Services in Santa Barbara County, CA

A bounce house is still the fastest way to turn a backyard, a park or a church hall into a party. Luna's Jumps has been renting bouncers around Santa Barbara County since 1997, and we keep the units our customers ask for again and again: big open jumping floors, tall mesh windows so you can watch the kids from anywhere in the yard, and a soft padded entry ramp instead of a step. Themes run from the classic castle to our USA Rocket bouncer, so the inflatable ends up looking like part of the decorations rather than a rental that got dropped in the corner. If you are throwing a birthday, a school field day or a block party, this is the piece that keeps kids busy from the first guest to the last.

Interactive games are what you add when the guest list is wider than "little kids." These are the inflatable carnival attractions built for competition — pitch-and-score setups, target games and head-to-head challenges where two players go at the same time and the rest of the party lines up to watch. They work beautifully at school carnivals, church festivals, company picnics and graduation parties, where you need something that keeps teenagers and adults involved instead of standing around. They are also a good pairing with a bouncer: the little ones jump, the older kids compete, and nobody is waiting for a turn.

A combo is a bounce house with a slide attached, and it is the single most requested rental we have. You get the open jumping area kids stay in for hours plus a climb-and- slide loop that gives the party a second thing to do, all in one unit, on one delivery, for one price. Our rainbow castle combo is the crowd favorite: turrets, bright primary colors, a covered slide and a big front bouncing floor. For most backyard birthdays, a combo is the smartest booking on this page — it does the work of two rentals in the footprint of one and a half.

A dry slide gives you the height and the thrill of a water slide without the hose, the towels or the wet grass. It is the right call for indoor venues, for cooler months on the Central Coast, and for any event where you do not want a hundred kids soaked twenty minutes into the party. Our classic slide runs tall in bright red, yellow and blue, with high padded side walls the whole way down and a soft landing at the bottom. Kids climb, drop and run straight back around — it moves a long line faster than almost anything else we rent.

When Santa Barbara County heats up, a water attraction is the rental that saves the party. Our wave slide sends kids down a wide wet lane into a splash pool at the bottom, with the curved wave walls and bright blue-and-white styling that make it the centerpiece of the yard as much as the main activity. Water attractions are the top request for summer birthdays, end-of-school parties and family reunions, and they are the fastest units on this page to book out. If you have a July or August date in mind, call us early — weekends go first.

An obstacle course is the piece that turns a party into an event. Two racers enter at the same time and work through pop-ups, squeeze walls and crawl-throughs before hitting the climb and the slide at the end — and everybody watching becomes the crowd. Our sports-themed course is built for exactly this: long, bright, and designed so a spectator standing at the finish can see the whole race. Schools, churches, sports teams and company picnics book these for field days and tournaments, and they are just as popular at a backyard birthday for older kids who have outgrown a plain bouncer.

Concessions are the detail that makes a party feel like it was actually planned. Our three-tank frozen drink machine pours slushies in three flavors at once, so there is no line and no arguing about which flavor to make — and it works just as well pouring frozen lemonade for a kids' birthday as it does for the adults at a graduation party or a company event. Set it up next to the inflatable and it becomes the second stop everybody makes. A concession machine is also the cheapest way to add something to an event that already has its main attraction booked.