Dromana 3

Describe my experience is what it says so here goes. We decided to go to the drive in as we had been taking our children there for years and thought we would go back for the nostalgic experience. We arrived 45 minutes before our movie started so that we could get food from the diner. Walking into the diner was like walking into an freezer! It was a very cold night but it was colder, really it was, in the diner than outside. It took over 15 minutes before we got to order our food and then, as it was so cold, and we are unable to drink caffeine, we asked for hot water to drink. We were promptly advised that this would cost the same as tea! We had never experienced this before anywhere else we had been.
Well it goes without saying, we didn't get the hot water. We were charged $1 for using a credit card and then they tried to charge us to use it again as they forgot to charge us for the coke sitting in front of them. We paid cash for the coke.
I was going to write my review there and then, while we were waiting for our food, which took another 45 minutes to be prepared, by the way (making my husband miss the beginning of the movie) but after reading other negative reviews and seeing the owner's response saying, that if they had a problem, they should have spoken to her before writing a review, I thought, ok, I'll go and talk to them about my disappointment in having to pay for hot water. The owner's response was so aggressive I was completely taken aback.

Needless to say, this completely tainted our experience at the drive in. Upon reading other reviews it appears that we were not the only ones who had bad experiences at this venue.

How disappointing to have one of the few remaining, iconic, heritage listed drive ins being marred by one person.

If you want that nostalgic experience of going to the drive ins, I would suggest you take your own food and drinks or go somewhere else. At least that clarified why it was so cold in the diner.

THREE SCREENS, TWO EYES

Its a dying art for sure, a drive-in movie theatre. You'd be surprised too, remember the candelit projection faded on the screen, the box of sound which was indistinguishable as human sounds and the cracked, old sharp asphalt mounds? It ain't like it used to be.

Now there are three screens, all showing something different. The sound plays through your car stereo and there's a very cool, retro cafe that serves burgers, shakes but also cracks you a mighty latte!

Drive-ins are dead? Long live drive-ins, and Dromana is a beauty.