Alba Ballooning offers hot air balloon rides near Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh and its surrounding picturesque Lothian and Peeblesshire countryside and also over the scenic region of Perth & Kinrosshire and Fife. For 2011, we have started operating flights over the Tweed Valley in the Scottish Borders and also over Northumberland from near Morpeth.

Alba Ballooning has been set up and is operated by Pete Forster, a highly experienced balloonist who has regularly flown in the Edinburgh area for over 18 years. Since gaining a professional license in 1994, he has worked as a commercial balloonist and also as a qualified instructor across Europe accumulating over 1400 hours of experience from tree-top to Alpine heights.

He's worked with TV crews both in Germany and over the Austrian Alps, organised a balloon festival in Edinburgh and a balloon holiday tour to France, dropped parachutists from 6000 feet, won trophies at competitions and written several articles for a national balloonists' magazine. Ballooning is a never-ending passion for him which you will soon discover if you come along on a flight!

Alba Ballooning can also provide a balloon for events and promotions. If you need to add that extra appeal to your event, then we can bring along a hot air balloon and tether it to two anchor points such that it is able to rise perhaps 20 feet or so. We have attended events at the National Museum of Flight Airshow at East Fortune, and have performed tethers at Freeport Leisure Village promotional days, Real Radio's opening gala day in Livingston and further community gala days in Dunfermline and Rosyth.

We schedule daily flights (evenings and most mornings) between mid-March to late-October and occasionally fly in the winter period. We currently operate any of our three balloons which have baskets to accommodate up to 6, 9 or 12 passengers in 2 or 3 person compartments which are comfortably padded and safely high sided. We particularly pride ourselves on giving a consistently personal, local and professional service.

If you have any questions then please contact us.