Denpasar, Renon
Plaza Renon Denpasar
A city-centre mall beside Puputan Renon park, built for people who live in Denpasar. Local prices, and almost no other visitors.
Open daily 10:00 to 22:00
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Quick facts
- OutletBali rating
- 6/10
- Address
- Jl. Raya Puputan No. 210, Renon, Denpasar Selatan, Bali 80226
- Hours
- Daily, 10:00 to 22:00
- Price tier
- Budget to mid
- Who shops here
- Denpasar residents, not tourists
- Next door
- Lapangan Puputan Renon park
- Parking
- Ample, cars and motorbikes
- From DPS
- 30 to 45 minutes
Our rating is an opinion, not a measurement. It weighs how easily you reach the door, whether the tenant list is real and checkable, whether prices are marked, how much English is spoken on the floor, and how much of a day the place actually fills.
Six out of ten measures how well this suits a visitor, not how good the mall is. It is not built for tourists and does not pretend to be, and that is exactly why some people will prefer it.
What it actually is
Renon is the government quarter of Denpasar: wide streets, ministries, a big park, and almost no tourists. This is that district's mall.
Almost no other visitors
You will hear Indonesian rather than English, and be treated as a customer rather than a tourist. For some travellers that is the entire appeal.
Local prices, marked
Affordable to mid-range, fixed and displayed. No haggling, and no tourist markup either.
Next to the park
Lapangan Puputan Renon is across the road, and it fills with families and joggers in the late afternoon. Combining the two makes the trip worth it.
An hour, at most
It is a neighbourhood mall. Come for the district and the park, and treat the shopping as the reason you had to be there.
What is inside
Four tenants are named without hedging in any source we have. The rest is given as categories, because the published list was labelled a sample.
Food and drink
- McDonald's
- KFC
- J.Co
- Starbucks
- plus Indonesian restaurants and bakeries
Supermarket
- Transmart
Fashion
- Indonesian apparel labels
- casual wear
- sportswear
Cinema
- A multi-screen cinema
- operator not published
Health and beauty
- Pharmacies
- local beauty stores
- salons
Electronics
- Mobile phone shops
- small electronics retailers
Specialty
- Bookshops
- gift shops
- toy shops
No official directory is published for this mall and no operator website is linked anywhere we could find. Treat any specific shop as worth confirming before you make the trip in from the coast.
Getting there
The furthest mall in this guide from the resort districts, and the only one where the journey is a real part of the decision.
Kuta and Seminyak
- Drive time
- 30 to 40 minutes
- Typical fare
- Ask For Price
Nusa Dua
- Drive time
- 45 to 60 minutes
- Typical fare
- Ask For Price
Ngurah Rai airport
- Drive time
- 30 to 45 minutes
- Typical fare
- Fixed rate at the arrivals counter
Sanur
- Drive time
- 15 to 25 minutes
- Typical fare
- The closest resort district
Ubud
- Drive time
- 60 to 90 minutes
- Typical fare
- A driver for the day, not a taxi
Trans Sarbagita local buses serve Denpasar, but routes here usually need a transfer and are slower than a ride-hail car by some margin. Parking, unusually for this list, is genuinely easy.
Who it is right for
This is the one mall in the guide we would talk most visitors out of, and a small number of them into.
Go if you want
- Denpasar, not Bali-for-visitors The government quarter, the park, and a mall where nobody is selling you a tour. A different island from Kuta.
- Local prices Marked, fixed, and set for people who live here. No tourist margin anywhere in the building.
- The park across the road Lapangan Puputan Renon fills with families in the late afternoon, and it is the better half of the trip.
- Easy parking Ample, for cars and motorbikes, which almost nothing else on this list can offer.
Go elsewhere if you want
- Brands There are none of note. Every other mall in this guide has more, and most are closer.
- Souvenirs Not the place. Krisna, Joger and the art markets all carry ranges this does not.
- A short trip Thirty to sixty minutes each way from the resorts for a mall you will finish in an hour.
- Certainty No published tenant directory and no operator website we could find, so nothing here is confirmable in advance.
Plaza Renon questions
Compare the mallsIs it worth the trip from Kuta?
Usually not for the shopping alone: thirty to forty minutes each way, and an hour covers the mall. It becomes worth it if Renon itself, and the park across the road, is what you came for.
What should I budget?
Affordable to mid-range, with prices marked and fixed. This is what Bali costs before the resort districts add their margin.
Which shops are actually there?
Fewer than we would like to confirm. The published list was labelled a sample and hedged its own entries, so we name only the four tenants stated plainly and leave the rest as categories.
Are there Balinese souvenirs?
Very few, and none worth the journey. Krisna on the bypass and the art markets in Ubud and Kuta are the right answers for that.
Is parking easy?
Yes, which is unusual on this list. Ample space for cars and motorbikes, and none of the midday competition you get in Kuta.
Concierge desk
Make Denpasar the trip, not the errand
Renon, the park, the museum quarter and a late lunch is a genuinely good half day. The mall on its own is not, and we would rather tell you that.