We bring the castle on Friday and set it up in your garden. It stays with you Friday evening, all day Saturday and all day Sunday. We come back for it on Monday. You pay one day’s hire price, plus a £25 overnight fee, plus your delivery fee. That’s it — no hourly slots, no being told what time it has to be deflated.

Yes. One day’s hire plus the £25 overnight fee covers the whole Friday-to-Monday stay. The reason we can do it is simple: once a castle is out it’s out, and a castle sitting in our van on a Saturday earns nothing. We’d far rather it was in your garden.

You’re still welcome to book it — but you’d usually be better off taking the whole weekend, because the extra is only the £25 overnight fee. Most people who ring up asking for one day end up taking the three.

Ask us. Friday to Monday is the standard weekend, and Monday to Friday is the standard midweek from April to September, but our schedule changes week to week and we can often fit something else around it. We’d rather you rang than assumed we couldn’t.

Three things: the castle’s own hire price (on its listing below), the £25 overnight fee, and delivery at £10–£20 depending on your postcode. We confirm the exact total when you enquire, so there are no surprises on the day.

The balance is paid on delivery — cash, card or BACS.

Each castle’s dimensions are on its listing below. Allow a little extra all the way round for the anchor points and for children getting on and off. If you’re not sure, send us a photo of the garden on WhatsApp — we do this all day and we’ll tell you straight away.

Real grass. Outdoors we anchor with metal stakes driven into the ground, which is what the standard requires, and stakes only go into grass. No artificial grass, no astro turf, no hard standing, paving or decking. The area wants to be reasonably flat, reachable without going up steps, and clear of anything sharp.

Because stakes can’t go into a hard surface, and outdoors the standard then requires 163kg of ballast per anchor point instead. A standard castle has at least six anchor points — so that’s nearly a tonne of sandbags, around forty of them, delivered separately and taking well over an hour to place. It isn’t practical, which is why hardly anyone genuinely does it. If a company arrives at a hard surface outdoors with six small sandbags, that is a tiny fraction of what’s needed, and if the wind gets up the castle moves. We won’t do it.

Yes. Indoors there’s no wind to worry about, so the staking rule doesn’t apply and our castles go into halls perfectly happily. The only thing that ever stops us is timing: our entertainment party diary comes first, so on some dates we simply can’t get to you to deliver and collect at the times a hall booking needs. Ask us and you’ll get a quick answer — yes we can, or unfortunately not on that date.

Rain on its own usually isn’t the problem — wind is. Under BS EN 14960 an inflatable has to be shut down above 24mph. We watch the forecast on every hire day and we’ll ring you if we have concerns. We’d rather disappoint than take a risk with children on it.

Full public liability insurance on every hire. All inflatables are PIPA and RPii tested and comply with BS EN 14960:2013. Electrical equipment is PAT tested. All our staff are DBS checked. We’re members of the British Inflatable Hirers’ Alliance, the Bouncy Castle Network and The Inflatable Play Enterprise.

We do, on delivery — positioned, anchored properly and safety checked before we leave. You don’t touch it at either end.

£10–£20 depending on your postcode. Every hire is four journeys from our base — out and back to deliver, out and back to collect. We’d rather charge it openly than bury it in the price and call it free delivery.

Birmingham, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Coventry, Tamworth, Lichfield, Walsall, Redditch, Bromsgrove and the wider West Midlands. The delivery fee goes by how far we’re coming.