To be utterly pissed off at the price of the cinema and all it entails?

[orangeandlemons]

Took dd today. Bus fares into town and back£4.00, tickets £12.00 ( one adult one child in cheapest cinema, many more much much more expensive) booking fee £1.55 ( just the mention of booking fees sends me into meltdown).
Bottle of juice and small bag of seats purchased outside cinema, am never going to pay their prices) total about £ 21.00.

And yet! And yet! Massive queues of people forking out for nachos, hot dogs, popcorn etc etc. How do people afford this.!? Am totally mystified. By people I mean normal people who only go now and then to take kids, not ones who are members of clubs. If I had bought the crap in the cinema, total would have been nearer £30.00. To see a a 90 minute film. How much is that per minute? 60p a minute?

And as for 3d. Have never ever seen it, as refuse to pay for it, and never will!

I really REALLY hate going to the cinema these days, it's just so expensive. It has to be a film I really want to see for me to go.

And, they expect you to pay all that, then watch adverts. They think we are all morons.

Yeah, and my seat was broken, and we had to take massive detour to get in, as they only opened one entrance, and I think adults should get to watch kids films free, and.....and.....and

We use Tesco vouchers.

Always take our own sweets and drinks.

If it's Cineworld and you book online and become a member iirc they drop the booking fee.

I think £12 for tickets is pretty reasonable tbh.

YANBU. I went to the cinema with a friend last week and was shocked at the cost of seeing the film and the cost of the pick n mix. Although that could just be down to the fact that I filled my bag with lots of heavy stuff. But even so...it was bloody expensive for a few chocolate mice!

Sounds horrendous. Our local cinema run a kids club on a Saturday morning where all seats are £1. So DS2 and I sometimes go for the bargain price of £2.00. (We sometimes smuggle our own sweets in, too )

Oh for the days when you could get into the cinema on Derby Road, Nottingham for £2 with a student card.....

YANBU. The price of the cinema makes me ragey.

But then....there are ways and means. We always smuggle in our own sweets and drinks.

It's cost of the food that just makes go wild. I just refuse to buy it, but I don't understand who does. There are always massive queues, and it is always full of people stuffing themselves on nachos and stuff

The sweets etc are expensive because that's how they make their money, not from the tickets.

Everyone knows they are stupidly overpriced and that's why you go to the 99p shop first and take a big handbag

YANBU. The tickets alone would not be too bad, but it annoys me that they charge a booking fee even if you go to the box office in person. At our local Cineworld they won't let you take your own sweets or drinks in, they practically pat you down like the CIA.

£40 quid last time we went and that was us smuggling sweets in! Total rip off.

YANBU for me, dh, 3 dc and baby (who is currently free) I worked out it would be about £80 including petrol and popcorn. We wait and buy on sky box office, not the same experience but we cannot afford the cinema. :(

I always smuggle them in, but it's the amount of people buying cinema food that gets me. Who, in their right mind would fork out that amount of money?

£80.00 < faints> do they actually want to attract families at all?

I think popcorn or nachos is about £3.50 ish?

I think that's cheap - I mean its not cheap for what it is but it means to me that I'm totally full on £3.50, saves going out for a meal - I think of it as meal replacement

We took 5 children and 2 adults to a Cineworld this afternoon, tickets were just £30 because booked online. Seemed v reasonable to me.

Costs me ?20 for 1 adult and three children (about ?4 more for 3d). Plus ?2 for parking.
Bargain.

Is it a chain? We never use the chains. We've 4 good independents within 45 mins so use them as they are cheaper than the 20 min away chain.

That seems reasonable to me. Where was this cine world and how much we're the tickets each?

I agree with OhMy, its not the same but we watch films on Sky box office. £3.49 for 24 hours viewing..my ds have watched a film 5 times before.
My friends sister gets cheapo tickets through work so we normally bribe her to get us some.
Cinemas are a complete rip off these days but I suppose running costs are high.

We're....bloody ipad doing what it wants

Arrrgh....WERE

I wish our cinema was £3.50. I paid £10.50 for popcorn and a drink last week. I usually smuggle wine and nice crisps but was running late again so no time.

Another one here that uses clubcard reward vouchers. I have just exchanged £15.50 Clubcard vouchers for £30.00 ASK restaurant vouchers and 2 adult cinema tickets. Seems a good deal to me!

Popcorn has a higher mark up than heroin. (apparently!)

Having said that I love the cinema and think the price of tickets is justifiable for the experience. I go at least once a week and have taken DD (2) once so far and can't wait till I can take her all the time!

Cinema snacks are extortionate. Co-op fortunately is next door ;)