Odeon Cinemas

Nice little cinema on Lothian Road. I popped in to see The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 with Mary, and had a nice time. Buying tickets was a simple affair at the automated machines. There are a large array of snacks and drinks available just before the screens area, and all staff members I encountered were friendly and welcoming. Screen was comfortable, good picture and sound quality.
Really, all the things you’d expect from a cinema trip.

Two words: baby cinema.
Baby cinema is when they turn the volume down a bit and the lights up a bit and no one minds about hilariously loud baby farts, constant feeding, or some crying.
This Odeon has the best baby cinema because of the brilliant woman who works it. She loves mums, loves babies, and loves a chat. She is hilarious and sweet and knows how to win friends– she brings ’round chocolate biscuits just before the film starts, ans always encourages us to take more.
The down side is the cost– it’s at 11 or 1130 Tuesday morning and is full price, which seems crazy. What ever happened to matinée prices?

They trashed a beautiful cinema built in 1938 to make way for this basement factory. This is barely a cinema at all. The staff are not very helpful or interested.
I went to see a 3D movie. I was the ONLY person in the audience. When the movie started the house lights did not go off. It was like being in broad daylight. I went out to tell them to turn the lights off. The manager, who was about 20 years old, told me that they needed to stay on for «health and safety» reasons. I told him that this was nonsense and that no other cinema screen has been this bright in my many years of movie-​going.
I got my money refunded and I have never been back. They kept the movie playing even though the only person in the audience had left.
What a joke! This is what cinema-​going in Edinburgh has become? Really???

The Odeon on Lothian Rd has really impressed me, partly because I keep going there on their £5 Mondays! The cinemas seem great, i’m loving the quick ease of purchasing and printing out tickets in the lobby, and the staff are all really friendly an up for a laugh.

My experience at this Odeon Cinema was fine. It’s nothing too special in all honesty, but for Edinburgh I think this is considered a nicer theater (from what I’ve been told) so we gate it a go the other night and decided to watch the new Mad Max film there. I enjoyed my experience there and the staff was friendly.
Upon entering the cinema it is slightly confusing because all you see is a restaurant. Tickets can be bought at a machine to the right of the door and Mondays offer a nice little discount. The actual theaters are downstairs and the concession stand is to the left.
The theaters are pretty small from what I saw, however the one I was in was pretty decent in size. I didn’t have any issues with the actual theater or the seating, both were fine and did the job sufficiently for two hours. Overall, the price was good and I would definitely come back to watch another movie there in the future.

We heard from friends how nice this theater is so were happy to try it out. However we ended up in the smallest cinema room I have ever seen. The employee advised us to get places in the back, but when we arrived in the tiny room we would have been squeezed in between a row of other people still really really close to the screen. Honestly I have never seen anything like this. We instead moved to the couches in the middle row (there are 3 rows). It was very uncomfortable to sit this close to a screen. The moment you are not center of the room you have an extreme angle on the screen which just feels very uncomfortable and dizziness invoking to me. I am sure our experience would have been very different in any other theater room they had, but this will definitely not make us go back here, as it was also quite costly full price and very uncomfortable. Not worth it sadly.
I did love that they had Bundaberg ginger beer, yum!

Just popped in here as some of our friends who joined us after work hadn’t eaten so for them pizza, for us a glass of wine and beer.

Even with the entrance hall being smaller now (- what did happen there?)
They have not managed to create a better atmosphere. It still feels like a new cinema in a small town — not a nostalgic way like the Cameo, but in a more feeling uncomfortable, non fitting, niggly feeling. The seats are just about comfy. The lights are a little too bright. The place is a little lacking in character.
I like to give it more, as it is conveniently located and there is nothing essentially wrong with it, I am not getting the love for this. I do have my favourite cinemas and in comparison to them the Odeon is seriously lacking that. *oomph*.
For the little occasion I go to the film (once a month or so) and the prices I pay — I would like some extra ‘je né sais quoi’

I go to the Newbies cinema here every Tuesday. So I get to watch all the up-​to-​date films, have a coffee, a biscuit and a chat and have my baby to wail if he needs to without any stress??? Magic! The location is central and a pain for me to get to but others who live more West of town probably more ideal. They watch your buggy whilst you’re in the cinema too. One of the things my partner and I miss the most after having a baby is the fact that we feel like we miss out on the whole cinema experience but this way we don’t have to. Yay! :)

Central and Simple
Clean, cheerful, a simple place
Current films are shown

This is a great Odeon Cinemas location that is convenient and also is really new and nice inside. The staff were friendly and the individual theatres are really nice with comfy chairs. The selection of films was good and, although a bit pricey, prices seem about average for these days. I really enjoyed this theatre and think it is a great one. Also look out for the great Groupon deals here!

