When did cheap nights become so expensive.

Log into Amazon, click on Prime (one of the choices along the top). Offer comes up for 2 Odeon tx for £10. Think you can use it once a month, btwn Mon and Thurs

Could you have walked rather than park? Or park a bit further away for free and walk from there?

I would never ever buy sweets from the cinema - they are a rip off. You can take your own.

This would save you a good bit but still get the full cinema experience.

Wow £5 tickets is amazing

Never heard of this before how does that work 🤔

Jaysus, it's nearly £20 each for a cinema ticket round here! Nearest Vue is about an hour away :(

About right for fish n chips but yes they are expensive. They were about £13 for two of us 2-3 years ago but now at least £20.

Oh zombie thread!

I'm going to cinema tonight. Odeon is £5 tickets and we bring our own snacks. So £10 in total for me and my son. Never pay more than this. Your cinema sounds expensive (and you're daft to buy their food!)

But accessing meerkat movie prices can be a lot cheaper than an Amazon prime membership... So only really useful if you pay for prime anyway.

Out of curiosity, is the Amazon prime cinema deal also only useful for two people going to the same film at the same time?

Amazon Prime member cinema deal is cheaper than Meerkat movies

If you did want to go often, you could bring your own drinks and get a cineworld membership - two tickets a month usually more than covers the cost.

(and yes, I know it's a zombie thread, I'm replying to a post from today)

People don't buy fish suppers at their local supermarket. I'm pretty sure it's just the wine that came from there.

£23 for fish and chips and a bottle of wine, for two people, works out at £11.50 a head. I’d say that is a cheap night.

Not for supermarket food that's not cheap! I buy beer battered cod in Aldi, £4.50 then Mccain triple cooked chips £3. Unless the OP bought a fancy £15 wine then I'd say £23 is a lot.

I just went to book mine for tomorrow only have odean here and cineworld and it's £9.49 a ticket but add your drinks on and it gets expensive which is why I don't go often

We have been perfecting the art of the 'poor man's' (insert going out experience eg sauna, cinema, restaurant etc)

Basically just stay at home but try to have some fun recreating the experiences we used to go out to have but can't afford anymore.

Our cinema is £6.99 per person, we walk there (about 30 mins) and bring our own drinks and snacks.

We will also buy a large chips between the 4 of us and have with frozen fish and veg, or sausages for dinner. A large chips in south London is £4 - I'm amazed at it being £6.50.

But given there are 4 of us - we tend to try and do things on offers, or we stock up on treats at the supermarket. It helps that I am a very good cook so eating out isn't really a treat unless it's Michelin starred. I'd rather bring a decent picnic or home made cake with us whilst out than spend a fortune on something not as good in an on site cafe. Even going out for a fry-up costs around £50 for the four of us, so I'll do a quality fry up at home for less than £20.

I think it's totally okay to go to the cinema as a treat, drive and park close by, get premium seats and a snack and a drink each. But that's obviously going to be an expensive way to do it. You can make it a cheap night out and an expensive one.

We don’t get takeaway regularly anymore. Less than once every to moths. Cinema is £5 at the moment and we busy our snacks at the supermarket. Sad times

I'm in my 60's and the cinema has never been cheap and buying snacks there is notoriously expensive. £23.00 for a fish supper and bottle wine however would be considered pretty reasonable in my neck of the woods.

Yeah it’s sooo expensive. What about if you take your own drinks and snacks, walk there, and use those voucher codes you can get online 2for1 tickets. £4.50 night out each then instead.

WTF?!

That is extortionate- please tell me you live in a London. I'm in suburban Liverpool and the chippy over the road costs about £2.50. They give you loads too 🙏🏻

I've got a tastecard, it's free for the first 3 months but quite affordable thereafter and I get discounted cinema/ coffee/ meals out etc so it's worth thinking about if you would use it a lot.

Basically it puts prices back to what they were a few years ago!

The thing is, prices have risen but wages have too!!

In the year 2000 the main rate of minimum wage was £3.60/h. Now its £10.42 - almost 3 times higher.

So yes - things probably do cost triple what they used to. If a couple of cinema tickets with snacks and drinks used to be £15, it would be £45 now.

It’s regional too- you can still get fish, chips and peas for less than £6 here, and the portions are massive (I know my friend splits one between her 3 kids).

If we need a night out when we are skint, we buy either one kebab or some Brie and crusty bread and drive up to a nice viewing point to sit in the car and share the food while enjoying the view.

When I went to the cinema as a teen in the 2000s the cinema was £3.50, the Vue by me now is £4.99 a ticket fore recliner seats unless you want the back rows. Inflation-wise I actually think the cinema is cheaper for us now than it was back then.

5 of us went for £30 the other day - 5 tickets plus £5 of sweets from B&M and water we took with us!