Are all cinemas this expensive now?

Our local cinema is Showcase. To see Moana 2 on Saturday evening is £13.50 for an adult and £9.25 for a child.

But they also do a "Family Together" ticket (one adult and one child) for £15.95. So, if you're buying one adult ticket then the child ticket is just an extra £2.45

You can also get a "Family Together" ticket (two adults and two children) for £37 - which is more than double the price for just one adult and one child.

So you save £5.10 if you buy two of the single adult and child tickets rather than buy the ticket for two adults and two children!!

I have two cinemas near me and its averaging about £12 per ticket for new films. I usually do the kids club on a Sat morn with my little ones where its £4 a ticket.

It's £6 for a child ticket at my local Odeon in London (includes booking fee). We have CEA cards for our 2 disabled dc, so it costs £12 for the 4 of us. But even if we didn't have the CEA cards, it costs £12 for an adult+child ticket, so £24 for 4 which is reasonable for a touristy bit of London (zone 2). We tend not to buy snacks there, it's on a high street with lots of small supermarkets and cafes. We never pay for the expensive seats, the dc don't notice the difference.

I think loads of things offer 2 for 1 for Odeon these days (compare the meercat; octopus; O2) so that's potentially driven up the 'standard' prices. Like with the 2 for 1 for Alton Towers etc. If you just turn up on the door to pay, the prices are insane. But the 2 for 1 vouchers are all over the supermarket.

We have Odeon Limitless membership, £14.99 per month and no limit on how many films you can watch, I think it's a great price we go at least twice a month, normally more.

Halifax Reward account also offers a free monthly ticket and half-price popcorn to VUE if you have £1500 credited each month, with a £500 spend on your debit card. I save mine for holidays or special movies to cut costs.

I ended up paying £43 for 3 adults to see Paddington in Peru at Odeon Metrocentre. Ordinary seats too, I nearly died.
Vue would only have been a fiver (each).
Ironically I had 2 free cinema tickets for both Cineworld and Vue but DD works at Metrocentre so it was easier for her to go there straight from work the other Sunday.
Ah well, Chiquito had their 50% off food (which they have extended til 5 December with their 'secret code' of Chiquito50 to give their server), so at least that was cheap.

It's similar where I am.

I was interested in seeing the Wicked film, and the new Gladiator one, but when I saw the prices, and factored in food and drink, travel, and being surrounded by strangers, I've decided to wait and rent it online in a couple of months, then watch it at home.

Nope, Vue is about £7 each where I am (London).
There are more expensive cinemas like Everyman which is about £15 a seat but it's a very different experience. We do it occasionally for a treat!

No I know of two cinemas which charge £5 per ticket. Small independent ones. The closest to me is a Cineworld and it charges £25.50 for an adult and child for a peak showing

We have Limitless. It goes down to about £110 in the January sales for an annual pass and we use it about 4 times a month each!

I think this can so depend on where our live and whether it have access o offers to cheaper cinema.

Where I live we have an odeon and an everyman. Odeon is £19 for an adult and child sat (not premier). Everyman is about £35 for 2.

A town not to far away (15-20 min drive) has an odeon where tickets are always £5 so I usually drive there.

We also have a town further away 35 mins drive that is an old fashioned picture house (with organ that plays at interval) which is somewhere between the to Odeons in price but cost more to drive too.

I have access to Meerkat octopus Vodafone and cheaper cinema through work but unless I want to go to our local odeon I rarely use them as the drive for £5 is still cheaper. I usually find the apps more restrictive in terms of the days of week I can use them.

I never buy cinema priced treats and always take my own drink and snacks.

Cinema should not so expensive!

Ridiculous!
I don't go to our local big cinema (cineworld) anymore - we have 2 smaller privately run ones nearby which are nicer and cheaper , £18.50 for and adult & 2 kids tonight to see wicked.
Their snacks are cheaper than cineworld too and one of them sells alcohol!

ive a maxine cinema £2.50 any showing

Feel very lucky to have an Omniplex near me.

I looked the other day to see what a morning showing of Wicked would cost and I can get a regular seat for £5 for Saturday morning! It's £8.95 for an evening ticket.

I think it's the living in the sticks premium😫

I realise I was conned by odeon into the recliner+ price.

Standard recliner, the only other option, is just over £18 for an adult ticket. They grey out recliner & make recliner+ seats bright orange so it looked like those were the only available seats.

No i didn't either (although as I mentioned its never applied to me before as we dont have a local odeon) I was in London with child yesterday and he wanted to see Wicked, so it was a spur of the moment googling, and voila! half an hour later we were in the luxe cinema!

Ours aren't that expensive but the cinema has become a once a year treat for us now. When dh and I were students a student ticket would be £3:20 and then we would pay about £2 each for sweets and a drink in Woolworths. We used to go regularly then.

Wow, I assumed this was central London prices. I'm in the southeast and generally pay £8-10 for an adult. Approx. double that for NT/ENO/ROH/Met live screenings and half that for off peak days/mornings. If I had to pay £35 I just couldn't go the cinema, which is/should be a cheap treat imo.

Our local small chain cinema is £10 a seat for large seats that you can reline and put your feet up.
I never go unless I can get it on meerkat movies (2 for1) or to go to their £3 kids club movie.

@notarunner of course it will be expensive if you go to a 4DX showing. I imagine most people don't do that very often.

We went to see Wicked in 4DX at Cineworld last weekend - £54😫thankfully I paid half of it with Clubcard vouchers but I'm surprised people still go to the cinema at those prices!

@Raffaelli I still think you must have clicked the wrong tickets somehow.
Someone upthread mentioned that it sounds like the IMAX price? Did you choose that?

Our odeon is £12.99 for a normal adult seat and £15.99 for premier - this is in Wiltshire so not fancy/affluent!
They do some better deals on weekdays as I’ve taken DD to 10am showings before in the school holidays for £5 each.

All the discount codes I have (octopus/meerkat) are mon-Thurs only and we are only free tonight so have forked out to take DD to Moana 2.

That price is insane. Our nearby cinemas are around £6 a seat. I consider the cinema to be a fairly cheap activity.