Cinema ticket prices

I've got Picturehouse Central membership, agree its a good deal (even at full price) particularly when you take into account the food and drink discount. Never had a problem with the member's bar being closed but did get annoyed the other week to find they don't serve food in there after 5PM. They do have strange license restrictions in all of the bars that you can't get a drink after 9PM without a cinema ticket, and even then it's only 1 drink per ticket. But a handy spot for food and drink pre-theatre.

Also have Curzon membership (Classic rather than Cult) - 4 free tickets, plus discounts, and a lot of Curzon's own releases have £5 member previews which tend to be at 11AM so good for a pre-matinee slot if I get up early enough

Used to have Odeon Limitless (before I joined Curzon) - good deal if you see a lot there but as noted above it doesn't include "event cinema" and unlike some of the other schemes I don't think you can pay an "uplift" for these screenings (although you can for 3D etc). Gave this up when they closed the Odeon Leicester Square for refurbishment as that had a big knock-on effect on the selection of films at their other London cinemas.

In central London they appear to have moved the smaller films to the Odeon Luxe on Panton Street, which is very expensive. 

Oh wow, they’ve totally changed it then. I went once earlier in the year because it was the only London cinema from any chain showing Roman J Israel Esq (not recommended by the way).

I've been going to The Light cinema, which only opened in the city centre about a year ago and is wonderful with huge comfy reclining seats and even reasonably priced drinks. (My friend and I take a bottle of wine in with us and it's under a tenner). It is pricy though. £13 each for live theatre and about £7 for standard films (and that's with a senior discount of about £2).

Picturehouse in Liverpool charges around £22 for NT Live, £64 for a family ticket - not going to bring in a younger 'lets try theatre' audience with that. And they don't - very grey haired audiences.

Oh, and all tickets have an online booking fee of £1.50.

When we go, we practically have the place to ourselves, unsurprisngly. One of the few exceptions was a preview of Beast, so popular by word-of-mouth they had to move it to a bigger screen, but it was a '£6 discover Tuesdays' screening. If they dropped their prices across the board I'm sure they could fill the place - and the bar and cafe.

Premiere Cinema opened in Cardiff a couple of years back, tickets £4/£3. It's smaller, and mainly the 'big' films, but if you need to see an Avengers or big kid's film etc you can't go wrong. Cineworld and Odeon are about the same as quoted above outside London. The arts cinema at Chapter varies from £5.10-£7.20 depending on concessions and (I think) time of week etc. Which really for an arts cinema that also goes to support the theatre/art/classes/rehearsal spaces in the building I don't mind.