Information and Directions for Bristol Balloon Fiesta 2019 – Bailey Balloons 30th July 2019 office@baileyballoons.co.uk Hot Air Balloon News, Hot Air Balloons at Events, News With Bailey Balloons you will take to the skies with up to 120 balloons and some of the most incredible special shaped hot air balloons. When you buy a champagne
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8th June 2017 Features, General, Hot Air Balloon Stories, News Ever wondered what it is like to fly in a Hot Air Balloon with Bailey Balloons? Watch our latest video put together by filming Wizard Josh who works in the Bailey Balloons office! He took a flight with Clive from Bath in May 2017. (Turn sound
9th August 2016 Competitions, General, News Bailey Balloons are celebrating 21 years of Champagne Balloon Flights and to comemmorate we are running two competitions for you to win your own Hot Air Balloon flight experience! Competition 1 – Fiesta Raffle If you are attending the 2016 Bristol International Balloon Fiesta 11th – 14th August, pop
6th February 2019 Features, Hot Air Balloon Manufacture, News 50 couples married in hot air balloons Love is in the air! It’s the romantic’s favourite time of year – Valentine’s day, and it is fast approaching! It’s time to start thinking about what gift(s) to buy and how to spoil your Valentine this year. Escape
6th November 2018 News After huge demand over the past few years, Bailey Balloons are offering another Black Friday Mega Deal for 2018! 50 lucky people will get a HUGE discount on our Hot Air Balloon Flight Vouchers as part of our amazing Black Friday deal. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU NEED TO REGISTER FOR THIS DISCOUNT BY COMPLETING THE
Seattle Ballooning is featured in the March/April South Sound Magazine. Currently, you can read about Seattle hot air balloon adventures in the print version. The online version should be up soon. Hope you all enjoy! Thank you to South Sound Magazine for the wonderful article. If you are inspired by the article, you can book
Your wedding anniversary is coming up fast. If you are like most people, you are less than a month from your wedding anniversary and you’re still trying to come up with something more interesting than going to another nice restaurant in Seattle. Think Sunrise Or Sunset Start this next year of your marriage at sunrise
If you are an early riser, you’ll see multiple hot air balloons launching just South of Seattle in the Auburn Valley directly in front of Mt. Rainier each morning from June through mid-October. Whether you live in Seattle or are an out of town guest, a sunrise hot air balloon ride will be the highlight
Landing a hot air balloon is both an art and a science. The science is getting the balloon to the ground with a soft landing, the art is having happy land owners and spot with easy access for balloon retrieval. Last weekend we had a flight where we flew over the White River in Auburn
If a hot air balloon lands in your yard you have the best excuse ever for being late. Just make sure you take photos to prove that it happened. This summer our goal has been to make every kid late to school/summer school at least one time. We call it hot air balloon black out
Seattle Ballooning has had an epic balloon season. We completed over 100 flights in front of Mt. Rainier, and captured some incredible photos. Check out our favorites below! Some of our favorite photos came from days with low fog on the ground with a little bit of smoke in the air from the Washington and
The 2017 Prosser Balloon Rally was fantastic. Check out this 360 degree video of our flight over the Yakima River. [embedded content] We flew East down the river valley on Saturday and Sunday morning, and flew West over hops fields on Saturday evening. Here are some of our favorite photos of the event! On Saturday
In every major city in the world, you’ll find hot air balloon companies providing rides at sunrise and sunset. How do you know which one is the safest, and which one will provide you with the best ballooning experience? As you do your research you’ll find there are low-cost hot air balloon companies and those
It’s ok to be scared of heights 7.5% of all people on the planet have some anxiety about heights. They even have a name for it Acrophobia. The good news is that we’ve taken thousands of guests flying in our hot air balloons, and almost everyone finds it peaceful and relaxing. Even folks who had
What is it like to fly a hot air balloon while a couple gets engaged? It’s amazing. As a hot air balloon pilot, I get to experience dozens of marriage proposals a summer. It never gets old and is such a privilege to be part of such an intimate moment in peoples lives. Typically I
2nd November 2016 General, Hot Air Balloon News, Hot Air Balloons and Celebrities, News In April 2016 Clive Bailey set off to Switzerland with the Anana hot air balloon. He had been asked by the BBC to take Sir David Attenborough for a balloon flight above the Swiss Alps for the opening sequence for the
20th January 2018 General, News, Uncategorised Here at Bailey Balloons, we’ve been busy over the Christmas period sending out vouchers to lucky people who will be taking to the skies with us over Bristol, Bath and South Wales. Now that January is here and the balloons are packed away for the winter, our minds have
25th January 2018 General, News When you’re in love it’s like floating on air! You’ll know that they are the right one for you if they can make you feel like you’re weightless again and again. Making that next step – asking that special someone to marry you can be stressful… If you are looking
27th September 2017 Hot Air Balloon News, Hot Air Balloons and Celebrities, News Taiwanese superstar Nana Ou yang visited our wonderful city last week so we treated her to a unique view of Bristol from one of our balloons! Nana and two friends joined us bright and early on Friday morning at Ashton Court where
8th March 2018 General, News Here at Bailey Balloons, we enjoy many flights over Bristol, Bath and South Wales throughout the flying season but you’d be surprised at all the other locations across the world you can go ballooning. Here’s our top 10 picks based on locations we have flown in and places we would love
27th March 2018 General, News Bristol is well known for being the home of ballooning in the UK and it is for a very good reason – the views and scenery you see from a balloon over Bristol are amazing and no matter how many times you fly over Bristol, you will see something new
21st November 2016 Balloon Ride Innovation, General, Hot Air Balloon History, Hot Air Balloon News, Hot Air Balloon Rides, Hot Air Balloon Stories, Hot Air Balloons Pilots, News, Uncategorised The 21st November marks the 233rd Anniversary for the first untethered hot air balloon flight. François Pilatre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d’ Arlandes flew
14th July 2018 Hot Air Balloon News, Hot Air Balloons at Events, News With Bailey Balloons you will take to the skies with up to 150 balloons and some of the most incredible special shaped hot air balloons. When you buy a champagne flight voucher to fly at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta you will
7th April 2018 General, News, Uncategorised Hot air Balloons are a mysterious wonder that many people don’t know much about. You may be thinking of going on a balloon ride, have been given a voucher for a special occasion or seen the balloons floating peacefully by on a sunny day and it might have you
8th November 2016 Balloon Ride Innovation, General, Hot Air Balloon News, Hot Air Balloon Records, Hot Air Balloons at Events, News, Uncategorised See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA9KsN3Ey7M In a world-first, a specially modified Pitts Special S2S stunt plane flew at 90 degrees to horizontal, just a few feet above the ground between two closely tethered hot