Doing it alone?

There are other cinemas though where one could feel quite comfortable. The cinema at The Lighthouse in Poole, for instance or The Castle in Wellingborough - both small, almost "Art house "cinemas where the same chap takes your ticket as sells you ice cream at the interval! Early afternoon matinees are also good, as Ella says - a friend and I recently went to Quartet at our local Odeon (the MK multiplex is a Cineworld and not my favourite place) - when the light s went up there were only 4 of us in the audience!

Cinemas, in the afternoons, are usually (apart from school hols) filled with older people, so it's easy to feel comfortable.

'Orange' wed. in particular as it's very cheap!

I could go to the cinema alone (in the afternoon), or a pub/restaurant that I'm familiar with, but I could never go on holiday alone.
That fills me with fear, although I admit holidays aren't my favourite things due to very traumatic experiences with my exH!

I would feel self concious going into a cinema on my own,maybe finding out if there is a group of fellow singletons who would like to go every now and then would help.

Don't mind going to cinema alone as everyone is just sitting in the dark watching the same film. I think this is where GN is useful to discuss what you have just seen and hear others opinions. Maybe I got used to doing things on my own as was alone for a good number of years before meeting my partner but do understand how daunting social events can be if you are on your own.
Senior screen viewings at some major cinemas offer daytime films (often with tea and biscuits) and they are a cheery crowd that attend which might make it less of an ordeal.

I wouldn't go to the cinema alone - I'd feel like a billy-no-mates ! I walk down the Chine and along the seafront, also into the gardens down into town by myself but I wouldn't go into the New Forest by myself. When I said this to my daughter she laughed - oh Mum who's going to attak you at your age? Well maybe the old git who flashed me on the bus on my way to work the other day.

Wow! I'm surprised at the response (so far). I thought I was alone on this one. I wondered if it's because I'm inclined to get claustrophobic...but other situations in confined spaces I can cope with. It, for some reason in my head has to be a 'social occasion'. shysal Yes, I know the Kassam, it's so loud I don't need my hearing aids in there:-)

I am the same goose. I never go to the cinema alone, prefer to wait until the DVD comes out.
On the odd occasion that I have gone with GCs to the Kassam complex (you probably know it as you are a fellow Oxonian aren't you?), I find the volume too high and when I watched Mama Mia from near the front the swirling camera shots made me feel dizzy.

And me!

I am with you there, Goose. Wish I was, in fact, then we could go together.