Odeon cinema complex in Kingston Upon Thames is a favourite destination for families, couples, groups and individuals from all over the area/county. It is one of the biggest cinemas around and it has got a choice of restaurants, bars and 12 screens which makes it easier with choosing from current ... Read review
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Advantages: large cinema, night screening, many restaurants Disadvantages: no parking around
Odeon cinema complex in Kingston Upon Thames is a favourite destination for families, couples, groups and individuals from all over the area/county. It is one of the biggest cinemas around and it has got a choice of restaurants, bars and 12 screens which makes it easier with choosing from current movies.
The complex is orientated oposite the Kingston train station and its short distance to high street. It is busy area and always buzzing. ... .../>
First floor is where Odeon is together with Express Pizza, chinesse restaurant, Sushi bar and Frankie and Benys, Hagen Daz ice cream place and Frangos. Always well busy so its essential to pre-book if you are plannig to eat before hiiting the movies. All the places serve different food so its up to your taste what you fancy. I found Frankie and Benys good and their staff is always very helpful especially if you are hungry and you have a movie ... more
Odeon cinema complex in Kingston Upon Thames is a favourite destination for families, couples, groups and individuals from all over the area/county. It is one of the biggest cinemas around and it has got a choice of restaurants, bars and 12 screens which makes it easier with choosing from current movies.
The complex is orientated oposite the Kingston train station and its short distance to high street. It is busy area and always buzzing. When you walk in through glass door you can either go upstairs using escalator or lift or downstairs. The ground floor has a restaurant during the day and bar in the night. I think they have got evening restaurant in separate area from tables when youngsters usually drink before hitting the nightclub Oceana next door. Lower level has got Bowling and other entertainment with bar and fast food service. I found the area filled with very young people and its better to book if you are planning to play Bowling and not too late in the evening. First floor is where Odeon is together with Express Pizza, chinesse restaurant, Sushi bar and Frankie and Benys, Hagen Daz ice cream place and Frangos. Always well busy so its essential to pre-book if you are plannig to eat before hiiting the movies. All the places serve different food so its up to your taste what you fancy. I found Frankie and Benys good and their staff is always very helpful especially if you are hungry and you have a movie to see, they will always do what they can to accomodate you. Then there is the Odeon cinema itself. It went recently through some refurbishment so it looks slightly different than what it looked before but I preffered the previous set-up. There is a large number of tills and you can purchase your tickets there if you already didnt buy them online which could be chaper option because their prices went up from £7.50 to £8.50 in recent months. If you are a student there is a discount same for families/group or family deal. Their staff at the till is usually very young and helpful apart from one experience when they sold us tickets for late night screening and the movie was never going to be shown due to underselling tickets and they already knew but forgot to inform us so we had to deal with the manager after the member of staff refused to return our money. They could be trained a bit better especially when you are waiting around for 2h and not happy.
You can buy various sweets, crisps, nachos, hotdogs, ice-creams, popcorn and drinks but I found them expensive so I tend to bring my own as I am not wasting my money. Their sweet selection when you pick and mix is ok, but could have more choice and somebody suppervising it because small children tend to eat them and nobody spots that and nobody should be really touching anything inside the plastic container. It because they moved it from main serving/selling refreshments area to opposite wall and its not really that visible.
When you go through with your tickets they will be automaticly teared by member of staff and you will informed where to go as it can be little bit confusing due to massivness of this cinema. There are escaletors going up or down so make sure you check on ticket or ask the member of staff where is it before getting lost.
When you get to your screen there will be stairs taking you up and rows with numbers on seats to guide you to your seat. It can be very difficult and watch out for premiere seat which are charged extra for /£1 per ticket but I doubt anybody checks where you sitting when the movie starts apart maybe from people who suppose to sit there. I never sat in those seats as I dont see the point to pay extra because the normal seats are quiet cool. Probably a way for Odeon to make extra money. The area around seat is usually clean and they always clean it after every movie screening.
Once you finished watching your movie you will be guided out again by staff standing in hallway by they little info station. Toilets are orientated on both levels and there is a lot of cubicles and tidy.
