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Essex Cinemas
2023 Oct 05
We arrived for one of the first showings after the theater opened for the day. Theater was filthy. Floors were sticky, food still stuck in the seats and cup holders. When we first walked in my wife had her purse and I had my small satchel/sling pack (same size as my wife’s purse.)with diapers etc. for the kids. The cashier then started arguing with me telling me it was a backpack and they weren’t allowed. After a minute of this I informed her again it wasn’t a backpack it was my “Purse” and asked her if she was the backpack police? She gave us our tickets and I thought we were finished till we then had the manager come over and ask to look in the bags. Had it not have been for our 2 year old, 4 year old and 7 year old I would have just told them to give us a refund and we would have gone elsewhere. Even the police need a warrant but the movie theater federales can just harass you I guess. I understand it’s private property but we won’t be going back there. Sure glad we paid about $60.00 In tickets for that treatment.