Cineworld Reviews 

Decent cinemas, (with overpriced concessions, of course) but how racist are these people? It is impossible to view their website from France.
When I try to do so, I get this message "Sorry, you have been blocked
You are unable to access cineworld.co.uk This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks"

I am not an online attacker. I'm a (former) frequent Cineworld customer who now lives in France. But I travel to UK very often, and always go to the cinema when I'm there. No other UK cinema chain blocks me because I am trying to view their website (and book tickets) from France.

Horrible company. I used the app as I thought it would be faster and easier. I select my closest cinema as Silverburn shopping centre in Glasgow. Me and a large group of friends drive out to the shopping centre spending fuel, have a meal out, and go to the cinema only to be refused on entry! Turns out the app booked me in for Edinburgh Fountain Park despite me selecting Silverburn. I email customer services only to be told I cannot be refunded and nothing can be done about it, I am now out on a whole lot of money and the day was completely ruined, I will never go to cineworld again and will tell everyone not to either. Disgraceful from a big company like this.

I have tried to unsubscribe to cineworld emails for months… the option just swirls for hours.. its grating me now 😡

absolutely ridiculous website. No answer to queries. phone number that tells you to go to website. Staff at cinema unable to help in any way. Great product made impossible to use by totally frustrating web site and app. My bank card expired and I updated the payment method to new card. All payments declined. tried to rectify but am no longer logged into app. Cancelled my membership two days earlier than renewal date just to frustrate even more. Can you not see the 2 thousand one star reviews!! Why spend millions advertising a product that ultimately cannot be used. You've just lost two regular customers. We will make it our mission to tell everybody we know and meet in the future to avoid at all costs.

We had a wonderful family cinema experience yesterday at Cineworld Enfield. I really want to acknowledge the amazing customer service we received.

Lesa, the team leader, was absolutely brilliant. We accidentally booked our tickets at the wrong cinema, but she sorted everything out for us with no fuss at all. She did it with a genuine smile and such kindness. Thanks to her, we were still able to watch the film we intended to, and the kids didn’t end up disappointed. She was an absolute pleasure to deal with.

Jennifer was fantastic too. She took our food and drink order and was so friendly and attentive. Both ladies were a great example of excellent customer service from beginning to end.

Thank you, Lesa and Jennifer, for making our visit such a positive and memorable one.

I've just lost 2 hrs trying to book an Unlimited membership for my partner and to link him to my Unlimited account to make sure we can book tickets at the same time. The experience was exasperating and I feel as if I've lost 10 years of my life as well because of the aggrevation. Firstly, you not only have to login to Cineworld, but then again into Unlimited, but it's never clear where you are. Secondly, I have not managed to get an extra month free for me and my partner, because, no matter what I tried, I did not succeed and I eventually gave up the will to live and the discount. It's really disgraceful that Cineworld doesn't seem to be interested in improving their website, which certainly must cost them customers and their survival.

I paid for a 4DX gift voucher, including Special Delivery. Nothing received, customer service phone number listed says they don’t take phone calls any more and you have to email. Email ‘unable to be delivered’. Message sent via website did receive an acknowledgement but since then, nothing. Meanwhile the birthday for which the gift was purchased has been and gone. I am now going to have to look at recovering my money via my bank card. Awful, awful, awful - don’t touch the gift card service with a barge pole.

Purchased my usual annual unlimited membership via a work related site that offers a discount. Paid my £174 and received a code. Logged into my account and entered the code. Error message, code could not be found. No customer service to call, so email sent. I'm not expecting much help so will, I suspect, have to file a claim back via my credit card.

You really need to sort out your website

It cycles through verifying you are not a robot then ever lets you in, no wonder cineworld are struggling if people can’t book (app works but if the website can’t be bothered then I can’t be bothered been like this for months

We went to watch a film at the St Helens Cineworld because we received a voucher from a friend for my wife's birthday. We parked in the cineworld car park, but because of the inordinate amount of adverts and trailers, we exceeded the 2.5 hours by 10 minutes, we have now received a £100 fine.

I asked cineworld if they could intervene for me and contact the car parking company to explain that we were at the cinema for the whole time instead of going around the shops etc. and they refused.

They say on their mission statement that they have empathy and that the customer is at the centre of all they do, but this plainly isn't the case.

We won't be going back.

Edit: I visited the local cinema in person as I couldn't contact them by telephone or email and they kindly got in touch with the parking company to have the parking fine cancelled. Thank you. It's a shame that cineworld's Central customer services department couldn't be as helpful.

im not sure if its just the digital projectors installed in the cineworld chain but i have to say that i will never go to their cinemas to watch any film ever again.
when they were running 35mm the image quality was always outstanding.But now the digital projector image is absolutely dire....no contrast,no true blacks but grey washed out tones and colours and sharpness non evident.
i will not pay good money to watch films there any more but will spend it to buy the 4k version to view on my outstanding oled tv.

