I was here yesterday for "ladies night", an special event that some pathes hold every now and then, specially for ladies with some kind of romantic comedy or "lady style movie". I do like this cinema, it's all right and quite good for being in old the city centre. It's spacious, there are a lot of rooms and service is good.
The ladies night though, was a disappointment. I went there specially to enjoy the event and not really the movie, since I don't really like it at all (it was fifty shades of grey) and you are supposed to arrive one hour early to mingle and get free drinks, etc. It was really dirty and people were leaving their glasses everywhere and there was a lot of popcorn on the floor. Everything seemed very unorganized, there were some signs that were hand written with some sayings from the movie which made me feel like I was in a school event or something. Some stands were selling some weird stuff, or bags or accessories. Upstairs there were stands selling sex toys and other things that matched the movie theme. The champagne wasn't really good so I stuck with the orange juice which was even worse. When we got to the movie room, we had goodie bags waiting for us on the seats and a free drink. They also have us "free popcorn" which consisted of this yogurt raspberry popcorn in a super small bag. Not complaining too much but I thought we'd the real thing. There was someone to lead us to our seats which was nice since it was packed and people were all over the place.
Before the movie started a guy came in the room announcing they were supposed to have a stripper (like other ladies nights I've seen) but he didn't come or whatever. Not that I was looking forward to that but, just seemed like they failed there, the women we're disappointment.
They had a raffle with a lot of prizes and a lot of women had the opportunity to win, although some items were silly, other were nice. Like gift cards for some nice stores, goodie bags (good ones) and other stuff.
I'm not gonna review the movie here Obv, because this is only for the ladies night event, and they always have different movies. But let's just say those are two hours of my life I'll never get back hahaha (sorry 50 shades fans. I bet the book was good though!!)
The goodie bag was a bit disappointing, I think It could be a bit more tasteful even with cheap things. There was a chips bag, a sample of toothpaste, some samples of products you can get in magazines, a gossip magazine, an eyeshadow, some dutch candy (drops), and other random stuff.
Keep in mind this was the "normal" ticket to the ladies night, sometimes they have the deluxe one available. This time at pathe de munt they didn't have the deluxe ticket available. You are supposed to get better stuff if you buy that.
Overall I was disappointment by the event, but I ended up having a good time because I had brought a good friend with me. No one was mingling anyway and everyone was just doing their own business.
The staff was very helpful and nice, so it's not a service problem but really just pathe having low standards. I don't know how the ladies night went at pathe arena or other pathe locations, but this was my experience with it this time. I believe another location or another movie might be different. read more