Hyderabad GVK One Mall Review

Today I visited the newest mall in Hyderabad, the GVK One Mall at Banjara Hills. The mall was opened on May 01, 2009, the Labor Holiday. I got a change only to see it today. I will try to cover all aspects of a Mall from Parking to Ambiance in this review.

I have decided to begin with the Parking facilities. So here we go...

Parking:

The mall has four underground spacious floors for parking. They have named these as P1, P2, P3, and P4. It has separate parking floors for two wheelers and four wheelers. However, I was not too impressed with the directions that lead to the parking lot. Once you park your vehicle, there are no sign boards to direct you to the lift or the stair cases. In my view, this is very important for a mall like GVK because the parking lot is huge. People can easily roam around trying to find a way out or just to enter the mall from the parking lot.

Unlike the City Center and the Hyderabad Central malls, the GVK mall charges for parking. It costs whooping Rs. 10 to park your two wheeler for 2 hours and Rs. 5 for every hour after that (I am not sure they will regulate that too seriously though). Although, I did not go in to the Car parking area, I am guessing it would be double the charge of Bike parking.

Since there were no directions on how to enter the mall from the parking lot, I had to ask the parking staff for directions. They vaguely directed me towards a lift. Along with me were bunch of other people who were waiting for the same lift to come to the P2 level, but the lift always came till the first floor and went back again. I then realized that there was something wrong with the lift. All the while a security guard was continuously observing us. I later found that he knew that the lifts not working properly. I wonder why he did not care to tell that for 10 minutes. Fortunately, a lady from the parking staff showed us a way to some other lifts that were working for a difference.

It took 5 minutes for me to go from P2 to Ground Floor or Zero Floor.