Center Point Sabah Shopping Mall Tour November 2020 (49 Photos)

This is Center Point Sabah shopping mall

Center Point Sabah Malaysia Borneo Day Trip - We spent a day doing our own walking tour to Center Point Sabah or "C.P." for short - the most visited lifestyle shopping mall in Kota Kinabalu city center. Read on to know more about what we've found.

View of Center Point Sabah at night time

We lived in Kota Kinabalu city center since 2003 and we also work here - indeed our work place is only about 15 minutes walk from our home. Center Point Sabah shopping mall building is just 2 minutes walk from the apartment unit where we live.

Center Point Sabah

Center Point Sabah is the iconic building in the everyday life of most Sabahans who live in Kota Kinabalu city center - also who live in other district but has been in Center Point Sabah for a visit. If people talk about Kota Kinabalu the first thing that come to their mind is Center Point Sabah.

Center Point Sabah History

Recently Center Point Sabah shopping mall has celebrating their 30th year birthday on month of July in year 2020 - means Center Point Sabah has been officially open for public since July 1990Wow!

Time flies so fast. We are getting older and older every year.

old photo of Center Point Sabah during early days of construction

Old photo you see above is a viral photo of Center Point Sabah during early days of it's construction process - believed to be somewhere around 1980's - however exact date of this photo not mentioned.

This photo was being taken from now Asia City area. The place where that car in the picture being parked (left side of the image) is now became Api-Api Center.

To be exact - Center Point Sabah shopping mall started to open their door to public visitors from 24th July 1990 until today.

Center Point Sabah 30th Anniversary Logo

A little bit about the history of Center Point Sabah - this shoppping mall was built around middle of 1980's in Api-Api area, next to Sinsuran commercial complex. Api-Api is commercial area during British North Borneo Company administration era until state of Sabah Borneo became part of Malaysia, as the 12th state in Federation Of Malaysia.

Our first time visiting Center Point Sabah was back on year 1992 - during that time as we still remember Yaohan was the only departmental superstore in Center Point Sabah selling many type of producs from daily necessities in basement floor (supermarket section) to ladies wear section (at ground floor), gentlemen section and sport section (at first floor) finally kids and household section at the 3rd floor.

Now the original selling floors that was occupied by Yaohan has been taken over by Pacific Ngiu Kee then taken over by Servay Premier Departmental Store starting from early year of 2019.

Before the opening of other lifestyle shopping malls in Kota Kinabalu city center such as Imago or 1Borneo Hypermall, Center Point Sabah has been the center of shopping activity and family entertainment among city folks in Kota Kinabalu during since early 90's.

Other than Center Point Sabah, most people who live in Kota Kinabalu also went on shopping in other 2 iconic shopping malls - the Wisma Merdeka and Karamunsing Shopping mall. Both developed in same years with Center Point Sabah, which is around 1990's.

Nowadays Wisma Merdeka has been converted into tourism-centric shopping mall where you can find a lot of money changer shops and a lot of souvenir shops at the ground floor of Wisma Merdeka.

Karamunsing Complex building

While Karamunsing Complex shopping mall becomes ICT center (short for information and telecommunication technology) as most shops there selling latest smartphones, latest laptops, desktop pc, compuetr gaming accessories, computer parts while some other shops offering computer repair service, computer bargain and selling used computers to new users.

What We Found Out During Our Day Trip Tour To Center Point Sabah

We went to Center Point Sabah for a walking day trip tour ( a jalan-jalan trip in Malaysian slang) for about 2 hours on Sunday, November 13 2020 around afternoon time, somewhere between 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM.

Center Point Sabah main entrance

We went to Center Point Sabah to look for some food and to buy our daily supply for our house kitchen. Eventhough it is Sunday, Center Point Sabah is almost empty. Not so many visitors.

Car park exit

During this day Kota Kinabalu and other distric in Sabah Malaysian Borneo still under Malaysian Conditional Controlled Movement Order - means we cant go to other district for travel also for day trip tour to other places outside Kota Kinabalu. But, we are allowed to go out to buy necessities, go out for a walk or dine in until 10:00 PM every day in city center area.

iconic centeral atrium area of Center Point Sabah

On middle of November 2020, Center Point Sabah open for business starting from 10:00 AM until 9:30 PM every day during normal working days and public holidays. At the time we visited Center Point Sabah we are saw that most shops on every level are open for business except that not so many people visiting this shopping mall.

