Amusement Rides For Hire Melbourne

This website is a directory of the very best amusement rides for hire in Melbourne and regional Victoria. Here you will find a great mixture of spectacular thrill rides, family-orientated fun rides, and fabulous attractions for the "littlies". All your favorites are here - the Cha Cha, Miami Trip/Ultimate Party Machine, Super Slide, Dodgem Cars, Jumping Castles, Tea Cups and much more!

Price Lists are available which will outline the hire costs of the attractions based on a standard hire period. Otherwise, you may be able to book your amusement rides on a Commission/Profit Share basis. Full details, including Conditions of Hire, Public Liability Insurance, and Rider Safety details, will be available from the operator upon confirmation of a booking.

Availability can be limited, particular during the busy Spring Fair/Summer period, with the best attractions generally booked first. Avoid disappointment by confirming your rides and attractions early. Associated equipment may be available from your amusement operator, including Pony Rides, a Petting Zoo, Show Bags, and Carnival Food such as Fairy Floss & Snow Cones.

For traditional carnival-styled attractions, All Fun Amusements, Buckley Amusements and Outdoor Amusements are experienced and professional operators who cannot be beaten for quality and reliability. Just click on the AMUSEMENT OPERATORS menu tab above, for full details on their service, and associated contact information.

Fetes, Fairs and Festivals Directory

If your organisation is organising a Special Event, there no better way of promoting the day, than on the national Fetes Fairs and Festivals website. Listings can be made free of charge, and cover all major cities and regional areas in Australia. The Fetes Fairs and Festivals directory is also a fabulous source of Special Event details, for those looking for fun, excitement, fine food, wonderful entertainment and a great day out for all.

Services and Suppliers

For those planning to hold a Fete, Fair, Festival or Special Event, the Services and Suppliers directory may be of assistance. From Sideshow Games to Fireworks Displays; Amusement Rides to Stage Hire; Laser Skirmish to Rock Climbing Walls - links to a wide range of industry related services are easily located on this web page.

DISCLAIMER: The administrators of this web page gives no warranty as to abilities of Amusement Ride operators, insurance of Amusement Ride operators and the accuracy of the information contained on this/or their website/facebook page. Each individual is encourage to make their own enquiries with whichever Amusement Ride operators they choose.

What's On in Victoria

For those looking for a great day out filled with fine food, excitement and fabulous entertainment, there are a wide variety of special events held throughout Australia every year. Live performances, Market and Food Stalls, Amusement Rides, Sideshow Games and Fireworks Displays are just a few of the highlights often featured. Here are some of the largest, most popular Fetes, Fairs, Festivals and Shows held in Victoria, where the whole family can experience "All the Fun of the Fair"!!

Moyneyana Festival

The Moyneyana Festival is known for its enduring tribute to community spirit. The festival runs over five weeks from Christmas Eve through to Australia Day each year. The Festival has developed over the years to become a favourite summer celebration in the south-west of Victoria. Initiated in 1947, the festival helps to raise funds for the local hospital, and attracts crowds of 15,000 visitors each year. The 3YB Coast FM Moyneyana Festival is considered one of the longest running community festivals in Australia. Its longevity attests to the community support it enjoys. Almost all featured events are free and held in the main street, the village green or other public spaces. The only pre-requisite for the festival is to bring a picnic blanket or folding chairs. Come join them for Moyneyana Festival's Australia Day celebrations and all the other fun activities they have planned until then. Moyneyana Festival is free, fun, simple and everyone is welcome.

Port Fairy, Sackville Street, Port Fairy - For further details, please visit our website www.moyneyana.port-fairy.com

Peterborough Seaside Festival

The Peterborough Seaside Festival is a one day community event in January. The event is staged at the foreshore reserve in the coastal town of Peterborough in South-West Victoria and features live music, markets and local produce, amusement rides, canoe races on the river, a children's beach triathlon, reptile show and animal nursery etc. The festivities commence at 3pm and conclude with a spectacular fireworks display at 10pm - overlooking the majestic Newfield Bay. The Festival is a family friendly event - bring your picnic rug and smile.

