AIBU to be disgusted over cinema prices

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I was going to book tickets for the cinema with DS age 3 on Thursday. Now there's 5 showings of this film all day, but 4 of them are iSense 2D and only one of them is Standard 2D and that's not till 7pm, so already it means I'm being forced into a more expensive viewing as the buses don't run in my town past 6.30.
So I went to book tickets and they were £29 total for 1 adult and 1 under 12, even the 7pm viewing was priced at £24.
Now if I was to go as myself and 3 children at 7pm it would only cost me £22 total, but I don't have 2 other children to be taking and again I can't make the 7pm viewing anyway.

I take my DS cinema at leat every 2-3 months and I understand that it is school holidays, but I've never been charged even nearly this much before.

AIBU to think that The Odeon are taking the piss with their prices and also with the fact they make it even more expensive as only 1 showing out of 5 per day is for the only slightly cheaper standard 2D option.

Cinemas notoriously make pennies from ticket sales. Most of the money goes to the movie studio. The cinemas have to lease the films they show so most of the ticket price goes on that. Typically it's about 20% that the cinema get to keep. So if your ticket costs £10, the cinema only gets £2! And it can be worse with some films. Some will demand 100% of the ticket sales money in the first weeks of showing. So if the cinema want to show the film at all they have to agree to this.

Obviously this pushes up the price of concessions as sometimes it's the only place the cinema can make any money. Made worse by people always sneaking in their own food

But as a consumer, yeah it's a rip off. But not necessarily the cinemas fault.

I stopped going to places like the Vue years ago because people wouldnt stop taking on their phones and taking calls throughout the film. It was a total waste of money.
OP check out local independant cinemas and film festivals they tend to be cheaper and you dont get loads of louts in.

Go to vue. Their prices are a fiver.

Cineworld card here too. Loads of people seem to have them- it’s always busy at ours and the special Unlimited showings get booked up really quickly.
If we go twice in a month we have made it back. My record is 5 in a week. Sometimes we do a couple of films at once .... but we don’t have young children so it’s a lot easier.

Vue isn't always cheaper. DH and I took three DC to see Incredibles 2 today and it was £42 for tickets! When we have DS with us we get a free carers ticket as he has a CEA card and that drops the price a bit but he wasn't with us today so we couldn't use it.

That is very expensive. I wouldn't be keen to pay those prices.

My local Vue for a showing of The Incredibles 2 tonight.

And at Swansea (randomly selected). How the hell can the overheads vary so much between two cinemas of the same chain?

I am in a fairly unnotable part of the Midlands, btw.

Dh and i went to cinema and had a meal at ASK (1 course and drinks) and spent £22 in total.
Dh has a cineworld card and we have meerkat movies and now meals.

We recently went to Cardiff cineworld and an adult ticket was only £5.80.

Forgot the Swansea pic.

It WAS extortionate round here but then Vue reduced their prices to a fiver and Odeon followed suit. I was pleasantly surprised last time I went to the cinema as I was expecting it to be double what it cost me.