Consumer Corner: The cost of Christmas entertainment - panto, cinema, skating and more

And one Christmas idea that might only cost you your dignity, if you can't handle the winter waters!

Fionula Linehan as Peggy Twomey and Andrew Lane as Johnny La Fool performing a scene from this years panto Beauty and the Beast at The Everyman which will run until Sunday 14 January. Pic: Darragh Kane

Christmas is expensive enough without throwing in the cost of entertainment over the festive period. 

Schools will be closed, many offices will be taking a break so it’s only fitting that kids and adults will need to be entertained. There will come a time when the Christmas movie just won’t cut it.