Reservations
A few weeks ago on the news I saw that some movie theaters are now offering patrons the opportunity to reserve their seats when they buy tickets. This would be great when you have more than 4 people going and you want that entire center row. It was clear to me that this service was optional, and if you wanted to "risk it" by finding your own seats than that was okay to.
Yesterday, 15 minutes before the movie started, we decided to see a matinee. There were few cars in the lot, and it was early in the day (obviously) so when we bought our tickets electronically we skipped the option to reserve seats. My in-laws were with us and decided to buy their tickets from a human, and they were stalled and forced to reserve their seats. The screen showed that only 8 other tickets to this film had been purchased... So why did we have to spend (waste) the extra minutes reserving a seat? When I told the human that the media had said this was optional, and we could plainly see that they entire theater was available, we were told that it was only optional in "some theaters." Stupid.
We stuck it to Larry H. Miller, (it was one of his theaters) and went in to sit wherever we wanted!
Yesterday, 15 minutes before the movie started, we decided to see a matinee. There were few cars in the lot, and it was early in the day (obviously) so when we bought our tickets electronically we skipped the option to reserve seats. My in-laws were with us and decided to buy their tickets from a human, and they were stalled and forced to reserve their seats. The screen showed that only 8 other tickets to this film had been purchased... So why did we have to spend (waste) the extra minutes reserving a seat? When I told the human that the media had said this was optional, and we could plainly see that they entire theater was available, we were told that it was only optional in "some theaters." Stupid.
We stuck it to Larry H. Miller, (it was one of his theaters) and went in to sit wherever we wanted!
posted by Lindsey Montague @ 11:04 AM
1 Comments:
At 4:55 PM,
.::still blinking::. said…
I must admit, I find the reservation of seats annoying. Yesterday we were in a semi-empty theater and because we had had to reserve our seats, fight nearly broke out because people had reserved their seats and other had not. I was sitting in another ladies seat, but she was kind enough to move over one. We had needed three seats but were only given two because our child is under two. Seriously. Why would you reserve seats in a nearly empty theater, just to cause problems?
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