Havelock2, actually pretty useful building during heavy rains, it has covered bridge to Clarke Quay MRT station on the one side and covered bridge to Furama hotel on the other side. Effectively it is a part of network connecting People's Park Complex and Hong Lim Market & Food Centre (these places were heavily covered in previous videos).
this guy literally showed the mall's name in the middle of the video even though he said he blurred the mall's name at the start to not get into trouble lmao
I observed that most are specialised shops, beauty or spa salons, expectedly no crowd, shoppers will only visit that mall, looking for specific item that is available there. Reckon it is now catered more to office breakfast and lunch crowd
singapore had china square central aka CSC as a one stop place to hunt for toys & collectables with over 15 shops and flea market on sundays. After 2017 some of the tenants moved to havelock II which is why this mall seemed to have more toy shops than elsewhere in sg. But the toy hunting crowd during CSC days has since disappeared.
There are quite a bit of these malls in Singapore, much common than some may think. One of which used to be Big Box, haven't been there for a while but when I was working there just before Covid, it was miserably quiet and empty.
Havelock 2 used to have wonderful shops such as backyard bakers brownies, Harrits Doughnuts and Butler Koffee. And even a bustling food cafe with amazing looking desserts at B1. Sadly, all the good stuff are gone :( I go there during lunch time to escape from the lunch crowd and recover from my hectic work schedule. It is THAT peaceful.
Havelock II. Some of the toy shops over there moved over from the nearby China Square Central, which is also an equally dead mall. Not sure if its still considered a mall now after the renovation years back
Very nice video! Thks for sharing. I used to work in my parents' cafe at the nearby People's Park Centre back in the early 90s for several years, which is connected to this building via Furama Hotel which u briefly visited. I can't recall the name of the mall, but after checking the internet for street maps of the 80s, I believe this mall was formerly called Apollo Centre. I visited it a few times in the late 80s and early nineties with my dad and bro once ..can't recall anything significant there but the one thing I do remember is that, back then, at the basement of Apollo Centre, was Singapore's first indoor air-conditioned prawning pond, where you catch your own prawns and then u can cook them. A simple rod and line with hook and bait was provided. I only remember catching one damn prawn for one whole hour though and i said that the prawns must have been well fed 😂. Otherwise, there is nothing much that I recall of that place over the decades. Furama? I only recall that the Aircon back in the early 90s, where you stood after crossing the bridge, smelt of stale cigarettes, hence I rarely stayed long at Furama Hotel. I think I recall someone told me that Furama Hotel is shaped like a palm for fengshui, and a quick check on the internet says this is true! The Furama Hotel is in the shape of fingers raising upwards to the sky. 2. It looks wavy and is considered the water element Link: www.geomancy.net/forums/topic/2393-the-furama-hotel-japanese-owned/
There are malls quieter than this. Either the location’s reason or they simply not a mall for shopping, tenants is either full of maid agency, tuition, hair salons, finance , 2nd hand car sellers etc.
Use to be named Apollo Centre, survived largely due to it being used more as an office, with quite a bit of shops that sees customers. After being bought out and changed to Havelock 2, it seems to be cursed, like very very dead mall after ard 4pm
Actually I suspect the person who thought it was empty visited during a weekend. The office crowd comes here to eat, and it's not that empty. There's also a fitness studio in the basement. Want a really empty mall in Chinatown? Go Lucky Chinatown or Oriental Plaza hah.
Yeah the transaction was done in 2007 or so. Even as Apollo centre it was also very quiet. There are just some malls in Singapore that become dead and no amount of name changes and refurbishing can save them. Even if the buildings next to them are booming.
I passed through there almost daily last year and was consistently amazed that the shops and food stalls hung on despite so little footfall. I had no idea there was anything on 3 or B1...! The passage to the Furama hotel is even odder - the shops and offices are open sporadically at random intervals. This made me wonder if they weere still going concerns / functional businesses at all. Shame the mall is so empty, the shop holders I interacted with were all lovely people.
Not surprised that such a mall exist. Because in Singapore in like every other part of the neighbour as long as there's an MRT. There will be at least 2 to 3 malls near each other. Of course with 1 main big one and the rest are used for specialty. Being the rent are much cheaper then the main big building.
I visit the TCM clinic on level 2 of Havelock2. Clinic is packed all the time. I like the black sesame and red bean pancakes on level 1 and the basil chicken with creamy egg rice at the Thai stall next to the pancake stall.
