What happens on the day

You will be briefed on the flight before take-off. As part of the experience, you may participate in helping set up the balloon and also to pack it away after landing. The retrieve crew will follow the balloon and meet you after the landing to return you to the launch site. You should allow approximately 3-4 hours in total for your trip and the retrieve, depending upon conditions on the day.

Need to know

• Minimum age 12. Under-16's must be accompanied by an adult (under 18s need parental/guardian consent)
• You should be in reasonable health and agile enough to climb in and out of the basket!
• Minimum height 46 (137cms)
• Seasonal closures may apply.

Locations

• Avon - Bath, Bristol
• Berkshire - Reading
• Buckinghamshire - Milton Keynes
• Cheshire - Chester, Nantwich
• Cornwall - Bodmin, Launceston
• Cumbria - Keswick, Windermere
• Derbyshire - Chatsworth
• Devon - Exeter, Plymouth
• Dorset - Blandford Forum, Shaftsbury, Sherborne
• Essex - Braintree, Brentwood, Chelmsford
• Gloucestershire - Bourton on the Water, Cheltenham, Stow on the Wold, Stroud
• Hampshire - Alton, Basingstoke, Hartley Wintney, Old Basing, Popham
• Herefordshire - Ledbury
• Hertfordshire - Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Watford
• Kent - Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells
• Norfolk - Norwich, Snetterton
• Northamptonshire - Northampton
• Oxfordshire - Banbury, Oxford
• Scotland - Biggar, Edinburgh, Kinross, Lanark
• Shropshire - Whitchurch
• Somerset - Taunton, Wincanton, Yeovil
• Staffordshire - Stafford
• Suffolk - Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich
• Surrey - Farnham, Godalming, Guildford
• Sussex - Uckfield
• Wales - Tintern, Usk Valley, Wye Valley
• Warwickshire - Coventry, Stratford Upon Avon, Warwick
• Wiltshire - Salisbury, Swindon
• Worcestershire - Evesham, Worcester