When you are in vacation and looking for a theater, it can be tricky. Most up north towns don't have them which cause tourists to travel to the nearest theater location. For me this week it was a road trip to Ludington whose only theater is the Harbor Cinema 8 owned by Carmike Cinemas. I have been here before and was reminded today of why having competition is much better for the consumer. I basically spent the same amount of money if I was going out to dinner and purchasing my boyfriend's ticket.
As you know, I enjoy my fair share of popcorn. So when ordering I was disappointed to see that the only free refills were for the Medium Couple's Special (19 dollars) which contained one large medium popcorn with free refills and 2 medium drinks, with no refills. The other option was 21 dollars and involved 1 large popcorn (Ginormous!!!) with free refills and 2 large drinks which also includes free refills. I know what you are thinking, maybe just get the smaller sizes and pay for refills? Nope......you are not allowed refills unless you pay for the entire thing. So we settled for the large, because there is no way I am not getting refills on drinks after consuming that much popcorn.
Now had this been Studio C, NCG, or any number of any other theaters, I could have gotten any size popcorn, pop, refills to my liking and either gotten them for free or paid a small fee. My usual cost for movie attendance is 17 dollars which includes all the popcorn and pop I can consume and my ticket. I am wiling to budge this to 20, maybe 22. My cost was 30 bucks! Which makes sense, it is the only theater within 40 miles of Pentwater (to my knowledge). Don't even get me started on the 25 minute trailor session! So, my advice is this, bring lots of cash or someone should open another theater so that friendly competition can help us movie goers out.
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