I've heard that the Chinese restaurant only serves tour groups. I've heard from my ex-colleagues who entered the restaurant for lunch but was asked to leave as they weren't tour groups.
Great review! I think the mall is empty due to bad management. The rental is set too high and they didn't even care if the units are vacant. One of the best cafe in the mall was Butler Koffee. They have the best crew and coffee is great. Business was very good. But then rental contract was due and the renewal were double the amount she was paying. Butler Koffee is not located in The Adelphi @ Coleman St. Toy collectiors can also go to level 2. There is one that sells alot of transforms, lego and other collections. B1 there is a nice stall that sells herbal chicken rice, prawn sauces chicken cutlet rice. I'm not sure if they are still around. Haven't visited for a few months.
Sub court got no carpark. Many years back there is a open air carpark beside the sub court but now no longer. Those people working nearby or going to sub court will only park here
This is the former Apollo Hotel turned ghost town mall upon my 1st visit this year!!! The Chinese restaurant is now owned by our famous Chinese Celebrity, Wang Lei.
It's empty but still serves a purpose as offices, as sheltered connections between buildings and as a micro collector's hub for toys and antiques. Doesn't stop it from being quiet, I assume, because it lacks anything else interesting for the masses, and the collecting community got splintered by the loss of Csc into separate paths. Should see Tekka Place for that real question mark of a mall. Dead from day 1, except for NTUC Fairprice, which ran away after the contract finished 3 years after opening due to high rent and low footfall. Now the mall has half the available space used as a tuition centre. Did I mention it opened in 2020?
Used to be Apollo Centre in the past. Well it was more of a high end mall in the long past, especially with Furuma Hotel there. Well those are in the past as in long gone past tense. I know there used to have more antique shops when I visited way in the past. There are now way too many malls and people not really going to walk all the way from Chinatown or Clarke Quay MRT as there are more to walk around just exiting from the station itself.
I used to work in the previous office building that used to be in the same plot of land. Sad to see that the shopping mall seems quite deserted except during meal times.
Havelock II? Parking fee super EX! This alone already stop lots of people for 2nd visit. As for food, nothing really special, especially during lunch hours you can see the different compare to other surrounding malls. Weekends almost like a ghost town!
As if the other malls' rent are not higher. Its the lack of foot traffic. People don't go to malls for the sake of going to malls. Malls has to be on their way to some place.
Hi Ghib,, wow can go for that meepok n coffee even that foot massage ne,, 😅,, maybe you should go to that coffeeshop to drink kopi with fans 😂🤣,, btw nice info Ghib, 👍☕️😎,, btw that ending 🤣🤣🤣omoroi ne anta Ghib,,
The only reason I visit this mall is to collect preorder collectible toys. Not for window shopping and food. I still miss the good old days at clarke quay flea market
All these mall are own by REIT company. So these fund manager just sit tight and wait for another interested REIT company to buy over. It happens when it change hand from 2HR to Havelock 2
Sounds to me the reason why it's so quiet and abandoned is because that mall is haunted, especially the carpark. Usually a haunted area is very dead quiet and abandoned.
This mall is somehow out of the way. If u talk about quiet mall try go to adelphi that is directly opposite funan .Yes the there about 95% shop occupancy, but shopper flow are really low especially.weekend
Havelock2, actually pretty useful building during heavy rains, it has covered bridge to Clarke Quay MRT station on the one side and covered bridge to Furama hotel on the other side. Effectively it is a part of network connecting People's Park Complex and Hong Lim Market & Food Centre (these places were heavily covered in previous videos).
Havelock2 if yall are curious 😅
I am curious
If you are into stuff like McFarlane, Marvel Legends, Transformers Studio Series, GI Joe or Jada Toys Street Fighters, this is the place to go to
this guy literally showed the mall's name in the middle of the video even though he said he blurred the mall's name at the start to not get into trouble lmao
Hope It would be better once new launch project start developing
very expensive parking = the usual for exclusivity = money not needed = tenants and ... = the norm for some places = the clue = ...
I observed that most are specialised shops, beauty or spa salons, expectedly no crowd, shoppers will only visit that mall, looking for specific item that is available there. Reckon it is now catered more to office breakfast and lunch crowd
7:47 yeah. As a collector who regularly goes to Havelock to buy action figures, $100 isn’t enough. Hell, some of these actually cost more than $100
singapore had china square central aka CSC as a one stop place to hunt for toys & collectables with over 15 shops and flea market on sundays. After 2017 some of the tenants moved to havelock II which is why this mall seemed to have more toy shops than elsewhere in sg. But the toy hunting crowd during CSC days has since disappeared.
