Panora Shopping Center is opening today (says Hürriyet), has any of the Ankarites been there yet? Where is it? How is it?

It's actually been open for a couple of weeks now. I was just there on the weekend and there are still lots of stores that aren't open yet. It is pretty standard, and has most of the stores found in other malls. Some new additions are the Gap (men/women/kids), Zara Home, Sephora, Kipa. They said that Gap and Sephora would open between the 15-17th of this month. The Canadian in me was happy to see that a Second Cup is due to open sometime as well!

Forgot to mention -> it's in Oran, on the site where the parliamenter residences used to be.

im looking forward to checking this place out, its just up the road from me

Ah, a Second Cup. Yet another reason to come back to Ankara once in a while I just need a Montreal bagel shop .

Freaky, I thought we had got rid of you for good.

By the way your Gencler season ticket will come into good use this weekend for the Gencler-Fener match. Glad you left it behind. I've handed all the season tickets over to FD to distribute as he sees fit as I'm out of here in about 12 hours.

You wish! You can't get rid of me that easily and I didnt give you my season ticket. I will be using it this weekend, since I want to see Gencler kick some Istanbul ASS.

Went there today for a cup of coffee on my home from work. A few shops are still not open, though ithey looked like they would be opening in the next week or so...They are also running a promotion downstairs next to Kipa for the new gym which will open there in March. expensive, but it looked nice...

Is there such a thing as New Year sales in Ankara????

Im goıng there later today, wıll gıve ıt a lıttle revıew

[quote user="P1DEANO" post="107614"]Im goıng there later today, wıll gıve ıt a lıttle revıew [/quote]

nice place, especially for the ladies. plenty of shoes and handbags for sale by the main entrance

gonna do wonders for turkeys inflationary pressures this place

My man works at Panora so I go there quite a bit to visit him and look around. There's a movie cinema, the new MAC gym that's being advertised everywhere, and for those of you addicted to the one of the "Evil Empires", there's also a starbucks and a gloria jeans. I love the huge furniture store (is it Mudo..? can't remember) and can spend hours drooling over all the pieces. Lots of shoes stores of course. I love that there are free shuttles from all over the place to and from Panora. It stops almost right out the front of my door in Cayyolu so it's great for me!! The Kipa supermarket downstairs sells lots of things I can't seem to find in my local supermarkets. It's a nice place to have a look at.

where are these free shuttles??? Can I catch one to Panora or is it only after spending a certain amount I can get one back to my house - I need one that goes down Konya towards Balgat

Hi Mazfal! The shuttles are free. As far as I know you don't need to spend any money - no one has ever asked to see a receipt and I've often travelled home empty-handed without anyone saying anything to me. I use the Menekse servici (Umitkoy-Cayyolu) but I'm not very savvy on where all the suburbs are in relation to each other (as I'm very new to Ankara) but I'll list the other services here and hopefully you'll be able to figure out if any of the shuttles will suit you:

Leylak Servisi (Yuzuncu Yil - Cukurambar)
Kamelya Servisi (Dikmen)
Gelincik Servisi (Bahcelievler)
Zambak Servisi (Hilal - Sancak)
Zambak Servisi (Gop - Birlik)
Papatya Servisi (Tunali - Cinnah)

I hope that helps Cheers!

How do these things work though. Do you ring them to find out when they are passing near your house? If yes, what number do you ring, or is there a website. I tried googling for Panora before but couldn't find anything.

you have a car you cheap git.