Cinema prices

saralou2011

Just wondering what the prices you pay for the cinema around the country. my friend in Galway was telling me she paid €14 for her ticket. (what a rip off) it's €9 in mayo.

AngryBollix

free internet porn may be the solution

Turtyturd

12:50 in UCI here...if I go to Galway it's 14, only 9 in Mayo though.

cocoshovel

€8 for student and about €12 or more for a normal ticket in Waterford. Rip off. I heard its dirt cheap up in Belfast.

Mickeroo

Was 14euro to a 3D movie??

Student card ftw!

44leto

9 in the UCI in coolock but 29 for a small fanta.

Dravokivich

20 euro a month for the card in Cineworld. See as many movies you want with that.

knowit12

saralou2011 wrote: »

Just wondering what the prices you pay for the cinema around the country. my friend in Galway was telling me she paid €14 for her ticket. (what a rip off) it's €9 in mayo.

In Dublin it's €9.50 for adult
€7.50 student

€14 is shocking !

the groutch

I think alot less people are paying the rip-off prices for the food/drinks, so they're having to up ticket prices to compensate

Hazys

In downtown Boston, its only $12 a ticket...but then i went and spent $17 on a large popcorn and drink Im still amazed that i paid 14Euro in Mahon Point in Cork over christmas thats $18!!

Its $6 more in a suburb of Cork, a city of 200,000 compared to Boston with a population of 4,000,000+.

No wonder the country is fcuked.

Luap

€6.50 for student in Cork.

ScummyMan

€14? :eek:

€8 down here for an adult ticket.

MickySticks

Bout 3 fiddy here in Kildare. Madness!

krudler

€4 omniplex tickets ftw!

Agricola

anywhere from 7 to 11 in any of the cinemas in the Sth east. So happy I hate popcorn!

forfuxsake

cocoshovel wrote: »

€8 for student and about €12 or more for a normal ticket in Waterford. Rip off. I heard its dirt cheap up in Belfast.

Never will understand(unless somebody now explains it to me) why it doesn't make more sense to charge €4(€5 on fri and sat) and have a full cinema than to charge more than 10.

Cinemas in Belfast are generally £3 on a tuesday and wednesday and absolutely buzzing those nights. The normal price is £5-6.

They have kids matinees on sat and sunday for £1.50 for adults and kids.

I can't/won't hand over 25 quid in Waterford for two cinema tickets, especially not when I have the internet, a white wall and and LCD projector and a decent set of speakers.

Toby Take a Bow

Dravokivich wrote: »

20 euro a month for the card in Cineworld. See as many movies you want with that.

Can't beat it. Go twice and you've got it paid for. Cineworld tend to have a decent enough showing of different types of film for that type of card to be worthwhile.

amacachi

€3.80 in Dundalk if you're on the dole. Pretty kickass.

OakeyDokey

It's 8.60 for adult peak times. 6 something when off peak. The movie that's on 12.30 every Sunday is only 2.50 because it's the Kidz Club. That's Kilkenny by the way.

St.Spodo

14 euro for a cinema ticket in Galway? Bloody hell. Usually in and around 9 in Dublin.

cloud493

Its 9 quid round here, extra euro for the 3D film, plus another for the glasses.

dvpower

Hazys wrote: »

Its $6 more in a suburb of Cork, a city of 200,000 compared to Boston with a population of 4,000,000+.

No wonder the country is fcuked.

I don't get it - why should the size of a city have a bearing on cinema prices?

And are expensive cinema tickets the hidden reason for our downfall?

candy-gal1

woah!! 14e is shocking!! i wouldnt pay it tbh :eek:

Cineworld is great if you have the card, i dont have a laser card yet so i dont have that privilage :pac:, but for their cheap tuesdays at 6.50 all day/night, then savoy, omniplex and the screen charging from 5e to 8.70 tis not bad at all really!

id get the popcorn etc in the cinema as a treat rarely, but it is a big rip off tbh, unless its butter popcorn in uci or the icecream in cineworld

Elessar

I enjoy the cinema experience. Everytime I go I'll spend about €20 - €10 on the ticket and €10 on a large combo. I know it's expensive but I enjoy the experience. Plus now my local has a loyalty card program, I'll get either a free ticket or free large combo every 4th time I go.

