Odeon ticket prices - cheapest options (analysis)

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Odeon seat and screen types

'Premier' seats just have a larger headrest. This may restrict the view if you are in subsequent rows behind Premier seats. They are also possibly in the best place in the cinema, but this is not necessarily the case. There is a flat £2 per person supplement for premier seating (e.g. £4 for adult/child combo tickets) on top of the underlying peak/off-peak/myodeon prices.

Recliner seats are a similar idea but carry a flat £2 or £4 supplement depending on cinema.

Plus seats are £1 extra for a supposedly better location for Premier and Recliner seats.

'Vip bed' seats are at the front and seat/sleep 1,2, or 3. They cost £9 for MyLimitless Members

Special screen types:

* Laser - just means laser projector. Screen may be small. No premium

* Isense - large screen, 4k projector, good sound. £3 supplement.

* Dolby Cinema - an upgraded version of Isense. £4 supplement.

* Imax - very similar to Isense. £5 supplement

Odeon's monthly subscription:

MyLimitless costs £14.99/month or £149/year. £17.99 for MyLimitless Plus and £179 for annual. Cheaper to buy annual subscriptions via Cinema Society at £143.82 and £179

Standard MyLimitless excludes all seat and screen supplements, extra £3 for Luxe cinemas, £5 for Islington. Leicester Square Royal Box excluded. 

MyLimitless Plus supplements are: £3 for Dolby Cinema, £5 for Imax. Others (Plus, Premier, Recliner, Isense, included). Royal Box excluded. Islington £5.

Monday saver tickets 

MyOdeon saver reduces the ticket price online either for ALL showings at given cinemas (which are then £5), or for Mondays and possibly certain other designated showings only, typically to £6.

Meerkat 2-4-1

Meerkat movies are 2-4-1 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays based on the applicable timing (e.g., off-peak for afternoon, peak for evening), based on:

1) MyOdeon pricing is excluded so you must pay the 'full price' at cinemas which run MyOdeon saver every day

2) All supplements apply for the second seat (i.e. where there is a choice of seats in the screen you must pay the supplement for +, Premier, optional recliner seats, isense, Dolby Cinema (except at Leicester Square))

You can get Meerkat benefits for £1.01 for a whole year with £3 cashback via Quidco using a 1 night UK travel insurance 

Odeon ticket prices

Odeon standard ticket types generally comprise: adult (15+), child (<15), adult+child combo

Off-peak and peak: off-peak is weekday afternoons, peak is other times.

Odeon's ticket prices follow for the UK

Non-Luxe

Category 1: Birmingham New Street, Cardiff, Guildford, Huddersfield, Llanelli, Newark, Norwich, Preston, Salisbury, Swansea, Wrexham

Rates are £5 per person all showings (plus applicable supplements for seat types, imax etc.)

Category 2: Basingstoke, Beckenham, Belfast, Bracknell, Braehead, Bristol, Camden, Dorchester, Exeter, Loughborough, Manchester Great Northern, Oldham, Oxford, Port Solent, Rochdale, South Woodford, Stoke, Streatham, Swadlincote, West Bromwich, Worcester

Rates are

£8.50/£6.00/£12 adult/child/combo peak

£6/£6/£12 a/c/ac off-peak

£5 myOdeon saver on all showings

Category 3: Andover, Coventry, Crewe, Edinburgh Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh Lothian Road, Greenwich, Harrogate, Hastings, Kettering, Lincoln, Liverpool One, Manchester Trafford Centre, Newcastle Metrocentre, Newcastle Silverlink, Orpington, Trowbridge

£12.50/£9/£18 a/c/ac peak

£9/7/£14 a/c/ac offpeak

VIP Bed £20.50/£31/£37.50 for 1/2/3 peak, £17/24/£27 off-peak 

Monday: myOdeon saver £6

Category D Dudley

£14/£8.50/£17 a/c/ac peak

£8/£6.50/£13 a/c/ac offpeak

Monday MyOdeon £6

Category 4: Bath, Bournemouth, Brighton, Chatham, Chelmsford, Colchester, Covent Garden, Dunfermline, Hatfield, Hereford, Kilmarnock, Kingston, Mansfield, Milton Keynes, Northwich, Richmond, Southend, Surrey Quays, Taunton, Tottenham Court Road, Tunbridge Wells, Uxbridge, Wimbledon

£14/£9.50/£19 a/c/ac peak

£10/£7.50/£15 a/c/ac offpeak

VIP Bed £22/£34/£42 for 1/2/3 peak, £18/£26/£30 off-peak. 

Monday myOdeon Saver £6

Odeon Luxe

Luxe means all seats are recliners (except at Leicester Square)

Category ID: Islington Dine

£25 peak

£15 off-peak

£10 Monday MyOdeon saver 

no MyLimitless, no children allowed

Category L1: Acton, Bromborough, Edinburgh West, Hull,

£9.95/£7.50/£15 a/c/ac all day

£7 Monday MyOdeon

Category L2: East Kilbride, Glasgow, Leeds-Bradford, Liverpool Switch Island

£12/£10/£20 peak

£9.95/£9/£18 off-peak

£7 Monday MyOdeon Saver

VIP Bed £23/£33/£39 peak

VIP bed £20.95/£28.90/£32.85 off-peak 

Category L3 Leicester, Sheffield, Warrington

£17/£11/£22 peak

£11/£9/£18 off-peak

£7 Monday MyOdeon Saver

Category L4: Birmingham Broadway, Derby, Dundee, Durham, Epsom, London Haymarket, Lee Valley, Leicester Square Screens 2-5, Maidenhead, Putney, Stafford, Swiss Cottage, Telford, West End 

£18/£11.50/£23 peak

£12/£9.50/£19 off peak

£7 Monday MyOdeon saver

VIP Bed £26/£42/£54 peak

VIP Bed £20/£30/£36 off-peak

Leicester Square Screen 1

Recliner/Circle Recliner £25/£17.50/£35 peak

Recliner/Circle Recliner  £15/£11/£22 off-peak

Premier £17.50/£12.50/£25 peak

Premier  £11/£9/£18 off-peak

Royal  Box (middle of Row AA,BB) £32.50/£25/£50 peak

Royal Box £20/£14/£28 off-peak off-peak

MyOdeonSaver £10, or £15 for Royal Box

No Meerkat Movies supplements (straight bogof on full price)

Third party discounted tickets

Cinema Society (join via MyLidl) non-luxe tickets are priced:

£5.46 child.

Adult £8.50 Friday-Sun, £5.93 Mon-Thur

Via Tastecard (active membership not required) prices are higher

£5.69 child

£9.10/£6.50 adult F-S/M-T

For luxe cinemas
Cinema Society tickets are priced:

£7.87 child

£11.02/£8.61 adult F-S/M-T

Via Taste

£7.27 child

£11.70/£7.80 adult F-S/M-T

All the above are PLUS

£1 booking fee unless booking in the cinema

PLUS any seat or screen supplements

EXCLUDES Islington & Leicester Square

Rosa_Damascena

Useful analysis - all of which tells me that much as I enjoy a trip to the cinema, its stays a treat not a regular activity.

Not sure why Southend is Cat 4 but Monday evenings are the most affordable. I'm just not keen on walking through the High Street in the evenings.