10 01, 2025

How to Host your Own Burns Night Celebrations – Haggis, Address & Poem

By |January 10th, 2025|conferences, events, incentives|0 Comments

Here’s everything you need to host your own Burns Night celebrations. Whether you’re planning to hire professionals or take charge of the evening yourself, this guide has all the tools and resources to make it unforgettable. The 25th of January each year is a cherished occasion to honour the life and legacy of Robert Burns, Scotland’s beloved National Bard. We celebrate on the anniversary of his birth, not his passing, as his works celebrate the vibrancy, joy, and passion of life. Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scotland’s National Bard, was a farmer’s [...]

17 04, 2019

Conference Entertainment in Scotland for ICAM2019

By |April 17th, 2019|conferences, incentives|0 Comments

Another amazing weekend for Reel Time! Some lovely clients asked us to provide great conference entertainment in Scotland for the 2019 AACSB. The conference was at the EICC, with many of the guests staying at the sumptuous 5* Sheraton Hotel, a mere 4 minutes’ walk from the registration desk! The Event The client approached us with a brief of spicing up registration day. They wanted to create a number of different networking opportunities around the day long check in on Sunday thus, fostering relationships between partner organisations as this is a key [...]

13 03, 2019

Scottish Virtual Reality experiences

By |March 13th, 2019|conferences, events, incentives|0 Comments

Events, incentives and conferences are always on the lookout for new ways to engage with their audience. Keen also to keep on top of new technology and using it in a relevant way to enhance the user experience. Reel Time’s new experience for the Scottish business tourism market is an immersive 360° video tour of Scotland. We deliver this bespoke virtual reality experience using new Oculus VR standalone headsets (Oculus is owned by Facebook). They don’t require the user to download anything or use their phone. We filmed an experience that showcases the [...]

25 02, 2019

Incentive Highland Games. Hopetoun House highland fling

By |February 25th, 2019|events, incentives|0 Comments

For our first incentive Highland Games event of the 2019 season, we had a great turn out all round. We had the perfect Highland Games field. Well drained and flat, with picturesque views of the Firth of Forth on the approach, and the impressive, historic Hopetoun House to provide a stunning Scottish backdrop to the games. We had perfect Scottish weather; for a February morning, it turned out crisp with some mist. By the time the games commenced, the sun was out and it was a blistering 13 degrees! Our clients were [...]

13 10, 2018

Scotland 360° Virtual Reality Experiences

By |October 13th, 2018|conferences, events, incentives|0 Comments

Providing our clients with bespoke entertainment for their events is our passion and we are always excited when we are asked to provide something a little different like the Scotland 360° Virtual Reality experience! We received one such request recently to provide a variety of entertainment at an evening reception for 1200 technology-focused, mostly male, international delegates of the Linux Foundation. You can see a preview of the night and what clients said about the experience here. What entertains the IT crowd? We offered them the chance to tour some of the amazing [...]

4 04, 2017

Reel Time Events Become Unique Venues of Edinburgh Supplier

By |April 4th, 2017|conferences, events, incentives, weddings|0 Comments

Here at Reel Time Events we are excited to announce that we have become an official entertainment supplier to the Unique Venues of Edinburgh. Having spent many years working individually with each Unique Venue, we are delighted to have become a recommended supplier to all of these fantastic venues collectively. We look forward to getting to know the venues we are not yet too familiar with, as well as continuing to enjoy great relationships with venues we regularly enjoy working with. We hope clients of the Unique [...]

31 03, 2017

Highland Games at Cameron House

By |March 31st, 2017|events, incentives|0 Comments

If there is a more beautiful setting for a hotel anywhere in the world I have yet to see it.  We were lucky enough to have the pleasure of spending two days in March at Cameron House Hotel on the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. Thursday afternoon kicked off with one of our superb Highland games experiences with six teams battling it out for glory, despite the changeable weather. As well as some caber tossing, we were very fortunate that our most celebrated national predator species, “Weeus Hairyus Haggis”, were [...]

13 03, 2017

New Job Vacancy at Reel Time Events!

By |March 13th, 2017|incentives|0 Comments

Special Event Coordinator The Company: Reel Time Events is a fun and vibrant company which was founded in 2005.  We are a small team working in an office to the south of Edinburgh, right next to the by-pass and with fantastic views up to the Pentlands. The role: Reel Time Events organise events, entertainment and mobile bars for corporate events, conferences, incentives, weddings and private clients and you can expect to deal with all of these sectors, specialising in one (or more) of them.  As this is a newly created role, there [...]

24 02, 2017

My Contemporary Harris Tweed Kilt Outfit

By |February 24th, 2017|events, incentives, weddings|0 Comments

Creating my Contemporary Harris Tweed kilt outfit Being a proud Scotsman and spending much of my time in a kilt, when the time came for a new one I really wanted to create something made in Scotland from Scottish materials.  Being such an exciting and rewarding experience I wanted to share it, and  some of the knowledge I gathered during the journey. The first step in the process was deciding what fabric I wanted to use in the kilt.  I knew I didn't want to go for a traditional tartan, and tweed [...]

15 02, 2017

Highland Games Team Building Events

By |February 15th, 2017|events, incentives, weddings|0 Comments

If you are looking for a truly Scottish team building experience then try our Highland games event.  It’s a chance to try out some of our great Scottish activities and full of hands on fun.  Watch our new Highland games video here to find out more about it. Our Highland games experiences are also a popular choice for destination wedding packages.  This can be a great way of getting guests from different sides of the family interacting in a fun way. Our entertainers and Highland games athletes will [...]