without the tickets!!!!If that was 2 tickets, then... Bargain! I'm going tonight, and it's £7.50 a ticket, so that's (erm...counts fingers...) £15, without the beer and ice-cream. Indeed, our 'family policy' is not to buy extras at the flicks, at they're so outrageously 'spensive.
If going with the kids, we take some sweets with us (or popcorn) and I've been known to smuggle wine in, disguised as something in a flask
Cinema , expensive !
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that was only for the 2 x bottles of beet ,ice craem and chocolate buttons! add another £20 for the tickets£17!!!
Bargain dear chap!
My local odeon charges me £8.50 a ticket just to walk through the door
We 'smuggle' in water/coke/wine gums
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Ah, now I see the issue
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
We have one of the last civic owned cinemas in Britain - the Hebden Bridge Picture House has put its prices up a lot over the past few years to make it more viable, so adults now pay £6 a ticket. Free tea and biscuits on the Thursday 'elevenses' showing!
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
We have a big multi-plex place in town. I am rarely tempted as it's in The Gate, which is a vile place. They do have saver Tuesday, which I think knocks a ticket down to £5 which is pretty good.
Fortunately, we also have The Tyneside Cinema, which shows good films, treats you like a human being and is reasonably priced.
Fortunately, we also have The Tyneside Cinema, which shows good films, treats you like a human being and is reasonably priced.
swee'pea99
Squire
We went to see The War Horse at the theatre last week (fantastic show, BTW) on special discount tickets from the school. I went to get teeny tubs of ice-cream for me & the bairn at the interval, but had to return in shame, having only a tenner on me. £3.50 a pop! For a thimble-full and a wee plastic dibber.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
The 'new' Vue cinema is £7-9 per ticket.... the few times I've been I've taken my own tinnies in, but it's not a cinema i warm too. Our local independent cinema is a fiver a ticket, and the bar prices are reasonable, and it's a much nicer space to watch a film in.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
company i work for bought a bulk load of tickets for local Odeon and Cineaworld for £3 ea so went yesterday 2 adults cost £6
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
So I use Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds or the Cubby Broccoli & Pictureville cinemas in Bradford, films are about £4/5 with no rip-off food costs. That price is about "right" IMO.
I've not been to the Hyde Park Picture House in over thirty years....
I'll have to remedy that state of affairs.
I live within walking distance of the Cottage Road cinema and once again have not visited since my student days.
I remember going to the cinema in Rochdale in my teens (it's a wetherspoons now) and it costing 50p!
We have a Vue here and limit ourselves to orange wednesdays - bogof tickets - and Kids AM showings which are £1.75.
Sometimes I buy a snack box for £3.75 and get popcorn, a slush and a twirl, yes it's still expensive but the slush on it's own is 3 quid so it's a relative bargain.
We have a Vue here and limit ourselves to orange wednesdays - bogof tickets - and Kids AM showings which are £1.75.
Sometimes I buy a snack box for £3.75 and get popcorn, a slush and a twirl, yes it's still expensive but the slush on it's own is 3 quid so it's a relative bargain.
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
Our cinema is £6.60 a ticket. We get any sweeties or drink that we want to take in from Morrisons and just pop it in a rucksack, we don't buy from the actual cinema. £2.80 for a packet of Revels is just a rip off. I can buy a whole 2 litre bottle of fizzy pop for less than one of their paper cups of the stuff.
£17 for everything, including the tickets, is not too shoddy IMO. Maybe I just have an expensive cinema. We don't go often anyway as things come to DVD so quickly nowadays, we can wait a bit.
£17 for everything, including the tickets, is not too shoddy IMO. Maybe I just have an expensive cinema. We don't go often anyway as things come to DVD so quickly nowadays, we can wait a bit.
simon the viking
Guru
Am-Dram is the answer, we love going to the local arts centre theatre - The Brewhouse in Burton, We've seen Calamity Jane, Singing in the rain, Educating Rita, Scrooge to name but a few all for around a fiver a ticket (gone up a bit now think its nearer 7 quid now.) and you watch people who want to be there acting doing it for the love of it not overpaid moaning actors "only" getting 10 million each per film and the refreshments at the interval are far cheaper wine and pints at reasonable prices and its far more a night out than the cinema (saying that I do still go to pictures but is normally bargain tues, orange weds or saturday kids film club)