Central atrium area

vertical flag of Sabah Borneo (left) and Malaysia (right)

View in Center Point Sabah

We did not saw any kids or any children in Center Point Sabah.

We also did not saw any old people and seniors during our tour in there - children and seniors are two type of people that are easily infected by Covid-19 virus.

We asked Security Personnels. They said children and seniors are not allowed to enter. This is good. Means that Center Point Sabah is really following Standary Operation Procedure imposed by government.

City Parade entrance to Center Point Sabah

View outside Center Point Sabah

View of City Parade entrance

Only 4 entrance are open for public visitors - the first one are at main entrance (facing McDonald's Api-Api Center), second entrance is near Jolibee Kota Kinabalu (facing Deleeton Hotel Asia City), third entrance is at City Parade section facing Sinsuran Commercial Complex while the fourth entrance is at backside of Center Point Sabah facing Warisan Square shopping mall.

Entrance near Jolibee

View outside Center Point Sabah

Jolibee entrace - photo taken from Asia City area

However the back entrance is restricted only for receving deliveries by vendors and suppliers, strictly for receiving of merchandises and for entrance for people who worked in outlets in Center Point Sabah. Public visitors will be advised to use other entrance.

Center Point Sabah backside entrance

View of backside entrance and carpark entrance

Car park entrance into Center Point Sabah

Number of visitors who enter Center Point Sabah are not being controlled - however each visitor to Center Point Sabah must wear face mask, must scan their body temperature then must write down their name and phone number in designated record book. They can also sign in using MySejahtera mobile app to record their visit to Center Point Sabah.

The only cinema in Center Point Sabah is Growball Cinemax at 5th floor (for ticketing counter and snack bar next to ticket counter) to 8th floor. Growball Cinemax is closed during Malaysian Condititional Movement Order right now and will be opened for public visitor once Malaysian Condititional Movement Order has been lifted.

Most of food and beverage outlets in Center Point Sabah are open and operating as usual. Anybody can sit for a dine in but limited to 2 person a table.

Every visitors must keep their distance and must scan their body temperature before sitting down in any food and beverage outlet in Center Point Sabah.

Busiest level in Center Point Sabah is the basement level - this is where Servay Premier grocery store is located which also the old food court of Center Point Sabah. City folks come here to buy food supplies and other daily usage products.

how it looks like in food court

Car Parks section in Center Point Sabah is also open as usual as we found out during our visit. There is no restriction of how many cars are allowed. However car park will be closed at 10:00 PM every day and will be open starting from 6:00 AM everyday.

Right now international entrance to Sabah Malaysian Borneo for tourists and travelers from other countries are highly restricted except for other matters such as work commitment.

Travel, leisure and holiday is not possible now because Malaysian authorities still impose Conditional Controlled Movement Order until December 9 2020 to protect Malaysian citizen from Covid-19 pandemic and to prevent the virus to infect more people. Malaysia's international border still closed until 31 December 2020 - maybe until further notice from Malaysian government.

We still dont know and still not sure if this Conditional Controlled Movement Order will be extended and continued - or not. Number of daily Covid-19 infection cases in Malaysia right now is still high, which is around 400-1000 cases in average, every day.

Active On Social Media

From our observation Center Point Sabah is highly active in social media updates especially in their official Facebook Page. If you have Facebook account you can follow Center Point Sabah latest updates in this web link: https://web.facebook.com/centrepointsabah .

Press or tap on that link and a new windows will open. If you are reading this from your smartphone it open up Facebook app to view that link.

Right now Center Point Sabah has 102,335 followers on their Facebook Page. Other than that 331,060 Facebook users have checked in here at Center Point Sabah shopping mall .

Center Point Sabah's Instagram profile is at https://www.instagram.com/centrepointsabah

More photos are posted here for your viewing pleasure.