Quick! Fancy some family tickets to Ice Age 3 this Saturday?

[HelenMumsnet]

Woolworths.co.uk are offering Mumsnetters family tickets (for four people) to a special, red-carpet showing of Ice Age 3 in 3D this Saturday morning (4 July).

The London showing is full but there are still tickets for Aberdeen, Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff, Castelford, Didsbury, Edinburgh, Hull, Ipswich, Milton Keynes, Nottingham and Sheffield.

If you'd like one, please email your full name, address and preferred cinema to [email protected]. But get your skates on: tickets are limited and will be offered on a strictly first-come, first-served basis.

Thanks lisa, sorry for any momemny of anguish there as it could well have been my error when passing on the info! Glad you got in all OK.

I think the logistics of it all on this scale meant that only a few cinemas had all of the entertainment gubbins mentioned in the list (especially London, was a general list as such that I was given). Staff were probably bringing their own Wii's!

And I meant work - not wok.

Yes of course Adam it was about anouncing the relaunch of Woolies, they certainly did that though didn't they we all know about them now as a lot of people spent a lot of time on here yesterday and contacting cust services themselves to find out what was going on.

Also there were a couple of people on this thread that did turn up and their name wasn't even down.

I totally agree with the other posters who are saying it was a fab treat, goody bags and all but I can 100% see POTC point of view as well and she got tickets that yes what everyone dod get was great but there was a lot promised that wasn't delivered so it sounds and feels like they all now have our attention we all know woolies is back online and most of that is because of this thread not because we all got tickets to a fab day out and are all very grateful for them. It has left a bad taste in a lot of mouths and for those of us that never got tickets to hear of 2/3 of the cinema being empty is a bit of a kick in the teeth.

I agree - organising this opportunity so late was always going to be a customer services nightmare and sorry for those that didn't receive any email confirmation from the organisers. Better planning and better organisation would have been in place with more time and I think the amount of responses genuinely surprised them (it did me!). Lessons will be learnt if there any future fora offerings -- feel free to email me some and I'll pass it on. Espcially for a company that is now a baby!

rubberadam
We loved it, I can understand others upset and annoyance not to get tickets or notification, particularly the lack of notifictaion as that is a bit off, but can I say that we really did have a good time.

We went and sat on the carpet in front of the entertainer.
He did say at one point that he'd go round and do tricks individually, but most of the kids had sat in front of him so not much point really.
Ther was one child/family who did hog a bit but perhaps just more outgoing children than the others.

I thought he was good, I enjoyed the tricks and as I have already said, the lollipops ones went down really well with the kids.
He had to go to get more lollies, and I had to shush DD who saw instead of going along with his 'magic dust'!

Maybe because we don't have a lot of treats, it really was great for us, and the lack of what we thought would be there didn't matter once we got there.
I don't even mind if it was just a promotion, we had a great day out of it.

Anyway, I know this is sucky uppy, but Thank you.

Though I did miss Ewan McGregor and the other Scottish slebs?
Did you smuggle them in and out of the back door when I wasn't looking?

Oh and the magician didn't hand out the £100 note he magiced.
I though that a bit off

I was gutted yesterday as I didn't hear ANYTHING from Woolies, not a "yes", "no", or "maybe".
I had foolishly told my children that they might get to go to see a film that I wouldn't be able to afford to take them to see, so they were more than a little bit upset!
But to read now that there were so many empty seats at Ipswich this morning is a complete kick in the teeth.

Also sorry for those Mumsnetters who didn't get tickets but we went to Cardiff and had a really good time, although I agree that the entertainment was a bit non-existant.

The children had their photos taken though in front of the Ice Age board and then we collected them after the film in a magnetic frame. The goody bag was great and perfect for ds and dd to share.

We really enjoyed the film too.

How about free tickets to a movie of their choice to the ones caught up in the mix up?...

...or a free copy of the Ice Age 3 DVD/Blueray when it hits the shops!!

