Choose your hot air ballooning adventure
Discover Ballooning offers a hot air ballooning experience for every occasion. And because we offer a more personalised service, we will tailor make a memorable hot air ballooning package just for you! We cater for birthdays, engagements, anniversaries and corporate groups, as well as for a morning only or overnight hot air ballooning experience. How about a limo transfer to and from the balloon launch site? Or an indulgent spa package after your hot air balloon flight? For the really adventurous we can even prepare a Balloon Bush Breakfast / Picnic for when you land! There is no group too small or request too large!
Adventure Balloon Experience
This is our (far from) standard ballooning package for the adventurers at heart. We encourage a fun, hands-on ballooning experience for young and old!
| Frequency: | Flights daily, weather permitting |
| Time of Departure: | Just before sunrise, please refer to table below as departure times differ throughout the year |
| Departure Point: | Discover Ballooning Launch Site (next to Jasmyn, Meerhof) |
| Flight Landing Point: | Unknown (wherever the winds may take us that morning) |
| Flight Duration: | Approximately one hour |
| Total Experience: | 4 to 5 hours |
| Cost Per Person: |
R2100. Children under 12 sharing with an adult - R1050 |
Itinerary
- Meet on the balloon launch field just before sunrise
- Hot Chocolate & Marshmallows, tea and coffee are served
- Watch the professional crew prepare the balloon for inflation
- Safety Briefing from the pilot
- Flight of about 1 hour
- Touch down
- Traditional champagne toast on landing and beverages
- Crew packs up the balloon
- Transport back to the launch site and your vehicle
- Breakfast is served at the Windmill Restaurant
- Presentation of certificates
Exclusive Balloon Experience for 2
Exclusive flights are ideal for engagements and anniversaries. You will have your loved one all to yourself, in the privacy of your own hot air balloon (besides of course the pilot).
| Frequency: | Flights daily, weather permitting |
| Time of Departure: | Just before sunrise, please refer to table below as departure times differ throughout the year |
| Departure Point: | Discover Ballooning Launch Site (next to Jasmyn, Meerhof) |
| Flight Landing Point: | Unknown (wherever the winds may take us that morning) |
| Flight Duration: | Approximately one hour |
| Total Experience: | 4 to 5 hours |
| Cost Per Person: | Adults only - R3000 |
Itinerary
- Meet on the launch site just before sunrise
- Hot Chocolate & Marshmallows, tea and coffee are served
- Watch the professional crew prepare the balloon for inflation
- Safety Briefing from the pilot
- Flight of about 1 hour
- Touch down
- Traditional champagne toast on landing and beverages
- Crew packs up the balloon
- Transport back to the launch site and your vehicle
- Breakfast is served at the Windmill Restaurant
- Presentation of certificates
Hot Air Balloon Gift Vouchers
A personalised hot air ballooning gift voucher from Discover Ballooning is the perfect gift for someone special, and comes highly recommended!
Hot air ballooning vouchers are valid for a full 12 months.
Ballooning gift vouchers can be e-mailed at no extra charge.
Alternatively we can courier the gift voucher to your door at cost price. Please allow 5 working days for delivery.
Launch times
| Period | Arrival time | Launch time |
| 1 Nov - 15 Jan | 04:45 | 05:15 |
| 16 Jan - 31 Jan | 05:00 | 05:30 |
| 1 Feb - 29 Feb | 05:30 | 06:00 |
| 1 Mar- 31 Mar | 05:45 | 06:15 |
| 1 Apr - 30 Apr | 06:00 | 06:30 |
| 1 May - 31 May | 06:15 | 06:45 |
| 1 June - 31 July | 06:30 | 07:00 |
| 1 Aug - 31 Aug | 06:15 | 06:45 |
| 1 Sept - 15 Sept | 06:00 | 06:30 |
| 16 Sept - 30 Sept | 05:45 | 06:15 |
| 1 Oct - 15 Oct | 05:15 | 05:45 |
| 16 Oct - 31 Oct | 05:00 | 05:30 |
| 1 Nov - 15 Jan | 04:45 | 05:15 |
From our guest book ...
Very very exciting. It was a lifetime experience. Will definitely do it again.
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