Stirling Castles

Stirling Castles - for Sale

2011-04-20T00:33:00.000-07:00

After two successful seasons, we are now moving on to a new venture which is launching in June and which will take uop all of our avaialable time. Consequently, Stirling Castles is now up for sale. The business comprises:

Two commercial grade bouncy castles with all pegs, mats and fans neccessary.
Hire paperwork
Stirling Castles Web site. This site consistently ranks highly (often top) for google searches such as "Bouncy castle hire in Stirling" and has generated consistent business over the last two years.

This is an opportunity to secure an additional weekend income or to grow your existing bouncy castle business through the traffic from our web site. Interestred parties should e-mail: richard@stirlingbouncycastles.co.uk

Richard.

Happy birthday to us!

2010-06-28T23:50:00.000-07:00

We almost forgot! Stirling Castles is now officially one year old, so happy birthday to us. It's been an interesting year so far and we've learned a lot - some of it painful but there you go. Thanks to everyone who rented from us over the last year and we look forward to serving you again in the future.

Portable Power

2010-05-25T02:08:00.000-07:00

Stirling castles now has the capacity to power a bouncy castle anywhere. Our new electric generator gives us the ability to go beyond the mains to rent castles in any location. This opens up the ability to take space at highland games, festivals and any other outdoor event that requires a castle or two!

Discount bouncy castle hire.

2010-05-17T05:09:00.000-07:00

Stirling Caastles are pleased to announce that with the summer holidays coming fast, we can now offer a discount on all bouncy castles rented during the week between Monday and Thursday. Out new pricing schedule is on our web site and can be accessed here.

Summer is coming!

2010-04-27T03:34:00.000-07:00

We can tell that summer is coming when we start to get bookings through the week. We provide a bouncy castle rental service right through the week so that you can host your party at any time to suit you or your kids. Book up with Stirling Castles for a reliable service, anytime!

Rentals that you don't want!

2010-04-22T02:29:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I got an e-mail asking me if I was interested in renting a castle out. normally the answer is of course YES! Where, when etc. This one however was different! I won't say who it was but here are some of the details:

The rental was for adults only
It was to run from 6pm to 2am
It was to be in a barn, where a graduation party was being held
Supervision was required

I could tell that these guys were having a bit of difficulty getting a co. to rent to them as the location was over 50 miles from where we normally do business. I could just imagine the scene on the night, and declined politely citing a limitation on my insurance.

This brings to mind another hire that didn't go quite as smoothly as normal. On this occasion, I rented a castle in what seemed a very ordinary way to a family having a party. As the party was going to run into the night, we agreed that I would collect the castle the following morning, not too early. I arrived at half past 10 on the Sunday morning and knocked on the front door. No answer. I knocked again and waited. Still nothing, so I took a peek through the letterbox, and called out 'Hello!'. Silence. becoming a little concerned, I had a look around the side of the house. I could see through the kitchen window that there were a lot of beer cans and vodka bottles strewn about, so I looked over the fence and the scene in the garden was similar. Clearly I wasn't going to raise anyone after a night like this, so I entered the garden and started to retrieve the deflated castle, hoping that it was undamaged. Once I'd got most of it together I went into the shed to retrieve my circuit breaker and found one of the revellers, sound asleep on the floor! I carefully picked may way around him, removed the circuit breaker and left as quietley as I could, making a mental note of theaddress for future reference. All in a day's work for Stirling Castles.

Free Giant Connect 4 hire with every full day hire!

2010-04-15T03:13:00.000-07:00

Today we are announcing that (subject to availability) each time a customer hires a castle from us for a full day, we'll throw in a free giant connect 4 hire with it! Great value again from Stirling Castles.

Stirling Castles photo competition.

2010-04-07T01:44:00.000-07:00

Today, we will be putting a photo and video competition up live on our web site at www.stirlingbouncycastles.co.uk. The competiton will be asking our customers to send us their best photo or video clip from a party, and we'll be show-casing these on our web site. Video clips need to kept to 30 seconds or less to ensure that they can be sent. The best photo or clip sent by June 15th will win a free days hire. We are really looking forward to the entries coming in. To enter, post your photo's or clips on our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stirling-Castles. Best of luck to everyone!

Party theme & Party food ideas

2010-04-03T01:30:00.000-07:00

If you have a great idea for a fun summer kids party theme, or a great recipe for kids party food, let us know. We'll be happy to add your ideas to our web site pages for theme ideas, and party food ideas. Just post a comment on this blog.

New competition

2010-04-03T01:26:00.000-07:00

News! here at Stirling Castles, we're in the fun business. I think that we need to show this a bit more than we do at the moment so we're shortly going to be running a photo & video competition for our customers. They'll be able to send their 'best bounce' and fun party photo's & videos to us. We'll post them here and link to our web site. The best one sent by June 15th will win a free 1 day bouncy castle hire. Have fun!

It's a rainy day.

2010-04-03T01:18:00.000-07:00

Well, it's a dreich day here in Perthshire. That's a dull, damp, wet kind of day to anyone who doesn't understand a bit of Scots. Unfortunately, that means that one of our customers has had to cancel their hire and their 8 year old daughter won't be having a bouncy castle at her party. I hope that she isn't too dissapointed. To make it up to her though, her mother has generously booked another date in May, which will hopefully have better weather. Every cloud though does have a silver lining as they say. Our customer has been able tio cancel without charge under our 'cancel free if the weather is poor' policy. It's part of our standard terms. I also get to spend the whole day with my family. We're going to Edinburgh where we'll visit 'Our Dynamic Earth' - always a fund day out.