ReservedReviews of richardsonsamusements.com

Really wanted to give a minus review. Absolute scammers. £15 per person to walk round a muddy field with over priced very average fair ground rides and really bad tribute acts (the website actually used the artists real names....im sure they will be thrilled being linked to this lot!). The field was supposed to be the location of a hot air balloon festival. Turns out the "organisers" were the only ones full of hot air and lies. Not one balloon in the hours we were there. No communication...just fobbing people off to keep them paying for fairground rides and food thinking balloons would eventually show (don't hold your breath). All negative but honest comments have been deleted off their Facebook page. False advertising scammers. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

One star rating is extremely generous. I have been to two events they have put on and both follow a similar format. advertise an exciting and unusual event (eg monster trucks / hot air balloons), charge for admission to the event Don’t put on anything related to the advertised event until many hours after opening. In my view they hope you get there early so you are inside their event and then they’ll you have hours to wait with only their expensive fun fair rides to occupy your children with. At least with the monster truck show we saw a decent show. Albeit they didn’t advertise any timings for the actual show they just put an opening time. So of course everyone arrives at the opening time so they don’t miss anything monster truck related and then you re in an expensive fun fair. At the Northumberland balloon ‘festival’ there were no displays of balloons or even anything balloon related until 4 hours in and then only one balloon went up for for a few minutes whilst attached to a rope. Initial radio interviews advertising the event and press releases talked about 25 balloons and a festival of balloons. These served to get us to buy tickets but then they didn’t deliver on what they advertised.

if ever there was a company that deserved a minus rating it was this one. utter rip off, misleading false advertising. no response or offer of part refund for what was a flop of a "balloon" festival. even if they had refunded entrance money they would still have made plenty off the ripoff rides and food prices. hopefully their future bookings will dwindle in response.

Terrible day on Saturday at the supposed Balloon Festival at Corbridge just a total shambles and false advertising to get your money and state no refunds under any circumstances well I think the amount of unhappy people that have basically been scammed deserve their money back. I didn’t pay almost £100 to stand in a muddy field spending more Money on the extortionate priced food and drink waiting for any balloons! There were none all day and weather was not bad until later. They attempted to put one red advertisement one up about 5.30 it was for about 10 mins then put away we gave up then and left then to announce later on fb anyone can use their Saturday tickets to go back Sunday!!! Do they really think anyone would want that experience again!! Shocking from start to finish

Spent nearly 4 hours at the balloon festival from about 12-4 with not a balloon in site. Was stuck paying for extremely overpriced fairground rides (£5 for bouncy castle after already paying the £15 pp ticket entry fee and £5 parking fee) so that our daughter could have a good day. When I messaged the organisers they said ‘many balloons were set up and tethered for guests throughout the afternoon and evening’ which was a blatant lie. I am told that at about 5 they inflated 3 balloons for a few minutes, this is hardly many balloons and hardly the afternoon. Honesty and proper communication would go a long way but I won’t trust any of their events again. This was absolutely not what was advertised.

Misleading, untrustworthy company. All for money! Ludicrous terms and conditions, ie your not allowed to sell your ticket if you can no longer attend and if you do they will proceed legal action? They delete negative comments on their spare time instead of addressing people's concerns

We were the “lucky” ones paid just £5pp for the Friday night balloon festival when the weather was lovely. However, despite the good weather, the ground opened at 5pm, 7.30pm they blew up one advertising balloon for 10mins, 3 took off never to been seen again, they blew the penguin up for 10 mins, then we waited 2 hours to see 6 in the night glow. Not the 25 they advertised! Overpriced fun fair and food, terrible tribute acts and not much else. But the poor people who paid £15pp for Saturday in the rain and saw 3 balloons for 10mins over 10 hours! Loads of complaints on the Facebook page, all since deleted by the organisers and instead reposted Friday nights pictures over the weekend to make Saturday look successful too. These people also organised the much criticised monster truck show so either they don’t learn from mistakes or are scammers.

Falsely advertised as up to 25 balloons but only 1 there on the day. Lack of information on social media. Messages to the company were either ignored or rude responses received. The whole event was a scam. Unprofessional company who are unable to organise a large scale public event - basically paid over £100 to walk round a field. Will be contacting trading standards over misleading advertising