Shopping in San Andres Island Colombia: shopping, nightlife and clubs

Shopping in San Andres Island Colombia, is a pleasant experience, because of the variety of shopping centers, low priced items like perfumes, home appliances and others. In addition, San Andrés is known as an excellent place to enjoy the nightlife in its many discos and nightclubs.

Nightlife, discos and clubs

Nightlife in San Andres Island is diverse and active. The calypso, reggae and socca music together with rum and coconut cocktails combine to the sound of the sea and create one of the best parties in Colombia.

In San Andres you will find crossover music clubs, bars and even live entertainment clubs. There are 3 big clubs: Coco Loco, Extasis and Deep Blue, the rest are bars with different types of environments. We recommend La Perla Bar.

Don’t worry about transportation, because outside nightclubs Taxi service is available until the end of the rumba. But if you don’t want the night to end, you can take a walk at the beach until the sun rises and show you the most beautiful sea of Colombia,the sea of 7 colors.

Foto: (cc) Ricardo Ricote

Shopping in San Andres Island

Being a duty-free zone, merchandise bought in San Andres is excluded from the IVA tax, that means, there are a lot of items and services priced without this tax, which otherwise always apply in Colombian territory.

This makes San Andres a perfect place to purchase gifts and jewelry, such as emeralds, perfumes of different brands, shoes and apparel of all types and brands. Definitely shopping in San Andres Island Colombia, is a great experience.

Shopping centers in San Andres Island

The ideal place for shopping is downtown, there, you will find everything from independent stores to Shopping centrs with the best brands. However, we reference some of the Shopping centers of the city.

• Centro Comercial Unisanandres (Unisanandres Shopping center)
• Adress: Av Duarte Blum # 3A-00, L. 124 – San Andrés y Providencia, San Andrés
• Telephone: +57 (8) 512 7852

• Centro Comercial San Andrés (San Andres Shopping center)
• Adress: Av Costa Rica 1-41 Of 213 Sector Point – San Andrés y Providencia, San Andrés
• Telephone: +57 (8) 512 5270

Coco Crafts: specialty of San Andres

San Andres Island is a place that smells and tastes like coconut. Since 1853, the island stopped growing cotton and started to cultivate coconut and became the star of the island.

Every part of a Coconut can be used for something. With Its branches people create beautiful hats and baskets, from the fiber that covers the nut, ropes, mats, carpets and rugs are made, the pulp of the coconut is removed to extract the delicious soft oil with which the locals prepare seafood.

In craft production, the most precious part of the coconut is the shell. From this, saucers, spoons, necklaces, earrings, rings, bracelets, hair clips, card cases, belts, trays, coasters, cups, sugar bowls, lamps and many other products are made.

The people of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina are true magicians when creating coconut accessories. Not only do they surprise us with new designs every day, but also by the creativity of combining coconut with other natural and organic materials from Colombia, such as wood, leather, ceramics, seeds, tagua, silver, etc.., Giving, a new dimension to their craft products.

Have you ever shopped in San Andres? What did you think of the prices?