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Updated 21 August 2026
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Shopping mall on the Lalla Rookhweg in Paramaribo with around 80 stores plus food and drink outlets. It is open daily, with shorter hours on Sundays and public holidays.
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Hermitage Mall is on the Lalla Rookhweg, out from the centre, and its own site puts around eighty stores under one roof. It opens Monday to Saturday 09:00 to 21:00 and Sunday and public holidays 16:00 to 21:00.
For a visitor those Sunday hours are the useful part. Most of Paramaribo closes on Sunday, including the Centrale Markt and a good share of the restaurants, so a mall that opens at four in the afternoon is one of the few reliable options for anything you have forgotten.
The mall prints its phone number without a country code, so we do not give a dialling form we cannot stand behind. Claims about a cinema and free wi-fi circulate in secondary sources and are not confirmed by the mall itself, and sources disagree about which neighbourhood it sits in — we make no claim about that either.
Suriname has two mobile operators. Only one of them sells a tourist product you can set up before you land, and both price in Surinamese dollars — which is the catch.
Updated 21 August 2026
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Information on this page is sourced from Hermitage Mall, Wikipedia (nl).