PÁLÁS i Galway

🕗 åbningstider

kommentar 5

• en

  Morda Kai

  :: 30 March 2018 21:16:36

  A few things 1. When you enter the building the ice cold wind that greets you right in the face is a serious problem. Pretty poor designing the box office system in a outdoors type area . It would make sense in a California type location but here in a predominantly cold rainy place it comes across as just badly designed. 2. As mentioned everything in the building just isn't very clear. Where are the toilets or bar for example? You wouldn't know with the lack of signs around 3. Place doesn't quite feel like a cinema to me . Maybe it's the desolate cold look on the outside but the array of concrete on the stairs and the lack of anything cinematic inside e.g. film posters is a small issue. Though I'm sure they'll fix this 4.A major design flaw in having the entrance/exit beside the screen (in Screen 2). The bright green exit sign is very off-putting when you're trying to watch the movie. Not really sure there's a solution to it either that doesn't involve changing the whole layout. So yeah glad it's up and running and hope it does well but considering an 8.5 million cost to the taxpayer it's disappointing that most of the above issues weren't properly fixed before it opened.

• 

  Carrabine Joinery Ltd

  :: 28 March 2018 22:47:41

  Well worth catching a show at this terrific venue, a massive amount of work and design went into this from start tonfinish, we had the pleasure of manufacturing all the bespoke windows and doors here internal and external. All the very best in the future to Element Pictures.

• en

  Kyle Wilkinson

  :: 10 March 2018 21:00:45

  Can see this doing very well. Comfy seats, nice looking bar and specialist seasons such as Monty Python and Wes Anderson lined up in the future at least are fresh options for the cinema-going audience here Biggest issue I have with the place is the poor signposting and how it's not easy to find certain facilities such as the toilets. Kind of an awkward location having them on the ground floor. If you're in screen three on the top floor, the thought of having to walk down several flights of stairs just to use the loo isn't exactly relishing. Might have been better off having them in the bar on the first floor at least. Still a very positive first impression here. Though there was no one in the bar in my visit it's an excellent idea having one there. Nice to be able to have a drink before or after the film.

• 

  Garrett Fox

  :: 25 February 2018 22:41:59

  So 14 years in the planning 9 years in the making Bankruptcy and 1 house foundation broken And it's here yes The new art house cinema has landed So The ticket office is inside but outside as in you walk in but your still outside. The restaurant is on the ground floor Small but looks nice. There only stating and have not eaten there yet The bar is on the 1st floor And it's quite a place many seats in it and loads of little quite spots in it to drink Very nice indeed just as a bar by it's self Screen 1 basement and is the largest screen Screen 2 3rd floor and looks to be the same as Screen 3 top floor Seating is very nice leg room good I like the fact that your seat is given to you at box office No running to get best seats Like the names on the back to of people who gave money to the cinema All in all Very nice

• 

  Peter Abides

  :: 24 February 2018 20:12:25

  Went to one of the screenings last night. The cinema is up and running but it isn't totally finished; there was a feeling that the builders may have just left about four seconds before people started to arrive. Everything was a little on the slapdash side: for instance, most of the toilets weren't open yet, the only mens was down in the basement, which was seven floors away if you were in screen three; the food situation reminded me of people selling hastily bulk purchased sweets and bottles of coke out of a car-boot at a garden fete, and, I dunno, but all that bare concrete really contributes to the general sense that you're walking around in a yet uncompleted building: hey, were all fans of foreign films, but a lot of the interior is distinctly Eastern Bloc in feel for now. I don't want to be too harsh, it was the first day, but they still have a lot of work to do inside, in my view, before the place is really up and running. A "soft opening" is what it was called, which is a nice and polite way of saying "rush job" - but at least it exists, which is a major improvement over the fiasco for the last ten years. One thing I do think is totally stupid though is having the box office as it is: it's at the base of another structure that's freestanding out in the open and isn't actually connected to the rest of the building. Architecturally marvellous, I'm sure, and I had loads of time to marvel at it last night as the glacial winds whipped in from the outside and made me shiver and wonder exactly what the spectacle is going to be like when people are qeueing in the pissing rain. I'm sure in time a solution will be found, some sort of canopy will probably improvised, but I'd be wary of that in one sense: the material will probably cost a million euro and getting someone to hang it up will probably shut the place down again for a further year. I was in screen three last night and I can't fault it in terms of presentation. The picture and sound quality was top class, the seats were comfortable and the screen felt large in relation to the size of the room. The bar seemed to be doing a roaring trade and it is pretty cool to have a place in the building to go to relax and have a drink either before or after - or both.