Great modern mall in the La Defense area of Paris. Located very close to public transportation,…read morethis mall offers a variety of upscale as well as on a budget shopping. And it is open on Sundays, the only mall open on Sundays in Paris. During my visit the summer sale started so you can get French designer clothes for a lot less during the end of June until early August. Lots of places to eat very conveniently located accord from Hilton La Defense.

GREAT mall to shop at in Paris! It's actually called Les Quatre Temps, but I guess somebody named…read moreit this as the short version. Quatre in French means 4 so whatevs. LOL While out shopping at Zara in another part of Paris, a local Parisian put me onto this mall and I am truly grateful she did! Fab stores at affordable prices. Be sure to check out New Look, Pull & Bear, UNIQLO, Aldo, Zara, & H&M. Stop over at Vapiana for some good pizza on the top floor as well.

My husband and I were talking to our good friend who's been living in Paris for the last five…read moreyears, and she told us e-commerce is less dominant there because people seem to prefer shopping in physical stores. While malls die all over America, retail still thrives in Paris. Exhibit A: Galeries Lafayette Haussmann. I've been to this department store a number of times over the years, and I both enjoy it and fear how completely it can suck up precious vacation hours. It's a fantastic place to shop, with a ton of well curated inventory spread out across multiple floors in multiple buildings. The main building features that beautiful domed ceiling, which manages to catch me by surprise every time I walk in. I haven't had the opportunity to shop for my own clothes here in a long time, but I've gotten some really great stuff on the children's floor, and discovered the souvenir section on my last visit, where I picked up some cool Paris Metro toy trains and magnets. We did somehow get stuck at Galeries Lafayette for over two hours and ended up skipping Notre-Dame, which might have been a better place to spend our last afternoon in Paris. But it was sale season, and my kids look super cute in their heavily discounted Petit Bateau. Galeries Lafayette is busy and sometimes overwhelming, but it's a wonderful department store. I wish we had something like it back home. I'd much rather shop there than fall for targeted ads on Instagram.

A wonderful French department store in the heart of the city. We came here with the kids on our…read morefirst day of our international trip with kids. It was perfect since Paris had record high temperatures and we could relax and lounge nearby here. The kids loved FAO Swartz and all the live demos, especially seeing the stuffies where we ended up caving and buying a few. Overall, this was a beautiful spot!

Delicious Pad Thai. Very pleasant staff. My daughter ate chicken fried rice and loved it. Highly…read morerecommended

Starbucks inside. Watch out for all the Asian tourists who seem mannerless. The tourist tax office…read moreis a nightmare with the bus loads of asian tourists buying suitcase loads of stuff. Takes forever. I couldn't even get my tax refund done because they were jumping cue. The department store and staff were nice though.

CNIT is a pretty cool place, it has a few stores including a large Monoprix featuring a cafe, it is…read morealso home to a Hilton Hotel, located in the Puteaux/La Defense region of Paris, close to the metro and bus interchange. Inside, it is bright and has a nice, new, modern feel to it, while the selection of shops is okay, the giant square featuring Grande Arche and the Westfield Les 4 Temps across the way, one of my favourite malls worldwide makes it better. CNIT stans for Centre of New Industries and Technologies, it was one of the first buildings in La Defense which are the business area of Paris, I like to think of it as a Parisian Canary Wharf. I did find the lifts a little confusing and difficult to navigate at first. I did find the loud construction noises throughout during the daytime to be offputting, I get they have to do it sometime and it can be difficult with a hotel, but it just felt a little uncomfortable. The place is weird overall from having offices to shops and hotels, it isn't' HUGE but is a decent size, perhaps they're doing too much? 3* - A really nice building featuring some useful locations from Nespresso to Monoprix, and even a Hilton in a nice part of the city but it's only the start of your La Defense journey. Review #3300

Weird place. Offices and retail businesses all tossed into one huge structure, right along with…read morebeing connected to the RER train station and the Metro subway station. They have free wifi, so the French employees don't even have to report to their offices to work. They just congregate at one of the coffee shops and then move to the next coffee shop where they can continue their social time - which by the way lasts until lunch when they go somewhere else to avoid their office. After a two hour lunch, they might just take the metro or train home, because they do have a grueling 30 hour work week to fake so that they can earn their 16 weeks vacation time. Thank god for socialism, because these overwrought employees only have to do this for 20 years before they get 100% pensions. Whew! what a relief. Here is a typical French employee, doing absolutely nothing - http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/cnit-puteaux?select=KvOei8a9yRjFgyutlZ-xNg#8ZhT5eGOQO62p9545gRYfA All dressed up, but sitting on his ass for hours. Please notice the offices overhead - empty in the middle of the morning.

