My love for this cinema has only strengthened since going to watch a movie here. As I had previously said I had always walked past this cinema and just never really had the time to go in. However, everything was right, from the cinema experience to the film we saw. The cinema was just as quaint and old fashioned inside as it was on the outside. The fact that it is based in Ashton Lane one of my favourite streets in Glasgow, that has one of my favourite restaurants in Glasgow, Ketchup, list.co.uk/place/103273-ketchup/ is not the point. As soon as you walk through the doors it feels so welcoming and the experience is amazing. It's the perfect setting for this cinema and the cinema being small and old fashioned fits in with the feel of Ashton Lane. It looks like a mini theatre from the outside with it's bright lights and now showing board, I just love it...Another plus about this cinema is that it is easy to get to from the centre of Glasgow just get a subway from Buchannan Street station to Hillhead and you are pretty much there.
However, I have one major flaw with this cinema....we had decided to go on a Thursday to the 2.20pm showing of Chalet girl (mainly as Ed Westwick is in the movie and I am a massive Gossip Girl fan) and as I didn’t know how busy it would be I decided to purchase our tickets in advance, online - bad idea. An adult ticket was £6.50 and a student ticket was £5.00 not that bad I guess but it's the fact that after these extortionate ticket prices they hit you with a £1.50 booking fee. This makes a student ticket now an adult price, totally not worth pre booking in my opinion, seeing as the cinema was busy but it wasn't packed. It annoys me so much as I had already in my previous blogs been talking about the extortionate ticket prices but with a £1.50 booking fee it makes you think is it really worth it....The answer to that is in this cinemas case yes it is.
The staff were friendly and polite, the seats were comfy (lovely leather seats with plenty of space to put drinks and plenty of leg room) everything was just perfect about this cinema, really really perfect it had been the one I had been looking forward to and it was everything I imagined the experience would be. I only wished I could have gone at a later time as I love Ashton Lane at night with its bright lights, but as it's a small cinema its programme is quite limited. It usually shows around six to eight different movies, and on the week I went to see Chalet Girl it was only showing it at 2.20pm everyday so it's not really as if I had a choice as to if I wanted to see it at a later time. As for the film Chalet girl guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/17/chalet-girl-review it was surprisingly amazing, it was extremely funny, light hearted and held my attention the whole way through - Ed Westwick was a major bonus in the film. I would highly recommend this film to everyone and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would probably have to say my favourite film so far, it was brilliant.
So, the perfect film for an amazing cinema, everyone should go check it out, it is probably the best experience there is out there....forget those Cineworld and Empire experiences The Grosvenor is the place to be...
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