Choose the enclosed booth if any part of your Wasaga Beach event is somewhere the wind can reach it, and the open air photo booth if the answer is no. That’s the whole recommendation, and it rests on one piece of hardware rather than on taste. The open air booth works against a backdrop held up by a free-standing frame. The enclosed booth brings its own structure with it. Both publish a two-hour rate on their own page and both extend at the same published hourly rate afterwards, so the money isn’t what should settle a Wasaga Beach booking. The site you were given is. Here’s what each one publishes, what the stand actually does outdoors, and the question we ask before quoting either.
Why Wind Decides a Wasaga Beach Booth
A backdrop is a surface, and a surface outdoors is a sail.
The open air booth’s own page describes the stand as strong, sturdy and flat-based to avoid accidental trips, which is exactly right for the hazard it’s written about: people walking past it indoors. A flat-based stand is not a staked one. On a Wasaga Beach patio with the lake in front of it, the load isn’t someone’s foot, it’s a steady push against several square feet of fabric, and you don’t want that stand where the push is coming from.
The enclosed booth doesn’t have that problem, because it is the structure. Its page describes it as giving guests a private and comfortable space, and that privacy is a wall doing two jobs at once. Cinebooth’s private enclosed photo booth page sets out the same build from another operator, which is worth a minute if the enclosure is the part you’re unsure about.
The Two Booths, Side by Side
Same hourly extension, different two-hour figure, different shape.
| Open air | Enclosed | |
|---|---|---|
| Two hours, as published | $399, and the line includes a one-hour setup | $549 plus delivery |
| Each additional hour | The same published rate on both pages | The same published rate on both pages |
| Backdrop | Your choice of premium colour, on a flat-based stand | Your choice of premium colour, inside the booth |
| Structure | None. The room is the room | Its own enclosure |
| Best Wasaga Beach fit | A hall, a marquee, a covered patio | A patio, a lawn, a windy shoreline |
|---|
Read down that table and the pattern is that the open air booth is cheaper and more exposed, and the enclosed booth costs more and carries its own shelter. On an indoor Wasaga Beach booking the open air booth is the better buy, and you should treat it that way. Outdoors the comparison inverts, and it inverts on hardware, not on preference.
The Wasaga Beach Backdrop Stand Is the Variable
Three site details settle which booth you want.
Whether there’s a roof over the booth’s spot. Not over the party, over the booth. A Wasaga Beach reception can be entirely indoors while the only free corner is through an open patio door, and that corner is outdoors as far as a backdrop is concerned.
Which way the opening faces. A wall between the booth and the water changes everything, and a room that opens straight onto the shore changes nothing about the wind but a great deal about where we can put a stand.
What the ground is. Paving, decking and packed grass all hold a flat base. Loose sand does not, and that’s a Wasaga Beach detail more than a Barrie one.
Blue Mountain bookings usually come to us with a chalet or a slope-side function room, where the wind question turns into a doorway question instead, and the open air booth is normally right. Barrie work is mostly hotel and banquet space, so the open air booth wins there on price with nothing to argue about. Marquee Glow’s open air photo booth rental page covers the same format if you want a second description of it.
The Wasaga Beach Booth FAQ
Six, and the first three are the ones that actually change which booth we bring.
Should we book the open air booth for a Wasaga Beach beach ceremony?
Only if the booth itself sits under cover. The ceremony can be on the sand and the booth can still be a good idea, as long as its spot is a pavilion, a marquee or a room with a wall between it and the water. If the booth’s corner is open to the lake, take the enclosed one. Send a photograph of the spot and you’ll get a straight answer on which of the two suits it.
Is the enclosed booth actually windproof?
It’s a structure rather than a sheet on a frame, which is a different thing from being rated for weather. It stands up to the breeze that would move a free-standing backdrop, and no booth of ours goes somewhere a squall is forecast to arrive. What the enclosure buys you is a Wasaga Beach site that stays usable on an ordinary breezy afternoon instead of one that needs perfect conditions.
Where does the difference in the two-hour rate go?
Into the enclosure and what it takes to move, which is our explanation rather than a published breakdown. The open air line is also written differently: it publishes a setup hour inside the two-hour figure, so you’re comparing a rate that names the setup against one that adds delivery. Both pages publish the same additional-hour rate, so past two hours the two booths cost the same to keep. Ask us for both quotes on your date and the gap will be one number.
Will a Blue Mountain patio work for either booth?
Usually both, and Blue Mountain is the easier of the two sites. A chalet patio tends to be paved and partly walled, which holds a flat base and blocks the push at the same time. Your question there is more often the doorway the booth has to come through than the wind it sits in. Tell us your venue and you’ll hear whether the open air booth clears it.
Who decides on the day if the weather turns?
We do, with you, on site. Our attendant arrives before guests and if the booth’s spot has become unworkable we move it, which is usually a matter of a few feet and a wall. That’s simpler with the enclosed booth and it’s the practical reason we lean that way for any Wasaga Beach site where the plan depends on the forecast holding.
Does a Barrie indoor venue change the recommendation?
Completely. Indoors the enclosure is buying you privacy rather than shelter, which some events want and most don’t need, so the open air booth is the better value for you at a Barrie ballroom. Read the enclosed photo booth rental page if the private-cubicle feel is the part you’re after.
Tell Us Whether There Is a Roof
One sentence about the booth’s corner, and we’ll pick the booth.
Not the venue, not the guest count, the corner. Say whether the spot where the booth goes has something over it and something behind it, and give us your date. That settles your Wasaga Beach question faster than any comparison table can, and it’s the first question we ask. The Wasaga Beach photo booth rental page has both formats and the rest of the range on it.
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