Hemisfèric

Review for middle of October 2023, my second visit here in 17 years, as a tourist:

Exterior: Hemisfèric is an architectural masterpiece as all Ciudad des Arts buildings. A visual treat for all ages. Nice lit by the sun (during the day) or illuminated by artificial lights at night. I enjoyed walking & biking around it.

Interior: Here things could be improved: -everything is underground, like tickets, toilets access to "cinema" itself. -there is a cafeteria, a gift shop. -there are 2 kiosks for selling tickets, one of the wasn't accepting my card (no contactless, no inserting card with chip, no sliding the magnetic strip), so I had to redo the booking where it worked flawlessly from the first try. (yes, I was lazy and didn't book online since the beginning) -exiting from cinema forces you again to go underground (pass near cafeteria and souvenir shop) all in crowded spaces with people stopping like animals wondering about something. The guard did not let me exit towards the exterior where other non paying tourist were walking uninterrupted... -cinema - it shows it's age (it definitely requires an update).

• cinema video 🎭: It's nice to have everything projected on the inside of a sphere, however considering 2020+ TV screens I have access to experience is not that massive. I was bothered by the lower image quality projected. 🚫
• cinema audio 🎶: a lousy experience if you're not Spanish native. Sound is projected in the chamber in Spanish, and for English/French you get a headset to wear. The headset is not covering your ears, so I constantly heard Spanish from the room and moments later the English from the headset which was at maximum level. (above comments for the Oceans movie)

I did return to bring my kid into this experience, being the first time she enjoyed it a lot. I won't return for a projection here another time unless they bring a new technology.

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