Christmas Entertainment Portsmouth

Portsmouth December dos run from city-hotel staff parties to university department events and school PTFA fairs, with the Southsea venues taking the bigger spreads. The run in from Havant is about eight miles along the A27 and A2030, which keeps evening set-ups and late collections workable. The Christmas photo booth and the snowboard simulator are the usual city picks, and the staffed pieces come with the operators who run them.

At a Portsmouth ball or a big staff do the spread usually runs to three or four pieces: a rodeo reindeer or the snowboard simulator as the headline, the magic selfie mirror or Christmas photo booth against the wall, and electronic fillers such as the racing simulator and the retro arcade machines for the queues in between. Smaller Portsmouth rooms lean on the table games, and Whack an Elf plus the Christmas mega wire do that job without eating floor space.

This work has run from our own commercial unit in Havant since 2002, with a fleet we own outright and no sub-contracting. Every item that needs a plug is PAT-tested, the rodeo machines carry ADIPS certification, our staff are enhanced-DBS registered, and the £10 million public liability certificate plus the additional licensed-premises cover can go out with the Portsmouth quote.

Christmas work sits alongside the rest of the Portsmouth diary rather than replacing it, and the same crew who deliver the rodeo bull in summer bring the reindeer attachment in December. The Portsmouth event hire page rounds up everything else, from the bouncy castles and assault courses of the summer fairs to the photo booths that work all year.

The Portsmouth December diary fills earlier than any other month, and the first two weekends go first. Send the venue, the date, the room measurements and the rough headcount, and we will come back the same day with a Portsmouth package that fits what the room actually holds.