Windsor House

As a child, Windsor House meant two things to me: Dymocks and Toysrus. Dymocks moved out long ago, but Toysrus is still here (though relocated). The mall is completely different from what I remember about it — department store Seibu commanded the whole of the ground floor and if I’m not wrong, the basement level as well. The layout of the mall has completely changed too.
Honestly, Windsor House is far from being the most exciting mall in Causeway Bay. As for shopping, IT and b+ab are always fun to wonder in for a while, but their stuff is a little too quirky and ‘out there’ for me. Bla bla bras makes pretty good bras and are not too expensive — but the list pretty much ends there. There used to be a nice jewelry store with a good selection of earrings and necklaces at an affordable price, but that shut down more than a year ago.
Food-​wise, it’s not too bad and most of the restaurants here won’t break the bank. There is a strong presence of Japanese restaurants here — there are two on the fourth floor and of the two, I prefer Yummy Delight as they make wonderful udon. The curry house is good too. There is a pretty large Haagen Dazs too, in fact it’s the biggest one I know as many outlets barely have any seating. The Parknshop international on the basement is not very big and not a grocery store for serious shopping of any sort.
I guess Windsor House’s redeeming factor is its cinema up on the fourth floor. But due to its location, it tends to get quite busy over weekends so make sure you buy tickets ahead of time.

Windsor House– placed bang on in the middle of Causeway Bay with a cinema in its belly; you really can’t lose with a place like this. Or can you?
The problem with Windsor House is that its split into a million different levels, in trying to maximize space they have pushed a lot of the stores up in the higher levels of the building (e.g. computer centre) and that is actually quite annoying to shoppers because you can’t mill about as such; you really have to know where exactly you are going to.
The recent renovation has improved the claustrophobic nature of the mall which plagued it badly in the past– you could never look around the walkways and as such the place was never really inviting as it was.
Nowadays, the interior has been updated greatly and the re-​arrangement has helped to improve the image. The shops downstairs are your usual Causeway Bay favourites– expensive watches and perfume stores. Upstairs, there is more of an emphasis on kids and I suspect that’s where more people actually go and shop.
To me, this place has lost its charm long ago but I think the latest updating has helped me in loving this place again. Its central location, accessible layout– what’s not to love?(well …there is the carpark which costs your monthly wage for an hour)

This shopping mall is a bit confusing to me. It’s the layout that throws me off every time. I mean, when you go in, it seems pretty standard, but then when you are looking for something in particular, that’s when it gets confusing.
There are two sides to the escalators, the direction it brings you up or down makes you have to go around and around in circles, makes me dizzy every time I go to the movie theatre or the restaurants.
There are shops flanked both sides of the escalators, seems pretty straight forward, but it’s not that, it’s just the direction of the escalators that makes it tiring.
Okay aside from the dizziness, the selection of shops here are more catered towards parents of young children. There are loads of children shops/​clothing shops and toys’r’us. I mean, it’s great for them, but for other people who are not parents or young children, there’s nothing much in this mall.
The other confusing part is where you go upstairs to the computer centre or furniture store. It seems like you are in an office building when you get up there, or actually, you feel like you’re in a completely separate shopping mall.
It used to be quite busy up there but i think a lot of the business have changed, most people would rather go to wanchai computer centre than go to the one at windsor for some reason, probably because the selection there is getting smaller and smaller.