Ahh yeah good old days. Used to roam csc and sunshine plaza in bugis hunting for toys years ago 😊
Unfortunately the flea market did not seem to flourish here. Same for Fook Hai complex. Some of the tenants are from CSC previously.
Oh damn I was wondering where those stores went!
Mannn.... I missed those era. Got some interesting toys, comics and underground horror DVDs from the flea market. Too bad it's gone now.
Before CSC, the market was located at Clarke Quay.
I like this mall series. Very interesting. The Americano drink looks nice and the sugarbaby noodles 😂
There are quite a bit of these malls in Singapore, much common than some may think.
One of which used to be Big Box, haven't been there for a while but when I was working there just before Covid, it was miserably quiet and empty.
Macpherson mall is even worse tbh
@@pandax5359 Hey, at least there's now a card shop pulling ppl there nowadays...
Big box has been converted to more like an exhibition building.
Havelock 2 used to have wonderful shops such as backyard bakers brownies, Harrits Doughnuts and Butler Koffee. And even a bustling food cafe with amazing looking desserts at B1. Sadly, all the good stuff are gone :( I go there during lunch time to escape from the lunch crowd and recover from my hectic work schedule. It is THAT peaceful.
Havelock II. Some of the toy shops over there moved over from the nearby China Square Central, which is also an equally dead mall. Not sure if its still considered a mall now after the renovation years back
It's not a mall anymore, Jusco took over where the toy stores used to be. What a pity.
Very nice video! Thks for sharing. I used to work in my parents' cafe at the nearby People's Park Centre back in the early 90s for several years, which is connected to this building via Furama Hotel which u briefly visited. I can't recall the name of the mall, but after checking the internet for street maps of the 80s, I believe this mall was formerly called Apollo Centre. I visited it a few times in the late 80s and early nineties with my dad and bro once ..can't recall anything significant there but the one thing I do remember is that, back then, at the basement of Apollo Centre, was Singapore's first indoor air-conditioned prawning pond, where you catch your own prawns and then u can cook them. A simple rod and line with hook and bait was provided. I only remember catching one damn prawn for one whole hour though and i said that the prawns must have been well fed 😂. Otherwise, there is nothing much that I recall of that place over the decades. Furama? I only recall that the Aircon back in the early 90s, where you stood after crossing the bridge, smelt of stale cigarettes, hence I rarely stayed long at Furama Hotel. I think I recall someone told me that Furama Hotel is shaped like a palm for fengshui, and a quick check on the internet says this is true! The Furama Hotel is in the shape of fingers raising upwards to the sky.
2. It looks wavy and is considered the water element
Link: www.geomancy.net/forums/topic/2393-the-furama-hotel-japanese-owned/
There are malls quieter than this. Either the location’s reason or they simply not a mall for shopping, tenants is either full of maid agency, tuition, hair salons, finance , 2nd hand car sellers etc.
i thought of ksl city in jb 💀
Use to be named Apollo Centre, survived largely due to it being used more as an office, with quite a bit of shops that sees customers. After being bought out and changed to Havelock 2, it seems to be cursed, like very very dead mall after ard 4pm
Actually I suspect the person who thought it was empty visited during a weekend. The office crowd comes here to eat, and it's not that empty. There's also a fitness studio in the basement. Want a really empty mall in Chinatown? Go Lucky Chinatown or Oriental Plaza hah.
Bcos is refurbished office and retail mall. I rmb only finish i think about 2016, correct me if I am wrong, previously is called Apollo Centre
Yeah the transaction was done in 2007 or so. Even as Apollo centre it was also very quiet. There are just some malls in Singapore that become dead and no amount of name changes and refurbishing can save them. Even if the buildings next to them are booming.
For a short period of time, it was known as 2HR before the name change to Havelock II
I passed through there almost daily last year and was consistently amazed that the shops and food stalls hung on despite so little footfall. I had no idea there was anything on 3 or B1...! The passage to the Furama hotel is even odder - the shops and offices are open sporadically at random intervals. This made me wonder if they weere still going concerns / functional businesses at all.
Shame the mall is so empty, the shop holders I interacted with were all lovely people.
There are many quiet malls eg macpherson mall, promenade @jalan pelikat, trio@ sam leong road, balestier plaza, balestier point..
Bridge is link to Furama City Centre, which is also a Hotel
Feels similar to Macpherson Mall, which is just as quiet whenver I pass by
Not surprised that such a mall exist. Because in Singapore in like every other part of the neighbour as long as there's an MRT. There will be at least 2 to 3 malls near each other.
