Are all cinemas this expensive now?

I checked all our local cinemas (Vue, Cineworld, Odeon, Everyman and Independent). All except the Everyman are about £7 per person, the Everyman is £15 for an adult and £10 for a child. I live in the NE though so if they charged £35 for 2 people they would really struggle. Do you live somewhere very affluent?

@thesugarbumfairy thanks so much for the Prime offer link, I had absolutely no idea about this!

I've just looked up their average premier price and it's way cheaper than that!

I have the Vodafone 2 for £8.00 if you want it, Its not limited on days you can use it, bargain!
@Raffaelli

Just type 'amazon prime odeon 2 for £10' into google and it should give you a link to click through to your account. then you get a numberical code you have to use within 30 minutes. I just went to the odeon website and booked it on my phone
You're allowed one a month. For Mondays to Thursdays
www.amazon.co.uk/prime/offer/odeon/prime-deal?

@Raffaelli I will probably have a 2 for 8.00 code you can use if you want it

If you have a Reel cinema near you they do 'movie madness' so tickets are £3.99. 6 of us went to see Wicked last Sunday for £24. It is set times but they worked for us. Worth a look.

I agree that it’s very different in different cinemas / places but my feeling is that Odeon is usually more expensive.

@thesugarbumfairy how do you get the amazon prime offer? Have prime, and an odeon bearish.

BTW- love your user name!

That's a great idea! I'm using mine this month and next month but normally I don't and they expire. I also get one a month from Monzo.

You can do this because you can afford it. Not everyone can.

As others have said, Vue seems to be the cheapest. I get the £4.99 tickets and take my own food and drink. I only pay for popcorn etc for grandchildren, and every time I am horrified at how expensive it is. I can't afford to go to my local independent cinema any more. By the time I pay bus fares it costs nearly £20 for a ticket.

I dont care about the price never have done.
I see it as if its something i really want to watch ill pay enjoy it no guilt.

There are 2 cinemas in our city.
In one it's adult £10 and child £7.50
In the other it's £5.50 for adult and £5.25 for children under 13

We should have a thread running on here where people can ask if anyone has a Sky code going begging for the two free tickets a month.

I never use mine (none of the local cinemas we use are Vue), and I'd be very happy to PM somebody my code if they could use it.

My local indeoevdevt is £7.50/adults, £6.50/concession or £24 for a 2+2 / 1+3 ticket

Yes in the Octoplus section on their app. Also a free coffee from cafe Nero or Greggs every week.

Where is your Cinema? Our (home counties) odeon is always £5 / seat…

We always go to the Showcase as a) it's closest and has free parking; b) all chairs are fully reclinable, best thing ever!; c) tickets are around £7 each

Most of the screenings at my local vew and Reel are less than a fiver.
You can upgrade seats but there's no need if you are on a budget.

I am an anti cinema snacker so never buy over priced popcorn and slush.
We do have another cinema about 5 miles away where tickets for the same films are about £19 but it is a completely different expierence and nice for a treat.

We have a local independent one near us and it's £13 per ticket which I don't mind paying because it's walking distance so costs me nothing extra if I don't buy snacks (which I don't because a £1.50 bag of opal fruits is £4.50 in there and as much as I like going they can get fucked if they think I'm paying that!).

We're going to Vue today to see Moana 2. Two adults and two kids for £23. We'll take our own popcorn and water to save more ££. Perhaps Odeon is just really expensive?

You need to get the cheap insurance that PPs have talked about on here so you can get Meercat discounts.

Our really old little local that still does half time intermission charges £5 per ticket but it only shows one film at any one time and only as its leaving other cinemas, popcorn is £2 and about £1.50 for a can of coke.

My nearest chain cinema is The Light and its very swish with large reclining chairs. Its £13.95 for an adult ticket going down to £10.95 when its been on a couple of weeks, I get a £1 discount on those prices with my blue light card making it £12.95 or £9.95, not sure on kids prices but it makes it around £28 for two adults before snacks (a regular combo is £10).

Cineworld is a tad more expensive, I used to always do my car insurance renewals through compare the market and get 2 for 1 cinema tickets for 12 months at cineworld and 2 for 1 meals at participating restaurants (until the good ones stopped participating once covid happened), but this could be a future option for cheaper tickets.

I don’t have a Vue Cinema nearby so even though I could get 2 free tickets through sky cinema they are pretty useless to me.