Odeon

The Odeon at the Trafford Centre is not that bad except for the price of tickets. We have one of those 2-​for-​1 offers so it’s not that bad but does limit cinema nights to only two nights in the week. I give it 3 stars because the voucher codes work when you book online, without extra charges for booking fees and the numerous machines and kiosk desks from which you can collect or buy your tickets. The cinema staff don’t appear like zombies, the screens are clean and the seats are quite comfy. And you can buy a cup of tea or coffee from the Costa or a slice of pizza from the new Croma Pizza Bar. It loses 2 stars because of the price of tickets and snacks, the unhealthiness of the snack box they have for children. It also loses the points because their IMAX screen is rubbish! It’s expensive and the screen is tiny — go to the IMAX at the Printworks instead!

Enjoyed the film but the ‘IMAX’ screen is tiny in comparison to the one at the printworks, and yet it’s more expensive???
Other than that though the place was filthy, rubbish all over the floor in both the food counter area and the auditorium. Staff stood about doing nothing so why not get a brush and clean up?
The lad that served us popcorn was polite and friendly though.
Toilets smelly and dirty too.
Will probably avoid in the future.

A filthy 20 screen auditorium crammed into the top of the Trafford Centre, this hell hole is understaffed and full of exorbitant prices. Terrible for dates or a relaxing matinée due to the abundance of arcade machines and terrible design. All the food is low quality junk food the results of which can be found in the disgusting toilets. They rarely cover any arthouse or worldcinema films and favour mainstream crap like minions which reminds me of the screaming children your likely to hear echoing from the lazertag place adjacent.
The screens apart from iMax are mainly tiny and if you go long enough will breakdown resulting in them often giving you a free ticket instead of a proper refund. If all this isn’t enough for you the worst policy imo is the extra £ they charge (£11!) the first 2 weeks of a film for ZERO reason. This company is exploiting peoples love of the magic of cinema only for profit and treats the consumer like a doting idiot. Well not me goodbye Odeon.

Always an offer to be found here. Worth a visit! Always get cold in here though and seats not overly comfy!

A lot cleaner than the one in the city centre (printworks) Beautiful décor too

Just a quick addition to the previous review, about a not so recent development at Odeon trafford centre which many folk might not be aware of. They now have an IMAX screen!
Now before I go into a conclusive statement about this place, I need you to answer a few questions. Only if the answers to all the questions are affirmations will the statement be valid for you.
Are you a big movie geek? Have you been going to the Odeon IMAX for a while? Do you have a good memory? If the answer to these questions is yes, you probably won’t enjoy going to the IMAX Trafford centre.
As a movie geek the cinema going plays a very important role in my seratonin dispersement cycle of life. I look forward to it, I get there early, I get my favourite seat and I go during weekdays to allow for the fact that I’ll have most of the place to myself. Ideally I’d like no one else there but that’s never happened despite my best efforts. Been close a few times, only to be foiled in the last minute by some other movie geeks with the same idea. (My record is 3 people. Me + sibling and one other sole movie geek. It was an afternoon showing of Silent Hill, if you’re wondering… It wasn’t as bad as I thought)
I do what I do, so I can enjoy the escapism in all its glory without interruption from people who treat the film as a secondary source of entertainment to their popcorn eating or facile chitchat.
My visit to this particular IMAX therefore as always had to accommodate all these factors. So when a midnight showing of Gravity popped up on a Saturday night, few friends and I decided to give it a go. It’d be quiet, they hadn’t seen the film (I had, twice, once at printworks IMAX, it was epic, why not again) and all of us were excited about having the choice and convenience of two IMAX screens in Manchester. Bearing in mind that all of us were movie geeks, we’d all been going to the other IMAX for a while, and we all had good memories, the visit was a BIG disappointment.
Despite the tickets being the same price as the Printworks, the screen was (in comparison to Printworks) miniscule. Don’t get me wrong, it was a very large screen, but to add the «MAX» to it was an insult really. We walked in, froze and gawked at the screen for few minutes.(not in a good way) Like children nestled onto the back seats of a car without ice-​creams they coveted, we sulked all the way through the movie and literally became those people we so hated ourselves. We ate popcorn and we chitchatted throughout the whole film. We became the riffraff and the riffraff became the movie geeks, shushing us at every give opportunity. The world turned upside down that night.
So, if you’re not that bothered by the rudimentary definition of «IMAX» when it comes to cinema screens, by all means go check out the IMAX experience at Trafford centre. But, just know you’re being short-​changed.

3pm on a Monday afternoon I thought would be real busy but it was not too bad no que. My only complaint is the guy that sold us the ticket clearly hated his job. He didnt crack his face once and clearly needs to go on some customer service training!

You should really know what to expect with this mega chain but the Trafford Centre branch of the Odeon really is the most impersonal, expensive, unfriendly hole I have had the misfortune to visit. Avoid at all costs unless you too would like to deal with the rudest people to still hold jobs in Britain.
If I could give zero stars I would.

BLEUGH!
Vomit chain vomit vomit vomit.
Sorry, too much?
I dislike this place A LOT for the following reasons;
The staff look bored/​like you’re annoying them. This makes me thing that ODEON don’t take care of their employees.
The popcorn tastes stale, it may be warm, but the taste isn’t nice and they skimp out on the «sweet» part of the popcorn.
The seats may look big but they are definitely not plushy!
The price is ridiculously high for a ticket, £9 something! Free parking? Not a chance, they’ve added it in to this price!
Every time I’ve been here, something’s been wrong and I’ve truly given up on having a good time at this cinema.

Having only gone here because the film I wanted to see was not available at the AMC in Deansgate. Its a chain and a bad one at that, the popcorn sucks a major staple of my cinema going experience, the people were switched off and it seems every time someone has to sit behind me they feel the need to vibrate or kick my chair repeatedly till I’m forced to react then told to be quiet WTF? Do not visit here often and there is a reason for this I much prefer the manchester one due to their IMAX screen and AMC over both of them and Cornerhouse over all 3 of them. Avoid please!

I had free tickets to Transformers 3 at the Trafford Center Odeon and is was very badly organized. There were tons of us queuing up with our free tickets for ages before someone got to the front and the staff shouted out that we didn’t have to queue, just go straight in. All it needed was a sign to avoid that! We did get free popcorn though! Wasn’t the best cinema I’ve ever been to but not bad, bit dirty and very busy and seemed more expensive than the Printworks Odeon.

It’s always busy. It sells the usual cinema faire. The main selling point of this place is the Trafford Centre and attendant food court.

Oh how I hate the Trafford Centre Odeon.
First thing, it’s always, always, always busy. Maybe it’s the free parking… you can get free parking at the Lowry though and that’s always dead so I don’t think that’s it. Maybe it’s the price… yeah right! Unless you like paying more?! It’s ridiculous how much this place charges for a film, £7.60 for a standard ticket (peak)?! That’s insane! £9.10 for a premier seat!!! I hate premier seats too, they’re overrated, all the seats should have sufficient leg room and seats should be first come, first serve… like at the AMC!
So I’m not a huge fan. But if you’re out that way shopping it’s kinda handy. Twenty screen so lots of showings and they have a Ben and Jerry’s counter so I can usually be persuaded to stop moaning if I’m promised ice-​cream. Just never the cinema I’d head to out of choice.

The odeon in trafford centre is not really big but the facilities they have there is quite good. But compared to the odeon in printworks, the prices at trafford is more expensive. Its like £5.00 for a children their and only around £4.00 at printworks. Not too many screens their but their are alot of seats. When watching movies, the room is not fully dark.
Not really a prefered cinema.
Next to the cinema, on the same floor, is lazer quest.