Giant Christmas tree and other exciting festivities, too

JOHOR BAHRU (FRIDAY – 4th Dec 2009): It is literally snowing at Danga City Mall (DCM) here!

Thanks to a snow-making machine, visitors to the popular mall can now actually see and feel snow falling from above.

This is among several exciting attractions and events to draw in shoppers for the Christmas shopping season which has already started.

“We will be running the snow making machine daily on an hourly basis. Every day from 3pm onwards, visitors can experience snow for between five and 10 minutes,” said Danga City Mall Sdn Bhd managing director Gary Lee Seaton.

He said the snow machine has been a big hit with both children and adults with scores turning up daily to experience it.

DCM is the first in the south to offer this unique attraction as part of the festivities to celebrate Christmas.

Another major attraction is a four-meter (13-feet) high Christmas tree decorated with blue and white light, which has become a “must stop” place to take photographs.

Also happening now is the Popular Mega Book Fair, which has been drawing huge crowds since its opening on Nov 26. The 11-day event will close on Dec 6.

Danga City Mall which opened in March 2008, is the biggest shopping complex here with 500 retail lots spread over seven floors and with over 500,000 sq ft of retail space. The occupancy rate now is nearly 90 per cent.

The Expo, its latest attraction, is the southern region’s biggest exhibition centre for trade shows. The RM5 million hall offers 32,000 sq ft of floor space, which is big enough to house 300 exhibition booths of 10 feet x 10 feet size.

The column-free and fully air-conditioned hall with on-site parking for 2,000 and wireless Internet capability can be readily customized to create the ideal venue for any large-scale exhibition.