The place is a joke quite frankly. When it was first opened as the Warner Village there was a box office where you could buy your cinema tickets and a place to buy food etc but since it became The Vue, the box office has been closed and you have to buy movie tickets, food, drinks etc at the same counter which is usually understaffed. It`s normally OK during the day when there are only a few customers but during the childrens holiday or at night when a popular film is showing customers can spend up to half an hour in the queue whilst some people decide if they want Cola, Fanta or Sprite and whether they want hog dogs or popcorn whilst the rest of us just want to pay to see a movie have to stand around waiting for them . I myself and my nephew for example queued up along with about 80 other people this afternoon for some 25 minutes and there were still people coming into the screen we were in some 10 minutes after the film started. This stupidity must be company policy because I believe the same thing happens at the Vue at Cheshire Oakes as well. Yet another example, me thinks, of a cost cutting exercise that inconviences the customer. Of course you can always buy your tickets on line and pay an extra charge per ticket for the privilege.

What are you thinking going to that riff raff birkenhead one anyway?
Use the cinema in bromborough, much better experience and you won`t get your car broken into or pickpocketed.

Vue in the port is better, but it still suffers from the dreaded que behind idiots buying alsorts of over priced shit. I once waited in a que for so long (1 hour) that I had missed the first 15 mins of the film and they wouldnt let me in to watch it late.

I have noticed the toilets are always in a terrible condition, same as B&Q, Tesco etc etc. Cost-co toilets are always immaculate and in tip top condition. Wonder if thats because they use quality metal doors etc.

i prefer Bromborough , and you sometimes have to get your cimema tickets at the refreshments stall , but the box office has always been open when its been busy..

OMG haven't any of you used the gallery and Imax experience yet?
where have you been?!?!?!

Liverpool One. The Odeon

You have to book tickets online for the Gallery, which is for over 18+. Theres booths up there, a bar and you get VIP seating, which is like sitting on a large 2 seater sette's...oh and you can have as much nacho's, popcorn, drinks and costa coffee & tea as you want (its free in the gallery).

It is about £22-24 a ticket though...but by the time you've paid for VIP seats, popcorn, drinks and what have you...it only works about a couple of quid dearer which makes up for the seats.

as for the imax experience....wow...

Wow! Sounds great. What movie did you go and see?
(Grrr, i hate the word 'Movie'- prefer 'Film')

I've just been to Vue in Birkenhead and it all seems fine to me, and I go a lot! Like once a month to the Vue and two or three times a month to Liverpool Odeon and never had a problem! Yeah the queues can be long but that's why you get there earlier than the start of the film, plus they all have ticket machines away from the counter for people who don't want to buy the food, so you have no reason to complain about that really.

I've only been to the one in Cheshire Oaks a few times, about five times, but have never even waited in a queue. And if it was a cost cutting exercise then they wouldn't have had the vacancies advert playing in the screen we were in today, advertising new jobs there.

my fold down table was full on nachos n salsa dip lol

www.odeon.co.uk/fanatic/tickets_and_pricing/s171/

You have to get your tickets and food at the same counter in most cinemas now, and it's incredibly busy even in the Odeon in Liverpool One, I much prefer NOT going the cinema to be honest, I must be getting a bit old, but they always have the sound so high it hurts my ears and it's never comfy, ok i have a fat bum, but even so.

The only cinema I have enjoyed in the last 10 years is the Fact in Liverpool. Went to see The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and it was lovely in there, you have your OWN arm rest not shared with the person next to you and there is a bar. Perfect!!

wow that sounds a fab night out!

I don't go to the cinema much but if and when I do it's always gallery seating.

Mainly because you're out of the way of the kids and rustling of sweets etc. I think it was £16 for the last Harry Potter but for the extra £8 or whatever it is over a standard ticket you get to relax in a nice lounge, have toilets only a few metres away, unlimited soft drinks, nachos, popcorn etc which if you're that was inclined will cost well over the extra for the seats.

Still, to take the OH to the cinema costs best part of £40 - I'd rather download it illegally and watch it after a nice curry and a bottle of wine in Mak Syed!

I've been a few times now, its the only way I can get my asperger son (the 17yr old) in the cinema and he really doesn't like going out much (hes agoraphobic). But The Gallery is perfect for him, the booths give him his much needed space from other people and the seating in the cinema is perfect because he despises/hates the usual closeness of cinema seats.

