Planning a customer event and looking for interactive entertainment that gives people something to do beyond food, drinks and conversation?
Boutique Party Hire provides arcade machine and interactive game hire for customer events throughout London and across the UK.
Whether you’re organising a customer appreciation event, product launch, VIP customer evening, retail event, brand activation or customer celebration, arcade games can provide entertainment that guests can play throughout the event.
Our customer event arcade hire range can include:
From one feature game to a complete branded customer entertainment area, we can build the hire package around your audience and venue.
Customer events can have very different objectives.
You might be:
Thanking Existing Customers
Launching a New Product
Celebrating a Business Milestone
Opening a New Location
Running a Loyalty Event
Hosting VIP Customers
Introducing Customers to Your Brand
Arcade games can provide an interactive element around the wider event.
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Customer appreciation events are designed to reward existing customers and strengthen relationships.
Arcade machines can sit alongside:
Food
Drinks
Music
Networking
Product Displays
Presentations
Hospitality
Other Entertainment
Customers can choose when they want to participate.
Businesses may organise events specifically to thank customers for their support.
Interactive games can provide a relaxed activity during the celebration.
Potential options include:
Racing
Basketball
Reaction Games
Retro Arcade
Air Hockey
Branded Games
Customer loyalty programmes can potentially include invitation-only events.
Arcade entertainment can give members another reason to attend and interact with the brand.
Suitable events may include:
VIP Shopping Nights
Member Evenings
Customer Parties
Rewards Events
Anniversary Events
Businesses entertaining their most valuable customers may prefer a smaller number of premium games.
For example:
Linked Racing Simulators
or:
Reaction Game + Retro Arcade
or:
Branded Grabber Machine
The setup can be designed to complement rather than dominate the event.
Some businesses use the terms client and customer interchangeably.
Arcade machines can provide interactive entertainment for both B2B and B2C audiences.
For more corporate client-focused searches, internally link this page to your Arcade Hire for Client Events page.
Launching something new to existing customers?
Arcade games can provide entertainment around:
Product Launches
Service Launches
Store Openings
Venue Launches
New Collection Launches
Brand Relaunches
Selected machines can potentially incorporate campaign branding.
Product launches can combine:
Product Demonstrations
Sampling
Displays
Presentations
Influencer Activity
Arcade Entertainment
A game can provide another reason for customers to remain engaged with the event.
Businesses holding open days can potentially use arcade equipment alongside:
Tours
Demonstrations
Food
Presentations
Customer Meetings
Family Entertainment
The game selection should reflect the expected audience.
Businesses may organise customer events around:
Anniversaries
Major Milestones
New Locations
Customer Numbers
Business Birthdays
Successful Campaigns
Arcade entertainment can provide a celebratory activity throughout the event.
Brands with strong customer communities can use arcade games at:
Member Events
Community Gatherings
Launches
Meet-Ups
Customer Parties
Brand Festivals
Competitive games can create informal interaction between attendees.
Retailers can use arcade machines for:
VIP Shopping Events
Customer Evenings
Store Anniversaries
Product Drops
Launch Parties
Seasonal Promotions
Loyalty Events
Internally link this section to your store-opening and promotional-event pages.
Shopping centres can use interactive games to entertain existing visitors during:
Customer Appreciation Days
Seasonal Events
Anniversary Events
Retail Promotions
Family Events
Brand Activations
Internally link this section to Arcade Hire for Shopping Centre Events.
Hotels may hold events for:
Regular Guests
Corporate Customers
Wedding Clients
Loyalty Members
Local Customers
VIP Guests
Arcade games can provide additional entertainment within suitable function spaces.
Restaurants can potentially use compact arcade games during:
Launch Nights
Anniversary Events
VIP Dinners
Customer Parties
Private Events
The machines should be positioned away from main food-service routes.
Automotive businesses can use arcade entertainment for:
Dealer Events
Vehicle Launches
Customer Evenings
Showroom Events
Motorsport Campaigns
Racing simulators can be particularly well suited.
Linked racing simulators create direct head-to-head competition.
Guests can:
Race Friends
Race Brand Representatives
Set Fastest Laps
Enter Leaderboards
Compete Against Other Customers
They can work particularly well for automotive, technology and premium customer events.
Basketball arcade machines provide fast competitive entertainment.
They can work for:
Retail Events
Sports Brands
Customer Parties
Large Launch Events
Shopping Centre Campaigns
A high-score challenge can run throughout the event.
Reaction games are useful where many customers need to participate.
They provide:
Quick Gameplay
High Scores
Competitive Challenges
Leaderboard Potential
Potential Branding
This makes them suitable for busy customer-facing events.
Batak-style games provide a simple speed and reaction challenge.
Customers can compete against each other or attempt to beat the best score of the event.
Retro arcade machines can appeal to a broad audience.
They provide a more relaxed style of entertainment and can work particularly well for:
Customer Parties
Retail Events
Brand Community Events
Hospitality
Technology Events
Air hockey provides simple two-player competition.
It can form part of a larger customer entertainment area where sufficient floor space is available.
Grabber machines can potentially combine entertainment with suitable promotional items.
Depending on the project, contents could potentially include:
Branded Merchandise
Customer Gifts
Promotional Products
Small Giveaways
Campaign Merchandise
Vouchers
This can be particularly useful for retail and loyalty events.
