Pirate Ship Inflatable

The pirate ship inflatable - also called a pirate ship assault course, a pirate galleon, or a pirate ship slide and bounce - is a children's unit done out as a galleon, with a slide at one end and a bounce area making up the body of the ship. It is yellow and orange with a band of blue waves around the bottom, it sits on a blue base, and there is a tall brown mast rising at the back. Cartoon pirates are painted along the panels: one in a red headscarf and a striped top on the front plank, a captain with a treasure chest by the arched entrance, and a few more dotted about. A red safety mat sits at the front where the children climb in.

It plays simply enough. Children go up the padded steps inside, which have grab handles up the side, reach the platform at the top, and come down the slide at the front, and there is room to bounce in the body of the ship. It is rated for children only, so it suits a children's birthday party, a school fun day, a church or community event, or a summer fair where the crowd is mostly young. It is a gentler, smaller thing than our long army and jungle assault courses, which take adults and run to 50ft and beyond.

Victoria Marshall, who had one of our assault courses out for a group of little ones, wrote afterwards: "Our little ones looooved your assault course and it was a joy to watch them have so much fun."

The footprint is 25ft by 15ft, and it runs off a single standard 13amp socket, the ordinary domestic kind, rather than the two-plug supply the bigger courses want. That keeps the setup straightforward whether it is going on a back garden, a hall floor or a level bit of playground.

If you are after more pirate kit, we also hire a pirate bouncy castle and a standalone pirate slide. For something longer and tougher aimed at older children and adults, have a look at the 56ft jungle assault course or the fun fair assault course. The full range is on our inflatable assault course hire page.

What you get

• 25ft x 15ft pirate ship inflatable with a slide and a bounce area
• Suitable for children only
• Runs off one standard 13amp domestic socket
• PIPA-tagged inflatable, inspected annually by our in-house RPII inspector
• Wind-speed anemometer and safety paperwork supplied with every outdoor hire
• Delivery, setup and collection across Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and London

How we hire it out

We have run Monster Event Hire from our unit in Havant since 2002, and the kit is ours, so we do not sub-hire. The person who delivers it and sets it up is one of our own staff, not an agency casual you meet on the day. Everyone on the road has passed the RPII operator and supervisor exams, holds a current first-aid certificate, and is enhanced-DBS registered, which is worth knowing when the booking is a children's party or a school. The pirate ship is PIPA-tagged and inspected every year by our in-house RPII inspector, and it is built to BS EN 14960:2019. We carry £10 million public liability insurance, with the certificate and the risk assessment there on request, and we hold additional licensed-premises cover, so a pub, club or social-club do is no bother. It is normally a self-supervised dry hire, but we can send a trained, DBS-checked operator to run it if you would rather not supervise it yourself.

You can read more on coverage in our Havant, Portsmouth, Southampton, Hampshire and Surrey areas. Tell us your date, the venue, and roughly how many children you are expecting, and we will put a quote together.