Today, I'm bringing to you a new discovery: D Park in Tsuen Wan. My husband actually found this mall a few days before I went to check it out. He said that it was probably the most child friendly mall in Hong Kong.
So, today, we hopped off at the Tsuen Wan West MTR Station and caught the taxi to D Park.
This mall looks so incredibly new. I'm not a frequent visitor to Tsuen Wan (though there was a summer that I was obsessed with its beaches), so I might be wrong, but the facilities and the shops just look so brand spanking new. Everyone (meaning the sales people and even the mall staff) seem to also be quite nice (un-jaded!)…so, my first impression of D Park was pretty darn positive.
This mall had some magnet shops like Eugene Baby (at the top floor), Toys R Us on the ground floor, and Bumps to Babes (my new favorite baby-gear shop) on the ground floor. Though these shops are pretty small, they do carry a lot of selection of all your baby needs. There are even some toddler and youth clothing shops splayed around the ground floor.
There were Japanese restaurants there…
There was a pretty cool looking burger joint there…
There were dessert places there…
The main thing about this mall was that there was a HUGE play zone for kids to enjoy at the center of the mall. The play area was zoned off, but it had a lot of kids packed in there…socializing with each other, playing with the equipment, exploring the play area, and interacting with everything down there.
The floors of the play zone also extended out into the actually shopping area…there was a giant game board on one side of the shopping area…
And there were train tracks and a small little town in another area...
It seemed like a really great place for kids and families to enjoy. And, whist we were there, we also saw the mall staff evacuate the play area for a daily cleaning. So, that was pretty good to see…I sort of won't worry as much if my kids play around in the zone because it's not going to be TOTALLY filled with germs.
The entire mall is so child-friendly…and quite Hong Kong. It's very Hong Kong in the fact that there are huge colorful things just dotted around the mall for people to take photos by. A lot of my friends ,via Facebook, are drawn like moths to a flame when they see displays they could take selfless next to. There are lots of huge colorful animals everywhere…
The final really awesome thing about this mall (which made me think it was pretty brand spanking new) was the fact that there were family bathrooms and nursing stations available for nursing mothers. It makes me feel like it's probably going to be a mall that is quite popular for new families (since there are facilities there to accommodate all their outing needs).
Even the signs are child-friendly!
What a wonderful discovery!
