Golden village on Opera

Buying Tickets (update: able to buy tickets via E61i on Opera)

E front page of Golden Village’s website looks and performs fine on Opera’s browser. You can select your movie/cinema from the drop downs.

U do hav to go through one step at a time to make the drop downs work.

1. Click on e first drop-down list (‘Select Cinema’) and make ur selection.
2. Next select e second drop-down for e film that r currently showing in tat cinema
3. Heres e part tat most ppl will be frustrated by. After doing 1. And 2., u hav to wait about 1 sec b4 u can actually select e ‘Choose a day’ drop down. U can actually see e selection box shift like 1 pixel to e right after its activated (probably manually aligned?). It will be e same thing for e last drop-down ‘Choose a time’.

After these selections, you will be brought to the seats selection page.

As you can see, due to the way Opera Mobile works, the seats are all arranged vertically instead of the normal horizontal rows. (for your info, Row A is closest to the Screen). [If you are using a different phone and could not get this to work on your phone, please drop me an email so I can update this post]

Also, if you do not use the drop down list @ the homepage to book the tickets, instead clicking on the “Buy Tickets” buttons, you will see that the timings will be all “cut” and arranged vertically. (see picture) Still works, just troublesome to find the required timings.

I really hope Golden Village is paying attention here and provide Opera mobile users an alternative way to select the seats.

Alternative Method

Use the default Nokia browser. It works, just that the amount of data downloaded from the website goes up. Meaning if u r not on a unlimited data plan, ur cost of visiting the website goes up as well. And u have to do plenty of side scrolling to get to some buttons compared to Opera mobile’s vertical scrolling.

Verdict: No Opera Mobile for GV.