Pool Hire or not for Birthday Party?!

mummy_jeans

Hi All, Its my boy's 12th Birthday Party soon and trying to come up with a cost effective but cool option for a party. One thought is to hire a pool, but they seem to be £100 a pop for 30 children and I am looking to invite 10...not very cost effective?! Would like to take them out for a meal afterwards so don't want to bust the budget with the pool party at £100 or do I just take 10 boys for a swim session and be done?? Any thoughts gratefully received? Thanks

themull1

What about a laser party? or bowling? would that be a bit cheaper? my daughter wants to have her party at a dry ski slope - they slide down on giant tyres!! and then we supply own food in a room - something like that? more of an adventure thing?

flea72

Ive taken kids to a public swim session then onto mcds before, as a bday party. Kids didnt mind that they didnt have whole pool to themselves

mcja

My daughter school hire their pool out for £50. Its only waist deep, but they could have dingys in there...we hired it for ds birthday and then walked home for hotdogs and cake!,

mummy_jeans

Thank you for your replies!! There are some good suggestions, we did bowling last year and that was so cheap £1 per child - bargain! So I guess I may be expecting a little too much this year :rotfl:. Our ski slope closed a number of years ago so it seems it may be the pay for them to swim. Thank you for your suggestions - I particularly like the dry slope option :j. Have a good Easter Sunday

Spendless

My son went to a joint pool party when he was 10, the whole year group was invited, plus any parents and siblings who wanted to go (as it was private hire of our local 'fun' pool). With that many people what the birthday hosts parents did was have a shed load of fruit shoots plus some boxes of crisps, and give a drink and packet of crisps to each of the school chums when they came out of the water.

I found it most cost effective when mine grew older, to have food at our house, sometimes go and get a kfc bucket to share and then take kids to the activity, whatever it was.

zanuda

mummy_jeans wrote: »

Hi All, Its my boy's 12th Birthday ...to hire a pool, but they seem to be £100 a pop for 30 children ...

Wow, it's really expensive! Our pool (it's ... whatever it's called properly - council pool) is only £40 - 1h in the pool and 1h in the party room. Unless it was raised last 3 month. For that price it doesn't matter that it's only 10 kids.

MomKnowsBest1

If any of your neighbors have a pool you could throw them some money to host your sons pool party! Also, having a BBQ or ordering pizza after would be super cheap, and you could rent a movie as well so they could relax after a long day of swimming!

jenhug

paint ball would be fun