December 2026 · Hull & East Yorkshire
The queue that doesn't stop. The quiet ones dancing. Slow-motion films made, shared and posted all night — and a room that looks like the best night your company has ever had. All of it in your employees’ hands before they've left the experience.
December 2026
Every package includes three hours of booth time, hosting throughout, the full styled prop table, your branded video overlay, instant digital delivery, delivery, setup and pack-down. No per-head charges, no surprises on the invoice.
Hosted · styled · same-night sharing
Book it straight from the calendar
100 employees? £7.75 a head.
Book online in minutes · or send an enquiry instead
Everyone goes home holding a printed photo
New this year · £150 more than The Social Spark, around £1 a head
100 employees? £9.25 a head.
Our full Christmas tree surround, built around the booth
Space permitting — we'll check your venue first
100 employees? £15 a head.
No VAT to add — we’re not VAT registered, so these are the full prices. Additional hours £120. A booking fee of 50% of the total investment secures your date, with the balance due in full one month before. Weddings, New Year's Eve and multi-day brand activations quoted individually.
If you're not completely satisfied with our service on the night, we'll refund you in full. We've never had to — but we'd rather you booked knowing we stand behind it.
We arrive ninety minutes early and we're built, lit, tested and standing ready before anyone walks in. That isn't a hope, it's the standard — and if we ever miss it from our agreed access time, your fourth hour is free.
December 2026
We run two booths a night, so most dates take two bookings. Tap any available date to start an enquiry for it.
Availability shown is indicative and updated by hand — we'll confirm your exact date within a few hours.
100% money-back guarantee · not completely satisfied on the night? Full refund. Terms
The Experience
We take the equipment, the lighting, the insurance and the setup extremely seriously — so that everyone else in the room doesn't have to take anything seriously at all. That's the whole trick.
Gold rope and posts, so it reads as something worth queuing for. A dressed prop table with its own lighting. A sharing station where your employees collect their films. A stack of hand-held signs. And one of us, in uniform, running all of it from the moment it opens.
We're in ninety minutes before doors open, and gone within forty-five at the end. Your venue coordinator gets our insurance and PAT certificates the day you book, without asking.
Warm uplighting and a prop table styled to your colours — nutcrackers, neon, disco baubles, glitter cowboy hats. Not a carrier bag of leftover tat. We position the whole thing so it reads as the centrepiece of your room.
We host the whole evening — guiding every employee on, calling the shot, and keeping everyone upright, including at eleven o'clock. We don't wait for people to come to us; we go to them. The arm sweeps, the lights hit, and seconds later there's a slow-motion film that makes an entire finance department look like a music video.
Guests collect their film at the sharing station and it's on their phone instantly, overlaid with your logo, event name and year. Straight to Instagram, the group chat, LinkedIn. Your Christmas party quietly markets itself.
In their words
Hired Party Octopus for our company's year end party and it was fab. So much better than a normal booth. What a good party atmosphere.
Donna Barnard · Corporate client
Amazing experience having Party Octopus at the corporate event this evening. The 360 booth really adds to the atmosphere.
Clair Eastwood · Corporate client
It's fantastic fun and everyone loved it. The props are brilliant as they get people in the party mood. The videos are great quality too.
Elise Witty · Celebration event
The prop table
Ours is dressed, lit and restocked all night: light-up trees, nutcrackers standing guard, sequinned cowboy hats, disco baubles, oversized fans, and a stack of hand-held signs that do half the work for you. All the jingle ladies. Give us your line — or your company's in-joke — and we'll have it made.
By the second hour someone from accounts is holding a sign with the finance director's catchphrase on it, and there is a queue. That is the entire business model.
New for Christmas 2026 · The Signature Snow
Nobody has ever kept the branded water bottle. But a printed photograph of them and the person they sit next to, taken on the one night of the year everyone looked good and nobody was checking emails — that goes on the wall. That still makes them smile in June.
That reaction, incidentally, is the bit you can't buy anywhere else. It happens about forty times a night.
The Signature Snow is £150 more than The Social Spark. Across a hundred-employee party that’s about a pound each — for a gift that costs you nothing extra in wrapping, admin or a trip to the shops.
A printer travels with us. The still comes off the 360 booth, prints on photo paper in about thirty seconds and goes straight into an employee’s hand, with your own overlay on it. Everyone in the shot gets their own physical copy — not one print passed round a table of eight.
No ordering, no sizes, no leftovers in a cupboard until February. It happens on the night, it's handed over on the night, and it's the thing people are still holding in the taxi home.
For HR, EAs & procurement
You're organising this for other people, on someone else's budget, and you'd quite like it not to become your problem. We've done this enough times to know exactly what you're going to be asked for.
