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Cinema prices

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LittleMissRayofHope · 14/02/2015 08:32

Wondering what to do with the toddler today, thought 'oh yes! Props pig movie just came out!'
So go to check prices, nearest cinema is Cineworld.
£10.40 for me, £7.10 for her!!

Maybe it's been that long since I've been to the cinema but I'm gobsmacked at how expensive it is!!
And doubly gobsmacked that they would actually charge full adult rate for this type of film. It's not as if I actually want to see it, I'm just the guardian basically!
Sad as I simply can't afford that much for a film!!

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LittleMissRayofHope · 14/02/2015 08:32

*peppa pig. Autocorrect got me there

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wowfudge · 14/02/2015 08:34

Wait till it comes out on DVD or is on TV then. I agree the cinema can be very expensive.

VixxFace · 14/02/2015 08:34

Four pound cinema here.
But you're right. Add in popcorn and drinks it is not worth it!

BikeRunSki · 14/02/2015 08:35

Most cinemas have cheaper sessions on slow mid week days. Or Orange Wednesday. We also have an independent cinema which is much cheaper than the multiplexes.

WhenTheDragonsCame · 14/02/2015 08:36

I looked yesterday at vue and its £8.50 for an adult, I wouldn't mind paying that for something I actually wanted to see but peppa pig no chance.

We are going to see the penguins of Madagascar instead at their kids am showing. Its £10 for myself and 3 DC

inchoccyheaven · 14/02/2015 08:40

Orange weds is stopping soon, and yes it is expensive to go and sweets are rip off.

Isithappening · 14/02/2015 08:43

Next week is half term and cineworld will have on the kids am cinema every morning (they do it every sat and sun all year round as well). The kids am cinema costs £1.50 for all tickets. It is older movies so you won't be able to watch peppa pig for a few months at the kids am but you will find something worth watching and toddlers are not fussed about how long it has been since the movie was released.

SomewhereIBelong · 14/02/2015 08:43

We have a "movies for Juniors session - 2 or 3 films - this week it is The box trolls, and The book of life which are showing, tickets are £1.50 (adults and kids ) - they have these sessions at weekends and during school holidays.

ireallydontlikemonday · 14/02/2015 08:47

I was shocked to pay 25.50 to go and watch the irritating pink pig. I never go to the cinema so had no idea of prices but it seems ridiculous for a 55 min kids movie that's not even a movie.

We will be smuggling popcorn on principle!

youngestisapyscho · 14/02/2015 08:47

Most of the kids films end up in the Saturday morning cinema after a month or so... Only £1.50 each and take your owns snack and drinks.

Notso · 14/02/2015 08:47

Odeon are only charging child prices but that's still £7 odd each. For some repeats and the new extra long one. This should have gone straight to kids club IMO.

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LittleMissRayofHope · 14/02/2015 08:51

Ern.... Have just looked again and it does say 'all tickets are kids prices' still think it's over priced.

I will look up the kids club sessions though so thanks for that!

I have a local independent cinema which is £6 a ticket, not sure if kids price.
Showing frozen sing-a-long on Friday.... Not sure I'm brave enough though!!

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SoupDragon · 14/02/2015 08:53

Forget the ticket prices £5.35 for the smallest popcorn size! Corn, oil and salt/sugar cost pennies. Absolute rip off! I only bought it as it was DDs birthday treat.

Sparklingbrook · 14/02/2015 08:55

Going to the cinema is just not great all round. Extortionate prices, having to sit with loads of people with no social graces at all. eating and slurping, checking their phones, up and down to the loo every five minutes and talking loudly.

It used to be a treat, Sad

entiledornot · 14/02/2015 08:57

I went to a west end cinema about 5 years ago, costed 14 quid each and was uncomfortable. That's probably close to 20 now

NannyR · 14/02/2015 08:57

My local Odeon is doing tickets for £5 (adults and children), all day, every day. Not sure if it's a special promotion but it's been going on for a couple of months. As a result I've been to the cinema a lot more recently.

LokiBear · 14/02/2015 09:01

I regularly take dd to the kids am showing which is only £1.75 per ticket. It's fab and she loves it. She would have loved to go and see peppa pig. However, it's £7 for each of us, only an hour long and only 15 minutes of it is new, unseen footage!! Not going on principal!

ProfYaffle · 14/02/2015 09:04

Regular price cinema is astonishingly expensive. We've had a few years of going to kids club cinema but our dc are starting to get a bit old for the films now. We stick to renting from blinkbox at around £4 a time.

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OldFarticus · 14/02/2015 09:27

Agree it's extortionate. I am not in UK and prices are same here, with the added option of paying 20 quid pp to sit in a La-Z-boy with a blanket and be pestered into buying overpriced Nachos by a "butler"... Hmm
It's also culturally acceptable here to talk through the film and answer one's mobile. So you get the rage as well!! Grin

ZenNudist · 14/02/2015 09:28

Cinema with dc is an annual Christmas treat here. I am not poor but it's such bad value for money when he's happy watching films at home. I'd go a lot more if it wasn't silly prices. It's not like the cinemas are full at times you'd take dc. They should do other kids am priced showings. Can't go Saturday mornings due to activities Hmm

Dh and I love going to cinema and pre dc would go and see anything. Add in cost of baby sitting and overpriced tickets it's so expensive we only go for big event films. And having been a lifelong popcorn fan it's finally got so expensive I take a pack of sainsburies basics popcorn. Tastes the same but cheaper!!!!

PrimalLass · 14/02/2015 09:28

I don't let the kids get snacks at the cinema unless we are at a cheap Kids Club film. That's what supermarket popcorn and a large handbag is for! They can get far more for £1 at our local shop that for £4 each at the cinema.

Joolsy · 14/02/2015 09:35

Cineworld kids am films are about £1 each if you become a member & book online. They have fairly new films usually

MairyHinge · 14/02/2015 09:35

When our local odeon was being built and promoted, we were told that yes the prices were more than you've paid before ( old type picture house, about £2.50 per person!, one screen!) BUT you won't get adverts.
Ha.
So they built it, and transformed the old picture house into a nightclub which is now derelict anyway
And guess what? We pay over inflated prices to watch bloody adverts!
RIP off.
Makes me cross. And they wonder why there's so many illegal download sites available.

unlucky83 · 14/02/2015 09:59

YY -more or less given up with the big cinemas - although we are lucky to have two independent cinemas here.
At one it was £15 for a family of 4 (2 adult, 2 children) ticket to see 'Paddington' a week after it had appeared in Cineworld/Odeon. Very comfortable seats etc. And they sold packets of maltesers/drinks/popcorn etc for £1 each- yep £1 -a tiny bit more than if we had gone to the newsagents...and that cinema is closer to us.
At the other independent cinema tickets are similar price to the multiplexes (£7ish for teens) - but the snacks are reasonable (£2 for a massive popcorn)
I used to occasionally take my DCs to the cheap children's sat/sun morning shows for a £1 each ish at one of the multiplexes. Both are quite a trek for us, especially on a weekend morning. Most of the films were old, some we had on DVD and the DCs always wanted popcorn etc. You think well ok - the film ticket is cheap ....but the prices weren't that clear and the first time I got a shock almost £20 bill for snacks (couple of popcorns and drinks) ...
In fact a few years ago DD had a birthday cinema 'party' -there were 5 of them - tickets and snacks (and they weren't greedy) meant it was over £90 for 5 of them...
Teen DD just went to a friends b/day cinema treat - ticket paid but they had to get their own snacks - I think that's more than fair - DD spent all her £10 she took ...came back complaining about the prices!!!

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