Due to Cosy Cinema Cardiff for inviting us to overview the expertise in return for this overview
Lacking cinema throughout lockdown, Dinas Powys couple Sian and John Colderley set about creating their very own massive display screen expertise of their backyard.
Their son posted a video of their custom-built pod on TikTok and when it gained over 5 million views, they knew they had been onto one thing… and a improbable enterprise enterprise was born.
Cosy Cinema Cardiff began with three non-public viewing pods in Dinas Powys, and has been so profitable that a couple of weeks in the past they opened six extra in Cardiff.
It’s been a large success over the summer time, with {couples}, associates and households eager to ebook the pods for a singular, non-public viewing expertise.
We had been fortunate sufficient to be invited alongside to place it to the check – and may affirm it’s as improbable an expertise because it sounds. Learn on for the total overview plus take a look at my Reel on the Cardiff Mummy Says Instagram channel for a video overview.
Positioned at Cardiff Caravan Park in Pontcanna, only a stone’s throw from Sophia Gardens cricket floor, the pods look improbable from the skin, with their asymmetrical form and lights draped across the door. And so they’re even higher on the within.
My kids’s faces had been filled with amazement as they unlocked the door to our pod and noticed the large mattress stuffed with pillows and blankets, a 92 inch display screen, blackened partitions, and candy treats on the mattress. It was so beautiful to cwtch up collectively and watch a movie in such a singular place.
As the corporate title says, that is Cosy Cinema certainly.
With entry offered to Disney Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime and all Sky channels, there are many movies or programmes you possibly can select from. You too can log into your personal account if you wish to proceed watching a favorite you began at residence. The screens function by way of a PS4 console which means you possibly can deliver alongside a recreation and play, or deliver your personal console and hook it as much as the display screen within the pod.
Our movie of alternative for the evening was Free Man on Disney+. It’s a movie we’ve seen earlier than and loved, so we thought it’d be a great one for the massive display screen. We shut the door, dimmed the lights, opened the popcorn and snuggled underneath the blankets.
The massive beds match as much as two adults and 4 kids so there was loads of room for me and my three (my husband couldn’t make it sadly, however there positively would have been house if he may have joined us).
The costs are additionally affordable too. You’ll be able to ebook a pod for a three-hour exhibiting for £55, with time slots out there from 12.30pm-3.30pm, 4pm-7pm and seven.30pm-10.30pm.
There’s one complimentary parking house out there for every pod, or it’s strolling distance from the centre of Cardiff.
In addition to common screenings, they cater for youngsters’s birthday events, women’ nights in, anniversaries, dwell sports activities occasions and gaming occasions, with the totally different packages out there on their web site.
Over 18s can keep in a single day, priced between £115-£135 for 2 adults, with the campsite’s rest room and bathe amenities out there for Cosy Cinema prospects.
The pods are already attracting folks from everywhere in the nation with two {couples} even travelling from so far as Glasgow to Cardiff for the expertise.
Out there to rent all 12 months spherical, the pods have A/C in the summertime, heating within the winter, plus massive fluffy blankets, making them appropriate regardless of the climate.
We took alongside a collection of sweets and popcorn to share, however a lot of friends order takeaway direct to the pod, which is a superb concept for particular events. For £15 you possibly can order a Cosy Combo, that includes drinks and candy treats.
We completely liked our Cosy Cinema expertise. It was a good way to spend high quality household time and we thought it was good worth too. My kids are already planning future birthday events within the pods and need to go to with their associates for pizza and film nights..
The toughest factor for me was getting out of that comfortable mattress on the finish of the movie and having to drive residence. Possibly subsequent time I’ll come alongside with out the youngsters so I can keep in a single day!
Cosy Cinema, Cardiff Caravan Park, Fields Park Street, Cardiff, CF11 9XR.
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