Of course with 1 main big one and the rest are used for specialty. Being the rent are much cheaper then the main big building.
I visit the TCM clinic on level 2 of Havelock2. Clinic is packed all the time. I like the black sesame and red bean pancakes on level 1 and the basil chicken with creamy egg rice at the Thai stall next to the pancake stall.
I've heard that the Chinese restaurant only serves tour groups. I've heard from my ex-colleagues who entered the restaurant for lunch but was asked to leave as they weren't tour groups.
The noodles that u ate is Ah Gong Teochew Noodles. They serve very good and delicious mee pok. My all time fav for lunch.
Great review! I think the mall is empty due to bad management. The rental is set too high and they didn't even care if the units are vacant.
One of the best cafe in the mall was Butler Koffee. They have the best crew and coffee is great. Business was very good. But then rental contract was due and the renewal were double the amount she was paying. Butler Koffee is not located in The Adelphi @ Coleman St.
Toy collectiors can also go to level 2. There is one that sells alot of transforms, lego and other collections.
B1 there is a nice stall that sells herbal chicken rice, prawn sauces chicken cutlet rice. I'm not sure if they are still around. Haven't visited for a few months.
I miss Butler Koffee so much🥲
Oo... I didn't think there would be anyone in Singapore checking out malls I never seen before.
Sub court got no carpark. Many years back there is a open air carpark beside the sub court but now no longer. Those people working nearby or going to sub court will only park here
With the rapid rental increases.... More empty malls will come....
I'm staying tiong bahru. So many HDB & condominiums but only one shopping center tiong bahru plaza 😔
7:42 I only go there to visit my favourite toy store Toy Realm on level 2.
There’s a mall beside Beauty World at Bukit Timah (not Bukit Timah Plaza). It was very dilapidated.
The Chinese restaurant served only tourist if i am correct. B1 have a great fusion F&B restaurant run by young chefs.
This is the former Apollo Hotel turned ghost town mall upon my 1st visit this year!!!
The Chinese restaurant is now owned by our famous Chinese Celebrity, Wang Lei.
Nope. Not Apollo Hotel. Apollo was at Outram, now called Furama Riverfront.
It's empty but still serves a purpose as offices, as sheltered connections between buildings and as a micro collector's hub for toys and antiques.
Doesn't stop it from being quiet, I assume, because it lacks anything else interesting for the masses, and the collecting community got splintered by the loss of Csc into separate paths.
Should see Tekka Place for that real question mark of a mall. Dead from day 1, except for NTUC Fairprice, which ran away after the contract finished 3 years after opening due to high rent and low footfall. Now the mall has half the available space used as a tuition centre. Did I mention it opened in 2020?
The shadow on the car at the right at 11:31 makes it creepier HAHhaha
Interesting topics.
Thank You for your reviews
🌷💙🤍
Havelock 2, should have tried the cakes from the Pancake King shop, and the fish soup at the basement; Pretty good
Used to be Apollo Centre in the past. Well it was more of a high end mall in the long past, especially with Furuma Hotel there. Well those are in the past as in long gone past tense. I know there used to have more antique shops when I visited way in the past. There are now way too many malls and people not really going to walk all the way from Chinatown or Clarke Quay MRT as there are more to walk around just exiting from the station itself.
I used to work in the previous office building that used to be in the same plot of land. Sad to see that the shopping mall seems quite deserted except during meal times.
I go to havelock2 solely for backyard baker’s brownies!!!
Good job always love your videos about SG which is a fact unlike garment video only show the positives.
The Chinese Physician on level 2 is famous and usually long queue
you dont need to block the mall. Most of us knew what is it hahaha its obviously Havelock2 and they have good comics shops here!!
the costume shop is legit, things are totally rented out for halloween
If most of the escalators are still working, I'd say that this mall is far from being the emptiest or dead mall.
Ahhh i always pass by this building when I worked nearby last time. Gonna check out the toyshop on a weekend
used to go there for spa with hot and cold pool with light buffet B1 before renovation
Love your videos so so so much ❤❤❤
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Havelock II? Parking fee super EX! This alone already stop lots of people for 2nd visit. As for food, nothing really special, especially during lunch hours you can see the different compare to other surrounding malls. Weekends almost like a ghost town!
the reason cause the landlord keeps increasing rent...most recently last quarter rent went up by 60%
As if the other malls' rent are not higher.
Its the lack of foot traffic.
People don't go to malls for the sake of going to malls.
