Clubby is an all-in-one birthday photo booth: a cabin where your guests take photos, film themselves, sing and dance, from the first drink to the last slow song. The candles go out in three seconds. A good party has to last all night. What if the thing everyone talks about the next day were the one you chose?
Why hire a photo booth for a birthday?
Hiring a photo booth for a birthday makes sure every guest joins the party, even the ones who don’t know each other. With Clubby, you can:
- Bring everyone together: childhood friends, family, colleagues. One duet in the cabin and the ice is broken.
- Run the evening without a DJ or a host: the cabin looks after itself, you look after your guests.
- Keep a memory of everyone, including the ones you only spoke to for five minutes.
Unlike a classic photo booth, Clubby is a real cabin you step into as a group, with music and karaoke on top. To see what sets it apart, visit our photo booth hire page.
How do you set up a birthday photo booth?
You have two options: build one yourself, or hire something turnkey. The homemade version is simple on paper: a phone on a tripod, a decorated backdrop, a few props like hats and silly glasses. It is cheap. But you have to set it all up, watch the battery, rearrange the decor every hour and, the next day, collect the photos from fifteen different phones.
| What matters | DIY photo booth | Hiring Clubby |
|---|---|---|
| Set-up | You do it on the day | Handled by our team |
| The experience | A photo against a backdrop | Photo, video, music and karaoke |
| During the party | Someone has to mind it | It runs on its own |
| Keepsakes | Scattered across phones | Collected after the party |
The right choice mostly comes down to one question: do you want to run your party, or enjoy it?
A party that looks like the person being celebrated
A good birthday is built around the person: their age, their generation, their playlist. A few ideas to set the tone:
- 18: whatever is current, videos shared the same evening, and parents discovering their teenagers’ hidden talents.
- 30: the noughties anthems, the same old crowd, and a thirties crisis drowned in choruses.
- 40 and 50: the eighties and nineties, the whole family together, and fifty-somethings dancing better than their children.
- 60 and over: the great classics, and grandchildren inviting themselves into every turn.
What our team would tell you: list the favourite songs of the person being celebrated in advance. We put together up to five playlists with you, covers included. Want to know more about the singing side? See our karaoke booth.
How does hiring work for a birthday?
Hiring Clubby for a birthday is turnkey, on a weekday as much as at the weekend — Saturdays and Sundays included. You book by giving us the date, the place and the number of guests. Our team installs the cabin before your guests arrive, at home or in a hired room, then collects it at the end of the party.
Practically: you pick your music on the screen in the cabin, two prints come out at every session, and the videos leave by QR code, by email and in the online gallery. For a set-up at home, allow about 4 m² of floor and a 230 V socket nearby.
One tip for a party at home: warn your neighbours. Karaoke at midnight always goes down better when they are invited, or at least forewarned.
How much does a birthday photo booth cost?
The price depends on how long you want it, the options, the distance and the date. Saturdays are the most sought after: better to book as soon as the date is set. Clubby starts at €1,200 including VAT for the day (€1,000 excluding VAT), with delivery, installation, a technician on site and take-down included.
Other parties coming up?
Clubby also brings the atmosphere to your wedding, your hen or stag do and your bar mitzvah.
Ready to throw a party people talk about until the next birthday? Book your photo booth, telling us your date and your venue. We install; you blow out the candles.