It's a nice enough place with comfortable seats and the usual expensive snacks etc....but here is what bothers me. You're paying £8.75 per adult at peak times.....in my case a Monday evening at 5:20, right after work but before dinner for many people. So for me and my partner it's £17.50 to go to the movies. Call it £20 by the time you add one coffee that we shared.
We get there on time, which means the time they say the "program starts". The display in the lobby even counts down with messages like "starts in 9 minutes" scrolling along the bottom. Then once in our seats we sit through a half an hour of advertisements. Just like television. Advertisements. 30 minutes of them. Smart phones and crap I have no interest in. There are trailers for other films after that. I think the actual film started at about 6:00.
So they don't value my time at all. Unfortunately it takes me almost two hours at my day job to earn enough to go to see one film with my partner and then when I get there since they have us captive, they use that opportunity to make more money for themselves by advertising products at us for half an hour. And of course they don't tell you about it in advance. It's a surprise attack.
Furthermore if you want to book seats in advance over the phone they charge you 10p a minute from BT landlines for the privilege. Unreal. I can't believe they think the average consumer is that much of a mark but evidently the general public is expected to take this stuff on the chin. OK fine enough, but don't expect any love or loyalty from me at all. read more