Malls has to be on their way to some place.
Hi Ghib,, wow can go for that meepok n coffee even that foot massage ne,, 😅,, maybe you should go to that coffeeshop to drink kopi with fans 😂🤣,, btw nice info Ghib, 👍☕️😎,, btw that ending 🤣🤣🤣omoroi ne anta Ghib,,
My daughter just opens a physiotherapy clinic at Havelock II on 2nd floor for cancer and stroke patients post surgery.
3:23?
Ahhh you missed out Pilot Kitchen which is a MUST TRY at Havelock2!!!
i'm opening my japanese kushiyaki restaurant there, opening soon on 12th January. Hopefully it will do well 😄
Good luck! 😄
Old malls of course not so popular anymore. It's common.
There used to be a Japanese doughnut shop on the first floor. Not sure if it's still there.
The only reason I visit this mall is to collect preorder collectible toys. Not for window shopping and food. I still miss the good old days at clarke quay flea market
Lol. If this is the emptiest mall. You all haven’t seen MacPherson Mall 😅😂 I doubt anyone knew there such mall around .
I knew this mall because it is very near where I live. 😁
$3 for a coffee at that location, that's cheaper then Macdonald coffee...
Question is whether it is Arabica beans or the cheaper Nanyang coffee robusta beans.
Mac coffee is 😑
It's a very tiny cup.
All these mall are own by REIT company. So these fund manager just sit tight and wait for another interested REIT company to buy over. It happens when it change hand from 2HR to Havelock 2
The toilets are clean, because no ones barely use it
What's this mall called? maybe I can drop by next year to take a look myself 😁
Must try 1010 char Siew roast pork rice and har Cheung chicken too at havelock 2!!!!
Sounds to me the reason why it's so quiet and abandoned is because that mall is haunted, especially the carpark. Usually a haunted area is very dead quiet and abandoned.
Wait, why sensor the mall's name when you can see the name of the mall at a rubbish bin at 1:45? 😂
Good detective work 👍
Used to be lively when 木船is there. For those who are in their 50s, think you guys know what l am talking about. Haha
Yes, 木船民歌餐厅。I only know of this place because of 木船.
👏 gan , limpeh old liao. after listen to others sing , after that we usually go next door to sing.
The 2nd mall is furama hotel mall??
This mall is somehow out of the way. If u talk about quiet mall try go to adelphi that is directly opposite funan .Yes the there about 95% shop occupancy, but shopper flow are really low especially.weekend
Crab set go is goooddd
eyeless spongebob been waiting too long for someone to get him out so "rolled" out literally
Everytime I hear you say the word Mall,I hear mom 😂
How about Adelphi? Also quite empty.
Would you consider visiting Queenstown Shopping Centre?
Wow hidden gem toy shop for collectors 🤩
How about visiting a historical mall..... Thomson Plaza which older Singaporeans rmb as Yaohan
You forgot to blur the bin with mall name 😅
quite a bit of law firms there. I previously used the services of a law firm there many years ago
Are the stamps still usable?
Already postmarked. Only for collection!
I didn’t know Chinatown has this mall. I just go Chinatown just to buy n visit my fav area Chinatown streets.
LOL damn i actually would like to visit this mall. I love quiet malls with no people !
Please collab with Hongisbored on shopping mall series!
Ah gong noodle is a decent comfort food with handmake fishball very teowchew flavour
I don't know if this mall still exist but it's called Ginza Plaza... yeah I'm old.
It’s West Coast Plaza now.
@@NazreeNazzeer thanks!
I think Macpherson Mall most eerie. Trust
oh god sugarbabes reminds me of a certain blog back then that had to do with sg and insta and babes
Why you filming in front of Josephus Tan's law firm lol 1:10
Fish soup at Basement is a must try
Please try city square mall on Sunday afternoon.
Gonna write it on my list🥰
How about far east shopping centre
楽しい企画ですね😂
Any Labubu here, Mr Ghib Ojisan?
I loike this wish you welly soon too 😢❤🎉
This place is still ok, till you venture macpherson mall, that’s really ghost mall
I use the toilet here when I walk home from work sometimes.
So what does Sugarbabes really sell if not noodles? 😅
The Mall isn't scary, it's just very quiet and spacious for like NO REASON
I only go there for the toilet if walking around Chinatown
but then...these toilet got ghosts
I want to go check it out especially since the prices are good
This car park is always got car not totally empty. Because the sub court is just opposite
nice place i like! becoz no crowds :)
Yes, makes it a nice place to shop.