Peterborough Foreshore Reserve, Irvine St, Peterborough - For further details, please visit our Facebook Page

Frankston Waterfront Festival

Over two exciting days, bring family and friends together for a weekend of entertainment, activities, rides and attractions, market stalls, food, wine and more at the Frankston Waterfront Festival. The Frankston Waterfront Festival is the City's annual celebration of its iconic waterfront, award winning beach, bayside location and relaxed lifestyle. With live music all weekend, families and friends are invited to get involved in all of the activities on offer, from beach and water activities, to enjoying great food, wine, beer and cider or dance in the sunshine. Kids can discover a love for growing their own fruit and vegetables and everyone can take home a treat with market stalls selling art, craft, clothing, treats, preserves and more! Don't miss the fireworks at 9:45pm on Saturday night.

Frankston Waterfront, 7N Pier Promenade, Frankston - For further details, please visit our Facebook Page

Kilcunda Lobster Festival

Join the Annual Kilcunda Lobster Festival at the Kilcunda foreshore car park for the 31st year of this family friendly event. The festival runs from 9am to 4pm or until all lobsters are sold. Live music all day, monster raffle, carnival rides and amusements, emergency service displays. Lobster sales and lunches, Chance your luck on the Lobster Spinning Wheel all day or in the monster raffle drawn at 3pm. Hot food and drinks available and loads of market stalls.A great day for the family down on the coast at Kilcunda. All proceeds to the Kilcunda and local communities. Foreshore car park, Bass Highway, Kilcunda.

Princes Pier, Off Pier Street, Port Melbourne - For further details, please visit our website

Yarraville Festival

The Yarraville Festival boasts local performers, market stalls and art exhibitions, amusement rides and attractions for a family-friendly day that brings the unique and quaint Yarraville Village to life. A kids film festival held at the Sun Theatre will be screened on Festival day and a Teddy Bear picnic for the toddlers, free yoga classes, dance workshops and 7 stages of great music!

Yarraville Village, Anderson Street, Yarraville - For further details, please visit our website yarravillefestival.com.au

Clayton Street Festival

More than 20,000 people are expected to flock to Clayton Rd for the 13th annual Clayton Street Festival. During the day, festival goers will be able to enjoy food and market stalls, roving entertainment and displays by local traders and community groups. People can take in live performances across three stages, and free children's rides. At 4pm, there will be a street parade featuring local school students, sports clubs and community groups. Then from 5pm the Hawkers Night Market will open in Haughton Rd East, featuring international foods, art & craft stalls, and a unique program of entertainment.

Clayton Rd. Clayton - For further details, please visit our website

Western Port Festival

The local Western Port community is very excited and pleased to invite you and your family to the 46th Western Port Festival. We will have a number of amazing displays over the course of the weekend; including our very own famous Street Parade, Fireworks Displays, Hot Air Balloons, Art & Craft Show, Mini Motorbike Stunts, the Wood Chopping Competition from the Royal Melbourne Show, Water Ski Display Team and a Massive Car and Truck Show, plus much more. Supporting these amazing displays will be Live Music all weekend, plenty of amusement rides for adults and children, free children's activities in the Kids Corner and many of our favourite community, food and market gift stalls! Make sure you don't miss this alcohol free, family friendly event, run by the community for the community.

Hastings Foreshore, 21 Marine Parade Hastings - For further details, please visit our website westernportfestival.org.au

Craigieburn Community Festival

A two-day community festival held every year in Craigieburn. You can enjoy free entertainment for the kids, cultural, community and professional performers on the stage, the CFA Torchlight Parade, the Craigieburn Art Show, carnival rides, food and market stalls and a spectacular fireworks display. The Craigieburn Festival will again be held at D.S Aitken Reserve, with Saturday's activities running from 3pm - 10pm and the Sunday from 11am - 4pm.

