The QuickChek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning

All day family fun! Such a great time, especially when the weather is cooperating.
5 8 years ago (19-03-2018)

I've gone 3 years in a row and this is the first year I got to see all the balloons go up. Unfortunately the hot air balloons only go up if the weather is perfect. I got lucky this year the weather was perfect. The event is great. I love all the free sample booths and the food is good. They need to work on their garbage problem though. The place was a mess. Not enough garbage cans and to many people littering.
5 9 years ago (14-08-2017)

It was the last day of festival. Weather was awesome for balloon launching. Oh boy ... parking was really a hassle​ . Fair was ok not really much to do. It was free samples of beverages and candies everywhere. We bought the tickets on gate in 35$ wish we had book earlier in 24$ before starting of the festival online. Before 6:30 pm 5 to 6 balloon was in the air but after that sky filled with the different kind of balloons as they said you can witnessed 100 balloons at once. It was awesome experience actually my was the first one to see hot air balloon goes into the sky so personally I loved it. And yes 35$ is little expensive but they had given us opportunity to buy little cheaper. Next year surly will visit again. My 4 year old already asking when can we go again!!! .
4 9 years ago (31-07-2017)

Just the 30 min of watching balloons ascend was great. Everything else was absolutely horrendous. It's $35 entrance + $10 parking. Parking lot itself was spacious and tons of space but it took over one hour to get in (2 miles). Food stands were lacking based on size of this event. Leaving post event was even worse. No one was directing you where to go and it was a free for all. There were no signs and cars were just jammed in every corner they could find. Nearly two hours just trying to leave the parking lot. Unorganized and absolute chaos. NOT WORTH IT.
1 9 years ago (30-07-2017)

The balloons were AMAZING... everything else, not so amazing! There's nobody emptying trash cans... garbage is overflowing everywhere. And parking was an absolute nightmare... took close to 2 hours to exit. No organization whatsoever.
2 9 years ago (31-07-2017)