4/5 Daniel L. 1 year ago on Google • 58 reviews
Eslite's
first
store
in
Southeast
Asia
have
just
opened!
Enjoy
Eslite's
full
spectrum
(literally)
of
retail
concepts
across
an
entire
floor
of
Starhill
Gallery!
This
outlet
is
enormous,
and
is
so
many
different
things
in
one.
Many
buzzwords
in
their
marketing
but
basically
there
are
3
main
areas
-
1st
there's
the
fashion/accessories/deco
retail
area
with
a
number
of
upmarket
artisan
brands
that
are
less
known.
Feels
like
Design
Orchard.
2nd
there's
the
bookstore
area,
taking
up
almost
half
the
entire
space.
Lastly
there's
the
exhibition
and
exquisite
retail
space
with
enclosed
stores
located
at
the
back.
It
currently
has
a
jewelry
store
from
Taiwan
and
two
small
art
exhibitions.
A
few
small
cafes
dot
around
the
space
too!
Now
onto
the
bookstore
-
brightly-lit,
wide
selections,
and
user
friendly.
It
has
a
few
subzones,
namely
the
Forum
that
hosts
talks
and
workshops,
the
Children's
section,
the
Stationeries
section,
and
a
main
zone.
Book
selections
are
pretty
good,
many
more
recent
ones
than
Tsutaya
but
I
feel
the
star
of
the
show
is
the
amount
of
newer
Mandarin
books
they
have
there,
really
amazing
to
me.
Stationeries
available
are
just
decent
though,
kinda
comparable
to
Tsutaya,
same
with
the
children's
section.
Forum
is
pretty
new
to
me
and
I
like
it,
but
they
need
to
continue
with
many
more
events
for
years
to
come.
I
also
like
that
there
are
many
seating
areas
for
book
lovers
as
well.
At
last,
the
membership
system.
I
would
say
it
is
pretty
underwhelming,
unsustainable
and
expensive
to
maintain
once
all
the
grand
opening
goodies
are
gone.
A
spending
of
rm800
annually
is
needed
to
maintain
a
gold
card
membership
that
doesn't
really
offer
much
benefits
except
accumulating
points
faster.
The
black
card
membership
that
requires
rm6000
annually
is
worse,
with
zero
real
benefits
compared
to
gold.
There
are
no
special
discounts
offered
to
the
different
tiers
and
u
can
only
redeem
discount
vouchers
that
use
too
many
points
for
a
small
amount.
Pretty
disappointing
I
would
say.
Overall,
good
experience
but
second
thoughts
on
buying
anything
here
unless
really
needed
and
unavailable
anywhere
else
due
to
the
high
prices
and
sad
membership
system.
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