17-05-2025
Airline pricing comes to the theatre: £5 for priority queue
After forking out £300 for a ticket, you would hope that might be the end of the cost of your trip to see Giant, a play about Roald Dahl, in the West End. You would be wrong.
Theatres are taking a trick from the airlines and introducing 'extra' charges which make an already expensive night out even more costly. For those wanting to see Giant, which is on at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London until August, you can pay £5 to skip the queue to get into the venue.
You can also pay £55 for the 'Gold Lounge' experience, which includes a 125ml welcome glass of champagne, a second drink, savoury nibbles, a 100g ice cream and a programme. The most expensive
