Kristiine Keskus — Local services in Tallinn

One of the first big malls in Tallinn is still one of the best and keeps improving and expanding with the years. A really sad aspect for me is the fact that the mall stands on top of my childhood home, a really lovely wooden two-storey house and a lush garden of appletrees, all of which were demolished to make way for the expanding mall. I can't fault the mall though, as the house was already taken away from my family during the Soviet times. Also inside the mall, the house would have been more or less where there is currently a bookstore, which is kind of nice. From the parking house I can see a few old appletrees from our garden still standing between the mall and the railway tracks. Looking at those abandoned appletrees is obviously a painful reminder of the home I lost as child, but at least the mall that stands in its place is a place I can visit and not bad at all, as far as malls go, so better to just accept it as a...

This mall is great! Although it's not huge, it has a collection of stores that you would exactly need. I visit quite often for shopping at Prisma, or shopping for clothes/eating some fastfood. I love Hesburger, KFC and Cafe Gustav (I cannot comment on the others that I haven't tried). New Yorker, Pepco, Sports Direct, Tiger, Expressions are some of my favourite stores because they have fantastic stuff at reasonable prices. I have bought stuff from Euronics once or twice, great stuff (products) but horrible staff (service). I liked Photo Point, took photos there once and they have fantastic and friendly staff, superb service. The little R kiosk on the ground floor stays open much longer than the regular R kiosks near Kristiine and Kristiine Centre R kiosk is fantastic too if you urgently need to buy a simcard or top up yourphone, and the other R kiosks have already shut down. This is such a resourceful mall, I...

Kristiine is classic - has most of the stores I need for clothes shopping, has most services - food, barber, coffee from R-Kiosk.

Good: Good accessibility with public transport - trolleybus, bus, train; most of the time is well accessible with car as well Has most of the stores I need for clothes shopping - good selection of shoe-stores as well; I find that I do mo Has other services - food, haidresser, good fast dry-cleaner, a few bank offices, ATM-s, etc Has a big grocery store with selection of household goods, etc

Bad: Accessibility with car on peak times can be hard - heavy traffic around, parking spaces full

Interior looks a bit worn and overall a bit old-school - not as spacious and grand as T1 and new parts of Ülemiste

Grocery store queues are some of the...