Good, aside from the food and drink prices (VUE Cinema Leeds)

Member Name: Burning_Darkness

Product:	VUE Cinema Leeds
Date:	06/08/09 (103 review reads)
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Advantages: Clean and tidy, friendly and helpful staff, concessions available, lots of screens, comfortable

Disadvantages: Extortionately priced food and drinks. Show a lot of drivel.

The Vue cinema on The Headrow, Leeds is housed within The Light, a rather posh indoor shopping centre in the centre of the city and is located on the first floor being accessible by both escalator and lift. It has a whopping thirteen screens, and the seats are comfortable and have a fair amount of leg room. As with every Vue cinema I've been to, the theatres, reception area and facilities are uniformly tidy and clean, whereas the staff are polite and helpful. A ticket will set you back about seven and a half quid, but there are sizable discounts available to students (with an NUS card), children and OAPs, plus you get a voucher for a couple of quid off your next visit so long as you come back within a couple of weeks. You can also check showing times and book tickets online if you wish, which is straightforward to do and very handy.

The only downside to the cinema (and indeed Vue cinemas in general) is the prohibitive cost of food and drink, with a large bag of popcorn and a couple of drinks setting you back over twelve pounds, whilst nachos, hotdogs and sweets are even more extortionately priced. Given this, you might want to smuggle in some supermarket-bought canned drinks and snacks of your own instead, as this will dramatically reduce the cost of your visit.

The cinema's large number of screens and big theatre capacity means that its more than likely that they will be showing the film you are wanting to see and that you will be able to get a seat for the showing you want even at the last minute, but the downside to its size and central location is the long queues that often form in front of the ticket booths.

There is another Vue cinema located on the outskirts of the city on Kirkstall Road, and though this made national news recently when a group of teenagers poured bleach over a woman after being asked to quieten down during a showing of the new Harry potter film, I have been there numerous times and can report that it is normally trouble-free and just as good as the Headrow premises, apart from the smaller number of screens.

Despite being a lover of film I dont frequent either complex that often due to the fact that much of their showings seem to consist of derivative, cgi snoozefests and modern american "comedies", but this is hardly Vue's fault, and aside from the outrageous food and drink prices the overall experience is a very good one, assuming you can find a film thats actually worth going to see.

Summary: A good cinema experience, but dont bother with the food and drinks.