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Anyone else fed up with cinema prices ?

112 replies

Cookie4u · 17/02/2018 23:22

I've been visiting the cinema since I was very small and for me and my papa used to go to the cinema every week or ever other week, and now it's a once in a blue moon but Within that time an adult ticket has gone from about £5.00 to £12.00 ! ...
And the child teen and senior are terrible aswell , closer you get to londom and the tickets rocket to £14.00 !
im not suprised people pirate films or rather stick Netflix on rather than go to the cinema .

Will a trip to the cinema become a thing of the past or something only the rich can afford

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Zampa · 18/02/2018 08:52

If you're on 3 mobile and sign up to Wuntu, their loyalty app, Cineworld often run an offer which gets you in to any film for £3.

UnimaginativeUsername · 18/02/2018 08:54

Gateshead vue is £5 a ticket. So is the Hull one. Someone on another thread said the York one is £6.

In contrast the one in Edinburgh city centre is £10 for a child and £12 for an adult!

OutComeTheWolves · 18/02/2018 08:54

I'm another one who has only just found out how cheap the Vue is compared to Cineworld and Odeon.

blamethecat · 18/02/2018 08:55

Ds wants to see coco if 3 of us go it's almost £30 Shock I think the cheapest was still £25 So we're not going.

Chocolatecake12 · 18/02/2018 08:55

We have an independent local cinema who charge £2.50 weekdays and £3.50 weekends.
Our local vue changed almost a year ago from high price tickets to £4.99 a ticket. Plus meerkat movies on tue/wed means that 2 if us can go for just £4.99.
I just don’t get the hike up in bags of sweets though - £3 for what costs £1 in the supermarket! Plus the price of drinks and popcorn!

Inmyownlittlecorner · 18/02/2018 08:57

I'm in central London & there is a Vue that is £5.99 any day any film, so we go there! Or the DCs go to the kids morning showings they do at weekends!

youngestisapsycho · 18/02/2018 08:58

I always wait for the kids films to go cheap on weekend mornings....

10thingsIhateAboutTheDailyMail · 18/02/2018 08:58

Where we live (SE), Vue is £££

Independent cinema too

About £11-12 adult, 10.50 teen. £1.40 for an hour parking

MelanieSmooter · 18/02/2018 09:04

I haven’t paid full price in over 5 years. We got them heavily discounted through DHs old job. We now have the popcorn pass app - came free with a £7 phone Grin

puffylovett · 18/02/2018 09:06

Everybody is talking about the cost of the tickets here, but what about the cost of the food and drinks?!

£3.50 for a large coke, £2.50 for a bag of M&Ms or Minstrels that are £1.25 in the shops etc etc..

We have 3 cinemas near us, all charging between £5 and £8 but I still always pack my own food and drink and look longingly at the Baskin Robbins. We are lucky to have a local old theatre style cinema with uncomfortable seats that charges £4.50 and lets you take in your own food and drink, in Macclesfield. Also our local Congleton theatre shows films weekly (off to see the Greatest Showman again tonight 👏🏻) for a fiver.

MelanieSmooter · 18/02/2018 09:08

Who buys cinema food these days?! We are a family of 5, DH has an odeon card that he uses weekly. If we all see a film it costs £23ish for me & 3 Kids. Couple of quid on sweets in Tesco on the way there and school water bottles filled and we’re done. Some soft plays round here would cost us more!!

10thingsIhateAboutTheDailyMail · 18/02/2018 09:08

Yeah, but food and drink are optional

I can go for 2 hrs,without snacks,and drinks easily

Maybe due to my age (late 40s), I grew up with no snacks or drinks during cinema or theatre visits, so for me that is normal iyswim

squealingpiglets · 18/02/2018 09:09

my local Vue is 8.99 per adult & 6.99 per child. If you book online its an extra 75p booking fee each too. Last time I took DS by the time we'd added drinks & popcorn it was £24!! Needless to say, we don't go very often. I had no idea they charged different prices in different areas - feeling robbed!

phoenix1973 · 18/02/2018 09:13

That's why we dont go more than once per year.
We watched star wars in december at nearly £60.
We used to do movies for juniors on a sat morning for a quid each followed by cake from gregs or subway afterwards. But now we get our films from cheaper sources.
If the film is crap you just feel totally rinsed.

Clawdeen · 18/02/2018 09:13

inmyown - which Vue is that? I'm in inner London and our nearest Vue is £££ so would def hop on a tube for that price!

mydogisthebest · 18/02/2018 09:15

No need for food and drink in a cinema. We go to watch the film not eat.

I would prefer it if no food was allowed and then your evening wouldn't be spoiled by the noise of people eating

HomerDancing · 18/02/2018 09:16

Last time a few months ago we went to a central London Odeon is was £16.50 each.

A couple of weeks ago we went to a more local branch and it was about £12.50 each.

I have just had a look and its £17-20 each to go see a film tonight in Leicester Square Vue, depending on what chair you want ! I know it’s Leicester Square, but surely that is totally ridiculous!

TittyGolightly · 18/02/2018 09:16

We pay £6-7 per ticket at odeon.

mydogisthebest · 18/02/2018 09:17

I agree a theatre productions costs far more to put on which is probably why theatre tickets are so much more expensive than cinema ones which I think are pretty reasonable.

What I am saying is that 2 hours of entertainment for around £11 is good compared with say going to the theatre or the pub or out for a meal

Taffeta · 18/02/2018 09:18

Our local is about £12 adult/£9 child but parking is free

Never buy cinema food - take our own plus water in School water bottle from tap as pp above Grin

Other local one has cheaper family ticket but cinema more run down and parking costs £4 so saving mainly gone

TittyGolightly · 18/02/2018 09:18

I would prefer it if no food was allowed and then your evening wouldn't be spoiled by the noise of people eating

Last few times I’ve been to kids films there have been families with multipacks of crisps FFS. What’s that about?!

Pickledonion24 · 18/02/2018 09:20

Cinemas don’t actually make any money from the sale of tickets. Once a film is produced each cinema has to pay fee to have the rights to show it this fee is in the millions. They might even have might even have to pay a percentage to on top. So for every 12 pound ticket sold they get 2.50 if that. So the cinemas only chance to make money is on the food. I do think it’s all so over priced tickets and food but if we want to see the latest films it’s something we have to pay

busyboysmum · 18/02/2018 09:20

We got to the Manchester Vue which is £5 a ticket. Also the Royal Exchange theatre has a limited number of £7 tickets for performances which has meant my middle son and I have started going to the theatre regularly.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 18/02/2018 09:21

Def not Printworks! My Ds works there and it's way more. (Though he gets free tickets for friends and fam) our local one is on the list though. Our local odeon dropped their prices to 3.50.

SureIusedtobetaller · 18/02/2018 09:22

We have Cineworld cards. It’s always busy and I think lots of people here have cards too - the Unlimited advance showings are always booked up way in advance. It’s the only way to keep it reasonable here. Odeon have similar.