Horrid little chavs ruined the black phone 2 movie on the release day on Friday. Someone went to complain to a member of staff and yet no one came to tell them to leave. They were using their phones, constantly had the flash on their phones waving them about from start to 2 thirds of the movie until they thankfully left, which when they did they shouted something inaudible/unintelligible as I don't speak chav. Disgusting that a complaint was made and NOTHING WAS DONE. Cineworld Sheffield FYI

I visited Cineworld in Bently Bridge this evening to see a well movie. I went in the afternoon to purchase the tickets. Even went there 15 minutes early because I was eager to get settled in for the movie. Once the movie started. The the volume of the sound system of the movie was excruciatingly loud almost deafening to the point where we had to go and mention it to the staff to lower the volume. Initially our reaction was to muffle the sound with putting soft tissues in our ears. After initial complaint a staff came and lower the volume but these didn’t make any difference at the end of the movie was that took the stuff tissue in my ear out? The volume was even more deafening with the title music..
My instant reaction was to go and speak to the manager. But I ended up speaking to the supervisor on duty. Who was simply reluctant give me the name ,when I asked to speak to the manager 10 minutes later she appeared and informed me that the reason why he could come and stated they could not lower the volume and me an explanation that the movie was that made that way and they just switched the machine on once the time was set for the movie to start. This indicates the lack of propriety in their business. When I asked as a multinational company, they’ve got appropriate technical machines to adjust the volume, according to the size of the theatre as some movies are shown in small theatre and if the volume is not adjusted, it would have an impact on the intensity of the sound. She did not understand what I was saying and stated that that’s how the movie was made and Cineworld would not be able to do anything. Throughout our conversation, she kept on looking away from me over the shoulder on the floor but avoiding eye contact for several times. I insisted on speaking to the manager several times she offered a complimentary drink cinema tickets and at the same time I refused. I still wanted to speak to the manager and when he finally appeared after 10 minutes of waiting. I thanked him for coming out to speak to us. His response was.” I am on limited time.” at this point I understood to be indication he was not interested about my issues. I asked his name and left. This body language given an indication he was not bothered thus indicating lack of acknowledgement to be unprofessional professional . I will not be visiting the cinema again. I just left a bed experience and also indication on the level of staff work there as such entertainment industry needs to address customer service and have they sell the product. It is a shame so much effort goes into making movies and at the delivery point people who deliver cannot make a good job of it. such a shame.

Cineworld has really gone down hill. There are ongoing problems with booking via the app, as well as on the machines at the cinema.
If you have any problems you can't speak to anyone from customer services anymore, you can only email and then wait a few days for a reply. I used a compare the market code then the app crashed, so I had to go into the cinema get the tickets and the drive back again.

If you try and talk to anyone at the cinema then don't care.

I had a simple query that could be answered by one phone call to a particular cinema. Impossible to contact them directly, you have to use a contact form on their website I received a 'cut and pasted' reply from what I presume was a person in India which did not address my query and stated my query could not be answered by Cineworld (even though it most definitely could). I repeated my query twice, stating that they had not understood my query. I received the same reply on both occasions. I then emailed the CEO making a complaint about the service I had received and got a reply from THE SAME PERSON I had complained about... with the same original reply. I tried again and in addition to the same reply I was advised to contact them (the same Cineworld Customer service person) directly. This was sent from a 'no-reply' email. Honestly, you could not make this up.

The website is the absolute worst , been on it 40 mins and still can’t book. No wonder they are closing all over. It should not be this hard in 2025 if you do manage to book you get charged £1 per person booking fee, how else are you supposed to book / buy a ticket? Simply awful

Very helpful staff from the kiosk to the people checking your tickets.
Top notch customer service Chesterfield Cineworld.

Bought a 3 months unlimited membership for me and my my husband which is due to exprire on 12th October, sadly the cinema we use closed sunday 28th September therefore it was agreed we would be partly refunded, have been messaging them for days to try to get this actioned, also, an email came through to say that our contracts would be expriring and that they would be auto renewing which i am totally against. The email said that if we dont wish to renew then to call a number which i did, the call said that phonecalls are no longer supported so i have been also mailing for days to make sure they do not take any money from my account but am being ignored. Their customer service is a joke, will have to take copies of all the contact ive made to show my bank so that they cant touch money from my back account. Beware when signing up with this company

STOKE-ON-TRENT BRANCH -

Extremely rude staff (particularly the man with long tied back ginger-ish hair who we assume to be the manager?) who doesn’t even know Cineworld’s own policy on taking cold food into the cinema.

Don’t follow their policies by taking in COLD food (in our instance cake and a biscuit) because apparently it has “been baked somewhere else” so doesn’t count as cold 🤣🤣 He wasn’t even nice about it either, just rude and condescending. He must’ve clearly been bored.

In this economy you’d think they’d be abit more relaxed and welcoming to their customers. We’ll take our business elsewhere, Vue Newcastle is so much better especially when it comes to staff politeness and general policies 🫶🏼

I booked 2 tickets (£10 total) and 2 pairs of 3D glasses (£2.50) in advance on the Cineworld app. The checkout page only said to collect the glasses from the cinema, it didn’t say anywhere that they were non refundable.

Later I needed to change the showing and Cineworld refunded the tickets but refused to refund the glasses. When I asked why, I was just pointed to their online terms and conditions (point 7.13). The problem is that info wasn’t shown at the time of purchase, only hidden away in T&Cs afterwards.

I don’t think that’s fair or transparent. £2.50 isn’t the issue, it’s the fact that Cineworld won’t be upfront with customers. After raising this, they’ve said their position is final and won’t reply further. Pretty poor way of dealing with a simple complaint.