Friday, 15 January 2010

aaahhh, golden!

What with the advent of DVDs and and the arrival of two children in the past two years, I don’t get to the movies much anymore. So when our best friends recently gave us a gift of two Gold Class movie tickets, my hubby and I jumped on the chance to get out of the house!

I’d never done the Gold Class Cinema thing before, but now, I’m not sure how I’ll ever appreciate regular cinema viewing again!

For those of you who are as slow to catch onto Gold Class as I was, here's how it goes -

- express queuing for tickets
- a private lounge with private waiters
- a full three course menu to choose from
- the choice of three separate times throughout the movie to have your food hand delivered. (We had chocolate and masala mousse with berry compote and double cream, then coffee, then choc-top ice creams, a must have at Aussie cinemas!)
- a personal escort to your lush, reclining lounge chair seats
- only 24 people per session
- nobody sitting in front of you

We had to see something that had to be seen on a big screen. Both being big James Cameron fans, we saw AVATAR. Oh my...

For those who'd like my take on the movie, rather than the heavenly meals ;), check out my first Pink Heart Society post of the year for today's MUST WATCH FRIDAY post.

Labels: pink heart society

7 Comments:

At Friday, 15 January, 2010, Tez Miller said…

Eek, the post hasn't made it to the Society yet! No biggie; I can wait ;-)

The big question: Did you see it in 3D, and if so did you get motion sickness, and if so did you vomit up your wonderful meal? ;-)
At Friday, 15 January, 2010, Ally Blake said…

Tez, alas we did not.

They didn't have 3D as a Gold Class option. And, yeah, I would have been in grave danger of losing my lunch if it had been! I get terrible motion sickness.

But I loved it that much we are still hoping to go attempt 3D soon!
At Friday, 15 January, 2010, Marilyn Shoemaker said…

We have something similar which was recently brought to my attention on the Eastside of Seattle......they said it was wonderful.

What great friends to give you a gift like that. I remember having time out with Ron when our children were little, they were 13 months apart and quite a hand full so date nights were special.
At Friday, 15 January, 2010, Lacey Devlin said…

It sounds amazing!
At Friday, 15 January, 2010, Janette Radevski said…

Seems like I'm the only person on earth yet to see this movie! Must organise babysitter (ie mum) and take a date (ie hubby) to see it before I have another conversation with someone who asks me 'Have you seen avatar yet?'
At Friday, 15 January, 2010, Joanne Coles said…

That sounds so glam. We don't have anything like that in England (or at least, if we do, no one has told me!)
At Saturday, 16 January, 2010, Sally Clements said…

Wow! wish I'd known about that last year when I was in Australia, I would have gone. Here in Ireland its the cheap seats, or the cheaper seats. Popcorn (if you can afford it) and a container of ice chips with a miserable dribble of coke in the bottom! At a cost that would keep a small dictatorship running for a week. Hmmph!