How to Plan Your Grin Birthday Party

So what does a great birthday party look like with Grin Mobile Laser Tag. After having been at hundreds of parties over the last few years, we've decided to provide a quick primer for how to host your own perfect party.

1-3 Months Prior to Party

1. Secure your party with Grin by phone, email, or by completing our Online Booking Request Form.
2. Decide if you are going to have a theme with your party. This will help with ideas for any gift bags, decorations, or prizes you may want to provide.
3. Send out the invites. One of the great things about a Grin party is that we don't charge per player, so you don't have to fret too much about how many to invite. Anywhere from 8-24 players will work!

Week of Party

1. Confirm with your guests about the date and time.
2. Expect a call from Grin a few days prior to the event to discuss and final details. This might include any concerns regarding potential weather issues.
3. Shop for final food, beverages, and gift pack stuffers.

Day of Party

1. Scour the playing field for any potential dangers or yuckies (doggy land mines are common culprits).
2. Set-up the party area with drinks and any snacks you may be providing during the party. Re-hydrating type drinks are great to have since the players will be running around for a couple of hours.
3. Expect the Grin Crew to arrive about 60-90 minutes prior to party time to look over the playing field, meet the family, and set-up the playing field. Please have payment ready at this time.
4. Grin Crew will begin training the players at the designated party start time. This last about 10 minutes.
5. Party on!
6. Following the 2 hour playing time, the Grin Crew will begin tearing down their equipment and should be loaded and gone in about 60 minutes.

Typical Party Schedule on the day of Event (this example assumes a 2pm start time) 

• 12:30pm - Grin Crew arrives to look over the playing area, meet the family, and set-up
• 1:50pm   - The players arrive
• 2:00pm   - Players gather at the Grin Command Center for training.
• 3:00pm   - Short 10 minute drink break to ensure the players stay hydrated
• 4:00pm   - Laser Tag time wraps up. Players head to inside for birthday celebration, food, presents, etc while the Grin Crew tears down
• 5:00pm   - Grin Crew is packed and heading out to their next adventure. Party players are making plans for when Grin can be at their next party.

Book your 2012 event at 2011 rates - Limited time offer

Book your 2012 event prior to February 29th and you'll be guaranteed to pay the 2011 rates. Act quickly and save some money you can use to decorate your party space, order pizza, or maybe even put it towards one of these. And since we don't require deposits for private parties, this is a great deal.

Shen High School Tournament

We are excited to be hosting the first Laser Tag Tournament at Shen High School on December 2nd from 7pm to 10pm. Around 20 teams will gather in the gym for an evening of action as they play to be the last team standing. This will be a single elemination tournament with 4 minute rounds. The all players on the winning team will win free entrance admission to the annual Shen Dodge Ball Tournament.

NOTE TO PLAYERS: We have created a special flyer for this event. It contains instructions and tips which will help your team be more competivite. Be sure to download and read this flyer to gain that extra advantage.

[Download the PDF file here]

Grin at the Washington County Fair

For the second year, Grin is excited to be participating in the Wash. County Fair in Greenwich, NY. We'll be set-up all week long for all your Laser Tag needs. You can find us next to the dog agility field on the back side of the fair ground. Games will be $4 each or $10 for three games. We'll also be selling all-day passes for $25. Stop by and say hello, play some games, and maybe even challenge Tanner or Joe to a competition.

Tooting Our Own Horn...

Grin Mobile has quickly become one of the most active and experienced mobile laser tag companies in America. Since 2008 our bookings have grown by leaps and bounds (in May 2011 alone we had more events than in our entire first year!). We have also started to expand our area of operations to regularly include much of Southern NY and CT thanks to excellent word of mouth from enthusiastic clients.

I believe without a doubt that we have more experience running mobile laser tag parties than anyone else in the country, so if you want experience and top notch customer service we can't be beat.

Thank you to all our amazing customers (or in marketing speak, Raving Fans) for your support. We love what we do and we hope it shows in every event we do. We've been blessed to get in on this business early on and hope to be around for a long time to come.