... You can also hire the cinema for your own private party but at (minimum) £750 that's a bit out of my league!
I mentioned the sing-alongs before, this is something the Prince Charlie seems to do about once a week and are (from what I hear) very popular. This is where they play the Sound ... Read review
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Advantages: Cheap, Independent Disadvantages: None for me.
...before, this is something the Prince Charlie seems to do about once a week and are (from what I hear) very popular. This is where they play the Sound of Music, and you sing-along with everyone else in the cinema and they put the words up on screen, Karaoke style, to help you out. Ticket prices for this one are a bit more expensive at £13.50. The audience is also encouraged to do things like Boo at the Nazis.
The also occasionally ... ...just one screen at the Prince Charlie, hidden away behind red curtains until the movie starts.
The Prince Charles isn't subsidised and is an independent cinema, it does still run advertisements before the movie, though not as many as your usual cinema.
The cinema is excellently located just off the top of Leicester Square (so use Leicester Square tube), towards Lisle Street, just past Haagen Daaz (a nice stop off on ... more
A warning to the other men out there, the back few rows of this cinema has couple seats, and if you are as "lucky" as me - your partner will sprawl all over you to get comfortable to watch the movie!! The seats themselves are padded and old style looking but comfy none the less and slope down from the front, and then slope back up towards the back, like two hills with a valley (on a much smaller scale). Wonder if this is to do with sing-along nights? The hills are alive??
Its not just the amazing prices that makes this cinema great. Tho the prices do need to be talked (perhaps even raved) about. At the moment they are running £1 Fridays. Yes £1. That's £1 popcorn £1 for your drink and £1 for your movie (this doesn't include sing-a-long nights, but you wouldn't catch me at one of those anyway). Now it's not just these special Fridays that have great prices, tickets are generally £4 (evenings) for non-members and £3 for matinees. These prices do vary occasionally (special events) but this is your standard price.
You can also become a member for £7.50 a year and get further discounts on your tickets (usually £1 a ticket).
The movies are all on second run, usually just about as something comes out on DVD or is just about to, but for the same price as renting a DVD (well almost) its well worth seeing it on the big screen. They often run a few less mainstream movies, such as Korean or Gay and Lesbian movies, that it would be hard to find anywhere else.
Movies run 7 days a week and there are four showings a day, starting from around lunchtime.
The advertisements for the cinema (ie. Turn off your mobile) are quite old and amusing, the size of the mobile they have for their advertisement is huge!
There are seats upstairs, but I have never used them so I can't comment on them, I think they are for special events. You can also hire the cinema for your own private party but at (minimum) £750 that's a bit out of my league!
I mentioned the sing-alongs before, this is something the Prince Charlie seems to do about once a week and are (from what I hear) very popular. This is where they play the Sound of Music, and you sing-along with everyone else in the cinema and they put the words up on screen, Karaoke style, to help you out. Ticket prices for this one are a bit more expensive at £13.50. The audience is also encouraged to do things like Boo at the Nazis.
The also occasionally do charity nights, where the ticket money goes to a particular Charity. Other events they have run this year are Shah Rukh Khan Bollywood Films (a run of Bollywood films), 2005 Canadian Film Festival (a run of Canadian films). =
As you buy your tickets upstairs there is a candy counter next to the ticket desk. If you are paying by card you do get charged a small fee of about £1, when you buy tickets and treats you will have to do them as separate transactions and pay the fee for both. They have your standard food, popcorn, chocolate, coke etc (beer downstairs at the bar) and I can't remember it being spectacularly cheap but it is cheaper than you would pay at a Vue or one of those cinemas.
You walk downstairs into the cinema and there is a waiting area and a small bar with a few drinks and limited snacks, and of course the toilets (where there will be a big queue for the ladies at the end of the show, take a seat in the waiting area men!).
There is just one screen at the Prince Charlie, hidden away behind red curtains until the movie starts.
The Prince Charles isn't subsidised and is an independent cinema, it does still run advertisements before the movie, though not as many as your usual cinema.
The cinema is excellently located just off the top of Leicester Square (so use Leicester Square tube), towards Lisle Street, just past Haagen Daaz (a nice stop off on the way) It used to be a theatre, and as at one stage a "house of ill repute" (that quote is from their website princecharlescinema.com) but it has been a cinema since 1991.