D.S Aitken Reserve, Craigieburn, VIC - For further details, please visit our website

Myrtleford Festival

The Myrtleford Festival happens every March, during Victoria's Labour Day weekend. A huge program of activities makes the Myrtleford Festival a wonderful weekend for everyone. Come join us in beautiful Myrtleford - as we celebrate everything that's great about living here. The annual Myrtleford Festival returns to give you a bright, fun-filled Labour Day long weekend packed with things to see and do. Arts and craft, exhibitions, markets, Street Party, theatre, historical tours, helicopter joy flights, family activities, the Lions Club Festival Ball and Rotary Street Parade-plus much more. Enjoy the cruisy, outdoor Carter Holt Harvey Street Party, or the excitement of live sports events. Take in the Myrtleford Art Prize and Reign of Pearls Photographic exhibitions, then shop at our markets. How about a cooked breakfast in the heart of town, followed by a motorbike ride or a guided historical tour? The Festival for for everyone.

Various locations in Myrtleford - For further details, please visit our website themyrtlefordfestival.com.au/

Moomba Festival

Every Labour Day long weekend, Moomba brings Melburnians together to share in the vibrancy and spirit of our much loved city. A celebrated part of the Melbourne events calendar for 60 years, Moomba will be back with an exciting program of events and family entertainment, making Melbourne the ideal place to be for the Labour Day long weekend. Held over four days, the festival attracts more than one million visitors to the sun-soaked banks of the Yarra to share in the vibrancy and spirit of our much loved city. Highlights include the Moomba Parade, Birdman Rally, nightly fireworks, Carnival rides, Fabulous Food, and Stage entertainment.

Melbourne - For further details, please visit our website

Kew Festival

The Kew Festival has a rich history since 1974 of delivering quality events in Kew and involves activities and events presented over several weeks in March attracting approximately 10,000 people. The Festival engages the community in the Kewmunity Day, the Fireworks Concert and other free entertainment and promotes activities provided by community groups. There will be a range of entertainment suitable for all ages during the two week festival. including dance parade, children's activities, amusement rides, animals, live music, food stalls and fireworks.

Various sites throughout Kew - For further details, please visit our website kewfestival.org

SunFest-Sunbury Community Festival

SunFest's, now approaching its 39th year is held on the third weekend of March each year on the Village Green in Sunbury. The free to enter two day festival is full of fun and entertainment for all ages. SunFest is well supported by local traders, businesses, residents, the community and visitors from all around Melbourne and Country Victoria. With thousands of people attending SunFest each year, we will again offer great attractions on our main stage and dance floor with local talent, and national acts, Battle of the School Choirs, SunFest Talent Shows, award winning entertainers and children's entertainment. For the last 39 years we have been running our ever popular Grand Street Parade. Again this year we have Sunbury Idol and are introducing Sunbury Can Dance and our ever popular Reardon Amusement Rides and Carnival Games, Roving Entertainers, Walk and Run for FUN, a Health and Safety Expo and much, much more.

Sunbury Village Green, 7 Stawell Street, Sunbury - For further details, please visit our website sunfest.org.au

Whittlesea Community Festival

Come along and be part of the biggest annual celebration in our community. The Community Festival is a unique celebration of our City and its people and places. The Festival offers a huge range of activities and cultural events, including live entertainment, sustainability information, kids and youth entertainment, carnival rides, market stalls, community workshops and a fireworks finale from 8.30pm.

City of Whittlesea Public Gardens, Barry Road, Lalor - For further details, please visit our website website

Celebrate Mooroolbark Festival

Celebrate Mooroolbark is an annual community festival held in March at Red Earth Park and Mooroolbark Community Centre. Involving local schools, businesses, community groups and individuals the festival provides free and low cost entertainment suitable for people of all ages. Throughout the day there is a parade, a full stage program, roving performers, kids activities, workshops, rides, stalls of food, drink and local wares and more. Celebrate Mooroolbark seeks to create a truly local festival that remains relevant to the people in the community of Mooroolbark and surrounding suburbs. It aims to bring together the full diversity of community members with a family friendly event provided by and for the community. In so doing, we celebrate and enhance our community spirit, connectedness and quality of life.

