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Things to do · Bicester
Vue Bicester
Bicester's seven-screen cinema, at the Pioneer Centre on Bure Place in the town centre, showing new films in 2D and 3D and Vue's Big Screen Events, with cheaper tickets online and free parking at the local Sainsbury's.
Family-friendly · Rainy days
The town-centre cinema, and the easy indoor answer to a wet afternoon in Bicester or an evening after Bicester Village. Book online, where tickets are cheaper, and get the parking QR code at the cinema before you leave.
- Good: Tickets from £6.49 online, from £7.99 at the cinema
- Good: Concerts, sport, opera and theatre on the big screen as well as new films
- Good: Lift to the first-floor screens; wheelchair spaces in screens 1 to 6
- Good: Autism-friendly screenings, audio description and subtitled showings
- Worth knowing: Free parking at Sainsbury's is two hours, or four with the cinema's QR code
- Worth knowing: Film times are posted a week at a time, on Tuesdays
About
Vue Bicester is the town's cinema, seven screens and more than 850 seats in the Pioneer Centre on Bure Place, off Manorsfield Road in the centre of Bicester. It shows new releases in 2D and 3D, which Vue says are projected in 4K with Dolby surround sound, along with Vue's Big Screen Events: concerts, sport, dance, opera and theatre shown on the big screen.
Tickets are cheaper online. Vue's Bicester page gives Super Saver prices from £6.49 booked online and from £7.99 at the cinema. For children there are Vue's Mighty Mornings and Big Shorts screenings, and the cinema takes Meerkat Movies two-for-one tickets. The listings change weekly: Vue puts up its schedule every Tuesday for the films running from Friday to the following Thursday, so look at the times on the day you plan to go.
The screens are on the first floor, reached by lift or escalator, and screens 1 to 6 have wheelchair spaces with step-free access. It shows subtitled films every week, offers audio description, and holds an autism-friendly screening, with the lights up and the sound down, at 10.30am on the last Sunday of each month. Assistance dogs are welcome. For parking, it points to the local Sainsbury's car park, free for two hours, or four if you scan a QR code available at the cinema. parking in Bicester lists the town's other car parks.
After a day at Bicester Village or in the old town, a film is the obvious way to stay on for the evening rather than heading straight back to the station.
The details
- Time to allow
- The length of the film
- Parking
- Sainsbury's car park: free for 2 hours, or 4 hours with a QR code from the cinema (Vue).
Photos
The foyer and counter
Location
Accessibility
- Step-free access
- Accessible toilet
- Hearing loop
- Assistance dogs welcome
Screens on the first floor, by lift or escalator; step-free wheelchair spaces in screens 1 to 6 (none listed in screen 7); accessible toilets by screen 7. Hearing loops and a lowered counter; audio description and hearing headsets in screens 1 to 6; captioned films weekly; autism-friendly screening 10.30am on the last Sunday of the month (Vue).
Places to stay nearby
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Travelodge Bicester
Hotel · Bicester
A budget chain hotel on Pioneer Square in the middle of Bicester, under half a mile from Bicester North station and within walking distance of Bicester Village, with family, accessible and pet-friendly rooms but no car park of its own.
Dog-friendly · Car-free
Verified Nov 2026
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The Littlebury Hotel, Bicester
Hotel · Bicester
A family-run hotel on Kings End in Bicester since 1959, with 35 en-suite rooms, breakfast included, a lounge bar, gardens and a large car park, within walking distance of the town centre and Bicester Village.
Family-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
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Premier Inn Bicester
Hotel · Bicester
A Premier Inn on Oxford Road, on the A41 at the southern edge of Bicester, half a mile from Bicester Village by the chain's measure, with family, accessible and Premier Plus rooms, a restaurant and a paid car park.
Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Biagio the Jewellers, Bicester
- Nash's Bakery, Sheep Street 0.1 km away
- Coles Books, Bicester 0.1 km away
- The Penny Black, Bicester 0.1 km away
Sights nearby
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Bicester Market Square
Sight · Historic building · Bicester
The old market place at the centre of Bicester, where the town's market was granted in 1239, lined with listed houses such as No. 47 of 1698 with its oval-windowed tower. The Friday market is on Sheep Street beside it, and the square is due to be remade.
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St Edburg's Church, Bicester
Sight · Church · Bicester
Bicester's Grade I parish church, grown from a Norman church with a central tower into the big Perpendicular church of today. Inside are brasses from about 1500, Georgian monuments by Scheemakers, Wilton and Westmacott, and a Morris & Co. window of 1866.
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Garth Park, Bicester
Sight · Common or park · Bicester
Bicester's town park: about 9 acres of lawns, specimen trees and formal beds round Garth House, a Victorian hunting lodge given to the town in 1946. It has the 1732 bell of the old Town Hall, a bandstand, a café and play areas, a few minutes from Market Square.
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Bicester Village
Sight · Historic building · Bicester
An open-air designer outlet on the south side of Bicester, with more than 150 boutiques on pedestrian streets, open seven days a week since 1995. It has its own station, with trains from London Marylebone and Oxford, and the old town is a short walk away.