Quite a nice mall kind of old and high end. Has a nice international market on b1 floor. All the…read morefloors above 2 are deserted. But the mall has nice cold ac

First stop before any financial damage was done. We went to the food court. We headed downstairs…read morefor a nice ice cold drink and a quick bite. Maybe it is the American in me, but this did not feel like any food court I have seen back home. There are only four stalls in total. Joe and The Juice, Pierre Marcolini, Yi The, and one more I did not catch. My son ordered the L'Amore (strawberry, raspberry blueberry tea) from Yi The. The juice was decent and I was very pleased to see they used fresh ingredients, but not every drink works with boba. This was one of those times where it just did not. My husband also bought a bottle of coke, which cost 3.50 euro, which is very expensive for any food Court standards Next door, we got our first macarons of the trip from Pierre Marcolini. We tried the Dubai macaron, the signature one, the Noisette, and the most delicious of them all, the Framboise. They were all delicious and not too sweet, which I really appreciated. I loved every bite, but my favorites were the raspberry macaron with dark chocolate filling and the hazelnut one called Noisette. It was definitely worth the stop.

I had seen many photos and videos of Galeries Lafayette swirling around instagram, especially…read moreduring Christmas time. I was little disappointed once inside as it wasn't quite as magical as expected, but it's a shopping area, so what do you expect. The biggest disappointment is that you have to pay to use the restrooms here. Ridiculous! I didn't have any cash and wasn't sure if I'd be able to use a card, so I had to leave. There was a long line of people trying to use the bathrooms, so they must make a nice chunk of change from this. But quite stressful when you would expect a restroom especially for how large this place is.

Beaugrenelle is a pretty cool shopping center. It doesn't have designer stores like Galeries…read moreLafayette Haussman, but it has essentials like Adidas, Mango, Zara, H&M, Marks & Spencer, Uniqlo, Lacoste & Sandro. Beaugrenelle also has 10-rooms, 1,930-seats state-of the art movie theater. You can also charge your cell phone at one of the complimentary phone-charger lockers inside the center. Hours of Operation: Stores: Mon-Sat 10 am-8:30 pm. Sun 11 am-7 pm. Restaurants: Mon-Sat 10 am-midnight. Sun 11 am-midnight. Cinemas: Mon-Sun 9:30 am-midnight. EU non-residents can take advantage of the 12% tax refund by showing your passport and receipts to the tax refund desk.

This is a fun place even if you do not get something There…read moreare so many stores and floors are different for each kind thing / person

Target of Paris! They have it all clothes, milk, jewelry, wine, toilet trees, and personal items!read more

Monoprix is like the French Target, and this one, right off Champs-Elysées, is truly more of a…read moreTar-zhay. One of my friends wanted to go in to buy a plain black cardigan, which she was correct in thinking she would find, and we ended up spending like an hour shopping and browsing. The store was huge and well stocked, with tons of clothing and accessories, as well as an enormous pharmacy and cosmetics area. I thought about picking up some Caudalie and La Roche-Posay products, which were very cheap, but decided against it to avoid checking my bag going home. Joke was one me when I had to check it anyway, and barely made my flight because I hadn't accounted for that extra chunk of time. Buying a bunch of French skincare would've saved me a little bit of stress. I did get a French nasal spray on the recommendation of my friend who lives in Paris. I bought it for my perpetually congested husband, who was home watching the kids. It was the only souvenir I brought him from my trip (though I did get a Diptyque candle for the house), and I actually used it first when I caught a cold last month. I can at least attest that it worked quite well. The Monoprix was bustling, but check-out was easy and quick. I left with my nasal spray, and my friend did get her black cardigan. If you're looking to score some well priced French products, this place is definitely worth checking out. And if you're on the fence about that Caudalie Beauty Elixir, just go ahead and treat yourself.