Christmas Entertainment Basingstoke
Basingstoke December work is mostly corporate: staff parties and team dos at the business parks around Chineham, Houndmills and Viables, with hotel and venue bookings across RG21 to RG24 filling the weekends. A rodeo attachment and a photo booth is the standard pairing here, with the electronic games making up the numbers. The run north is about 38 miles, A3 then M3.
The Basingstoke office do usually starts with a headline piece, and the rodeo reindeer or the Christmas pudding are the usual picks, with the attachment swapped over from the bull in minutes. Around the headline, a Basingstoke December room takes the Christmas photo booth or the magic selfie mirror in one corner and a run of electronic games from the dance machine to Whack an Elf in another. The family end of the Basingstoke diary books Santa's grotto and the inflatable snow globe for the school fairs.
This work has run from our own commercial unit in Havant since 2002, with a fleet we own outright and no sub-contracting. The rodeo attachments are ADIPS certified, the electronics are PAT-tested, every member of staff is enhanced-DBS registered, and the £10 million public liability certificate, risk assessment and method statement can go out with the Basingstoke quote.
If the Basingstoke party is one part of a bigger plan, the Basingstoke event hire page lists the lot: the bouncy castles for the summer fair, the assault courses for the older children, the rodeo bull that takes the reindeer attachment on the same machine, and the photo booths for the wedding season.
Book the Basingstoke date as early as you can, especially the Saturday nights either side of the office-party fortnight, because several of these pieces are staffed and the operators book out before the kit does. Tell us the venue, the evening's timings and the numbers expected, and we will put the Basingstoke package together.
Why book Monster Event Hire?
- Established 2002 - run by Joanne and David Morris from Havant.
- £10 million Public Liability Insurance - certificate available on request, with additional licensed-premises cover.
- Every inflatable PIPA-tagged and inspected annually - PIPA is the only inspection scheme recognised by the HSE.
- In-house PIPA-certified inflatable inspector and RPII inspector - the safety knowledge is in the business, not borrowed once a year.
- Every member of staff is enhanced-DBS registered, and staff are RPII operator/supervisor trained and first-aid trained.
- BS EN 14960:2019 is the standard we work to for inflatable play equipment.
- Anemometer wind-safety protocol issued with every inflatable hire - documented procedure with a 24mph cutoff.
- Electrical equipment is annually PAT-tested by certified testers where applicable.
- Our equipment is our own - no sub-hiring or agency middlemen.
- Trusted by councils, charities, government research agencies and corporates, with named multi-year repeat clients.
Need an insurance certificate, risk assessment or method statement? They're available on request - just ask when you book.
Christmas party entertainment in Basingstoke - common questions
How far ahead should we book Christmas entertainment in Basingstoke?
December is the busiest month of the Basingstoke diary, and the first two weekends go first. Six to eight weeks ahead is comfortable for most items, and earlier is better for a Saturday night in mid-December with the rodeo reindeer or the grotto, because the staffed pieces are limited by people as much as kit.
Can you supply several attractions for one Basingstoke Christmas party?
That is most of our December work in Basingstoke: a rodeo or the snowboard simulator as the headline, the Christmas photo booth in the corner, and two or three electronic games filling the gaps. Multi-item bookings usually work out cheaper per item than hiring separately, and everything comes on one delivery.
Our Basingstoke venue is a hotel or pub with a licence. Is that a problem?
No. We carry additional licensed-premises insurance on top of the £10 million public liability policy, which is what licensed Basingstoke venues want to see before anyone sets up, and the certificates go out with the quote. Tell us the venue at enquiry stage and we will send the paperwork their way.
How much space and power does Christmas entertainment need at a Basingstoke venue?
The rodeo reindeer and the snowboard simulator each want a clear area of roughly 20ft by 20ft and one standard 13amp socket, the photo booths fit a level corner of about 2.3m by 1.25m, and the table games and arcade machines slot in wherever there is a table and a socket. Send the Basingstoke room measurements and we will confirm what fits before the date is held.
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