I have heard a rumour that the Easy company (of easyjet, easycar etc) are wanting to open a cinema in Leicester Square with their usual budget prices. I hope this (if it goes ahead) will cause competition for the big chain cinemas, rather than the Prince Charlie. Tho a big Easycinema is unlikely to have the charm of the independent Prince Charlie.
...cheapest. You won't find the Prince Charles unless you're looking for it, so take an A-Z and when you find yourself in Leicester Square, locate the Haagen Daz on the corner near the Warner Bros cinema and walk up the dingy and unpromising side street that leads off the square. Up at the top on the left hand side you'll see a grubby looking building that gives absolutely no hint of the delights inside. There's a big sign saying Prince Charles which ... ...in all other ways the Prince Charles is the absolute opposite of all the other mainstream cinemas on Leicester Square. For a start, it's cheap - no more than £4 per movie and as little as £1.99 if you're a student or go mid-day. Second, it doesn't show current movies. Third, it doesn't even really have a programme. The only fixtures are the regular showings of the Rocky Horror Show and the Sound of Music, of which more later. The rest of the listings ...
ImogenW 19.01.2001
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Advantages: Very cheap, character, some interesting programmes Disadvantages: not terribly clean, seats not the most comfy
...with affection, but the old Prince Charles just tucked away off Leicester Square (next to the French Church - can't remember it's name but it is probably Notre Dame.. most French churches are called Notre Dame but I digress.. ), is indeed, a cinema which endears itself to you. It is certainly not the cleanest, or the comfiest cinema, indeed, it seems almost a little out of place among the flashier cinemas that Leicester Square has to offer, but it ... ...long amount of time!), the Prince Charles has shown the Rocky Horror Show (complete with requisite people dressing up, joining in etc) every Friday night at 11.30pm. It costs a bit extra to go along for this. More recently, they have also introduced the wildly successful Sing-along-a-Sound-of-Music, which shows at 7.30pm on Fridays and 2pm on Sundays. You too, can dress up as a nun and relive your childhood dreams (depending on what type of childhood ...
womble 31.05.2001
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Advantages: Good laugh, fancy dress prizes Disadvantages: None!
...of music show at the Prince Charles cinema in leicester Square is absolutely brilliant fun and I would recommend it to anyone. there is an option to go in fancy dress and win prizes such as a years free entry to the cinema or a magnum of champers. They Friday night showing is the best to go to (I think it's 18 plus only) and costs about 8 pounds. You should buy a party pack with a foam hand nun to wave and party poppers (for the captains ball) and ... ...and take some confetti for the wedding.
Although fancy dress isn't compulsory it's good fun to dress up. I went as a brown paper package tied up with string and won first prize - a years free entry to the cinema, which shows some pretty good films.
there is also a tamer version of the show on sunday pm which children are welcome at. ...
disco-clare 15.08.2000
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Advantages: Very very cheap films, Disadvantages: Only one screen, so only one film at a time
The Prince Charles Cinema is just off Leicester Square in central London. The address is 7 Leicester Place, or if you are walking from Leicester Sq. tube station turn right at Haagen Das. It is only a minutes walk from the biggest Odeon in the country and yet in doesn't cost £10 to see a film there, it costs £2.50! (£1.99 on Mondays), and even less if you are a member.
The radical pricing policy would make this cinema stand out like a smiling face ... ...the PCC's favour. They have one screen, but show 4 different films a day, changing each day. They are never the very latest releases, usually there is a mix of films about a month old, and cultish ones from the past year. For instance last week I saw Shanghai Noon, and the week before The Buena Vista Social Club. Because the program changes so much it can be hard to keep up with it. The easiest way is to visit their website, (http://www.pop2.net/pchtml/showing.shtml?page=showing).
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Gervase 20.11.2000
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...dont know who runs the Prince Charles, just off Leicester Square, but they deserve an award. How many places can you go and see a film for £1.50 right in the middle of the West End? If you missed that great film that everyone was talking about, just didnt manage to fit it into your schedule then the Prince Charles is the place to head. 2 paces from Leicester Square, just verging on China Town, is this cinema which has consistenly managed to show ... ...The programming is sporadic and they may only be showing your film once during the day and then never again, but the cinema is clean and the staff are friendly. Every once in a while they have a Sing-a-Long-a-Sound-of-Music. Sound of Music fans get dressed up as nuns and sing a long to the film. More like a club than a cinema this has been a great success. ...
CatBalloo 25.07.2000
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