What is Christmas Balloon (christmasballoon.com)?

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Christmas Balloon is a seasonal advertising balloon supplier aimed at temporary holiday retail — Christmas tree lots, pop-up gift shops, light displays, and holiday markets. The product is a large helium blimp flown at roughly 120 feet to act as signage for businesses that have no permanent sign and no established local presence. If you run a six-week holiday operation and need to be visible from streets away, this is the use case it addresses. Pricing is quoted on request rather than listed.

The problem it solves

A tree lot looks identical to the one two miles down the road, and it exists for only about six weeks. There is no permanent signage and no accumulated local awareness, so the entire job is announcing something is happening here from a distance. A balloon at 120 feet does that from streets away.

The site makes a point of the fit: a balloon suits a tree lot better than a hardware store, because the hardware store already has a sign. The value comes specifically from being temporary.

Ordering timeline

Work backwards from your opening day:

Step Time required
Production after artwork approval 3–7 days
Shipping 2–5 business days

For a season starting the day after Thanksgiving, order in the first week of November. Leave room for one artwork revision. Ordering in December means flying the balloon for only the last fortnight of the season — the worst two weeks to be late for.

Cold weather behavior

Gas contracts in cold. On a frosty morning the balloon looks soft and firms up again by afternoon. That is normal, not a leak, and you should not chase it with helium at dawn.

  • Do not fold or unfold the balloon while frozen.
  • If you need to box it mid-season, bring it inside and let it warm first.
  • Polyurethane tolerates the freeze-thaw cycle; PVC cracks at the folds.

Cost over multiple seasons

A $1,512 blimp used for six weeks is expensive. The same blimp used six weeks a year for ten years is not. It deflates, folds, and stores flat in the carton it arrived in. Customers report still flying the same balloon after fourteen years, and a seasonal balloon spends most of its life in a box.

Getting a quote

Call 1-800-791-1445 or email, and state the size you want and whether you want it printed. More information is available at marketingballoons.com.