AIBU to smuggle bottles of water and Maltesers into the cinema tomorrow?

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...rather than paying £400 for popcorn and cokes at the counter. Everyone smuggles right?

There is a big sign I noticed last time I went stating a zero tolerance for taking stuff in that you didn't buy there. I think they have a damn cheek and if their prices were at least reasonable not £3.40 for a popcorn I would buy it there.

No one's looking in my massive handbag without a fight but they seriously aren't going to ask me are they?

I am taking DS and his mates for this birthday treat, don't REALLY want to have to scuffle with the girl on the door!!!

www.cineworld.co.uk/help/other-questions/q24

I've always taken my own water and sweets to cinema and not had to 'smuggle' them in. I've never come across a cinema that doesn't allow it. Cineworld only seem to not allow hot food and alcohol.

There's a dealz next to our cinema. Very handy for the treats and then we buy drinks and popcorn in the cinema. Never a word said, and plenty do it. You can see the same people in dealz heading to the cinema.

I take outside food into cineworld all the time? And the odeon. Never been stopped.....I don't hide it either.

I get a takeaway coffee from the Coop across from our Cinema and a bag of Rolos or Nestle Munchies. I have never hidden it. £4, sorted.

No HOT food...

I guess things were different 14 years ago when this thread was started!

Bloody hell! I only go to the cinema occasionally and it's a little Everyman over the road where they don't police what you take in with you, nor do they start twisting your arm to buy a load of sugary tat as soon as you go in. Outrageous behaviour from those monstrous mega cinemas. Sod em, smuggle away, they won't go bankrupt.

I wonder what film the OP was going to see in 2008! And how old her DS is now! Wonder if he’s still scarred by that time his mum smuggled Maltese’s in Cineworld 😂

Everyman is great isn't it, when I can get to one. Hot and cold drinks and food served at your seat!

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This reminds me of how we used to try to sneak McDonald’s into the cinema as teenagers and always get caught (because you can smell it a mile away) and then have to stuff our faces really quickly before we could go in

We stopped buying stuff at the cinema and brought in from outside. We’d pass Poundland and buy the same things there for a quarter of the price of the cinema. Their mark ups are so huge it just doesn’t make sense to buy inside the cinema. If you put your stuff discreetly in your bag they can’t stop you really can they.

Ho hum I forgot to look at the date of the OP again 😯

Is this a record for a resurrected thread? Though 14 years is not a Kate Bush length of time though.

I always take my own sweeties! Bought a bag on ebay specially for this. Also theatre as well . Do sometimes bring drinks in too.never been stopped. 8

@hellomynameisshark Why resurrect such an old thread?

I thought everyone did this 😳

I always take water bottles and snacks in, in my capacious handbag. But I haven't seen notices up at our cinema.

I realised this was a zombie when a PP was referring to getting sweets from Woolies 😂

I always take in a full roast dinner with all the trimmings, complete with gravy (proper gravy, of course, not disgusting shite from a packet).

On a serious note - yes, I completely agree that if they want people to buy their snacks then they shouldn't sell them at such an outrageous mark up. I would actually prefer to buy a tub of lovely, fresh cinema popcorn than eat a packet of sweets, but I don't want to have to remortgage my house in order to do it.

I always take my own snacks to the cinema. I refuse to pay their extortionate prices for popcorn/ ice cream/ drinks. A few years ago I got swayed by the hot dogs on the roller thingy. Big mistake I had a dodgy tum a few hours later. Never again 🌭😬

£3.40 for popcorn seems a bargain now, £4.99 in my local flicks last week. Oh for 2008 prices again.

Is there a Vue cimema near you? they don't mind you bringing in food.

I need to know what a choc top is! I think I'm missing out!

Best idea ever !!