find whatever you want. There are many eating places, there is bowling, there are movies, there are restaurants, and the place is full of shopping. And of course, there is an amusement park next door with plenty of rides.
The mall comprises an area of 1,500,000-square-foot (139,400 m²), making it one of the largest operational mall in India. The Great India Place was developed by the Unitech Group and is located in Sector 38-A of Noida. The Mall is supposed to be a part of a Huge Entertainment City with an Water & Amusement Park, Bollywood-Theme Park, and Hotel.
The mall follows a zoned concept with home and grocery on the basement level, women's apparel on one side, men's on the other and a 180,000 sq.ft. Food and Entertainment zone on the top floor, with a 5-screen Adlabs multiplex, with a total seating capacity of 1220 seats.
Some of the major stores are Big Bazaar, Home Store (for items for the home), Pantaloon, Globus, Lifestyle, Shopper Stop, Bossini, D & A shoes, CTC Plaza, Lee Copper, Tana Bana, Hallmark, Titan, Giovani, Jumbo Electronics, Om Book Shop, Hazoorilal, R C Jewellers, Cygnus, Tanishq, Ritu Wears, Planet M, Archies, Lazy Boy, Dollar Shop, Adidas, Nike, Guess, Marks & Spencer, Satya Paul, Raymond Shop

Food: Nirula's, Sbarro, Rajdhani, Yatra, Noodle Bar, Food Court, Pind Balluchi, TGIF, KFC, PIzza Hut, Bembos, Pizzaria Express, and many others.

You also have pool and bowling options on the same floor as the food court.


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Om Book shop in Delhi

If you want to look for a nice place to look for books, Om Book Shop has a chain of stores in Delhi where you can browse and buy books in a nice comfortable environment. Typically, when looking for a fiction / non-fiction book, you need a nice comfortable environment to buy the book. Especially in Delhi weather, where most of the year, it is either too hot or too cold, sitting inside a nice comfortable shop with a controlled environment allows you to browse books far more comfortably, increasing the chance of finding the books that you want. In addition, many books have discounts of 10% or more.

Also visit our book stores at :-
		E-77, South Extn. Part - I New Delhi - 110049 Tel: 91-11-24653792 91-11-24653793
		45, Basant Lok, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi - 110057 Tel: 91-11-26143530 91-11-26156388
		G 13-16, MGF Metropolitan Mall, DLF, Gurgaon Tel: 91-124-4015585 91-124-4015586
		3 Community Center Saket,New Delhi-17 Tel: 91-11-41664206
		A-1, Shivalik Plaza Near IIM Vastrapur Ahmedabad - 380015 Tel: 0796 - 4501308

Om Book Shop, Great India Mall, Opposite Sector 18, Noida

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Nai Sarak: Good place to get all books

Nai Sarak, is located right in the midst of Chandni Chowk, and is pretty famous for people interested in books. A fair amount of students in school, and college would know about Nai Sarak, given that this is the cheapest place in Delhi to buy books, and especially for the medical and engineering books that are pretty expensive, and difficult to find elsewhere. There are specialized shops dealing with all medical books, with engineering books, and many other types.
Once you reach Red Fort, then need to take the road entering Chandni Chowk, and then ask. It is located by taking a left turn after the Paranthewali Gali, and is actually the linking road between Chandni Chowk and Chawri Bazaar. Taking your vehicle inside is not recommended unless you are on a 2-wheeler. Open on all days, except Sundays. It is pretty narrow, lined by double storey buildings, and the lower storeys of these buildings has shops selling books.
Why is it called Nai Sarak? This is mainly because it is a comparatively new and broad road made by the British after the war of 1857. It is pretty busy, with a large number of people frequenting these shops. If you are buying a number of books, say for a college session, this is the place to go. In addition, there are shops specializing in stationery items, as well as papers used in office.


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Great India Mall in Noida - a mega-mall

I just paid a visit to the Great India Mall in Noida. This Mall is located just next to the center stage mall (Sector 18), across the road. It is very clearly visible from the main road, and the entry into its parking is from the main road. Parking is a bit pricey, Rs. 30, which is much more than the other malls. But the parking space is huge, I have not seen a mall in India with so much parking before.
Once you enter into the mall from the lift and reach the floor having Big Bazaar and Home Town (a giant electronics and home appliances stores), the first experience is kinda strange. The structure of that area is more like the London tube with a corridor shaped like a tube corridor. However, this is only restricted to this section of the mall. As you move into the main section of the mall, you realize the size of the mall. The mall is somewhat like corridors meeting up in to form a central round space that has escalators, and then more corridors into more round spaces. I have not seen a mall constructed like this before, but maybe this is the way to build such a big mall. I sort of prefer the open inside space like the Pacific Mall.
One thing is sure, this mall is big. It has shops catering to most brands and types, with some of them being Pantaloon, Shopper's Stoppe, Lifestyle, Mark and Spencers, and various other apparel stores. There are many shoe shops, book stores, fancy clothing, jewellery, watches, Kids stores, and numerous others.
The mall is still not fully occupied, so there will be many more shops coming up. I was not able to places to eat, so maybe those are still coming up. In addition, I was not sure whether there are going to be any movie halls. Maybe there will be, since it is a good way to fetch more people. I hope that their infrastructure - lifts, escalators, air-conditioning, parking, washrooms, etc can cater to so many people.


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Bookstore in South Extension

I am an ardent fan of reading, and am alwasy on the hunt for a new place from where I can get books, preferably at as low a cost as possible. This is not so easy nowadays, where the cost of a good book will be in the range of Rs. 300-500, hence making the buying of more books on a regular basis something of an expensive affair.
I was generally roaming around in the South Extension 1 market when I came across this bookstore that was selling a lot of books for the sum of Rs. 100 each. Now none of these books were in a pristine condition, even if they had not been read before, they had gone through some amount of weathering.
But I was hooked. Obviously in such a case, a lot of books would have been something that I would not be looking to buy, but I did come across a lot of books that I thought were worth buying, and I was soon trudging out of the bookstore with 11 books weighing down my hand, and some of these books were hard cover editions. I picked up books by Arthur C Clarke, Jonathan Kellerman, Robin Cook, Michael Critchon, and numerous others.
Where exactly was this located, this is right at the end of the South Extension 1 market, in the side closer to INA. It was located in the basement of a shop, but was fairly easy to locate once I was walking on the road in front of it since it had a banner flying high. So if you like books, and do not mind buying books that are not in a mint condition, then this is a good place to explore.









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