cineworld prices are crazy
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A new cinema opened by me recently Premier Cinema and they charge £4 a film, so my local Vue cinema put down their prices to £4. So imagine my horror when I checked online and saw that adult tickets in cineworld if bought in cinema are £9
That's more then twice the price of vue and premier. I gave up going to cineworld when they bought in allocated seating, but they're going to lose a lot of business with those prices
That's more then twice the price of vue and premier. I gave up going to cineworld when they bought in allocated seating, but they're going to lose a lot of business with those prices
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Aren't people in places like London paying a premium on top of that too ?
It's still much cheaper than night on the raz !
This. Go twice a month and its pretty much paid its self.
Its £25 at Westfield London for 3D movies (inc glasses).
Not everyone has a Cineworld near them - I certainly don't.
It even takes me an hour on the bus to get to my Premier Cinema.
I love cinema, but when its cheaper to buy a brand new Blu-Ray (a format I personally consider to be overpriced) something is wrong. No wonder attendances are going down and cinema is increasingly reliant on kiddy blockbusters like the Avengers to keep the tills rolling.
The Odeon near me charges more for 'Big Films' (as vague as it sounds), then drops the price of everything to £6 after 2 weeks of release. As for 3D, I just don't bother seeing 3D films generally, and definitely not in the first 2 weeks, the prices are silly expensive.
I'd use a Cineworld annual fee thing if I had one nearby, but the nearest one is an hour+ drive away. Although Odeon are trialling something similar now, at like 4 cinemas...
We have unlimited cards and ended up getting one for our 9 year old in end also as we try and go at least once a week sometimes more.
I like it because even if we're a bit short of cash we can still have a night out.
My hubby is a bit odd and has a spreadsheet where he puts every film we have seen on so he can see if we're getting our money's worth and we are saving loads having the cards.
I have had an unlimited card since it started in August 2000 and I have done a spreadsheet and kept it going for 15 years. I have a separate tab for each year and list every film I have seen. Sad I know but actually a good reminder of what I have seen. Just for info I have seen 675 films and it has worked out as £3.10 per film over the 15 years!
I rarely go to the cinema to be honest.
At the end of the first year of having an unlimited card, when I got upgraded to the black card with better discounts and free 3D, I got an email telling me how much I'd saved that year, about £150 iirc.
The unlimited cards are great value if you live near a Cineworld. My missus and I tend to go at least once a week as we can walk to our local cineworld and there's always at least one film one of us wants to see. As you say, even if you're a bit short of cash, it's a night out without having to spend any money once you have the card, if you can resist the drinks and snacks in the foyer of course.
No. I went to Vue in Leeds a couple of weeks ago and the cost of a bog -standard adult's ticket (ie not VIP not 3D) for a Saturday afternoon was £9.49.
Fortunately I can get vouchers though my employer's sport and recreation society for less than half of that. Otherwise I would wait for the DVD unless the film really needed to be seen and appreciated on the big screen.
Lots of people seem to be buying the cheapest insurance possible just to get MM for a whole year.
Nice
Odeon have put their price up on "bargain Monday "
It used to be £5.50 now it's £6.50
These days I only go there if my local independent cinema (Broadway) isn't showing the film I want to watch, which is what I did with Kingsman and Mad Max. I went there to see Age of Ultron in 3D for £4 (no 3D surcharge), TWO DAYS after release 😃 However, 16+ patrons have to pay double that at £8, so I've only got 5 months left at ultra- cheap prices 😫
All there is is Odeon and Vue (for miles) which charge stupid prices.
No wonder I rarely go to the cinema.
... is something I would never say, because it is wrong to steal.
As a rule I won't use 4DX, its something that belongs in theme parks not the cinema, but I'm treating my Mum and my brother with 4DX tickets to Jurassic World for my Mum's birthday as it's what she wants. It's £30 for the 3 of us, one normal ticket, one child and one unlimited card (I have to pay £4.70 extra with the card)
If you imagine how many flats could fit in a cinema, the value of most London cinemas must be in the tens of millions. How much money do they have to take to justify staying open when they could make a fortune by closing down?
In fact Picturehouse promised to open a cinema in my local high street but it's never happened, probably because the owners of the property can make more money turning it into flats.