Movies @ Swords, impressions?

Dont be at yourself

Went to see The Prestige there last night, and came away very unimpressed with the cinema.

Prices are mad - €7.90 for a student ticket on a Thursday night? It's incredible. Portions of nachos were tiny too, and overpriced (and no jalepenos ). Tickets printed on receipt rolls, huge queues at ice-cream stand whilst 5 free food-staff looked on. The seats were hard (need to be worn in? ), screen a little small (I was in 6). For such prices, I would expect a little more - everything came across as penny-pinching.

Oh, and Pepsi instead of Coke, yuck!

I'm off into the Savoy for Bond tonight.

PWEI

I live in Swords and was looking forward to this cinema opening but at €9.30 for an adult ticket they can forget it.I can get a ticket for Omni Santry online for €5.50.OK I'll be wasting money on petrol by driving to Santry but with two of us going it will still be cheaper.

constitutionus

havent been but ridiculous prices are the norm now and its put me off going the last couple of months. shades of the publicans here, how long till no one goes anymore? after all its not like you'll sneak in a few videos in your house before going out

Rhyme

Went to the Prestige as well, on Sunday night though and i won't be going again. As been said before, the prices are a bit steep but it was also the little things that annoyed me.

The staff behind the tills didn't seem totally clued in, "A packet of Minstrels please" was met by blank stares, i eventually had to ask him to turn around so i could point out what i wanted. The ushers didn't seem to know what was what, they insisted on seating us and we ended up helping him seat us... and then the seats, they looked really nice and for the first half an hour they were great. After that i was squirming in my chair to try and get comfortable for the rest of the film.

Id rather catch the train to town and go to the UGC or the Savoy than go to that place again.

doonothing

an apology to you all.. i work there, ill admit, its a bit of a shambles at the minute, its just starting up, and there's a LOT of staff who've never worked in a cinema....a dn not everyone speaks very good english, and i still cant understand why they've been put on concession but how and ever...
the reason we have to seat everyone is because there's no letters on the seat rows and otherwise no one would know where they were going!
teething problems, i promise...
to be honest, the prices are mad, but its only for peak times, the pre 7pm prices are ok, and i dont know why im defending it so much other than the fact that i do honestly believe it has potential to provide a really nice experience, just.....bear with us please!

Rhyme

doonothing wrote:

the reason we have to seat everyone is because there's no letters on the seat rows

Yeh, i did notice that... and the letters start (A, B, C...) from the back of the cinema

doonothing

whats worse is thats only in some screens! in others the computer thinks n is the back row... gah!

DonalMcTavish

Went today with gf. Queued for 30 mins to get tickets.
Went in and it turned out the tickets were not for seats beside each other.
After trying for nearly an hour to get our money back we just left, never to return ever again.

senordingdong

DonalMcTavish wrote:

Went today with gf. Queued for 30 mins to get tickets.
Went in and it turned out the tickets were not for seats beside each other.
After trying for nearly an hour to get our money back we just left, never to return ever again.

That's ****ing ridiculous.

Goolay

Went there on Saturday with gf to see Casino Royale, twas the smallest screen and room I've seen in a cinema. It felt more like someones private theatre room or something. No butter available on popcorn makes me a sad panda, though that seems to be trend these days. Also unhappy about the whole Pepsi thing aswell. Don't think I'll be returning either unless I'm feeling particularly lazy. So what's the deal with this "VIP screen" business, sorry if it's been answered in another post.

Mitch Connor

bigger leather seats, a complementary popcorn and drink/glass of wine (if its the same as Dundrum)