ReservedReviews of richardsonsamusements.com

Went to the Northumberland balloon festival good value unfortunately there wasn’t the full range of balloons due to weather but we still had a good time nonetheless. I see some reviews on here which are just not on. Not fair to blame anyone for weather. The company made everyone aware this was a weather permitting event. We understand like the majority but the way social media is people are more inclined to right a bad review if there not happy than someone to leave a good one if they are happy.

Took my son to the balloon festival he loved it

Me and my family attended the monster truck show in ashington, my kids absolutely love it, best day out for me and my family. Staff were so kind and lots to do for the kids.

Brilliant company, have attended multiple events ran by this company and always a great family day out. Would highly recommend.

CON ARTIST, AVOID COMPANY AT ALL COSTS. Had the misfortune of attending Northumberland "balloon" festival, not sure how you can hold a balloon festival with no balloons. paid >100 for tickets for the Saturday and saw one advertising balloon part inflated for less than 10 minutes. Aware that the weather wasn't the best and kept checking facebook page for updates as we were travelling from near Whitby with 2 small children so if we were told there was going to be no balloons would have cut our losses and not bothered to travel, update by Peter Richardson at 12pm who stated light drizzle but everything would go ahead as planned and would update again if things changed, no further updates added to the facebook page. Got to nearly 6pm and we left as there was nothing happening, he knew there would be no balloons but as the fairground rides belonged to him didn't want to tell people this as that would mean he would lose money from us poor mugs who would be stuck in a field with nothing else to do. Absolutely disgusting. Had time to delete negative comments from facebook and block people who were speaking the truth about the shambles of the event he had put on. Issued a statement and blamed the weather, the balloon company and made out like the people complaining were stupid and couldnt understand that the weather ruined it, however the issue was with the lack of communication and the way he conducted himself dealing with backlash of this scam event. Family friendly event with no baby change facilities, no concession ticket prices despite it being advertised as a family event, the whole thing was just a money making scheme for him. News articles published were correct and hopefully the bad press will make people think twice about doing business with this company.

One star because it's not possible to give no stars. Google their name and Northumberland Balloon Show for just one example of how they go about making a quick buck at the expense of decent people.

If you choose to buy any event tickets organised by this company please do your research before you purchase. I paid over £100 for the Northumberland Balloon Festival and feel strongly that I was misled and conned. The event organisers set out the flying times of “up to 25 balloons” and clearly stated they would only fly if the weather permitted. Totally accept that the balloons were unable to fly due to the weather. The event organisers, however, advertised that outside of the flying times, the balloons would be tethered for “instagram pictures.” This was not the case and for hours upon hours there were no balloons on site, just a muddy field with overpriced fair ground rides. When these concerns were raised with the company via their Facebook page, all negative comments were deleted and individuals (myself included) were blocked. I have made repeated efforts to resolve this with the company director - Peter Richardson, to no avail, instead, he posts laughing comments on his page then deletes them. Extremely unprofessional, immature and defensive.

Absolute conmen from the monster truck show to the balloon festival with no balloons. Avoid any event at all costs