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Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Loved every minute of both days 🥰great value for money, every member of staff I encountered were helpful and polite, can’t wait for next event

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Fantastic day had by all, the only downside is the prices of everything when you are in there it would be better if maybe there was an option to add to tickets such as a fair wristband and a meal option for a fiver add a wild bird experience for £10 etc or something as everything was shockingly expensive and i doubt anything fro. the venfors would have been donated to make a wish. we had to walk to lidl to get supplies. The actual show is phenomenol I cant fault it at all such an amazing experience had by all. Also the parking getting off wasn't very well manned they should have the people who directing traffic in also directing traffic out such as so many cars from each way as it took over an hour to move 10 yards

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Fab day with the family x

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Fantastic day out, would definitely recommend going to everyone. The only complaint I had was when we leaving…..by then a one way system was in operation and we wasn’t allowed to walk out the way we came in and sent all round the parade ring back of stands etc to get to the disabled parking which for me being disabled caused a lot of unnecessary pain. We tried to explain to the lady directing us out but basically she wasn’t concerned.

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

This was a great event and would def attend again next year. However you need to get a good tribute band for the evening to make this a great day out.

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

We all had a great time, my husband and I, our 2 daughters, son in law and 4 of our gorgeous grandchildren 😍 😍

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

It was a very expensive funfair that we had to pay to enter. Will not be attending again, very disappointed.

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Last year there was a lot more teenager/adult rides at the fair . This year it was very disappointing as there wasn’t any, but I will come again next year as the balloons are lovely to watch.

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Very reasonably priced tickets to get in and very family-friendly. We didn't know to bring own food and drink so the prices were very very expensive inside, but aside from that, the event was brilliant.

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Having been to the free event in Telford last year I was expecting at least the same - if not a better - experience at a paid event. This was not the case at all.

As far as I'm aware there were no birds of prey - we certainly didn't see any.

There was no information over a PA system to let people know what was going on. And no general background music either.

We paid for the monster truck and were about to get on when we were told it was cancelled due to complaints from local residents. It was 9.30pm. We had a refund but the kids were bitterly disappointed.

Whilst there were a lot of balloons taking off during the late afternoon/sunset, there were only 4 for the Night Glow - where were the rest? It wasn't much of a spectacle.

I can't comment on the food offerings other than they were expensive. Luckily we had taken our own picnic.

The funfair was great for kids although expensive at £4/£5 per ride. All the rides were for kiddies though, nothing for older age groups/adults.

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Enjoyable evening. The event seemed to be more for the children and not the adults. Numerous kids fairground rides. Not that much for adults. Only ONE craft tent at the whole event. Would have been better if there was more for adults to see and do and participate in. Thanks.

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

What can I say it was the best day and evening we as a family have had for so long x music was amazing and arena acts were amazing the venue was the best, and prices for food as good as it could be just absolutely brilliant and the highlight was the balloons and fireworks WOW just breathtaking thank you for an amazing day

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

The event was really good, admission price was excellent but food and drink prices were rediculously high; hot dog and chips £11, pint of beer £6, doughnuts 1 for £1 or 5 for £4.50, one coffee vendor appeared to be charging £7+ per cup of coffee, this vendor also was not displaying any prices so you did not know what you were paying until you received your order.

The balloons were great but I personally would have preferred to see more of them in the in the glow up event.

Music was good from the tribute bands especially Queen (Maybe you could get an Abba tribute and a Springsteen tribute for next year).

I think that the toilets could have been set up as 2 block in seprate places instead of all in one place given the vast area that Uttoxeter race course covers.

Only found one water tap late in the day so these need to be well sign posted especially given how hot it was on Saturday

I would definitely recommend The Staffordshire Ballon Festival and intend to go again next year if the wheather is anywhere near as good as it was this year.

Over all brilliant event thanks

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Music was karaoke style, speakers out of sync with each other. Craft tent was poor. Very little to do if balloon don’t go up, left after and hour

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Excellent staff, the fair guys were all so accommodating to our son who has special needs, a great day out, excellent value for money, great location recommendations to all to go, the balloons the acts, all great 👍

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Really good venue, had a lovely time, really good acts however - balloons were late up with no communication about delays and some acts didn’t attend. Cost of childrens activities over priced and would have been helpful to have more then one icecream van

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

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Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

A really great event 😊 - plenty of eateries and a couple of outside bars (although prices were high) . Particularly liked the bar with rooftop terrace. Well managed family event. Friendly security staff and vendors. The evening live groups were fantastic. It was really great to see the hot air balloons launch and sail dreamily across the sky. The grand finally of balloons lit up by their burners to music was wonderful and then the evening brought to a close with a firework display. All in all a great family event. Definitely will be back next year.

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Absolutely fantastic to see the hot air balloons going up, and the nightglow! The Queen tribute was a fantastic atmosphere too! We didn't go until 7pm! So missed alot of stuff in the arena during the day! Shall recommend and visit again deffo!

Review of Staffordshire Balloon Festival

Excellent event all round - will definitely return