Cineworld Cinemas Reviews 172

TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many people were dissatisfied with the customer service, finding it unhelpful and difficult to reach a real person. They also encountered issues with the booking process, including error messages, incorrect seat allocations, and problems with online functionality. Customers frequently report difficulties in contacting the company, with phone numbers not working and emails going unanswered, making it hard to resolve issues or get refunds. Some people were dissatisfied with the refund policy, noting that requests were often denied, especially without a physical copy of the ticket or if issues weren't reported immediately on-site. Conversely, some customers also noted positive experiences with staff, describing them as friendly and helpful, particularly at specific locations.

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Staff

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Customer service

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Customer communications

Customers consistently express dissatisfaction with the difficulty of contacting customer service. Many... See more

Refund

Reviewers express widespread dissatisfaction regarding refunds. Many customers report not receiving their... See more

Booking process

Customers consistently express frustration with the booking process. Many reviewers report issues such as the... See more

Based on these reviews

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

We accidentally booked tickets for the wrong cinema only realising on arrival at the cinema. Staff were friendly but dismissive saying we would have to buy more tickets, which we did. When talki... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

What an absolute palava .I went onto my blue light account to get discount. Tried putting in codes for all four ticket to book tickets and seats and it keeps coming up error message ..No human contact... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I had a one year subscription which has auto renewed despite my request to cancel. The Irish customer service phone number provided on cineworld emails is not working. I have attempted to call it mult... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

At a time of huge competition Cineworld has decided to take humans out of it customer services and replace with a virtual assistant that must be the cheapest going. It can't answer questions because... See more


Company details

  1. Movie Theater
  2. Movie Rental Store
  3. Movie Streaming Service

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Cineworld Group plc is the world’s second largest cinema chain, with 9,538 screens across 793 sites in 10 countries: the US, the UK, Ireland, Poland, Romania, Israel, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Slovakia.


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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Never again firstly we got in to be…

Never again firstly we got in to be told that the heater was not working so it was going to be cold, never got shown to our seats. Then two ladies sat behind as one of them hit me on the head with her bag didn’t even apologise next the guy turns up to the side of us asking us to stand up so he can sit we have a side of the seats as we were on there gangway I did not fancy having him sat next to me so I thought I would get up to complain I went to the front desk and spoke to the manager who said they don’t do Covid restrictions anymore now I don’t want to be in a cinema with over 100 people and have strangers sat next to me I don’t understand when you’re in a environment where there is no open window would know Covid restrictions is beyond me So we asked for a refund and left it was too packed in there I don’t think the staff really care. Manager was polite enough but they could enforce the Covid rules themselves not just as the government don’t do it I assume that everyone would be wearing a mask

October 26, 2021
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I've used Cineworld Crawley for.many…

I've used Cineworld Crawley for.many years and have Cineworld pass which my husband and I pay monthly for never a problem good discounts ect..But.my issue is with this lockdown why are they still taking our monthly payments regardless of the fact we cannot use the cinema. Have emailed them to no avail. I think this is so wrong of them to treat good customers this way!

April 17, 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Newcastle Cineworld- Just go to VUE Cramlington it’s better and cheaper

Newcastle Cineworld-Had an issue in the screening about people shouting, the ushers did nothing and since it was 4D I assumed it was a stay in your seat thing. No it wasn’t but I wouldn’t know since no one said anything about it to us. I came out after getting stared at from the front because they thought it was us shouting. So I asked a colleague about what to do and they said I could get a refund if I went to this till. I did and low behold the team leader came out and said he asked his ushers about it and they said they didn’t hear. Well of course they didn’t since it happened during the nervous and anti social usher was on so I’m guessing he just didn’t want to say anything since even the people beside him heard. With nothing but a sorry from team leader mark with a comment about us as a we walked away and all the staff staring and coming out from the screen area talking about it. I contacted customer service and after a week I got a reply, so I called and had been called a liar, refused a legally obligated complaint escalation just because they said they “internally investigated” it and took the side of team leader mark who said he only spoke to his usher (wrong he was spotted talking to about 5 colleagues while staring at us and then left them still listening in), he also said no colleague mentioned a refund (wrong, one did and we porovided a name and he said she didn’t, so if we weren’t told how did we know what till to go to?) so this rude and nasty customer service supervisor named Yolanda I think, had refused me any further complaint, overtalked me, offered me a free popcorn meal which I get a voucher off anyways as a courtesy after calling me a liar and losing her temper when I said I wouldn’t settle at an apology when I was £40+ down on this. I asked for the documents involving my complaint and was told it’s private information so I have no right to know what my complaint was. They don’t reply after this no matter what you do and don’t record their phone lines so they can be nasty to you. What a waste of money to be bullied by a lying and insulting company.

January 8, 2020
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Very disappointed, so difficult to book

Tried booking Jumanji but the website kept saying there was an error, the seats kept disappearing each time as if it had been booked, after 3 attempts I gave up. My boyfriend also tried but failed. The website also glitched to the wrong cinema on the payment detail page. Extremely disappointed that booking was made so difficult. Now left worrying that 3 lots of payment has been taken from my account with no proof of purchase.

December 29, 2019
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Awful compy

Awful company, the customer services advisors are rude and they lie to you.
Their website went down and didn't allow to black card member to book any 3D movies
I can them made them aware of the situation and have been surprised to find out that they knew the issue.
As a resolution of this has been promised my next month free ( how when my membership was ending this month...)
Following this, I went to the cinema to watch ” The secret life of pet 2 ” bad experience light on and the publicity keeps repeating the same advert.
Called them been advise that some complimentary ticket will be provided to me and a call back from a manager will follow.
Days pas and nothing happened.
On the same call, I mentioned the month free resolution that I received from my previous call, I also let the adviser aware that I wanted to renew my membership.
I've been advised that I need to wait for the end of my current membership to do this and use the offer ( this is very strange as they never mentioned this on the first call)
Today I called them 5 times been advised 5 different information, I've been treat like a thief, patronizing and put on all for no reason.
On call number 4 the advisor told me that I will just receive 1 voucher for all the trouble.
At this point, I had enough and just wanted to come off the phone as I had to go to the cinema to watch Aladdin.
At the cinema, I tried to use the voucher and it doesn't work I called them and received rude information and been advised that there is no record of my previous calls.
I just had enough management are rudely been refuse to raise a complaint, they refuse to send to me the complaint handling procedure for their company and when I mentioned that I want to have ” access to my information ” or ” system access request ” I've been rudely answering that every company is different and that if I need something I need to go on their website and send an email...
There is no place to raise a complaint or to request to receive the information that the company have on their website
It cineworld so jot complaint with he new DPA Act and the regulation?
I hope that someone will reply to me and provide me with a resolution.

Kind regards

June 3, 2019
Unprompted review
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