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!

No I know of two cinemas which charge £5 per ticket. Small independent ones. The closest to me is a Cineworld and it charges £25.50 for an adult and child for a peak showing

Nope, Vue is about £7 each where I am (London).
There are more expensive cinemas like Everyman which is about £15 a seat but it's a very different experience. We do it occasionally for a treat!

It's similar where I am.

I was interested in seeing the Wicked film, and the new Gladiator one, but when I saw the prices, and factored in food and drink, travel, and being surrounded by strangers, I've decided to wait and rent it online in a couple of months, then watch it at home.

I ended up paying £43 for 3 adults to see Paddington in Peru at Odeon Metrocentre. Ordinary seats too, I nearly died.
Vue would only have been a fiver (each).
Ironically I had 2 free cinema tickets for both Cineworld and Vue but DD works at Metrocentre so it was easier for her to go there straight from work the other Sunday.
Ah well, Chiquito had their 50% off food (which they have extended til 5 December with their 'secret code' of Chiquito50 to give their server), so at least that was cheap.

Halifax Reward account also offers a free monthly ticket and half-price popcorn to VUE if you have £1500 credited each month, with a £500 spend on your debit card. I save mine for holidays or special movies to cut costs.

We have Odeon Limitless membership, £14.99 per month and no limit on how many films you can watch, I think it's a great price we go at least twice a month, normally more.

I think loads of things offer 2 for 1 for Odeon these days (compare the meercat; octopus; O2) so that's potentially driven up the 'standard' prices. Like with the 2 for 1 for Alton Towers etc. If you just turn up on the door to pay, the prices are insane. But the 2 for 1 vouchers are all over the supermarket.

It's £6 for a child ticket at my local Odeon in London (includes booking fee). We have CEA cards for our 2 disabled dc, so it costs £12 for the 4 of us. But even if we didn't have the CEA cards, it costs £12 for an adult+child ticket, so £24 for 4 which is reasonable for a touristy bit of London (zone 2). We tend not to buy snacks there, it's on a high street with lots of small supermarkets and cafes. We never pay for the expensive seats, the dc don't notice the difference.

I have two cinemas near me and its averaging about £12 per ticket for new films. I usually do the kids club on a Sat morn with my little ones where its £4 a ticket.

Our local cinema is Showcase. To see Moana 2 on Saturday evening is £13.50 for an adult and £9.25 for a child.

But they also do a "Family Together" ticket (one adult and one child) for £15.95. So, if you're buying one adult ticket then the child ticket is just an extra £2.45

You can also get a "Family Together" ticket (two adults and two children) for £37 - which is more than double the price for just one adult and one child.

So you save £5.10 if you buy two of the single adult and child tickets rather than buy the ticket for two adults and two children!!

Sorry, just forgot to say, as well as the Showcase there is also an Odeon cinema that just opened here two weeks ago.

Their prices are £9.95 for an adult and £7.45 for a child or £14.90 for one adult and one child.

Although they do have a larger screen that they claim is an "IMAX" screen and the prices there are £15.95 for an adult, £13.45 for a child and £26.90 for one adult and one child.

Odeon charges more if you don’t prebook - it’s really expensive compared to Showcase and our independent cinema now and often seems empty during the week.

Amazon do 2 tickets for Odean for £10. 3 adults going on Monday for £17.

Our local cinema is £4. Sweets and pop are a reasonable price too.

When I last went to a chain cinema you were allowed to take your own popcorn in, no need to smuggle.

Certainly not that much, you have been had.

No it’s £12 at my local for an adult plus child

We went to see Paddington at the odeon recently. It was £37.96 for the four of us at the odeon. Normal seats. We don’t have much choice of cinema, even to get to the odeon is a 30-40 min drive. I thought it was pretty expensive!

And I did prebook.

Buy travel insurance for made up on day trip to Blackpool from compare the meerkat, it’ll cost about two quid, then go to a vue cinema which is usually about 7 quid. Simples.

I'm taking myself and 3 kids tomorrow £35

Out of interest I just looked up how much it would be to see Moana 2 at the Odeon in the Trafford Centre tomorrow in normal seats. For an adult and a child it's £34.95!

https://gifts.cineworld.co.uk/product/type

Cinema gift boxes seem a good deal as you get vouchers for a pair of tickets & snacks which if bought independently would cost more.

Cinema tickets can vary wildly in price from place to place.

I grew up in Manchester where for some reason there seemed to be massive oversupply of cinemas. The basic prices were low and they always seemed to have offers on - half price tickets, free tickets for your next visit, free parking by validation (and this was right in the city centre), free popcorn if you showed a public transport ticket.... I don't recall exactly what the price was but I thought nothing of going every week with my brother in the school holidays using pocket money.

Later we moved to Reading, where I can only remember there being one single cinema. Tickets cost about £15 each even fifteen years ago. It seemed expensive, and we only went for a really special film on a midweek two for one Orange Wednesdays deal.

I’ve just paid £47.50 for 3 tickets, which I thought somewhat wedgy.