Saturday 16 September 2023 12pm till 11pm


<p>Hot Air Balloons, Live Arena Entertainment, Craft Marquee / Trade Stalls, Funfair, Circus workshop, Festival catering,Bars, Balloon Night Glow, Fireworks Finale</p>
<p>Please remember when booking that the hot air balloons are weather dependent and will only fly or inflate in good weather</p>

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A waste of money and a huge disappointment for the kids. Balloons didn't fly due to wind, get that but there only looked like there were 3 baskets. Hardly a balloon festival! Rides and stalls overpriced.

Review of Staffordshire Hot Air Balloon Festival

Awful, absolute waste of money! Over priced and terribly organised.  Huge waste of money for an awful day out!

The Uttoxeter balloon festival was a big let down as this was basically a big funfair with little else on offer. The negative feedback is not in relation to the hot air balloonâs not going up as this is clearly weather dependent. Event was more for families with young children. Definitely would NOT recommend!!!

Entered the venue at 3pm and didn’t see a single balloon. Basically paid to enter a funfair to then have to pay for everything else inside.

I think the event should have been cancelled. I think organisers were well aware the show couldn't go ahead. A real disappointment. Such a shame. It ended up really expensive as the balloon event wasn't substituted for anything else and therefore the only other thing for the children to do was the over priced rides.

Absolute waste of time security staff where a complete jobs worth!! Really BAD attitude and discrimination against people for no reason, they allowed people through restricted routes by choice and when approached by other family’s they were told to go all they way around, The rides where going up in price by the hour, fairground ride staff were absolute vile bad attitude and manners to say the least as for the shows there were people who decided to put the whole kitchen and dinning room along the fence which was a massive obstruction, honestly can say it was chav tastic to say the least very limited entertainment couldn’t even hear any music as for the balloons they could have improvised and had something to replace them if the wind was to strong, the traffic coming into and out the venue was disgusting what a complete scam & waste of money the organisers defiantly need to go back to the drawing board with this event which was more like a typical fairground if I had the choice would give it a minus 10!!

In agreement with other reviews. I do understand the issues with weather and the balloons, but there was really very little to do except pay exorbitant prices for fairground rides. 
The entertainment put on in the main arena could not be seen by all spectators. The 'trials bike demonstration' consisted of one man on a mountain bike performing in around 5m² of the field. I think around 20 people could actually see him. How is that 'main arena entertainment'. 
You would be better off getting a 2 for 1 ticket for Alton Towers and spending all day there. Will not be going again.

Unfortunately won’t be in a hurry to come back, I think the traffic to get parked tarnished the whole experience, we live close by and was still in the car queuing for two hours. The weather wasn’t on your side which is fair enough, everyone knew this when booking, safety is a priority for all involved and we did get to see one hot air balloon and I’m grateful to those people for that but I think our day would of been saved if you had moved the fireworks and basket glow up in the schedule as there was not much else to do apart from fork out money for fairground rides and when you’ve already paid to get in you want to feel like the money you paid was worth it and unfortunately for us it wasn’t.

Staffordshire Hot Air Balloon Festival

Saturday 16 September 2023 12pm till 11pm

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