Central Phuket

Central Phuket is a large shopping and entertainment complex in downtown Phuket, Thailand. The destination is organized around two connected buildings: Festival, the original mall structure, and Floresta, a major expansion completed in 2018. Moving walkways connect the buildings and allow visitors to move between their retail, dining, leisure, and entertainment areas. The complex occupies approximately 111 rai of land and is described in reference material as having roughly 400,000 to 420,000 square metres of gross floor area, depending on the measurement source. Its tenant mix includes luxury and premium brands, general lifestyle retail, department-store-style shopping, food halls, restaurants, cafés, services, cinema entertainment, fitness, and family attractions. Reference material describes approximately 15 luxury brands, 500 lifestyle shops, and 300 food-and-beverage outlets, although the precise figures may change as the tenant mix develops. Festival is positioned around an Andaman coastal design idea, using visual references to Phuket’s beaches and blue sea under the concept “Andaman Treasure.” The building combines shopping with public areas intended for socializing, relaxation, and programmed activities throughout the day. Its listed tenants and facilities include Tops or Central Food grocery operations, B2S, Power Buy, Supersports, Officemate, food courts, SFX Cinema, Public House, and Jetts Fitness. Floresta provides the newer, more premium and experience-oriented component of the complex. Its design incorporates nature motifs together with references to Thai art, culture, literature, and contemporary architecture. The building houses Central The Store @ Phuket, Tops Food Hall, B2S, Tales of Thailand, and Aquaria Phuket, an aquarium and visitor attraction. Other parts of the wider complex include a Thai Watsadu x BnB Home building and Auto1. Central Phuket’s role extends beyond conventional retail. It functions as a regional destination for residents and visitors, combining shopping with food service, cinema, fitness, family entertainment, and tourism-oriented attractions. The development’s scale and downtown location make it one of Phuket’s principal commercial and leisure centres. Public reference material does not establish a separate corporate owner, founding person, exact opening date, financial performance, or current executive roster for the Central Phuket brand itself.

Central Phuket is a major commercial complex in downtown Phuket, Thailand. Its development is represented by two principal buildings with distinct but complementary identities. Festival is the original building and established the complex as a large-scale shopping destination. Its visual concept draws on Phuket’s coastal environment, particularly beaches and the Andaman Sea, and is expressed through the “Andaman Treasure” design theme. In addition to retail space, Festival provides dining, social, recreational, and entertainment facilities intended to support activity throughout the day. The complex later expanded through the construction of Floresta, a substantially larger addition completed in 2018. Reference material describes the Floresta building as measuring approximately 300,000 square metres. Rather than simply extending the existing retail offer, Floresta was designed as a more experience-led and premium component, using natural motifs and incorporating references to Thai art, culture, literature, and modern architecture. The two buildings are linked by moving walkways, allowing Central Phuket to operate as a single destination while maintaining differentiated environments. Following the expansion, Central Phuket’s offer included a broad collection of lifestyle stores, luxury brands, food-and-beverage venues, supermarkets or food halls, specialist retailers, cinemas, fitness facilities, and visitor attractions. Its listed facilities include Central The Store @ Phuket, Tops Food Hall, B2S, Power Buy, Supersports, Officemate, Thai Watsadu x BnB Home, Auto1, SFX Cinema, Public House, and Jetts Fitness. Aquaria Phuket gives the Floresta building a major family and tourism attraction, while Tales of Thailand adds a culturally themed visitor experience. Sources describe the complex as occupying 111 rai and as having approximately 400,000 to 420,000 square metres of gross floor area, with the variation apparently reflecting different reporting or measurement bases. The same material describes around 15 luxury brands, 500 lifestyle shops, and 300 food-and-beverage outlets. These figures should be treated as reported scale indicators rather than fixed current tenant counts. Central Phuket’s development reflects the evolution of large shopping centres in tourism-oriented markets. It combines conventional mall functions with destination entertainment and place-specific design intended to connect the property with Phuket’s landscape and cultural identity. The available reference material does not provide a verified founding year, named founder, detailed ownership structure, financial results, executive history, or a documented sequence of major campaigns and controversies. Accordingly, the historical record here focuses on the identifiable Festival and Floresta components and the 2018 expansion.

• 2018

  Floresta expansion completed

  [1]Central Phuketen.wikipedia.org

  A major Floresta building was added to Central Phuket, expanding the complex with additional retail, dining, cultural, and entertainment space. The expansion is reported as approximately 300,000 square metres and is connected to Festival by moving walkways.

A large, destination-oriented shopping and lifestyle complex combining premium retail, everyday shopping, dining, entertainment, and tourism attractions in central Phuket.

• Shopping mall building

  Festival

  Festival is the original building of Central Phuket. Its design is based on Phuket’s coastal setting and the “Andaman Treasure” concept, with references to beaches and the blue sea. The building combines general lifestyle retail with grocery shopping, electronics, sporting goods, books and stationery, office products, dining, cinema, fitness, and public areas for recreation and social activity.

• Shopping mall building · 2018

  Floresta

  Floresta is the major expansion building completed in 2018. It was designed with nature motifs and references to Thai art, culture, literature, and contemporary architecture. The building houses premium and lifestyle retail together with Central The Store @ Phuket, Tops Food Hall, B2S, Tales of Thailand, and Aquaria Phuket, making it an important retail and visitor-attraction component of the wider complex.

• Aquarium and visitor attraction

  Aquaria Phuket

  Aquaria Phuket is an aquarium and family-oriented visitor attraction located in the Floresta building. It extends Central Phuket’s offer beyond shopping by providing an entertainment and tourism experience within the mall complex.

• Department store

  Central The Store @ Phuket

  Central The Store @ Phuket is the department-store-style retail component listed in the Floresta building. Reference material indicates that it moved from the Festival building, making it part of the reorganization associated with the expanded complex.

• Grocery and food hall

  Tops Food Hall

  Tops Food Hall is the food-focused grocery and prepared-food operation listed in Floresta. The wider Central Phuket complex also includes Tops or Central Food grocery facilities associated with the Festival building.

• Cinema

  SFX Cinema

  SFX Cinema is the cinema entertainment facility listed in the Festival building. Reference material identifies eight cinema screens, positioning the venue as one of Central Phuket’s principal indoor leisure offerings.

• Home improvement and home furnishing retail

  Thai Watsadu x BnB Home

  Thai Watsadu x BnB Home is a home-improvement and home-furnishing retail building associated with Central Phuket. Earlier naming in the reference material identifies the site with HomeWorks CentralFestival Phuket East and Baan and Beyond.

• 2018

  Development of the Floresta buildingOther

  Background

  Central Phuket expanded beyond its original Festival building with a large addition intended to broaden the complex’s retail, dining, cultural, and entertainment offer.

  Action taken

  The Floresta building was constructed and connected to Festival by moving walkways. Its design emphasized nature, Thai cultural references, and contemporary architecture.

  Aftermath

  The expansion created a two-building destination with additional premium retail, food-hall, cultural, and family-attraction facilities, including Aquaria Phuket.

  Source

1. 1Central Phuketen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Central Phuket official websitecentralphuket.com