Lakeville 21 Mueller Family Theater
We all know how expensive going to the movies have become. Last weekend my husband and I wanted to go and watch a movie, so we went to our local movie theater about maybe 10 to 15 minutes away. We soon found out they raised there prices to 10 bucks a ticket and it looked as if they did away with their before 5:00pm cost for a ticket. We don’t mind the cost going up a little, that’s not a big deal. Everything else is going up so we expect it to happen.
We decided to leave because 20$ for both of us to watch a movie with out counting in the snacks we felt would just be to much for us. The snacks normally cost us close to 20$, so this would have been 40$ by the time everything was said and done. My husband and I decided this weekend we would go to Lakeville which is close to a 30 minute drive, something we don’t always like doing because of the price of gas. We have went to Mueller Family Theater a few times, and always felt welcome there but didn’t like the fact that everything had to be paid in cash. My husband and I never really have cash on us at least never enough to watch a movie and pay snacks, so we had to use the ATM and be charged couple bucks for it. My husband and I share the cost, we take turns one of us pays for snacks the other one pays for tickets.
Since the last time we were there they had changed some things, and I have to say it was for the best. They had changed the price of their before 5pm tickets price by 25 cents. That is not bad at all. They also now except debt or credit cards which is the reason why their ticket prices went up. So I felt this was well worth it. It wasn’t a unfair increase and they probably could have went a little more up with out me being unhappy with the increase. So the movie tickets for my husband and i was 12.50$ this isn’t bad at all. It is less then we would have spent close to home, and I think it makes up for the amount of gas we spent going there too.
Now it was time to get snacks. Normally at other places we are stuck with taking the quick picks, and can’t have anything we really want. My husband sometimes like Nachos I am not a big fan of Nachos but they are nice sometimes, at our other place it was at least 4.50, here it was less then that. I had saw some Ice Cream dots I wanted those where 3.50. My husband and I both wanted some Licorice and some sour patch kids, those where less then our other place. I wanted a large pop and I believe that was 3.50 by the end of everything I spend 15.50 on snacks and my husband bought his own drink, which I think is far since usually I ended buying my own drink.
My husband and I saw “The Happening” it was good but very intense. A couple times I had to cover my eyes, and a few times my husband and I both said okay we get the point. I personally like the earlier movies by this director a little better. He received one strike, which shocked us because he always has very creative ways of cussing.
The movie theater was very clean. My husband and I were the only two watching the movie. I hope they get more movie goers finding them, and seeing that they are affordable still and I hope they stay that way. The snack area was clean and both the woman bathroom I was in were clean. I was actually surprised by the amount of cleanlinesses there. There customer service was good, and most everyone one I saw did there job with a smile on there face. When the movie was over they came to clean the room, at least they didn’t have much cleaning to do but the 3 who came to clean had smiles on there faces. When I see people smiling at there job it makes me feel more welcome.
My husband and I have been to enough places together where we have dealt with customer service people who look unhappy and didn’t have a smile, those are the ones we normally wanted to get away from.
There will be some good movies coming out in the next few months, so maybe a gift certificate for a movie would make a good bridesmaid gifts, since more wedding happen in the summer.