Before then, it was heartbreaking having to leave him out of family trips to the cinemas for his own sanity and comfort, so we stopped doing them. Which is why we have alot of dvds

And the Imax is the only cinema i don't have to use the special headphones for my hearing aids.
In the imax, you can feel the sounds! as mad as that sounds. 200 speakers in your direction, trust me, you feel it.
Its worth having the imax experience for amazing special effects films like Transformers - Dark of the moon (that left us blown away til the next day! ) Thor was amazing on there too. You really do walk away feeling blown away with a really good high quality special effect film.

It is expensive but for the quality & luxuries you're getting, i think makes up for it.
I kind of saw it as, a decent night out would cost more, my son is comfortable and is actually happy (which is never very often, trust me) and we love watching films anyway.

I just wish I could take my little boy to see Cars 2
Hes dying to see it.

We saw the latest Harry Potter in Imax and it was superb!! We couldn't go in the gallery as my son's too young. But it was a great experience nevertheless. I'd recommend Odean Liverpool One to anyone.

liverpool odeon's not that busy, only if you're going to see a film that's just come out. You can just get your tickets on the macine outside then get your sweets from the separate counter or nachos/popcorn etc at the end of the food counter, they don't do tickets on the end one, just food. So there really is no need to wait in massive queues!

As for people making noise, that doesn't even happen anymore, and I can tell you because I go like every fortnight
Oh and the imax is amazing! Harry potter there was great, you had to move across the screen to watch it

Yeah you did! It was amazing, in fact would happily go and see it again!

Haha I saw it for the third time last night

it was amazing on the imax!
I sat in the middle of the cinema cos I knew i'd be struggling to take everything in at the sides! lol and it was totally breathtaking.

Really?? I'm jealous!! I've watched them all a few times because I always seem to miss something!

Oh i forgot to say Flash, I went and saw Captain America (last week) after you saying about SHIELD, it was brilliant! it wasn't at all what I expected to be.
Thanks for literally making me going to see it! lol

Did you see the photo released of the line up at the comic con for The Avengers?

Link here for The Avengers line up

I tend to pre-book tickets, so I wouldn't know. However I prefer the LiverpoolOne cinema with the gallery tickets, Love it!

Haha I know yeah I've watched them all a lot too, after we saw the last one I watched them all again, it's so funny watching them from the first one when they were all young and squeaky



Haha! You're welcome I might go see it myself, everyone's said it's good and I do like a good superhero film!



Oooo no I'll have a look now, thanks

Ooh and I've not been to the gallery before, I'll have to try it one day! Unlimited nachos sounds amazing

It is! You come out 2 stone heavier though!

haha! It'll be worth it

FACT is the only cinema I go to these days. Never too busy, big comfy seats and is basically scally-free. Also it's only £6 for members tickets and £4 for pensioners weekday afternoons.

I still miss the Unit 4 in Wallasey. It's good that Wallasey is finally getting a cinema back for the first time in over a decade. Looking forward to the Light opening.

I've not been to the FACT but big comfy seats sounds nice Might give it a try one day, put it on my list with the gallery seats, haha.

after reading this thread we decided to go to the odeon in Liverpool 1 weve been before but we went in the gallery it was good usually got kids with us but we wanted to see the inbetweeners so we left them at home and made a night of it.

Sally I love Fact and am a member.If I go elsewhere with friends I sit there wishing I was in Fact.

Also I enjoy the foreign films, and its cheap in the daytime. They also have special Autism showings and welcome disadvantaged groups and Mums with babies special mornings, childrens Saturday club etc. worth the journey

I've only just seen this post, thank you so much for letting me know paxvobiscum. I've been wanting to take my little boy to the cinema for a long time now, but he'd be terrified at normal ones. So had been keeping an eye out for ASD friendly showings.
Will be keeping an eye out for a film he would enjoy

What? There's going to be a new cinema in Wallasey? I've heard nothing of this!

Love Fact and I've also been to the Crosby Plaza, which is great - proper timewarp. Old tickets and red velvet seats!

It's part of the new brighton development. Its called The Light and it's going to be a digital cinema.

It's a shame it won't be a Cineworld. They sell annual passes for around £15 a month so that can see unlimited films.