To think the cinema is a day to day event

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Not an experience or day out

Our local cinema is £3.99 each for showings before 1pm so we go to that quite regularly or we use meerkat movies during school holidays.

Cineworld near us is £13.99 each though - couldn’t afford to do that as a regular occurrence anymore.

We also always take our own sweets and treats - the £3.99 cinema used to have a wilko next door so we would go there for pic n mix before hand.

We get tickets for £5 with blue light, we also have octopus so can get two for £10 there too. We take our own snacks. I didn't think many people paid the advertised full price, with things like that, meerkat etc. It's not day to day because we don't go often only about 5/6 times a year. It's not an event though.

4.99 at Vue for me too... I'm in London. We take our own snacks and drinks, so it should be a cheap day out for us. It isn't though, as unfortunately it's near a Smyths Toys, so I always get stung for "just something little" 🙄

I don’t think I have any means to get cheap tickets.

It's a biannual treat for us. It's very expensive and there are many days out which are better value. So we only go occasionally.

Ticket prices in the three cinema in my city range from £7.99 to £9.99, so completely affordable for me as a single person and definitely an every day thing to me in that respect. The problem is that there’s hardly anything on that’s worth seeing, also the ‘magic’ has gone from the experience these days. Even when I saw Barbie the atmosphere was a bit subdued and the screening was only 2/3 full (only a week after it opened). I used to go about three times a month, now it’s once a month. I never ever buy their extortionately priced food.

Quite, we can go to the local theme park for the whole day for less!

Get something from meerkat & there’s your cheap tickets

It might be if you live very close to one and don't bother with drinks/snacks. However our local cinemas(live rural, so all small independents) are at least half an hour away
So it's a day out for us, as we usually have lunch and do a bit of shopping too.

It's £4.99 on a Saturday for a new release??

Amazing!

We get two free tickets every month with our sky subscription so go most months as they are use them or lose them. We have to buy another two to take the DC with is but tickets are 4.99 each and we always take our own snacks anyway because of allergies so it’s not expensive but I wouldn’t class it as an everyday activity.

Of course it's an experience! That's literally the point of it, 'the cinema experience', otherwise everyone would just watch TV at home.

We have a list of experiences every child will get before they leave our primary school and visiting a cinema is one of them.

£11.99 a ticket here and at least a half hour drive away, so I'd class it as a day out, rather than an everyday thing.

Yep! They have introduced staggered prices now, used to just be standard or the 2 rows of 'posh' seats. Now I think there are 3 prices, as well as the premium, with the first 6 rows or so being the cheap seats. They're only small rooms though, so doesn't make much difference.

@PotatoPudding get a one day travel insurance policy through meerkat and you can have cheap cinema tickets for a year for a couple of pounds.
There's also kids pass, Vodafone do two tickets for £8, sky two for £10, octopus energy two for £10 (and they are a good cheap energy provider anyway, you also get a free cafe Nero each week) , Amazon prime comes with cinema tickets two for £10 , you can get two for £9 with 0² and virgin media,
Even if you're with none of those providers you can still do meerkat, or are likely to have a friend who is. I have no issue with someone else using my octopus code when I'm not using it for example

Our local cinema It's £20 for a family of 4, we take our own drinks and snacks so I agree with op.
It's just something we do if we're bored at the weekend to get out of the house for a few hours.

I'm not a fan of the cinema though, I prefer to wait until they're available to rent online and watch them at home.

It's a treat for us as we only go to see films that the dc are excited about. It's usually the big big ones.
I think the last film we saw was the last Spider-verse one and the next one will be the new planet of the apes one.
I never get excited enough for a film to go watch myself.

It costs too much for a day to day event.
It's a treat, an afternoon, not a whole day

It depends on if you make it a day out or not. My bf would organise a pre-cinema dinner, then cinema, then wine bar afterwards to discuss the film.
So I’d definitely consider that a special treat/ day out.
just popping to your local 5 mins down the road in your casual clothes maybe not so much

It's a treat.

Depends on people's financial situation surely? Growing up it was a sporadic treat for us. Last year my kids got to watch every film they wanted to in the cinema. As young children they aren't fully aware of the cost of things but are starting to understand that I often buy popcorn bags from Aldi that they can take in as well as drinks, especially if we have a few trips planned close together. The last time we went was dd2's first cinema trip so we purchased popcorn and snacks from the cinema instead as it was more about the experience.

depends on what your options are... we own a car and one of the cinemas near us (but difficult to do by public transport) is £5/ticket. other cinemas near us are £11-14/ticket. for a family of 4 i'd say that's a day out - especially if you go for something to eat or even just buy ice cream in the cinema.

I'd say it's a treat, but low on the scale of treats. We wouldn't do it every weekend, but it's not on the zoo/aquarium/theme park level of treat that we really hype up and do rarely.

Depends of your cinema and finances.
I have checked our local cinema which is an Everyman. Adults are £19.40 and children and £14.35!!!!!!! Needless to say I don't go there!

This.

If you have a reasonable disposable income, it can be a day to day event as in you can go as often as you'd like, although I'd expect that few people literally want to go every day due to time constraints and variety of films available. But if cinema is your thing, there's ways of limiting the cost such as unlimited passes, and various discount schemes like Meerkat movies that can make regular attendance more affordable. But obviously not everyone can spare the money to go to the cinema, or might decide they prefer to spend limited disposable income on something else that they prefer.

But it is also a 'day out' as in it is going to do something outside the house for a few hours. And it's an experience as in the big screen, sound system, possible associated food/drink out etc.

OP you need to clarify what point you're trying to make.