ReservedReviews of richardsonsamusements.com

Great rides but I paid 10 pound for 3 hours which said you get unlimited rides.No you had to pay for the baby rides which my baby wanted to go on.No seating anywhere so why have food ? The food prices were extortionate prices for 4 chicken nuggets is 7 pounds ! I put my daughters on a ride and it started then broke down and they wouldn’t let them off. Extreme was great but different ride everytime so don’t know what that’s about but tyre wasn’t really many rides. I wouldn’t recommend.

I brought some tickets to an event on a Saturday when I was supposed to book Sunday. I immediately booked the correct day and emailed the link to ask for a refund (less than 5 mins after purchase). I have emailed, completed the contact form and left messages on their VM (no one answers). They have just completely ignored me and left me stuck with the tickets that I can’t use. Awful customer service and shameless profiteering,

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

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.