Bill Harrop's "Original"
Balloon Safaris

Tel: + 27 (0) 11 705 3201
Fax: + 27 (0) 11 705 3203
Email: roaming@balloon.co.za
Website: www.balloon.co.za

- Skeerpoort - Gauteng -

Dawn has broken. The early morning sun peeks over the horizon. Anticipation is building as the silence is broken by the occasional blast of the powerful burners.  Bill Harrop’s Balloon ballooning truly is something really different and special.

While you are sipping wine or champagne, hovering over the tree tops of the beautiful Magalies River Valley, or drifting majestically high above the Magaliesberg mountain range, all stress floats away.
After landing, join us at our Club House at the House Pavilion and Restaurant, for a  savoring a delectable champagne ballooning.

Other special Packages

“Select Ballooning Lodges” Packages are available which include Dinner, Accommodation and the balloon safari.
Bill Harrop’s also offer Special Game Viewing Balloon Safaris at the Entabeni Private Game Reserve as well as Mabula Private Game Reserve.

Bill Harrop’s offer hot air balloon flights for corporate entertainment or team building activities. Bill Harrop’s would be happy to assist in the arranging of the launch site and the base restaurant to be decorated with Company banners, flags and bunting or displays. Live music can be arranged from a harpist or a string quartet to a real jumpin' jazz band.
Bill Harrop’s Country Club House is equipped with electricity at the restaurant in case you wish to operate any A.V. equipment.

Company logos can be included on the tickets. Our standard "Certificate for Bravery" is, we think, very well written and designed, but there is scope there for personalizing it for a company event.  We can also arrange to have a professional photographer or video-grapher available to take souvenir pictures of all the activity before, during and after the hot air balloon flight.

Combining a typical Balloon Safari with the Ballooning Challenge is a great adventure that provides a new and exciting medium for teambuilding. On a teambuilding balloon safari, participants are placed in a unique situation, enabling them to challenge themselves and develop co-operative and interdependent relationships with their peers and business associates.

This experience provides insight into how teams work together and how they can become more effective. Not only will the group teambuilding balloon safari be a most enjoyable experience but the participants will fondly remember their companions and the message your company was projecting for many years to come. They will "dine out" on their ballooning story.

Included in the teambuilding group balloon safari programme, each team is allocated a balloon and a pilot. Just after sunrise, a "Met" balloon is released to determine the various wind directions at different altitudes, so that a "target site" can be chosen.

Each team is required to assist their pilot in preparing their hot air balloon for flight. After a safety briefing, the balloons take off and each team is required to direct their pilot to fly at the correct heights to catch the most favorable wind directions.

Towards the conclusion of the balloon flight, each team must drop their individual marker as close to the target as possible, direct the ground team to identify the exact spot where the marker has been dropped and at the same time tell their pilot where to land.

In order to gain points, teams are scored according to certain criteria. The pilot's decision is final, as they will only fly within safe and permissible parameters.

After about an hour, the balloon must land in an accessible field to enable an easy retrieval and, if necessary, a changeover of teams. On completion of the final landing, the group balloon safari ends with a return to base where they are greeted with a hearty champagne breakfast.

Bill Harrop’s launch site is convenient enough for the access of a large tour bus, and is big and safe enough to accommodate arrivals of VIPs by helicopter.
Some of these extra services are free as part of our hot air balloon ride package, and others are available at a reasonable fee. Just let us know how we can help.

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