Sorry Goober the deadline for responses meant I did my best to get everyone in who replied in good time but it also stumped us. It was in place so everything could be planned for who was coming at such a late stage (organising rucksacks and the like). And sorry to peddle this but make sure you sign up as a VIF for free tickets in the coming weekends and I'll see what else can be done for those who missed out this time.

We took all 4 children to the brighton showing and although there was a tense few minutes as i wasn't on the list ( despite getting the confirmation email from Woolies) they did let all of us in - phew!.

entertainment was a bit pants, no wii games or anything like that just a balloon artist (is that what they're called?) but the children got an animal each and were very happy.

the film was great.

the backpacks were fantastic but they didn't have enough so we got one to share with teh 4 children.

on the whole it was a great freebie, just not quite as glitzy and special as maybe we were lead to believe.

Can I ask exactly who was responsible for the running of this promotion please Adam, was it Rubber Republic or Woolworths? As in who was allocating tickets, who was responsible for emailing applicants etc?

Thank you.

Mamazon, very pleased to hear you managed to get all the children sorted

"Espcially for a company that is now a baby"
Shop Direct Group are hardly a baby... they have "annual sales of around £1.5 billion and five million customers." (Source)
Woolworths.co.uk may well be a new addition to the Group, but the group itself can trace routes back to 1924.

So I do not feel they are a 'baby' when it comes to PR/Marketing. Just my view.

I thought the rucksacks were supposed to be one per family of 4 not one per child in any case?

mamazon, we went to brighton and weren't on the list either, but got let in!

the goody bags seemed to be one per family rather than one per child

yes thats what we were told too.

it didn't matter really, they contained quite a bit so the children shared the bits out. can't really complain about a freebie, especially as we had an extra 2 children that they allowed us to bring in.

there were quite a few spare seats though which is a shame as im sure there are plenty of people that would have loved to have come.

thisisyesterday - i was the very tall lady in the green top.

Signing up for that is no guarantee either though is it? Its a pot luck thing who does or doesn't get tickets for the VIF thing.

Like Goober, i can't afford the cinema for myself never mind with the 3 DCs (1 of which i probably wouldn't pay for tbh as he is only 16 months!) plus the transport to get there as i don't drive. Add to that the cost of somethig to drink in there as you aren't allowed to take your own and you may as well go away for the weekend!!!

There were people who mailed you around 4 o clock who still didn't get tickets which was plenty of time to arrange things as around that time you were saying that you had not yet been inundated.....

one rucsac per family in Sheffield which seems right considering the amount of stuff in it. I would have been seriously impressed if it was one per child!

I emailed before six and didn't get any news as to whether or not I had been successful. Not to hear either way really annoyed me, especially as I had to leave babysitters hanging on as to whether or not to look after our baby so we could take DS.

And to hear our local cinema had lots of seats left is very annoying indeed.

I am not convinced its worth being a Woolies VIF to be honest, unless they get their act together.

I emailed very early on, about 2pm I believe on the Thursday.

As to what can be done to appease? I think the DVD of the movie when it comes out was a good one.

TOMP - there were around 4/5 different parties involved in the events, making it all the more complicated with entry deadlines. It made it difficult with any guarantees and we did our best to get who we could in on time considering. The quick in the thread title changed to quicker!

MoM - you should be able to get hold of a ticket if you book on the site early. The system will also be a lot more automated and organised than this one-off event ;)

"Woolworths Movies for Juniors screenings open on Saturday 11th July.
You will be able to book tickets for this screening from Thursday 9th July.
Please pop back then to request your free cinema ticket voucher.
Remember, good things come to those who wait!"

www.woolworths.co.uk/rf/wlo/static.do?page=first2

hmm yes but we should have al been able to get tickets for today too and there will be alot more than MNEtters applying on the site.

ah see we normally wait till movies come out on "movies for jr" days at weekends. its £1 per child at our local cineworld, and regurds food, we say kids have food allergies and they let you take in. although as a treat did buy popcorn today.

Never paid full price to take dds to ciema.

Not heard of that LisaD and i have a more local cineworld than the cinema i was trying to get ice age 3 tix for. Will go look at their site for next w/e. Thanks for that!