Hitch & Host runs out of Albany, 58 miles from Zimmerman. Family owned, one trailer, one price. 178 folding chairs and 4 tables, loaded on a trailer, $299 for the whole weekend. Tow it yourself or let us bring it.
Zimmerman is about 58 miles out from Albany — roughly 75 minutes each way, near the edge of where we run. This far out, we will tell you plainly whether delivery makes sense for your headcount, or whether you are better off towing.
With about 6,529 residents, Zimmerman is big enough to have real venues and a steady run of events, but small enough that your party is not a rounding error to whoever takes the booking. Between the schools, the churches and the event spaces, Zimmerman generates a steady stream of the kind of party that outgrows whatever chairs are on hand.
We cover Zimmerman as part of a run through Sherburne County that also takes in Elk River, Princeton and Big Lake, so it is rare that we are making a trip out here for one booking. The price does not move with your headcount. That is not generosity, it is just simpler to run one trailer than to count chairs twice. Nothing about this is complicated, and we work to keep it that way.
A Central Minnesota graduation open house is not a sit-down dinner. People arrive in waves across four or five hours, stay forty minutes, and leave. That means you do not need a chair for every guest on the list — you need a chair for everyone who happens to overlap.
For most Zimmerman open houses that works out to somewhere between a third and a half of your total invite list. 178 chairs covers an open house with 350 to 500 people through the door, which is more than almost any single Zimmerman graduation will see.
And you do not have to get the number right, because you are not renting by the chair. All 178 come along for one flat price whether you use forty or every one of them. See pricing →
Elk River Area Schools graduation lands in the same few weeks as every other district around here, and that is the crunch. The last two weekends of May and the first two of June are the ones that go first — often months ahead. If your Zimmerman open house is on one of those dates, get the trailer on the calendar before you order announcements, not after.
If we are already booked for your weekend we will tell you immediately rather than stringing you along, and we will usually know someone who can help.
$299 for the weekend gets you all 178 folding chairs and 4 tables as one bundle, whether you use forty of them or all of them. A $200 refundable deposit holds the date. Delivery to Zimmerman is separate and quoted by distance — delivery quoted by distance applies here.
Fewer than your invite list. Guests come and go across the afternoon, so plan seating for the peak overlap — usually a third to a half of the total. 178 chairs covers an open house with 350 to 500 people through the door.
As early as you can. Late May and early June weekends are the busiest of our year and they book months out. Once you know the date, call — holding it costs you a $200 refundable deposit.
About 58 miles from Albany, roughly a 75-minute drive. It is an easy haul if you are towing it yourself.
A 2-5/16 inch ball and a vehicle rated to tow an enclosed trailer — most half-ton pickups and full-size SUVs handle it without any trouble. If you are unsure whether your vehicle is up to it, tell us what you drive in the booking form.
Yes. Delivery quoted by distance applies to Zimmerman, which is 58 miles from Albany. Bounce houses are always delivered, anchored and set up by us — we never hand those off.
Friday is standard for a weekend booking, but if the trailer is free Thursday you can often have it then at no extra charge. It depends who has it before you.
No — you pull them off the racks and place them where you want them. That is part of why the price is what it is. Bounce houses are the exception; those we always set up ourselves.
For a whole weekend, we think so, and the arithmetic is public: $299 across 178 chairs is $1.68 a chair for the entire weekend. Companies that price per chair per day multiply that by however many days you keep them. Get a quote from anyone else and compare the weekend total, not the daily rate — that is where the difference shows up.
We serve the whole stretch around Zimmerman — here are the closest towns and the county page.
Tell us the date and the headcount. We will confirm whether it is open, usually the same day.
Weekends book first, especially May and June. Send us the date and your headcount and we will come straight back to you on whether it is open.