Are all cinemas this expensive now?

It's £4.99 at Vue by me.

Our local Odeon is £12 for an adult and a child. Although the Everyman is quite luxurious so I usually push the boat out as it’s only about a fiver more

Paid £14.75 last week, get 2 for 1 on Wednesdays.

True but the whole OP was a question about if everyone is experiencing the same thing so it is kind of the point of thread to say what your local cinema charges.

Vue is cheaper but we don’t bother with it as our local one just seems to attract the muppets who can’t sit through a film without talking loudly or scrolling on their phone.

I agree op it's so expensive now. It used to be a cheaper family thing to do but can you imagine the price for two adults and two kids now!.

We took some students on a rewards trip to the cinema this year and we were quite surprised at how many of the teens we took had never been to a cinema before!. But after we booked it all we soon realised it's just too much for most families.

It's £9.99 at my local Vue cinema in London for an adult ticket. Where do you live?

Our Vue seems to have changed all seats to be recliner - so now tickets are £8.99 - £11.99. So cinema is going to be an even rarer treat for us as a family!

Octopus like the energy provider? Never spotted they do cheap cinema!

Our local odeon is £7 on Monday (£8 if luxe)
When I was watching all best picture nominations back in February I went all over London to see and got most tickets for £6 or so -mid week vue deals or I could get Cineworld tickets via my workplace discount voucher platform.

£35 would be 2 west end cinema on a Saturday night price.

I have 2 equidistant Vues - one in a little retail
Park off the Ring Road and one in the big retail complex for the city. Both under 10
quid for an adult Saturday ticket and the one in the little retail park was 8 quid for the fancy seats and 4.99 for the normal ones.

We used to have a Cineworld (just closed, much missed as was always pretty busy) and a family ticket for 2 adults 2 kids was 20.

That's mad. Is it cheaper at other times of the day?

Our very posh cinema/cocktail bar place (seats about 50 on sofas where they bring you food and drink) is charging £13.80 adult and £9.30 child for Wicked this morning (though I think we paid £18 for a Sunday evening recently).

If they aren't currently available, keep an eye out for Groupon offers on cinema tickets.

If you have Amazon Prime it looks as if you can get 2 tickets for £10 Monday-Thursday.

We have a reel cinema near us and every day they do movie madness or something like that. £3.99 a ticket before 1pm. Absolutely fantastic value and I always go on a Sunday with mine for that price

Our local Vue cinema has £5.99 seats for most films. I was looking in advance last weekend and if I'd booked the day before, there were some at £2.99.
The other 2 cinemas within an hour's drive are much more expensive though

Just in case anyone is looking for the cheap Odeon tickets a few people have mentioned- you need to sign up for a free MyOdeon account to get these, then make sure you are logged in and book online. There seem to be a few locations that don't offer this but most places it's £5 for a standard ticket or £7 for the upgraded seats

Stopped going to the cinema during covid. Over priced and awful experience, in a room.full of people coughing, sneezing, talking etc.
Cinemas have had their day.

I paid £10 at my local Odeon last Friday for an adult and a child.

Have you got an independent cinema? Ours do a max price of £5. We always go there if they have it on because if don't use it we will loose it.

Only these awful shitty big commercial ones. We only have an independent cinema where we live (Vue and Odeon both 1+ hours away). £6.50 per adult and £4.50 per child and they do special showings regularly, like Dh and dd saw Jurassic Park last year for like £8 per ticket but that included a drink and medium popcorn. It’s also small cinemas so very private, one of which has armchairs and sofas, for same price.

I just checked and it's £24 for a standard child plus adult ticket near me. 🤯

Cineworld by me is £13 adults and £8 kids. Odeon luxe is £15 a seat.

I have a perks at work thing which makes it £8 adult and £5 child. Does your work have anything like that?

My Picturehouse is £9.99 for a regular seat but I had a ridiculous membership offer which gave me 10 free tickets. I also have the opportunity for the £1 films but I haven’t used that yet. I love going - it’s a much better experience than watching a film at home.
(Look out for various 2 for 1 offers as mentioned - The Times have one and Blue Light cards give discounts as do many other places I’m sure.)

Our Odeon is £5 and Vue is £4.99 to £7.99. I remember it got to £45 just for the tickets a few years ago for us to go to the cinema, thankfully it's half that now.

The food and drink is where they get us now. 😅

£6.99 a ticket if you book online at our local Vue. I paid just under £10 a ticket for last minute tickets the other night.

Do you have a recreational association at work? Ours offer reduced price cinema tickets ?

Our local Vue is £5.95. We smuggle in sweets and popcorn and sometimes cocktails in cans

Our local independent cinema charges £10 at weekends, £9 Mon-Thurs.

It doesn't get the latest blockbuster movies though, and is a not-for-profit venture.