Parking: Left a little later than I would've liked, and only got there a little before 11.30 a.m.. By then, they had closed off the MIECC basement parking and had to park at the mall next door, which I guess was a small blessing in disguise because on weekdays it's RM1 for the first three hours, RM1 subsequent hour. Which is great for people like me who weren't planning on spending the entire day there. They also finally moved with the times and parking in both places are now cashless - meaning you could pay for your parking either with Visa, Master or TouchNGo cards. At least there's no surcharge at Mines? MIECC parking rate still the same as last year, so that's good.
Layout: When they released the (not to scale) layout of the sale online, some people lamented the overwhelming space dedicated to kid books and young adult titles.... which is okay if you're a parent or a YA reader of any age, but the way I see it: it's just more for me to skip. Since I don't buy that much fiction these days, I only took a pass at the section in order to get to the non fiction area.
Crowd wise, it was still bearable at that hour. F&B options were not too bad this year - I had a lasagne (mostly because I felt that the other options were really overpriced). Had a coffee outside the hall before going back to the mall.
Payment: The only problem with going on preview day is that the POS-es become a POS at some point, either due to human error or machine error, or both. It took me longer than I would've liked to check out my minimal haul. When asked if I was a member, I said yes (cos I thought I was) and after using both phone and IC number, still nothing? Aish.
My haul was less than RM60.
I was in there probably under a couple of hours, so I had time and took advantage of a happy hour foot massage promo (RM28 for an hour) at a recently opened place in the mall, which was probably one of the better foot massages I've had in in a while that I was in less pain than before I started. Made it back in PJ before 4 p.m.
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