Where do the admission dollars end up ??
The Villages entertainment PAYS these pilots to come here. One pilot drove 17 hours from Ohio to be here. The pilots get put up in the Waterfront inn for the 3 days. Lots of expenses to put on this show.

No more pre-purchase of ballon fest tickets for us.

Another perfect example of “you just can’t fix stupid”! BTW, 22 balloons went up Sunday morning.

:welcome: To Talk of the Villages...... you're gong to fit right in.

Looks like your typical market night but with balloons

We (5 of us) drove from Hawkins to see the balloon glow at 7pm thinking they would let us in without tickets since everything was closed for the last hour. My 87 year old non mobile parents wanted to sit in the car to see it. Not only dud they want to charge us $100 to get in but they didn't even inflate the balloons. We would have been more disappointed if we bought tickets earlier.

Its not nice to call someone stupid.

Obviously they DID inflate the balloons. See previous post with PICTURES of inflated balloons

happens every year

They don’t control the weather, you know who does. Talk to him.

Revoked for what, landing safely when a situation happens. I guess you would rather have them land on a house or the road. Have you ever flown a balloon, you basically guide them unless tethered. I think the Olof did what was needed to be done with little or no injuries or damage.

Hey welcome! Cool story! ;) Nice first post after being registered on TOTV for 6 years. Something else had to have been of importance in those 6 years. :)