Coco Before Chanel

[phunkygal]

When I clicked on the link, it was still showing "Public Enemies", so are we assuming the cinemas will be the same next time? If so, I hope there will be other, non-Times previews as it doesn't make economic sense for me to p*y to travel to a Times location. And I've actually just booked for a screening + Q & A with the director at Curzon Mayfair, but that's not until July 31, so I'm sure the suspense would be killing me if others had seen it so much sooner!

its at belsize park - i seem to remember you can get there! do curzon do refunds?

[Ms Thrifty]

No, Belsize Park would be a very long shot and not viable for a one-off. If I could get a Times preview ticket, I would offer my Curzon ticket on the board (free), as there might be someone who couldn't go to the Times preview but wouldn't mind waiting and would enjoy the Q & A aspect. However, I don't fancy my chances with the Times system - I can find the login page but the drop-down menus for film and cinema are empty. If it's live now for Culture+ members, how does it know I'm not one?!

[phunkygal]

Culture plus members have to log in through the culture plus site and then they can get tickets

[Ms Thrifty]

Oh, I see - thank you. It would be useful to be able to see if tickets were still available before having to b*y the paper, but I will take a chance. I know it could result in 2 free tickets, but both the Times and Sky systems seem unnecessarily complicated and so far I seem to have gone round in circles with each, several times, and almost giving up, before even getting to the start of the booking process.

[Ms Thrifty]

OK, I know I msut seem dim, but could someone kindly explain to me how this is supposed to work? I got the paper this morning (or part of it) but when I try to access the booking system, I don't get beyond the part where I should be able to see both the film and the cinema list in drop-down menus, and there's nothing on either. I can see other people are booking tickets, so at this rate there will be none left anyway. I'm sure I've managed to do this before but not easily. It could be that it doesn't work properly with our office system, but I had the same trouble at home earlier.

[phunkygal]

You need Sundays paper -booking for non culture plus members doesnt go live until midnight and the page you need is in the culture plus section tomorrow

[Ms Thrifty]

Thank you - I thought it worked with either the Saturday or the Sunday paper, and as I could see that others were booking tickets, I assumed some of them were also non-members. At least I can give up for today but it's quite hard even to get to a PC at work so I may just have to hope for other, normal previews.

[phunkygal]

No it was saturday last time for Public Enemies, but has nearly always been Sundays before - you can b*y tomorrows or the edition on the 12th

Lots of non culture plus members have tickets already as some kind culture+ members on here are booking tickets for people through their culture plus logins as they aren't limited to how many times they can login and book.

[Ms Thrifty]

I didn't realise, either, that there was no limit on bookings for Culture Plus members - I assumed that it was as advertised, i.e. 2 tickets per member or 4 for a "family film", so I thought those getting tickets for others were people who didn't want to see it themselves or had no local screening.

[Sydney_Bristow]

I'm a wee bit drunk after a fab bbq today

Do we have a password/code for the Times booking system?