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Shopping Experience With Karmakerala
Cochin the commercial capital of Kerala, is one of the fastest growing metros in India today.If you are a shopping freak this is the place for you. Shop to your hearts content in any of the numerous shopping malls. M.G Road the arterial road in the city is lined with shops which add dimensions to shopping for silks, diamonds and jewels. Jew Street in Fort Cochin is full of shops selling antique art, craft works and furniture not only of Kerala origin but from all over India. The prices range from top to bottom to suit all pockets. Karmakerala offers you a wonderful shopping experience with short listed shops in Cochin, assured to give you quality and fair prices. Be trendy, be gaudy or be traditional, whatever you may be, the Queen of Arabian Sea (Cochin)offers you unlimited choices. Not Paris, not Dubai, but Cochin. Here shopping is an experience in itself.
Bargaining
If you have made up your mind to step out and buy some worthy goodies in Kerala, then do make sure you have a good bargaining skill. You will be expected to haggle over the prices of majority of the goods other than food, household items and cigarettes. Bargaining is more over a style over here, which is always done in a light way. It all depends on how much that commodity values to you, it all depends on what you are out to buy. Bargaing varies as per the commodity, so don't take too much notice of the initial prices. You can get the thing paying up as little as the tenth of the commodity, or even you can't get the seller below his first quote.
Evening hangouts in Cochin
Eat outs
• Pizza Hut at Jos Junction
• Dominos Pizza at Esplanade, Convent Junction
• Chick King at KPCC Junction, M G Road
• Cafe Coffee Day at Shenoy’s Junction and Pallimukku
• Coffee Beans at Marine Drive
• Steak House at Marine Drive
• Barrista Coffee at Bay Pride Mall at Marine Drive
• The Loungiety (Cocktail lounge) at the Avenue Regent hotels, M G Road
• Cocoa Tree (Coffee House) at the Avenue Regent
• Thandavam (Discothèque) at the Le Meridian Hotel,Maradu
• Abad Food Court at Bay Pride Mall at Marine Drive
• Kashi Art Café, Fort Cochin
Window Shopping
Gold & Diamonds
• Josco, M G Road
• House of Allappat, M G Road
• Bhima, M G Road
• Allukkas , M G Road
• Dazzil, at taj Residency
• Sunny Diamonds, Off. M G Road
• Kirthilal, M G Road
• Tanishiq , M G Road
Fancy Ornaments
• Good will,Convent Junction
• Mars,Palarivattom, Kadavantra
Silks and Readymades
• Jayalakshmi Silks, M G Road
• Seemati Silks, M G Road
• Partas Silks, M G Road
• Kalyan Silks, Off.M G Road
• Fab India Old Thevara Road,Off, M G Road, Bay Pride Mall at Marine Drive and Fort Kochi.
. Bay Pride mall at marine Drive
Music and Books
• Music World, M.K.V Buildings, M.G Road, Near Shenoys Theatre
• Plannet M, Malankara Building, Upper Ground Floor, M.G Road, Near Shenoys Theatre
• Bharat Musics, Flat No.6c, Jomer Sreenilayam, 3169-A19, D H Road, Ernakulam Boat Jetty
• Blossoms, Opp. Press Club
• Current Books, Convent Junction, Market Road
• Libraryonet, Press Club Road
Opticals
• Lens & Frames ,M G Road and Marine Drive
Antique Furniture and Ornaments
• CII at Mattancherry and Fort Cochin
• Jew Street at Mattanchery
International Banks
• HSBC, Near Shipyard,M G Road
• Standard Chartered,Ravipuram, M G Road
• Citi bank,Padma Junction, M G Road
Foreign Money Exchange
• Thomas Cook, M G Road
• U A E Exchange, M G Road
Rent A Car(with/without driver)
• Care Travels,Kakkanad
• ATS Kadavantara