Robdude

A good movie will still be good in a year or two.
I'll wait and watch it for free.

44leto

Its unusual that somewhere in Ireland is dearer then Dublin in anything. Anytime I am down the sticks things seem a lot cheaper from drink, restaurants even petrol.

Being a business in Dublin seems to give them a licence to rip us Dubs off. But I suppose rents and overheads are higher up here.

44leto

Robdude wrote: »

A good movie will still be good in a year or two.
I'll wait and watch it for free.

True, but I generally see the cinema as a night out. That is the principle reason I go. I enjoy it and I think it is worth it.

amacachi

candy-gal1 wrote: »

woah!! 14e is shocking!! i wouldnt pay it tbh :eek:

Cineworld is great if you have the card, i dont have a laser card yet so i dont have that privilage :pac:, but for their cheap tuesdays at 6.50 all day/night, then savoy, omniplex and the screen charging from 5e to 8.70 tis not bad at all really!

id get the popcorn etc in the cinema as a treat rarely, but it is a big rip off tbh, unless its butter popcorn in uci or the icecream in cineworld

Butter popcorn you say? Bastards stopped with the butter here years ago, cost them a customer.

jaja321

14 quid for a cinema ticket in Galway? That would have to be for the Luxury Theatre in the Eye Cinema. Otherwise tickets would be about 9 quid.

biomed32

gotta love £3 pound tuesdays in Belfast, although the prices have climbed significantly in recent times down in dublin with my local costing E10.30 now

Mickeroo

biomed32 wrote: »

gotta love £3 pound tuesdays in Belfast, although the prices have climbed significantly in recent times down in dublin with my local costing E10.30 now

pisses me off that more Irish cinemas don't do that, they'd make a killing, all the cinmeas in NZ an australia have 5 dollar tuesdays and the places used to be wedged. It turns a dead week night into a gold mine, but nobody here can stand the thought of letting in people for less money.

Turtyturd

Turtyturd wrote: »

12:50 in UCI here...if I go to Galway it's 14, only 9 in Mayo though.

I net your friend paid to see a film in the luxury screen in the Eyecinema then. Never been myself as the extra cost does not seem worth it.

baldbear

€14??? Jaysus youd want to be getting a happy ending with that film.:-)

krudler

Robdude wrote: »

A good movie will still be good in a year or two.
I'll wait and watch it for free.

yeah but watching a movie on tv or a laptop cant compare to seeing it on a giant cinema screen, depending on the movie obviously, big blockbusters are made to be seen on a huge screen.

krudler

Mickeroo wrote: »

pisses me off that more Irish cinemas don't do that, they'd make a killing, all the cinmeas in NZ an australia have 5 dollar tuesdays and the places used to be wedged. It turns a dead week night into a gold mine, but nobody here can stand the thought of letting in people for less money.

get an o2 prepay sim card, 4 quid omniplex tickets mon-thur, any show

AboutTwoFiddy

I downloaded a cinema.

Wetai

Hazys wrote: »

In downtown Boston, its only $12 a ticket...but then i went and spent $17 on a large popcorn and drink Im still amazed that i paid 14Euro in Mahon Point in Cork over christmas thats $18!!

Its $6 more in a suburb of Cork, a city of 200,000 compared to Boston with a population of 4,000,000+.

No wonder the country is fcuked.

But wouldn't higher population -> more people go -> prices go down/don't need to charge as much, too.

Mickeroo

krudler wrote: »

get an o2 prepay sim card, 4 quid omniplex tickets mon-thur, any show

My nearest omniplex is is in Galway which is over an hours drive

token101

forfuxsake wrote: »

Never will understand(unless somebody now explains it to me) why it doesn't make more sense to charge €4(€5 on fri and sat) and have a full cinema than to charge more than 10.