It’s an OK cinema.
It’s clean and the staff are alright. The concession stand is stocked a’plenty and, honestly, it’s rarely packed out when I’ve been so we always get tickets.
That said, a tad expensive and fairly meh.

Central location — yey! £8.80 a ticket?!? Major nay.
This is a nice branch of an Odeon. It’s always clean inside, there’s no spilt popcorn. They always show some the top flicks. And it lacks the strange smell of the nearby Cameo which is why I usually opt for there. But with the Filmhouse nearby too there’s stiff competition, and without the themed nights the Cameo have, or more art-​housey movies of Filmhouse, it’s a bi generic.
Good for a flick, but only if you’re feeling like Mr /​Mrs Moneybags! Or am I actually just turning into one of those people that says «back in my day it was £3.50 for a cinema ticket, and that was on a Friday night!» (and it was!) Pah.

Coming from the US and a city where the cinema is a psychiatric overdose of people (and obnoxious teenagers), I have always preferred the less flashy, smaller movie theater. At the suggestion of a friend, I went to this one with my pals to the Odeon and found it efficient/​effective albeit a tad sterile in environment.
Admissions is £6.60 (student rate) and £8.80 (regular tickets) — big plus: no lines, friendly service with a smile, and there’s a Ben Jerry’s for you to sweeten your teeth before heading downstairs down the grand staircase where an usher directs you to the proper screening room. There’s about 6 different screens and crowds don’t seem to be an issue here. Seats are comfy. Note to Americans — this theater (and perhaps many other theaters) does not serve concessions like popcorn, soda, nachos, etc. not that one’s bum or heart needs such stuff.
I’d say this is the place to watch a film if you don’t want/​need to flashy decorations associated with larger cineplexes. 3.5 stars.

So the other day I decided to make a trip to the cinema with some friends. Due to the queue, and the fact I’m nice like that, I went ahead and bought all three tickets. «The film is in 3D and you will need the glasses» they man behind the counter said to me, «sure, no problem I said». £30 it cost me! £30! That IS a problem! You would hope the one upside to seeing a film at a cinema lacking all character and atmosphere run by a faceless corporation would be the cheaper prices. I could have seen the same film for far cheaper in the independent cameo up the road.
Needless to say the actual cinema is pretty much like every other Odeon. I don’t really mind it, you get to go underground which is quite cool. The staff are really friendly. Both the young girl who serves food and particularly the older woman who checks the tickets, are really chatty. Beyond that expect the same experience as anywhere else. It’s lucky that its the film that really makes the cinematic experience.
If the prices go up anymore, spend wisely and buy your own cinema.

The Odeon at Tollcross is one of the smaller cinemas in town, but without the charm of the smaller independent cinemas such as the Cameo. The good news is that like the bigger cinemas they also do Orange Wednesday here, so on a Wednesday you can halve the cost of a ticket just so long as you bring a friend along with you and take advantage of the Orange 2 for 1 deal. The main benefit of this cinema is its convenience to those in the area. The Omnicentre offers a far larger range of films and Cineworld is far cheaper so if you are able to get to the others as easily then they might be the preference. That said, I personally go most regularly to this cinema — I don’t want to walk all the way to Cineworld and the Omnicentre is too far away. This is the benefit of this cinema and that is the fact that it becomes cheaper than elsewhere once you factor in getting the bus elsewhere; unfortunately this benefit only hold for locals, but being near the centre you might pass this cinema more often than you might think. Last film is usually at 9pm and first can vary sometime being as late as midday so look it up in advance for times.

I am a little less than impressed with this one. No, the service is great, and it has good screenings like all the Odeon ones. It just lacks character and well, there aren’t that many screenings of the blockbusters you want to see. Instead it focuses on one and shows far too many shows of it instead of spreading the weight a little.
On a road that has two independent cinemas up the street, this one falls fairly flat. But here you will find screenings of Sex and the City 2 and other rom coms and big buck movies, unlike further up the street.