MUMBAI SHOPPING

Famous Markets : Chor Market, Bandra Market, Fashion Street
One Stop Shops : Grand Hyat Plaza, Frazes and Haws Store and Fab India
Designer Boutiques : Ensemble, Azeem Khan Couture, Ritu's Boutique
Shop For : Clothing, Jewelery, Furnishing and Antiques

Mumbai - Shoppers Paradise

Mumbai Roadside Shopping
Mumbai Roadside Shopping

No wonder the city is one of the best place to shop but it is also a very hectic experience to choose among the 70 markets that are equally alluring and attractive. Explore the shopping options that this city offers and you will find that it is the ideal place to update your wardrobe with the changing fashion and seasons.. With the varied choice from street shopping to shop at the city's largest multiplexes besides there are also the showrooms of the renowned fashion designers simply Mumbai has something for every one on offer. For the discerning eye there is antique, handicraft for the art connoisseur and excellent range of jewelery for the women. Visit the city for its shopping extravaganza and don't forget to save a little money for your return journey.

Up-market Shopping Experience

If you are looking for the products of the extra ordinary quality and with the fixed price tag the best place for you to shop is Colaba, Fort and Marine Drive where the Central Cottage Industries Emporium is the largest government-owned, fixed price-shops aimed at tourists. This place offers you clothing, fabrics and home textiles even though these things are not available at cheap rates but you will not be ripped-off as well. The other option is Bandra suburb - heaven for the local shoppers and home to the famous actors of Bollywood, industrialists and alike. This place is full with the showrooms of the national and international brands and furnishing every thing from clothes, footwear, beauty products, eye wear etc. Especially visit the Frazer and Haws store and Fab India in Bandra and it will be a different experience. This place is for the elite class and the street stalls adjacent to these shops had added to its charm. Shop at these stores and after coming out, there will be a feeling in you that the entire Mumbai comes to shop here.

If you are in no mood to face the hustle and bustle of the city while shopping book your room at the Hotel Taj Mahal or Hilton Towers and the in-house shopping is the amazing experience. The world sought brands both national an international have there shops here. The ideal thing to shop here is the artifacts, from the variety of pashmina shawls to intricately designed silver idols of gods and goddesses like Natraja and Laxmi there are many things that you cannot resist to leave behind.

Street Shopping - Spectators Visual Delight

Tourists Shopping at a Roadside Shop, Mumbai
Tourists Shopping at a Roadside Shop, Mumbai

When we talk about the street shopping no one can miss out the important shopping markets of Mumbai like the Chor Bazaar, Zaveri Bazar, Buleshwar Whole Sale Flower Market, Crawford Market and Fashion Street. All these places have their own identity and are famous for one or the other thing. The Chor Bazaar (Thief Markat) is famous for the antiques and the Zaveri Market for the glitzy Jewelry sold from the family shops. Buleshwar known as the whole sale flower market offers a pleasure view of heap of fresh flowers with the refreshing aroma. Crawford market is the famous fruit market where you can find the fruits from all over India as well as imported fruits. A single variety of any fruit like mango or apple has many varieties available in this market so get a bag packed of fruits and enjoy them at home.

For the middle class brand aware people, Fashion street is the ideal place where you can shop for the branded fabrics at dirt cheap prices. This market is flooded by the surplus stocks or garments rejected by the quality control that are exported garments from the city. This market is a motley of shops and stalls. Look in the heaps of garments and you will find a good piece.

Hunt for the Designer Wear

Shopping at a Cloth Shop in Bandra
Shopping at a Cloth Shop in Bandra

This is the city where the fashion has its own definition and is always updated by its Gurus from the show rooms in the cities high rises or posh markets. Ranging from the jewelry designers to textile designers, furnishing, crockery,hand loomed products, embroidery etc in short every thing is available here that makes you look elegant. The must visit places are Azeem Khan Couture in Colaba also known as 'Czar of Embroidery' and 'Crystal King' created garments for Hillary Clinton, Demi Moore and Liza Minneli; Ensemble, a boutique where you will find a great variety of evening wear of prominent designers like Tarun Tahilini, Shahab Durazi, Rajesh Pratap etc. Visit Zeba in Colaba for furnishing and Yamini also in Colaba for designer linen, table cloth, bed covers, curtains and even lampshades. In the Mumbai you can decorate your entire home with the designer articles from kitchen to drawing room, bed room to studying room, the city has designers who know how to bring a charm to the dull look of your rooms. So go gala with the new look of your house along your new appearance in designer clothes, go and surprise every one.

Walk With the City's Pace

The din and bustle of the Mumbai streets demands you to surrender your will. The heavy jumbling on the roads and the beautiful road side stalls tempts every one to peep through the space you find. The glittering jewelery and aroma of fruits, honking vehicles and pyramid of fresh roses, all these make the perfect view of the Mumbai streets. Come to city a spent your holidays wandering its streets, shop at the multiplexes and pay a visit to the designer showrooms, it is to be sure you that you will not the place empty handed.

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