I once tried to park in the car park at the Beckenham Odeon - as soon as I drove in, I could see I wasn't going to get into the spaces. Even driving around to drive out again proved difficult as there was barely room to turn around the ends of the lanes.

There is a 24 hour multi-storey carpark in Village Way, just a few minutes walk from the cinema. It's not free, but pretty cheap - about 40p an hour. I love the cinema in Beckenham, it feels like a proper local cinema, and I'm happy for my kids (young to mid-teens) to go by themselves as there is never any trouble.