Odeon cinema is very organised and customer friendly. I enjoy their night screening too. Just be aware that there isnt any car park so you will have to look up the area where to park!!!
Advantages: there wasn't any! Disadvantages: no food or drink, dirty, screens didn't work, didn't show any of the top movies
...looking through a booklet with ODEON plastered on the front, so I walked up to the side of the counter and grabbed one for myself. I thought it was a bit silly how the small magazines with all the times and dates in were at the front of the queue.
I opened up the booklet, and at the top of the front page it stated: 'What's on at Maidenhead Cinema (August 2008):'. We were finally getting somewhere! Until of course, we started reading down the list. ... ...those that are crazy enough to want to visit such a poor 'cinema', here's the address and website:
Filmline:
0871 22 44 007
Address:
Odeon Maidenhead
42-44 King Street
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 1DY
Website:
http://www.odeon.co.uk/fanatic/film_ times/s10/
Summary: I'll be staying a fan of Vue and Cineworld! ...
spidercallum 16.08.2008
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Advantages: Good location, range of films Disadvantages: no parking
...can't do better than the Odeon Cinema on South Clerk Street.
This cinema offers both the main Hollywood blockbusters and smaller independent films without the pretensiouness of the art-house cinema or the impersonal nature of a Multiplex. Both matinees and late night showings are common, the later being popular with the large number of students living locally.
It has been renovated recently and is still stylishly furnished reflecting its 1930s ...
gille 17.07.2000
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Advantages: Good quality services Disadvantages: Expensive tickets and food
...the lowest adult price at Odeon now being £5.20, yes FIVE POUNDS TWENTY!! This precious cash (equivalent to half an hours work on the average UK wage) will buy you 30 minutes of trailers, and a film – varying in quality. It seems that the film itself is becoming less of an attraction, and the cinema chains are seeing the ad as a more important part of the cinema experience. Of course, this advertising does keep prices down, but not nearly as ... ...undergone a refit in recent years, bringing in luxury eating and snack facilities. For example my local cinema in Taunton (the only cinema in Taunton), has a Hagan Daz ice cream parlour, a hot dog counter, not to mention numerous beverages and snacks. Needless to say these products will set you back a few pounds, with a 3-scoop portion of ice cream costing around £5, and a small drink about £1.40!! With the need for only one or two cinemas in any ...
leematthews 07.05.2001
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Advantages: Friendly, really enjoyable. Disadvantages: seems to be following the flow of commercialisation...
...his pay.
Now, the odeon is a fabourite cinema for many and still incorporates less costs than most for ticket sales and for your viewing snacks. On a recent visit, though I don't go much, I found they were going with the crowd and had had itself refurbished. The prices had rised a little bit but not yet reaching higher prices of, for example, the two ABC cinemas, also in the city.
It only had about six screens but had all of the latest titles. ... ...directed up a few flights of stairs after being greeted by a few, friendly employees. At the top we entered the screen. This was a surprisingly top quality, gigantic room that seved beeter purpose than any of the more commercial cinemas could.
I hope this great viewing experince is not part of the downfall of coming complete commercialisation and stays its small, but fantastic, self. ...
Mopemaster 31.12.2000
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Advantages: well it does create a good laugh with mates, and then thers the tension factor Disadvantages: expensive ticket, expensive food, and a stupid phone booking system
...see a film at the odeon cinema in my own town, which is the chepaest adult ticket that you can get. this is quite a ludicrous price, as for me and my friends (around 5 of us at time) it costs £26.00 to see one movie, where as if we go down to the nearest blockbuster it will cost just £3.20 to rent the latest release's.
The advantages though of going to the cinema is that you get to see the latest releases and if seeing any movie, you can experience ... ...that i have towards the odeon cinema's is that of their phone booking system, i recently wanted to book two seats to watch the Bridget Jones movie (excellant), but it must have taken 5 minutes or more just to get to the point of credit card booking and to entering my details.i got half way through that and it became a mess,and the women on the other end (automated computer response) was making no sense at all,so i hanged up.it also included a charge, ...
fedamunta 09.05.2001
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