TunisCity Géant Mall

TunisCity, the biggest mall in Tunisia, opened it's doors on September 29th.
I thought it would be better to avoid the first days of it's opening because it would be too crowded, but our curiosity got the best of us yesterday and we had to go check it out.

TunisCity is on the outskirts of Tunis, located at the beginning of the Bizerte highway, which would make you think it'd be harder for people to get there, but that was not the case, the parking was crowded and there was a long line of cars waiting to get in to the parking or the areas around it.
What's amazing is that even though I hate crowded places, my curiosity won over my instinct, which was telling me to just turn the car and go home.

Anyway, I confirm that this is the biggest mall in Tunisia now.
It's design is pretty nice and I though the interior was pretty cool.
It's bigger than Carrefour and better organized.

It was so crowded you'd think everything was for free, especially inside the hypermarket section "Géant". But what I liked is that even though the hyper market barely had place for you to move, the counters weren't crowded, even though everyone seemed to want to buy something.

As for the products sold in the hypermarket, they're more or the less the same products you see everywhere in Tunisian supermarkets, with a few exceptions here and there, at slightly better prices.

The food court is in a big corner on it's own, which I think is better than having it in the middle of the place like Carrefour. There are some new fast food restaurants opening in it, but nothing international. (When will we get a Burger King in Tunisia?!)

So, to sum it all up, I really liked TunisCity, and think it's really nice. I'm sure I'll be shopping there more often than Carrefour from now on.
It's just a shame they built it horizontally and took up all that land in an agricultural area. I hope that it doesn't start a craze of people buying lands around it and building houses and buildings on such fertile land that is currently used for agricultural purposes.

More of my TunisCity Mall photos.

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