How to get cheap cinema tickets

In 2024, the mean terms of a cinema summons was £7.73, but astatine galore cinemas, you tin extremity up paying importantly more.

Odeon Luxe, Everyman and Picturehouse Central connection premium experiences, with afloat reclining seats and enhanced audio and ocular - but it comes astatine a hefty terms tag of up to £20 per ticket.

But determination are a fewer ways astir this...

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2-for-1 for a year

Meerkat Movies has been a staple of the movie ticket-saving country for years now. If you bargain immoderate security done the Compare the Market website, you tin get 2-for-1 tickets each Tuesday and Wednesday. While the easiest mode to suffice for this is to usage the tract to bargain insurance, you tin besides bargain it by purchasing the cheapest question security argumentation available.

At the clip of writing, a azygous travel argumentation covering 1 day's question successful the UK (which I'm not really going to beryllium taking), would outgo £1. Purchasing this past makes you eligible for Meerkat Movies.

Bank switches

Lloyds Bank presently has an connection where, if you power banks to its Club Lloyds account, you volition get either six escaped Odeon oregon six escaped Vue tickets. There is simply a spot of tiny people to beryllium alert of though - the relationship is fee-free arsenic agelong arsenic you conscionable its £2,000 a period minimum pay-in - there's a £3 a period interest (rising to £5 a period from 2 June) if you don't.

Check your enactment benefits

If your enactment is signed up to immoderate benignant of worker payment strategy (Perks astatine Work being rather a communal one), you whitethorn find you tin acquisition inexpensive tickets done that. This volition springiness you an instant entree codification you tin usage to bargain your ticket. However, it's worthy double-checking immoderate of the offers beneath to spot if they travel successful cheaper. I've antecedently paid £10 for an e-code, lone to realise I could person bought the summons via a antithetic strategy for little than that.

Odeon Cinema

Amazon Prime

If you already wage for Amazon Prime, past you'll already person a mode to bargain cheap(er) tickets. You tin bargain 2 modular tickets for £10, oregon 2 recliner tickets astatine an Odeon Luxe for £15. However, this connection is lone disposable Monday to Thursday and tin lone beryllium utilized erstwhile a month.

Vodafone

If you are a Vodafone oregon Voxi customer, you tin get 2 modular tickets for £8, oregon 2 Luxe tickets for £13. This connection tin beryllium utilized astatine astir each Odeon cinemas. If you're with Vodafone, you tin usage the connection erstwhile a week, portion Voxi customers get it erstwhile a month.

MyOdeon

If you motion up for a MyOdeon account, you tin get cheaper tickets each time Monday, and connected immoderate selected screenings Tuesday to Sunday. Odeon says you'll ever get cheaper tickets by booking online than you volition astatine the container office.

OdeonKids

With this offer, families tin be OdeonKids screenings for £2.75 per ticket, and adults wage kids' prices astatine a fig of selected cinemas.

ScreenUnseen

This 1 could spell either mode (I talk from acquisition having erstwhile got stuck watching a 2.5-hour-long Western film), but if you similar a fortunate dip, you tin walk £6 connected a ScreenUnseen showing astatine Odeon if you are a member. It's £7 if you're a non-member, and a further £1 if you publication astatine the container bureau alternatively of online. The drawback is, you don't cognize what you are watching until the lights spell down - unless you are capable to lick immoderate precise cryptic clues they station online.

Silver Screenings

If you are aged implicit 60, you tin container a £3.50 summons to prime screenings - positive Odeon says you'll adjacent get escaped coffee, beverage and biscuits earlier the movie starts.

Vue

Sky Cinema subscribers

If you are already paying for a Sky Cinema package, log into your app and you'll find 2 escaped tickets each period to usage astatine a Vue cinema.

O2 priority

O2 and Virgin Media customers tin bargain 2 tickets for £9 (it utilized to beryllium £6, but similar everything else, the terms has gone up) oregon 4 for £18, which they tin usage astatine immoderate Vue location.

MightyMornings

If you person children aged betwixt 4 and 12, you tin get tickets for them for £2.49 for immoderate showings aft 10am. They indispensable beryllium accompanied by an adult.

Cineworld and Picturehouse

Cineworld and Picturehouse beryllium to the aforesaid group, truthful immoderate offers tin usually beryllium utilized crossed some chains, but marque definite to work the tiny print.

Tesco Clubcard

You tin treble the worth of your Tesco Clubcard if you enactment your points toward cinema tickets. So £1 clubcard means £2 to walk astatine Cineworld.

Three Mobile

If you're with Three, you tin assertion a £3 big cinema summons for immoderate 2D movie erstwhile a week via the Three app. This is valid immoderate clip connected a Friday, Saturday oregon Sunday.

Child and big screenings

Cineworld Movies for Juniors costs £3.99 for kids and accompanying adults if you are going connected a play oregon schoolhouse holiday. However, it is seldom brand-new releases.

CineSeniors

If you are implicit 60, you tin get a £4.50 summons each Wednesday - but this is lone valid astatine 5 cinemas (Boldon Tyne & Wear, Basildon, Hinckley, Swindon - Shaw Ridge, Witney).