PDF, one page — packages, pricing, terms and credentials. Made to be forwarded.
Purchase orders welcome, payment by BACS, and we'll complete your supplier onboarding forms without being chased. Card is available if it's easier — it isn't the only option.
£5m public liability and annual PAT certificates go straight to your venue coordinator the day you book. Risk assessment and method statement on request. You shouldn't have to be the go-between.
£775, £925 or £1,500, all-in. No per-head charges, no travel surcharge inside 30 miles, no bill for anything on the night, and no VAT on top — we’re not VAT registered. The number you approve is the number you pay.
You deal with Charlie. Not a different account manager each time, not a call centre. The person quoting you is the person setting up on the night. Book The Social Spark online if you prefer — everything after that is still us.
We are built, tested and ready before your first employee walks in. If we ever miss it from our agreed venue access time, your fourth hour is free.
A booking fee of 50% of the total investment holds the date, with the balance due in full one month before. If your date moves we'll transfer it to any other available date within twelve months.
Running parties in more than one office, or want the same date locked in for next year? Tell us and we'll quote the lot together rather than piecemeal.
December 2025
For brands & corporates
Three days, one brand, thousands of shoppers — and every single film leaving the stand in Will Powders' colours, on the guest's own phone, with their own following. That's the version of this that isn't really a photo booth at all.
We can wrap the platform, brand the overlay, match the props to your palette and staff it for multi-day runs. Nationally, not just Yorkshire.
Where we go
We are regulars at Tickton Grange, Lazaat, The Barn at Willerby Hill, DoubleTree by Hilton Hull, Mercure Hull Grange Park, MKM Stadium, Carlton Manor and Little Wold Vineyard — so there is a good chance we already know your venue, its access, its sockets and its function manager.
Practicalities
December 2026 packages start at £775 for The Social Spark. The Signature Snow is £925 and adds our on-site print station — a real 6×4" colour photo printed and handed to employees on the night — plus early setup. The Winter Wonderland is £1,500 and adds our full Christmas tree surround. All include three hours of booth time, hosting throughout, the styled prop table, your branded video overlay, delivery, setup and pack-down across Hull and East Yorkshire. There’s no VAT to add, as we’re not VAT registered.
On The Signature Snow and The Winter Wonderland, yes — real ones, on photo paper. We bring a printer, pull the still straight from the 360 booth, and a physical 6×4" colour photograph is in your employee’s hand about thirty seconds later, with your own overlay printed on it. Everyone in the shot gets their own copy to take home. On a hundred-employee party it works out around a pound a head — which makes it the cheapest staff Christmas gift you'll give, and the only one still on a fridge in March. The Social Spark is digital delivery only.
Roughly 3m x 3m of floor space with 2.5m of headroom, on a level surface, within 15 metres of a standard 13A socket. The Winter Wonderland tree surround needs more room again, so we check your venue first. If your space is tight, send us a photo and we'll tell you honestly whether it will work — we'd rather say no than turn up and disappoint you.
Yes, and it's included in every package at no extra cost. Every film carries your logo, event name and year, so when employees post to Instagram and LinkedIn your brand travels with it. We can also wrap the booth platform itself in your branding — we did exactly that for Will Powders across a three-day activation at the Trafford Centre.
Yes — £5 million public liability and annual PAT testing on all equipment. Most venues ask for the paperwork, so we send it straight to your venue coordinator as soon as you book. One less thing on your list.
Instantly. Guests step off, tap their name at the sharing station, and the film lands on their phone by AirDrop, QR code, text or email within seconds. The full gallery is emailed to the organiser the next day.
Travel is free within 30 miles of Hull — which covers Hull, Beverley, Cottingham, Hessle, Willerby, Brough, Driffield, Hornsea, Withernsea, Goole and Scunthorpe. Beyond 30 miles it's £1.50 per additional mile, so York, Scarborough, Bridlington, Doncaster and Leeds are all comfortably doable. For brand activations we travel nationally.
A booking fee of 50% of the total investment secures your December date — £387.50, £462.50 or £750 depending on the package — with the balance due in full one month before. If your date moves we'll transfer it to any other available date within twelve months. We run two booths a night so most dates can take two bookings — but Fridays and Saturdays go first.
Yes to both. We invoice, we accept PO numbers, and we'll complete your supplier onboarding paperwork. We’re not VAT registered, so invoices carry no VAT. Payment by BACS or card, whichever suits your finance team. A booking fee of 50% of the total investment holds the date, and the balance is due in full one month before.
Yes, and we only take a small number. If you're planning a New Year's Eve party, tell us now — December 31st is the single most requested date of the year and it goes early.
Check your date
Tell us the date and we'll come back within a few hours — usually much sooner — with a straight yes or no and a fixed price. No sales call, no pressure.