Red Earth Community Park & Mooroolbark Community Centre, 74 Brice Ave, Mooroolbark - For further details, please visit our website celebratemooroolbark.com

Maffra Mardi Gras

Beginning in 1957, Maffra Mardi Gras is a community fundraiser and one of Wellington Shire's oldest events. Local community groups nominate an entrant to represent their organisation, and a friendly six week period of fundraising rivalry, precedes the event. The Maffra Mardi Gras will culminate with a street parade followed by the announcement of the winner. The day will include market and food stalls, street entertainment, carnival rides, face painting and an animal nursery before the street parade. It is a proven family friendly event, with opportunities for many community organisations to raise some much needed funds at the beginning of the calendar year.

Johnson Street, Maffra - For further details, please visit our Facebook page.

Twins Plus Festival

Imagine the amazing sight of 3000-plus twins, triplets and higher-number multiples, their families and friends, all coming together to celebrate twin lives and talent, and you begin to picture just how unique this festival is! It is an action-packed day of entertainment for all ages with rides, games and competitions, live stage shows, twin celebrities,twin health and research, shopping and exhibits, photo opportunities and much more. It is open to twins, triplets, quads, quins, and their families and friends from around Australia.

Caulfield Racecourse, Station Street, Caulfield East - For further details, please visit our website twinsfestival.com.au

Tarra Festival

Whatever you are doing at Easter Long Weekend come and experience Tarra Festival and make sure you don't miss one of Gippsland's biggest and most popular events. Activities for 2015, in addition to the street parade the festival will include Art Shows, Mower Muster, Family Fun Day with Model car racing, trick cyclists, laser skirmish, pony rides, gumboot throwing, petting zoo, markets each day in different locations and much more.

Caulfield Racecourse, Station Street, Caulfield East - For further details, please visit our website tarrafestival.com.au

Beechworth Golden Horseshoes Festival

Beechworth comes alive at Easter with a Grand Street Parade, street stalls and entertainment, carnival rides and a massive Easter egg hunt. View the re-enactment of the horse with the golden horseshoes riding into Beechworth. A weekend packed with activities all weekend with markets, family bike ride and mountain bike racing. There is something to keep everyone entertained this Easter in Beechworth.

Ford Street, Beechworth - For further details, please visit our website goldenhorseshoes.com.au

Bendigo Easter Festival

The Bendigo Easter Festival promises to be filled with fun and entertainment for the whole family. Bendigo's CBD will come alive with activities and events within walking distance of each other and heaps of parking nearby. The festivities will begin on Good Friday with Hazeldene's Family Day. The Easter Egg Hunt is always a favourite for young children as they search to find the tastiest Easter treat - chocolate! Kids will be enchanted by the entertainment on stage throughout the day. Adults can stroll around the market or be captivated by the art. Bendigo Bank's Kidzone will be a mass of celebration with loads of fun activities, amusement rides and great entertainment so make sure you are a part of the excitement. Don't miss the shows from erth's dinosaur petting zoo! Dance, drums, Lion Teams and 100,000 crackers are all part of the Chinese Spring Festival and the Awakening of the Dragon as Bendigo celebrates its Chinese heritage. As the sun sets on Saturday, find your place along the road to cheer on the convoy of illuminated floats in the Torchlight Procession concluding with a spectacular fireworks display over the city. The festival concludes with a gorgeous display of colour as Sun Loong makes his annual appearance in the Bendigo Advertiser Gala Parade.

Bendigo CBD - For further details, please visit our website bendigoeasterfestival.org.au

Kingston Harvest Festival

Kingston City Council is proud to present some of Australia's top country, bluegrass and rockabilly performers each year under the big top at the Kingston Harvest Festival in May at Roy Dore Reserve, Carrum.There is plenty on offer for the whole family including non-stop music, fresh food demonstrations in the Harvest Kitchen or you can learn about living more sustainably in the Green Hub. You will also find a range of market stalls, a mouth-watering array of food, a licensed bar with wine and beer, and amusements rides.

