1st Birthday Party Detail

As soon as we decided to host a birthday party, I asked my friends about their experience with their event management person. There were few positives and negatives which everyone gave. One of my friend suggested me to try Kiddoscope, if budget is not a problem. I had never heard about them, so went and checked out their Facebook page. They had done some amazing work and contacted the number on their website. I spoke to Ms. Tanya Kothari and fixed up an appointment to meet her. Let me tell you, she is always before time and I hate making people wait. But unfortunately I was stuck in a meeting and I had to make her wait for a long time. She then gave me a presentation about the kind of work she has done so far and took details from me as to what I'm expecting. She sent out the costing of the various events in the party.

After I decided to go ahead with her, I went and showed her "The Apartment" at Park Hyatt. She said a carnival theme will not go well there and said she would suggest a theme for the party. She asked me about my son's likes and asked for a weeks time to come up with a presentation. After a week, when we met up again, she started talking about "Little Sailor theme" and we decided that was the theme we had to go ahead with. She sent me reference pictures and the things that can be done in the venue.

Things I liked about Kiddoscope:

1. They don't take much time to understand and respond immediately. We got along so well because of that.

2. Very well organized. Everything is communicated over the phone and mailed.

3. They suggest different things and challenge themselves. They built a ship as the center stage and also suggested to use bubble machine instead of poppers. They were so much better

4.  I didn't have to monitor a single thing that was given to them and completed the setup on time.

5. The games and the gifts for the games were brilliant. They MC for the games was too good and everyone had fun

6. They came innumerable times with me to Park Hyatt and answered my calls at odd hours. Mr. Munish, with whom I was coordinating later was extremely accommodating and always had a smile on his face

Things I would have preferred with Kiddoscope:

1. In between, while I was making the payment, I asked if I can do 70% advance instead of 75% for easier calculation. This was answered like how they were debating if they should charge 100% advance from customers but decided upon 75%. C'mon, a 5% won't really hurt and such request can be accommodated

2. The number of danglers that were hung were very less and I would have preferred more. 

3. I would have preferred a better location for instant picture counter. Also, the same prop from the entrance counter was used for instant picture. Probably I misunderstood it but did feel disappointed.

I would definitely recommend Kiddoscope to everyone.

Chennai doesn't seem to really cater to kids clothing for theme parties. I had to order from US a sailor dress for my son. Luckily, my uncle was coming down around his birthday and asked him to bring it

At the end of the day, everyone enjoyed the party and my boy behaved well as well.