One of the most popular pieces of equipment hire for events is mobile bar hire, especially if the event is being held at a temporary venue such as a marquee wedding or conference venue without a bar in-situ.
Today’s blog article, therefore, offers you some top tips relating to mobile bar hire – what to look for and what pitfalls to avoid. Portable bars are available in a wide range of styles at Event Hire UK, and we’re sure that you’ll find what you are looking for right here. Our bar units are ‘dry-hire’, meaning that you hire the bar sections themselves – they don’t include anything like the bar licence, drinks or staff.
Hopefully when the time comes for you as an event planner to decide on a temporary bar hire company to use, the information below will be useful and informative, putting you one-step ahead and ultimately saving you time, money and effort! Check out our top tips here…
Like most other pieces of equipment hire for events, national event hire specialist Event Hire doesn’t simply offer one type of mobile bar hire but several, enabling you to choose from a range of portable bars for hire to exactly suit your event. Mirror bars and ZIP bars, for instance, provide a stylish option for almost any type of event, whilst our range of starlight LED bars look spectacular in the dark, giving an event a nightclub look and feel.
The space that you are designating to your bar set-up at your event venue is critical. Are you looking for a bar at one end of your room, or maybe a circular bar set-up in the middle of the room? Ultimately, the available space and the number of guests you are expecting will determine both the shape, size and position of the portable bar at your event. Obviously, the greater the number of guests, the larger the temporary bar rental needs to be – you need to be able to offer a fast and efficient service, and your bar staff will only be able to do this if the bar is big enough!
No one likes to queue for a drink at an event, and you really don’t want your event to be memorable for all the wrong reasons! Fortunately, most of our bar units are modular, meaning that they either slot together or stand together, so that when you hire multiples of the same unit, you can create mobile bars of the shape and size you need. Some temporary mobile bar hire styles even have right-angled corners, curves, low counters and more!
Of course, there are companies in the UK who specialise in simply hiring portable bars. You need to decide carefully whether this is something you want to do or not. Yes, they might have slightly more of a range, but bear in mind that the more companies you hire individual pieces of equipment from for your event, the more your transport charges will be. It might be that you hired a dance floor from company X, a portable bar from company Y and your tables and chair hire from company Z. That is fine, but be prepared for three different transport costs.
Wouldn’t it perhaps make more sense to hire everything from a one-stop-shop, therefore making overall transport costs much more efficient and affordable? Assuming that you are not hiring thousands of pieces of equipment, most wedding event hire can be catered for from a single truck at Event Hire UK – the transport cost is therefore the same whether you hire a single dance floor or hire everything from us. Make life easy (and cheaper!) for yourself and hire everything from the same place.
Bar hire units are bulky and can be heavy. Therefore, what you don’t want is a supplier simply dropping off the mobile bar hire units the day before, far from where they will eventually be required for your event. By simple and clear communication in advance, Event Hire UK’s professional and friendly transport teams will provide a supply and set-up service when needed, enabling you to concentrate on other areas of your event rather than worrying about where the bar will be dropped off. Yes, this will incur an additional fee, but most will testify that it is money well spent!
When the time comes for you to decide which mobile bar hire is going to best suit your requirements, we’d like to think that our range here at Event Hire UK is second to none, and you’ll find what you are looking for, at a great price.
Don’t hesitate to search for ‘mobile bar hire near me’, browse and place your secure order online 24/7 with our expert team – we very much look forward to working with you soon!
