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Inflatable Santa's grotto log cabin with picket fence, inflatable Santa and a queue of visitors

Santa's Grotto Hire

Hire the inflatable Christmas grotto from £245.

A printed Christmas log cabin that arrives as a full display

Our inflatable Santa's Grotto is a Christmas log cabin - printed wood-grain walls, a snow-topped roof and chimney, a wreath arch over the entrance and a window printed with a warm glow. The inside is printed too: a brick fireplace with stockings above it, a decorated tree and wrapped presents, so a photo taken in there looks like a grotto rather than a bare inflatable shell.

It comes as a complete display rather than a cabin on its own. A freestanding inflatable Santa and snowman flank the entrance, white picket fencing runs across the front dressed with tinsel and baubles, the lights and decorations are included, and there's a "Santa Stop Here" sign for the queue to gather at.

The blower has it standing in under five minutes and it packs away in under ten at the end of the day, which matters when you're working around a venue's build slot rather than a whole day of setup.

Children and adults both visit, and it works with a Santa in the chair or on its own as a photo backdrop at a corporate Christmas do.

It's been out to school Christmas fairs, office parties, community days and town-centre events, including a Rotherham United Community Sports Trust event on the stadium concourse.

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Front view of the inflatable grotto with waving Santa, snowman and wreath arch over the entrance

Where it tends to work

  • Exhibitions and Trade Shows

  • Corporate Christmas Parties

  • Brand Activations and Promotions

  • Shopping Centres and Town Centres

  • School Christmas Fairs

  • Community and Council Events

Size

Floor Space Height
Unit Size: 10ft x 10ft 13ft
Required Space: 12ft x 16ft 13ft

The extra space in the required footprint is for the picket fencing and the Santa and snowman props around the cabin.

Suitability

  • Indoors on Artificial Grass
  • Indoors on Hard Surface
  • Outdoors on Grass
  • Outdoors on Hard Surface
  • Children
  • Adults

It is not suitable outdoors on concrete, on wood chip, or on a mix of grass and hard standing.

See the grotto inflated and dressed in the video. For more of our kit in action, our YouTube channel has the rest.

What's included

  • 10ft x 10ft inflatable grotto, printed inside and out
  • Wreath archway over the entrance
  • Freestanding inflatable Santa and snowman props
  • White picket fencing with tinsel and baubles
  • Lights and Christmas decorations
  • "Santa Stop Here" sign
  • Delivery, set-up and pack-down by our own team
  • £5M public liability insurance as standard

Hire starts at £245 plus VAT. Delivery charges and minimum order values may apply depending on hire duration and location.

Christmas kit from a working warehouse

We've been hiring event equipment out of our 25,000 sq ft warehouse in Rotherham since 1999 - five minutes from the M1, A1 and M18 - and around 95% of the equipment on this site is ours, maintained in-house. The grotto is RPII tested annually by an independent inspector, and risk assessments are emailed to you or your venue before the event.

If you'd rather not staff the grotto yourselves, we can send a trained attendant to run it and the queue for the day, and a gold throne chair can be hired alongside any of our grottos if Santa needs somewhere to sit.

December deliveries run nationwide alongside the exhibition work that takes our vans to NEC Birmingham, ExCeL London and plenty of venues in between. If the grotto is part of a bigger Christmas activation, trade show games and the rest of the Christmas range are the places to look, and we can usually discount multiple items on the same delivery.

After one children's Christmas party, Jade Jo-anne Stone said:

Thanks so much for the grotto for our children's party - it was absolutely amazing and everyone loved it.

Jade Jo-anne Stone

Grotto questions

Will it fit under our venue ceiling?

The grotto stands 13ft (just under 4m) high and needs 12ft x 16ft of clear floor once the fencing and props are in. Most exhibition halls manage that without trouble, but marquees, galleried atriums and halls with lighting rigs are worth measuring first - send us the clear height and we'll confirm before you book.

Can it go outdoors on any surface?

Outdoors it sets up on grass or hard standing, anchored properly. It isn't suitable for outdoor concrete, wood chip, or a mix of grass and hard standing - if your site is one of those, talk to us before booking and we'll work out whether anchoring is possible.

Does Santa come with it?

The hire covers the grotto and its display. It works as a photo backdrop on its own, or with your own Santa sitting in it - we can add a trained attendant to run the grotto and the queue, and a gold throne chair can be hired alongside.

What power does it need?

The blower and the lights need a continuous electricity supply for as long as the grotto is up. If there's no mains where you want it, we hire petrol blowers and diesel generators alongside - tell us the site and we'll spec the right one.

Gallery

  • Grotto with fenced forecourt and a queue forming

  • White bauble trees behind the garlanded picket fence

  • Entrance view showing the printed tree and lit interior

  • Wreath arch entrance with inflatable Santa and snowman

  • Front view with waving Santa, snowman and wreath arch

  • Log cabin grotto with chimney and wreath arch

  • Santa figure in the grotto doorway

  • Grotto set up in a marquee with Santa at the doorway

  • Grotto display with inflatable reindeer and sleigh

  • Log cabin entrance with hanging strip curtain

  • Printed fireplace and stockings on the interior wall

  • Interior corner with printed tree and presents

  • Side panel with lit window and snowy pine print

  • Front facade with snowy roof and pine print

  • Santa's Grotto sign in cursive lettering

  • Corner log ends and lit window detailing

  • Grotto entrance with inflatable penguin prop

Related Products

The grotto is usually the anchor of a Christmas activation - a rodeo reindeer gives the adults something to do after the party warms up, a snow globe takes care of the photos, and side stalls keep the queue busy. It all travels in our own vans, so several items on one delivery work out cheaper than separate bookings.

Hire the Santa's Grotto

Send us your dates, venue and roughly how many visitors you're expecting, and we'll come back with a quote. If you're building a bigger Christmas activation around the grotto, put that in the message too and we'll price the whole thing in one go.

Is it on grass or hard standing?
Do you have electricity on site (within 25 metres)?
Do you require the items to be staffed by us?
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Are you VAT registered?