UCI Ruhr Park (Bochum)

5 Edward F. Sodmann - a month ago

Great movies, excellent sound and original versions. Only pizza hut closes too early

5 Shiro Kurita - 7 months ago

I love that cinema. It has a great atmosphere. Before the film starts you can enjoy a pizza at pizza hut or drink a cocktail at crystals or wait in the lobby which has booths.

4 Urte Kortekaas - 3 years ago

Good value. Only the cheese sauce with the nachos wasn't really hot and they forgot to ask if we'd like to have jalapeños on top. But the movie quality was great.

5 Dennis Mende - 4 years ago

One of the best if not the best cinema in Bochum, NRW and the area around it. We have an unlimited card for 23,40€ and have been in every hall already and we love it. Also the new Imax hall is absolutely worth it. The food is a bit expensive but you can save money if you have a movie points card. It‘s around a euro per menu when you show it to the cashier.
Try it out.

4 Benjamin Brentrop - 6 years ago

That's what I call a cinema... Sure it is a lil bit expensive but therefore good service and hell man, it's clean. I visited cinemas which were horrible. For this experience I am willing to pay a bit more. The technology is up to date and you will be happy to spend some more euros. Free parking lot is available and you can visit a cocktail bar before the movie starts, if you are too early.
You can buy your tickets online and you just need to bring your mobile, no longer cueing for tickets.

3 Phelix Dotschkal - 4 weeks ago

Good quality, but seriously understaffed.

3 RealZero - 6 years ago

The UCI is quite in line with most cinemas of its size.

The parking situation can be very bad at highlight times, despite a huge parking area it's very hard to find anything free and it get's more complicated due to strange routing of the lanes. I won't let this influence the rating, though, as it's a partially a shared area.

If you order your tickets online you gain entry simply by showing a QR code you receive which potentially cuts quite some waiting time and keeps queues shorter than on regular cinema registers.
In my personal experiences staff has always been friendly and even helpful if a member of a group is delayed or in similar situations.

Sadly the actual price of the tickets is often quite high. When ordering online they seem fine at first, but at the checkout several additional fees are added: length, hall/tech fee, pre-purchase fee. This ultimately makes tickets often reach the 15€ mark.

A brighter thing: There's a flatrate card which is already worth its price if you watch two movies a month at prices like this.

One of the biggest weak points is the same most big cinemas have:
The queues on the drink/snack stands are often horribly long and the height of the prices matches it.

Considering the ticket prices, though, the technology isn't really impressive. Advertised are "iSense", great seats and "Dolby Atmos", but I personally don't see or hear anything better than in cheaper, smaller cinemas, and thus while it's certainly not a bad cinema it just doesn't justify the high price point.

To add another good point, though, due to it's size and number of halls there's really a quite big amount of running movies, often in 2D and 3D, and often movies also stick around several weeks longer than in smaller cinemas.

Thus, in the end, the cinema is by far not bad and does its job well, but there are certainly cheaper cinemas and also some with more impressive technology or ambient.