Cinemas in Belfast are generally £3 on a tuesday and wednesday and absolutely buzzing those nights. The normal price is £5-6.

They have kids matinees on sat and sunday for £1.50 for adults and kids.

I can't/won't hand over 25 quid in Waterford for two cinema tickets, especially not when I have the internet, a white wall and and LCD projector and a decent set of speakers.

I'd imagine £1.50 a ticket would be loss making. Couldn't see how it wouldn't be. Especially if you have people bring their own food like they do. £5-6 would be roughly €8-9 though? So it's not that much better really. Plus, wages and costs would be higher down here. I would have thought that having half the cinema empty and getting 10 quid a ticket is much better than having a fully packed cinema and getting 5 quid a ticket. Because you always have more space to sell and no one actually likes a jam packed cinema. You can always cut prices if the business is suffering badly and if needs be, but if you start low and don't hit targets, the minute you put them up you'll drive away the penny pinchers, who only started out with you because you were cheap anyway. I wouldn't necessarily be seeking out bargain hunters if I ran a business.

44leto

token101 wrote: »

I'd imagine £1.50 a ticket would be loss making. Couldn't see how it wouldn't be. Especially if you have people bring their own food like they do. £5-6 would be roughly €8-9 though? So it's not that much better really. Plus, wages and costs would be higher down here. I would have thought that having half the cinema empty and getting 10 quid a ticket is much better than having a fully packed cinema and getting 5 quid a ticket. Because you always have more space to sell and no one actually likes a jam packed cinema. You can always cut prices if the business is suffering badly and if needs be, but if you start low and don't hit targets, the minute you put them up you'll drive away the penny pinchers, who only started out with you because you were cheap anyway. I wouldn't necessarily be seeking out bargain hunters if I ran a business.

It may get people going to the cinema again, the cinema will be playing emptyish anyway and they will sell extra overpriced refreshments. I think it is a good idea.

Logical Fallacy

forfuxsake wrote: »

Never will understand(unless somebody now explains it to me) why it doesn't make more sense to charge €4(€5 on fri and sat) and have a full cinema than to charge more than 10.

Cinema ticket pricing is a surprisingly complex thing. It's not just the cinema themselves who set the price, it's also the distributor.

Cinemas get a percentage of sales, the percentage grows each week as the film is shown while the distributor percentage shrinks. It's an incentive for a long showing and also maximises first day returns for the distributor in case the film bombs from negative word of mouth.

It also normally takes a couple of days for the blogs to light up fully to whether a film is good or bad. No one really pays attention to the newspaper critics anymore.

Paddy Cow

token101 wrote: »

I'd imagine £1.50 a ticket would be loss making. Couldn't see how it wouldn't be. Especially if you have people bring their own food like they do. £5-6 would be roughly €8-9 though? So it's not that much better really. Plus, wages and costs would be higher down here. I would have thought that having half the cinema empty and getting 10 quid a ticket is much better than having a fully packed cinema and getting 5 quid a ticket. Because you always have more space to sell and no one actually likes a jam packed cinema. You can always cut prices if the business is suffering badly and if needs be, but if you start low and don't hit targets, the minute you put them up you'll drive away the penny pinchers, who only started out with you because you were cheap anyway. I wouldn't necessarily be seeking out bargain hunters if I ran a business.

It's better to have a full cinema at half price, than a half full cinema at full price. A full cinema will bring in more revenue from food/drink than a half full cinema.

Logical Fallacy

Paddy Cow wrote: »

It's better to have a full cinema at half price, than a half full cinema at full price. A full cinema will bring in more revenue from food/drink than a half full cinema.

Ticket prices are mostly set by the Distro's, they don't care about food/drink as it's not money in their pocket.

phasers

to go see a 3d film in my local (Liffey valley) is 15 quid, normally I head into town and go to The Screen or the IFI, and I'd pay 6-8 euro.

KilOit

Cinema's take up so much space they must have huge rent, can understand the prices tbh

Colmo52

€5 before 6pm
€7 after 6pm