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thriftee

Can I just enquire if anyone has ever been asked for id with their tickets please?

jane22

Yes, in every London screening I have been to in the past few months they have asked everyone for ID. This is only in central-ish London (Panton Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Brixton, Canary Wharf) though - I have no idea whether they check in outer London or elsewhere.

christopher_h

thriftee wrote:

Can I just enquire if anyone has ever been asked for id with their tickets please?

never at swiss cottage odeon, finchley rd vue, panton st odeon or whitleys odeon

Toxic_Bunni

Not once have I been asked for ID and I got to the following:

Panton Street
Covent Garden
Trocadero
Whiteleys
Shephurds Bush
Surrey Qauys

milkfloatquack

never been asked for ID in Manchester or Liverpool

Tetsuko

thriftee wrote:

Can I just enquire if anyone has ever been asked for id with their tickets please?

No. I had a steward take my ticket off of me once. I said "no one has before" and I was told that they should have done. But then, once again the next time I go no one asks, in fact I try to offer my ticket and they say they don't need to keep it. But no, noone has ever asked for my ID which is silly.

I wish they would have some kind of photo id swipe card for membership and ID for companies like Momento and Seefirst.

blippy

We have never been asked for ID in Norwich ... but I did overhear the staff talking at this weeks screening of Hot Fuzz , asking the security guards to check that there were differents name on each of the tickets .

I think that its a good thing really , as we did recently turn up to see smoking aces with friends and were turned away as they were over subscribed .The tickets we had on that occasion were Radio one tickets and not seefilmfirst but film first also had tickets to allocate to that performance also !

For me its a long way to travel if you get turned away .... The staff at odeon were very good though and sent us four free tickets to see any film valid for a year :j

Toxic_Bunni

Tetsuko wrote:

I wish they would have some kind of photo id swipe card for membership and ID for companies like Momento and Seefirst.

Errm, why? That's kinda long.

Mancunian

never been asked in manc

they did put some smart, elderly security guards on the door of the screen for Hot Fuzz.... but didnt check my bag or ask for tickets! mad eh?

glad they didnt confiscate my McDonalds!

fruitcake_2

Mancunian wrote:

never been asked in manc

they did put some smart, elderly security guards on the door of the screen for Hot Fuzz.... but didnt check my bag or ask for tickets! mad eh?

glad they didnt confiscate my McDonalds!

Those two guys live at that Odeon...gotta love em....at least they dont do body searches for mobile phones!!

Have seen them do two ID checks here, but not in the last three months, they have been seen checking age ID for certain films...good thing too...