Roy Dore Reserve, Carrum - For further details, please visit our website

Emerald FunFest

As always, next year's FunFest will include fairground rides, music stages, a dance stage, battle of the bands, exhibitions, demonstrations, Puffing Billy rides, street performances and stalls. Last year we welcomed around 15, 000 attendees. The international food court has something for every taste. Relax with a glass of wine and watch some entertainment, let the kids try out some of the free events, browse among the artisan stalls or join in the fun and festivity. This is always a great day and it will be a wonderful way to whet your appetite for the week of activities to follow.

Kilvington Drive, Emerald - For further details, please visit our website pave.org.au/

Koroit Irish Festival

This festival celebrates Irish heritage through music, poetry, dancing, singing and even spud picking! The event is held annually in the historic village of Koroit. Live music is featured at locations through the town whilst a hive of market activity and more music emanates from over 100 stalls and six stages set up along the main street. Be entertained by the many street performers or browse the arts and crafts. Kids are catered for with a variety of children's activities, amusement rides, attractions and entertainment.

Commercial Rd, Koroit - For further details, please visit our website koroitirishfestival.com.au

Birregurra Festival and Art Show

The Birregurra Festival and Art Show attracts over 10,000 people and here's why. Apart from the usual offerings of a festival such as amusement rides, animal nursery, quality handcrafts and markets, this festival is full of surprises. Organic and local produce, including cheeses, ice-cream and olives will be up for sampling. These will go just nicely with the chocolate fountain and samples from the local wineries and breweries. A range of A list performers and local musicians will be performing. And off stage camel rides, woodcutting and two days of dog jumping competitions are set to captivate the audience. Competitions and demonstrations will be held at the skate park all weekend. For the older children, classic cars and the work of district wood turners will be on display.

Roy Dore Reserve, Carrum - For further details, please visit our website

Royal Geelong Show

During the annual Royal Geelong Show, the Geelong Showgrounds in East Geelong will be bursting at the seams with amusement rides, animals, arts and crafts, farm machinery, sideshows and (of course) showbags. There is seriously something for everybody to enjoy- whether you are interested in watching the numerous competitions that will be held (including equestrian, woodchopping, and dog shows), viewing the homecraft, horticulture and cooking displays, Children's Petting Zoo, or walking around the livestock sheds, where prize-winning cattle and sheep stand proudly in their hay-lined stalls.

Geelong Showgrounds: 79 Breakwater Road, East Geelong - For further details, please visit our website royalgeelongshow.com.au

Frankston's Christmas Festival of Lights

Come and join in the fun at Frankston's Christmas of Lights; a family celebration of the start to the Christmas season. Each year, in excess of 40,000 people enjoy the night, with Santa flying above the 100ft Norfolk Pine! There is a stage of entertainment for children and adults, amusement rides, children's craft activities, children's stage shows, Santa's arrival, Meet and Greet characters and a food court. The night culminates in the lighting of the 100 year old Norfolk Pine and a spectacular fireworks display.Bring your family and friends together and create your magical family memory at Frankston's Christmas Festival of Lights!

Davey Street, Frankston - For further details, please visit our Facebook page

Kannamaroo Festival

Kannamaroo Festival is an annual event with great family entertainment for all to enjoy and family fun activities. The street carnival follows down Firebrace Street on Friday evening. The festival offers food, crafts, kids carnival rides, music and lots of live entertainment. Bring the family for late night shopping and enjoy the atmosphere. The festivities continue on the Saturday afternoon with skiing demonstrations on the Wimmera River.

Firebrace Street , Horsham - For further details, please visit our Website

Kristkindl Festival

The Maling Road Kristkindl aims to bring out the true spirit of Christmas and is based on the European traditional Kristkindl Market. Gifts, food, rides and live entertainment feature this family-friendly night market. It happens annually in Maling Road on the first Friday in December.

Maling Road, Canterbury - For further details, please visit our website