Hoyts has introduced single ticket pricing (one ticket price for all ages) and saver/super saver sessions that run 7 days a week rather than just Super Tuesdays. Prices obtained for VIC/Chadstone. All tickets eligible for Hoyts reward points.
Super Saver
Saver
Normal
https://www.hoyts.com.au/pages/faqs-for-saver-and-super-save…
yeah… you save around $1 with Optus…
Telstra rewards are a lot cheaper…
"Get access to $12.50 movie tickets and Moonlight Cinema tickets, $15.50 for 3D or experience blockbusters in Vmax for $16.50 every day of the week, except public holidays, after 5pm on Saturdays and for Bollywood movies."
Is that the Telstra deal, or is there another one? Optus Hoyts tickets start at $12.
Optus Hoyts tickets start at $12.
Just tried to get some for today..
Optus are $15 through Optus Perks. There is no saving to getting them normally
I'm pretty sure tickets for our local Hoyts are more than $12 through Optus. Maybe because we have all recliners.
edit: yes just checked - it's $15 for cinemas with recliners.
That's not true. If you look online you'll notice that most of these session are only $12-$14 at Hoyts. Eg. I'm booking at the Blacktown Hoyts and the sessions there are almost all $12.
Movies costs are finally getting in line with what they should be charging thanks to netflix. This means no longer will you need to buy a voucher and try to use for most cases.
Hoyts Standard Ticket Pricing
Belongs in the forums. These are the regular prices…
There is no saving as you can get these any time…
+1
Also many cinemas have moved to flat $10 tickets.
So regular prices are now worse for concession, seniors and children, but there are some tickets that are at the old normal price (for their ticket types) spread throughout the week? Well this sucks.
Was kinda excited that hoyts might be improving their prices, but alas not today it seems. Guess its still up to good old croydon cinema and its $7.50 anytime member tickets.
Will only use hoyts for the biggest CGI fest movies where i want a big screen (next one probably being avengers 4).
Ant man 2?
Ayyyy another Croydinian!
Don't forget about Reading Chirnside. 10.50 a ticket, still a good bit more than Croydon but a lot more stomachable than Hoyts'… plus there isn't a hundred million stairs to walk up :p
Lol.. I guess they don't want seniors watching movies there anymore. $24 is ridiculous for a senior, child and concession ticket. Last time I went there was no saving at all from using the optus tickets too. Looks like i'll be going to Village more often I guess. I see a lot of backlash heading their way.
Join the bronze reward system for free and they still have senior prices for movies before 5pm most days of the week.i agree the standard is too expensive but waiting a little while and super saver sessions will become available.
Gotta be real, that's still a bit too much. I can rock 12 at absolute most, so it's nice to know, but still, damn.
Always sucks going to Eastland or whatever and then having to go to either Croydon Cinemas or Reading at Chirnside because Hoyts is so ridiculously overpriced. It's usually me and the missus out with someone, and 22.50 a pop, that's nearly 70 bucks just to see a movie, and if we went to Croydon it'd be around 20 for all 3 of us… even at Hoyts' new "super saver" rates we'd be paying nearly double that of Croydon. Crazy.
I don't get it
So they're boasting a single ticket price but have 3 different categories. All with different pricing.
Yeah not sure how nine different prices is a single price.
There are now no prices for Concessions like students and seniors, plus no kids pricing. Far from a deal, and the empty cinema on Thursday, the night of the new pricing showed it was far from effective. Plus this price has changed not on the new financial year, but just before school holidays which is terrible.
No deal here at all, actually it's more expensive.
Family of 4 used to be $39
How much is it now?
$64 + 5.50 booking fee
Hoyts new website this year is terrible. Lacks any common sense for browsing session times holistically. Bloody millennial marketing crayon munchers behind it i bet. Unfortunately Hoyts are the only good cinema around due to their recliners. Once you go them cant go back to standard older style seats.
this year????
Every year… it gets less intuitive, just as forgetful and more painful to navigate. Bravo, Hoyts! And now we're paying for those lovely recliners at last…
The competition page is an eye-sore.
I thought I was getting old, I can barely use it.
Maybe “I wonder what’s showing this evening at the local cinema” is not a common question. Seems like you need to click into every single movie separately to see the times. And then many of them just say “not showing today”.
I'm the same. I just want a list like there used to be in the papers, that you select one or more cinemas, and it lists all the movies and their show times, with no further clicking needed.
Bonus points if it would actually remember the selected cinemas between Web site visits, and just show you the list straight away.
Govt banned torrents and local hoyts jacked up price. Those supersaver and saver shows are limited to odd sessions and not applied to newly release from my observation. Similarly govt put on GST on all items purchased internationally, all major sellers stop shipping here. It's purely lose to middle income earner families.
Don't try and make it political.. This is just hoyts being greedy.
The government hasn't "banned" torrents.. They are just as illegal as they have ever been.
That's Bs.
Government has blocked access to many sites that offer acess to these things. It may not be directly connected, but to suggest that it has no effect goes against free market principles of supply and demand.
Almost everyone who was using torrents before is still using them now, the block is ridiculously simple to get around.
I might have said the same thing once upon a time.. but once you understand a little more about statistics and probability, you can see how even small changes in difficulty can result in large portions of the population being stopped.
You might be a genius who can't be stopped by anything, but for many people downloading torrents was the extent of what they were capable of. Adding that extra step means they give up on it and go and pay the movie cartels ridiculous prices.
The booking fee for online is ridiculous
This isn't a deal at all. Now instead of going to a movie on a cheap Tuesday (or as a student, child etc. Any day of the week), all of the prime time tickets are standard pricing. $20 for a standard ticket is ridiculous and not a deal.
All of the "saver" and "super saver" tickets are in the middle of the day. Not exactly useful for those who go at night.
Glad I have the choice of another cinema, which is half that price.
Not to mention the booking fees. Why can I book in person, using up an employees time and adding to the queue, for free, yet pay several dollars for the 'privilege' of doing it at home.. Jesus
Having read the Saver FAQs you can see how they try to word it positively by focusing on having the savers 7 days a week…
No mention of the fact that these saver sessions are during quiet periods of the day and standardising the price of the evenings sessions will ultimately benefit Hoyts rather than the concession, students etc that miss out.
Super greedy. Not worth it to take the family anymore, let alone the popcorn and drinks. I guess we can wait a few months and watch same movies on Netflix.
Yeah nah. 2-for-1 entertainment book vouchers are a deal. This is not.
Am I missing something? I don't see a deal
I agree this should be moved to the forums as a heads up. Personally this new regime will suit me as I can't get a concession discount, I usually wait for the crowd to thin before I see a movie and it means I'm not restricted to Tuesday for cheaper tickets anymore - but I can see that this will disadvantage others. What is the comparison from the old Childrens tickets to the new Super Saver ones?
thanks Op….good to know!
This is a joke. The 'super saver' and 'saver' tickets are just off peak period where a large proportion of movie goers are at work.
We have invested over $200 million over the past three years to roll out powered recliners to the majority of our locations and we now have the best cinemas in Australia as a result.
Here in Canberra, every Hoyts is recliner and you are forced to pay the $3.50 surcharge on top of their 'standardised' price. They are literally double dipping saying we've done x and deserve to have surcharge and increase our prices.
This is the opposite of a deal. Hoyts is pulling the old switcheroo.
This might be the reason why Optusperks no longer works?
Where's the good old concession?
N.B Optus perks still cheaper than standard pricing