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Are all cinemas this expensive now?

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Raffaelli · 29/11/2024 07:28

Just went to book odeon for me and my 6yo tonight. £35 for non Premier seats! Which means I can't afford to go to the cinema anymore. Wild! Anyone else got the same problem? I'm a bit gutted!

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RampantIvy · 29/11/2024 09:05

Our nearest cinemas are about £7 per seat, and Vue is £4.99.

Needmorelego · 29/11/2024 09:03

@PineappleCoconut was that £23 for 1 adult and 1 child?

EdgyDreamer · 29/11/2024 09:01

Depending on when and which multiplex it's between £7.50-£10 per ticket.

It's not cheap for group/family outings.

The local arts center gets new films very quickly and they are £2.50 to £3.50 - we see more there now or wait just a bit before they end up on one of the subscription services.

hattie43 · 29/11/2024 08:59

Cineworld £11 for an adult no discount seat

PineappleCoconut · 29/11/2024 08:53

It was £23.00 a ticket for Wicked at my nearest Odeon on a weekday afternoon this week. And I live in the sticks.

With the Amazon Prime offer it went down to £23 for both. I have no idea how as it was meant to be £15 as it's a luxe, but it was an improvement on full price.

westisbest1982 · 29/11/2024 08:51

Mirrorxxx · 29/11/2024 08:43

The Everyman is cheaper than that. £13 each for non members

That depends on which one you go to and when. If I want to see Gladiator 2 tonight at the Everyman in Cambridge, my ticket costs £17.10.

Fluufer · 29/11/2024 08:51

Ours starts at about £3.50 for old kids movies. Current films start at £4.99. I think it's quite reasonable still.
We have an small independent cinema that is a couple of £s more.

Needmorelego · 29/11/2024 08:49

I googled Odeon and even though prices do vary on location I really can't see how you got to £35 for one adult and one child.
You must have accidentally picked some kind of special offer - like food included or something.

coffeesaveslives · 29/11/2024 08:44

£4.99 each at our local Vue if you buy online.

Mirrorxxx · 29/11/2024 08:43

The Everyman is cheaper than that. £13 each for non members

Ttcagainnow · 29/11/2024 08:40

Odeon is not that much by me. With prime you can get 2 for £10 as well on certain days.

Soupwithstring · 29/11/2024 08:40

I use my Vodafone two for £8 or I have a Times sub which gives me buy one get one free at the Everyman on wednesday.

I think you need to find a deal these days if you can.

HereForTheFreeLunch · 29/11/2024 08:37

Vue is about 12 pounds per person.
Food and drink is expensive but if you read the fine print you are allowed to take in cold food and non alcoholic cold drinks. So sometimes I do that.

cherrysodas · 29/11/2024 08:36

Around here you can get cheaper prices on Tuesdays.

Danikm151 · 29/11/2024 08:30

My odeon is £5 per ticket. £10 per ticket at the Odeon luxe 10 mins away. £15 for a parent and child ticket.

it’s the snacks and drinks that are extortionate- so don’t bother with them

insomniacalways · 29/11/2024 08:29

Local cinema between £9-14 an adult ticket and £6-8 a child. After a film has been our a while cheap screenings all tickert £5 on a Sunday morning.

Nolegusta · 29/11/2024 08:24

I rarely go to the cinema these days - food/snacks were always ridiculously expensive, but ticket prices are often crazy nowadays. If you couple that with the increasingly disrespectful audiences, it's just not worth it.

Summerishere123 · 29/11/2024 08:23

We paid £24 for 4 of us at picture house on Wednesday. The most expensive near us would have only cost us £40is for 4 of us.

mum2jakie · 29/11/2024 08:22

£5 for standard tickets at.my nearest Odeon with MyOdeon

Pickled21 · 29/11/2024 08:22

Vue cinema have much cheaper seats. We go as a family of 5 quite often. You can bring snacks (cold food) in to their cinemas so we just get a few bags of popcorn and some drinks from Aldi. Otherwise if you buy snacks at the cinema they can end up costing more than I paid for the tickets. We used to go to cineworld a lot before we had kids but dh had a membership card.

Beekeepingmum · 29/11/2024 08:21

£15 round here at Vue for 2. But if you want popcorn, then you need to sell them your kidney.

ViaRia01 · 29/11/2024 08:20

I was surprised when I went to vue recently as all seats were £9, or £10, or £12 (or something like that). So best seats most expensive BUT no varied pricing for children, adults, students, oap. Everyone paid the same price. Makes sense in many ways to do it that way.

Cinemas seem to be one of those things now where it’s stupidly expensive to go unless you have a discount code or a ‘perk’ eg 2 free tix per month with sky tv, or some mobile phone providers still do them….?

TheDefiant · 29/11/2024 08:17

Have you got access to Perkbox at all? Lots of companies offer it for their staff. I've saved over £100 on various things since I started using it.

I saved £8 on cinema tickets for two teens. So was £14ish instead of £22ish

LozzaChops101 · 29/11/2024 08:16

Raffaelli · 29/11/2024 07:28

Just went to book odeon for me and my 6yo tonight. £35 for non Premier seats! Which means I can't afford to go to the cinema anymore. Wild! Anyone else got the same problem? I'm a bit gutted!

Odeon near me is £5! The Pearl and Dean nice cinema is about £20 though 😳

Luddite26 · 29/11/2024 08:16

We pay around £10 at Cineworld give it take. But made the mistake of going to an X screen with picture on 3 sides and ticket was about £18 and extra £6 for the unlimited menber.