Selected equipment can potentially incorporate:
Company Logos
Product Graphics
Customer Campaign Artwork
Event Branding
Launch Messaging
Sponsor Branding
This can make the entertainment feel integrated with the event.
Larger customer events can potentially use several coordinated machines.
For example:
Branded Racing
Branded Basketball
Branded Reaction Game
Branded Grabber Machine
Customer Leaderboard
This can create a complete interactive customer experience.
Arcade games can support simple competitions throughout an event.
Potential challenges include:
Fastest Racing Lap
Highest Basketball Score
Fastest Reaction Score
Team Challenges
Customers can potentially return throughout the event and attempt to improve their score.
Leaderboards can create an ongoing competition.
This can work particularly well for:
Customer Appreciation Events
Retail Events
Launches
Brand Community Events
Multi-Day Promotions
The organiser can determine prizes and competition rules.
Arcade machines naturally create friendly competition.
Examples include:
Friend vs Friend
Customer vs Customer
Family vs Family
Team vs Team
This can help create a more social event atmosphere.
Another format is to have customers compete against members of the business.
For example:
Customer vs Sales Team
Customer vs Brand Ambassador
Customer vs Director
Customer vs Employee
This can provide an informal way for guests to interact with the company.
B2B businesses can use arcade machines to provide an informal activity during customer networking events.
Guests can interact around:
Racing
Basketball
Reaction Games
Retro Arcade
This can help reduce the formality of traditional networking.
Customer events can also form part of a wider hospitality programme.
Arcade games can potentially operate around:
Sporting Events
Corporate Hospitality
Dinners
VIP Areas
Private Receptions
Internally link to your Arcade Hire for Hospitality Events page.
Some businesses recognise customers, partners or community members through awards events.
Arcade games can provide entertainment before or after the formal programme.
Internally link this section to Arcade Hire for Awards Ceremonies.
Christmas customer events can use arcade entertainment alongside:
Food
Drinks
DJs
Festive Entertainment
Brand Activities
Giveaways
Your existing Christmas cluster should be internally linked from this section.
Summer customer events can combine arcade games with:
Food
Bars
Music
Outdoor Entertainment
Brand Activations
Hospitality
Weather-sensitive arcade equipment requires suitable covered or indoor positioning.
Customer events and promotional campaigns can run beyond a single day.
Suitable machines can potentially be hired for:
Weekends
Several Days
One Week
Short Campaigns
Provide the complete event duration when requesting a quote.
A smaller customer event might use:
Linked Racing Simulators
or:
Reaction Game + Retro Arcade
or:
Branded Grabber Machine
One or two strong attractions can be enough for a smaller audience.
Larger customer events can potentially use:
Racing Simulators
Basketball
Reaction Games
Batak
Retro Arcade Machines
Air Hockey
Grabber Machines
Branded Games
This can create a complete customer entertainment area.
One feature game.
2–3 games.
4–6 games.
7–10+ games.
Selected equipment with suitable company, event or campaign branding.
The final package can be built around guest numbers, venue size and event objectives.
We can discuss suitable customer event arcade hire throughout London, including:
Central London
City of London
Canary Wharf
Soho
Shoreditch
Mayfair
Covent Garden
Stratford
Greenwich
and other locations.
Central London loading and access should be confirmed early.
Suitable customer event bookings can be discussed throughout the UK, including:
London
Kent
Essex
Birmingham
Manchester
Leeds
Liverpool
Bristol
Cardiff
Nottingham
Leicester
Coventry
and other locations.
When requesting a quote, provide:
For larger branded events, artwork requirements should be discussed as early as possible.
This page focuses on temporary arcade hire for customer events and customer-facing experiences.
Retailers, hotels, leisure venues and other commercial businesses wanting machines installed for longer periods can explore our Long-Term Arcade Machine Hire UK service.
Suitable high-footfall commercial venues can also explore our Arcade Machine Profit Share & Revenue Share service.
For temporary customer events, browse our wider Arcade Machine Hire London & UK range.
Yes. Suitable customer appreciation events, loyalty events, launches, retail events and customer celebrations can hire arcade and interactive games.
Racing simulators, basketball, reaction games, Batak, retro arcade and branded grabber machines can all work well depending on the audience.
Selected equipment may offer custom branding depending on the machine, artwork requirements and available lead time.
Yes. Suitable games can form part of high-score competitions managed by the event organiser.
Potentially, depending on the machine, product dimensions and project requirements.
Yes. Larger events can potentially combine several machines into a dedicated entertainment zone.
Yes. Smaller premium packages can be built for invitation-only and VIP customer events.
Yes. Suitable bookings can be discussed throughout London.
Delivery and installation can form part of the hire service.
Suitable customer event bookings can be discussed nationwide.
Whether you’re planning a customer appreciation event, loyalty evening, product launch, customer celebration, retail event, VIP customer night or brand community event, arcade machines can provide interactive entertainment for your guests.
From one premium feature game to a complete custom-branded customer arcade, Boutique Party Hire can build a package around your event.
Browse our Arcade Machine Hire London & UK range.
Send us your event date, venue, postcode, guest numbers, required games and branding requirements for a customer event arcade hire quote.
