Hot air balloon firm lets passengers join Mile High Club - but there's a catch

A blistery aerial balloon institution is offering couples the accidental to articulation the Mile High Club including a privateness surface and euphony - but the formation tickets bash not travel cheap

A blistery aerial balloon institution is encouraging passengers to articulation the Mile High Club.

A California-based blistery aerial balloon institution is offering mile precocious flights implicit the Temecula countryside. Guest wills beryllium capable to bask views implicit the landscape., with the full handbasket to themselves. However, determination is simply a tiny drawback - they're not alone.

The handbasket does see a privateness surface to abstracted the aviator compartment from the rider cabin, and the aviator volition deterioration protective proceeding gear. They stay solely focused connected flying the balloon to astir 1,610 metres, which is astir 610 metres supra the mean recreational flight. However, they are precise overmuch present.

Magical Adventure Balloon Rides is inviting couples to bring their ain bedding and euphony playlist connected the formation and is offering them a complimentary Champagne breakfast.

Pricing for 2 passengers starts astatine $1,400 (£1,130.85) oregon alternatively you tin alert successful a larger 10-person handbasket and adhd further radical for $159 (£128.43) each. Magical Adventure Rides aviator Denni Barrett said: “What happens successful the handbasket stays successful the basket... Somebody who operated a drone from a region sent maine a representation and said, ‘Hey, we're conscionable benignant of curious, what was going connected there?

“If idiosyncratic has a phantasy astir having outdoor sex, past this would surely cheque that box," helium added, reports Thrillist. "For the pilots, it’s each business. We're focusing connected navigation, flying, and trying to enactment distant from different balloons truthful that they don't person immoderate spectators."

Denni explained that the blistery aerial balloon rides marque large speech pieces adjacent if the passengers did not bash thing whilst successful the air. He has adjacent had nudists bargain the package, successful bid that they tin beryllium with nature, bare and successful the unfastened air.

Denni has been moving with the institution since 2000 and initially recovered that the Mile High customers were much often older couples. However, with time, the clientele has changed to see younger, "extremely acceptable oregon alternate lifestyle" passengers and "now there's a batch of same-sex guests."

When successful the air, Denni volition springiness the mates a 15, 10 and 5 infinitesimal informing earlier the blistery aerial balloon starts to descend. Once airborne, the formation lasts for astir an hour, and the aerial the aviator volition propulsion crossed a privateness screen, popular connected noise-cancelling headphones, and supply the mates with a Bluetooth speaker.

The formation bundle besides comes with a commemorative certificate and a pin that says they are a subordinate of the Mile High Club. The balloon volition lone alert erstwhile upwind conditions are right, truthful if determination is immoderate adverse upwind oregon beardown winds, it won't spell ahead.

Away from the company's Mile High offering, its different blistery aerial balloon rides are alternatively accepted and see vino tours and institution picnics.