Comments on: Review: SkyCity Cinemas, Queen Street

By: Wheelies beware: Avoid SkyCity Cinemas - for now

Wheelies beware: Avoid SkyCity Cinemas - for now — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:51:23 +0000

[...] yes, the venue with the infamous heavy doors, as illustrated with a bizarre 3-men-in-a-disabled-bathroom incident on TV One’s CloseUp [...]

By: Review: Te Papa Museum, Wellington

Review: Te Papa Museum, Wellington — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:26:53 +0000

[...] by myself, plain and simple. Maybe the Te Papa design team were friends with those who designed SkyCity Metro, who knows, but seriously, in this day and age, it wouldn’t hurt to put some automatic [...]

By: dieseldave

dieseldave — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:58:25 +0000

Further to my last comment about Hoyt's Sylvia Park. Once in the theater you have the choice of staying in you chair or transferring to a lazy boy type very comfortable seating, with hearing help if you require it. I would check pricing before you go Tuesday appearers to be the cheapest day.

By: dieseldave

dieseldave — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:51:43 +0000

I have been to Hoyt's Sylvia Park a couple of times recently. The toilets are just usable in an manual chair, so I would hate to try with a power chair. Still other toilets in the complex are good.

Access to the theaters is easy with a number of lifts available to get one to the theater level. The only thing about them is one can only get a chair and another person [maybe 3 other people but not 2 chairs] in at a time, but they are fast returning between floors.

By: Allan Armstrong

Allan Armstrong — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:23:19 +0000

Most Movie theatres in NZ are not following many of their overseas counterparts. There is no way out in emergencies when the lifts are not working. Now that there is a simple answer, it is no longer acceptable for anyone in a wheelchair to be left behind while others are able to escape a dangerous building. Check our web page above.

By: The Hollywood Writer’s Strike: Why do I want it to go on longer? - The Free Articulator

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:40:28 +0000

[...] there. It’s the same as preventing wheelchair access to buildings by refusing to put in ramps, or installing heavy doors that can’t be moved by a person who uses a [...]

By: Review: Westfield St Lukes, Auckland

Review: Westfield St Lukes, Auckland — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:32:52 +0000

[...] You enter and exit them with the push of a button! (Take note, SkyCity Metro) [...]

By: Lee Warn

Lee Warn — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:22:49 +0000

It took nearly 1year to get them to put a lock on the baby toilet near the food hall, fear of miss-use.. & one of the other disabled toilets in same area took even longer to get a lock on the door. I woudl not recommend using the toilet in the arcade, just dont.. If it works, if it doesnt smell to bad, if the door has stopped being so hard to open, its a mission to get to right at the back of the arcade area..

The rocket lift near the entrance by Aotea Square cant be used to get tickets because it cant stop on that leave now.. So you need to go across to the arcade lift, if its not being used by other people, then go up & get tickets.

If the movie you wan tto see is in cinema 7-12 then you need to go back into the lift, go down a level, so you can go back out & across to the other rocket lift, & then go up to the top level to access the 7-12 cinema's..

Not to be a downer, but hey, even when this building was brand new it was rubbish.. The staff are freaking fantastic, but for design, it fails worse than a paper plane in a swimming pool..

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:35:51 +0000

Hi,

If you are keen to get the most out of the skycity cinema experience you could join their 'Film Squad'. They do discounts, freebees and advance screenings etc, etc. Pretty sure you can join online.

By: Movie Reviews » Blog Archive » Review: SkyCity Cinemas, Queen Street

Movie Reviews » Blog Archive » Review: SkyCity Cinemas, Queen Street — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:43:46 +0000

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