Are all cinemas this expensive now?

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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!

Somebody upthread was asking about Octopus (the energy co).

You need to sign up to Octoplus Reward scheme (which we did primarily to get free 'leccy on very windy days). Once a month you get to choose your rewards (I picked a free Rakuten Film rental last month). I can get 2 standard Odeon tickets for £10 or 2 Luxe for £14 (use by 31/12).

When DD uses these offers with friends they sort out rows/seats on a group chat simultaneously.

I still can't my head around £35 for parent and child!

Wow.. which Odeon is this? I've just been to see Wicked and it cost me £6 plus £1 booking fee, so £7 per person.

Yes just say you're travelling to London and it's around a pound

They are yes. but you need to pick and choose your nights to try to avoid it. Meerkat 2 for 1 are good. I'm no 3 network and get a £3 weekend ticket with three+. Also discovered yesterday that if you're on Amazon prime, you can get 2 for £10 weekday Odeon tickets. This is no good for me normally because we don't have an Odeon nearby, but was in London with child yesterday and was able to get 2 seats at the Luxe cinema in Leicester square for £15 (so not £10 but still much cheaper) I also have a kids pass and sometimes the tickets are a better price on there.

7.99 at our local vue

if you know anyone that has vodafone you can get 2 tickets for £8

£35 for an adult and child is IMAX prices!!! Even in central London you would have the option of tickets that are much cheaper than that.
Was it literally your only option, OP?

4.99 for the cheapest seats here, 8.99 for the most expensive ones. Vue in Swansea. The food is of course extortionate but that's the only reason most cinemas are still able to open.

That would cost £10-£12 at my local cinema.

Or £50+ if we got snacks😂

Everyman is very pricey but a lovely experience for a special cinema night. A very occasional treat rather than your standard film night out.

Our really old little local that still does half time intermission charges £5 per ticket but it only shows one film at any one time and only as its leaving other cinemas, popcorn is £2 and about £1.50 for a can of coke.

My nearest chain cinema is The Light and its very swish with large reclining chairs. Its £13.95 for an adult ticket going down to £10.95 when its been on a couple of weeks, I get a £1 discount on those prices with my blue light card making it £12.95 or £9.95, not sure on kids prices but it makes it around £28 for two adults before snacks (a regular combo is £10).

Cineworld is a tad more expensive, I used to always do my car insurance renewals through compare the market and get 2 for 1 cinema tickets for 12 months at cineworld and 2 for 1 meals at participating restaurants (until the good ones stopped participating once covid happened), but this could be a future option for cheaper tickets.

I don’t have a Vue Cinema nearby so even though I could get 2 free tickets through sky cinema they are pretty useless to me.

You need to get the cheap insurance that PPs have talked about on here so you can get Meercat discounts.

We're going to Vue today to see Moana 2. Two adults and two kids for £23. We'll take our own popcorn and water to save more ££. Perhaps Odeon is just really expensive?

We have a local independent one near us and it's £13 per ticket which I don't mind paying because it's walking distance so costs me nothing extra if I don't buy snacks (which I don't because a £1.50 bag of opal fruits is £4.50 in there and as much as I like going they can get fucked if they think I'm paying that!).

Most of the screenings at my local vew and Reel are less than a fiver.
You can upgrade seats but there's no need if you are on a budget.

I am an anti cinema snacker so never buy over priced popcorn and slush.
We do have another cinema about 5 miles away where tickets for the same films are about £19 but it is a completely different expierence and nice for a treat.

We always go to the Showcase as a) it's closest and has free parking; b) all chairs are fully reclinable, best thing ever!; c) tickets are around £7 each

I'm also in the sticks! Don't want to say exactly where but relatively rural. Not many cinemas about, next one is about 15 miles away, but £35 is genuinely the cheapest ticket for odeon. It's the adult and child offer. I wonder if more rural cinemas are actually more expensive? Apparently it has just been done up and is very fancy inside so they might be trying to recoup some costs....

Where is your Cinema? Our (home counties) odeon is always £5 / seat…

Yes in the Octoplus section on their app. Also a free coffee from cafe Nero or Greggs every week.

My local indeoevdevt is £7.50/adults, £6.50/concession or £24 for a 2+2 / 1+3 ticket

Mine was a few months ago but they've done it up recently and it's all fancy!

We should have a thread running on here where people can ask if anyone has a Sky code going begging for the two free tickets a month.

I never use mine (none of the local cinemas we use are Vue), and I'd be very happy to PM somebody my code if they could use it.

There are 2 cinemas in our city.
In one it's adult £10 and child £7.50
In the other it's £5.50 for adult and £5.25 for children under 13

I dont care about the price never have done.
I see it as if its something i really want to watch ill pay enjoy it no guilt.

You can do this because you can afford it. Not everyone can.

As others have said, Vue seems to be the cheapest. I get the £4.99 tickets and take my own food and drink. I only pay for popcorn etc for grandchildren, and every time I am horrified at how expensive it is. I can't afford to go to my local independent cinema any more. By the time I pay bus fares it costs nearly £20 for a ticket.