Are all cinemas this expensive now?

[Raffaelli]

Just went to book odeon for me and my 6yo tonight. £35 for non Premier seats! Which means I can't afford to go to the cinema anymore. Wild! Anyone else got the same problem? I'm a bit gutted!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

It's £4.99 at Vue by me.

We pay around £10 at Cineworld give it take. But made the mistake of going to an X screen with picture on 3 sides and ticket was about £18 and extra £6 for the unlimited menber.

Odeon near me is £5! The Pearl and Dean nice cinema is about £20 though 😳

Have you got access to Perkbox at all? Lots of companies offer it for their staff. I've saved over £100 on various things since I started using it.

I saved £8 on cinema tickets for two teens. So was £14ish instead of £22ish

I was surprised when I went to vue recently as all seats were £9, or £10, or £12 (or something like that). So best seats most expensive BUT no varied pricing for children, adults, students, oap. Everyone paid the same price. Makes sense in many ways to do it that way.

Cinemas seem to be one of those things now where it’s stupidly expensive to go unless you have a discount code or a ‘perk’ eg 2 free tix per month with sky tv, or some mobile phone providers still do them….?

£15 round here at Vue for 2. But if you want popcorn, then you need to sell them your kidney.

Vue cinema have much cheaper seats. We go as a family of 5 quite often. You can bring snacks (cold food) in to their cinemas so we just get a few bags of popcorn and some drinks from Aldi. Otherwise if you buy snacks at the cinema they can end up costing more than I paid for the tickets. We used to go to cineworld a lot before we had kids but dh had a membership card.

£5 for standard tickets at.my nearest Odeon with MyOdeon

We paid £24 for 4 of us at picture house on Wednesday. The most expensive near us would have only cost us £40is for 4 of us.

I rarely go to the cinema these days - food/snacks were always ridiculously expensive, but ticket prices are often crazy nowadays. If you couple that with the increasingly disrespectful audiences, it's just not worth it.

Local cinema between £9-14 an adult ticket and £6-8 a child. After a film has been our a while cheap screenings all tickert £5 on a Sunday morning.

My odeon is £5 per ticket. £10 per ticket at the Odeon luxe 10 mins away. £15 for a parent and child ticket.

it’s the snacks and drinks that are extortionate- so don’t bother with them

Around here you can get cheaper prices on Tuesdays.

Vue is about 12 pounds per person.
Food and drink is expensive but if you read the fine print you are allowed to take in cold food and non alcoholic cold drinks. So sometimes I do that.

I use my Vodafone two for £8 or I have a Times sub which gives me buy one get one free at the Everyman on wednesday.

I think you need to find a deal these days if you can.

Odeon is not that much by me. With prime you can get 2 for £10 as well on certain days.