BOOK PRIVATE WEEKDAY EVENING FIELD HIRE
Please note, bookings are only required for weekday private sessions (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings between 5pm and 8pm). Entry during our general open hours do not required any booking - just pay entry on arrival.
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Private bookings can be made for any occasion where you want the sunflower fields (and any other flowering fields) all to yourselves! Think proposals, photoshoots or family picnics. Bookings can be made on the hour, every hour between 5pm and 8pm. And yes, photographers wanting to book out more than a one hour slot for multiple mini sessions can do so.
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Please ensure you make yourself and your group familiar with our private booked session rules.
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BOOKINGS OPEN UP IN LATE DECEMBER
1 hr
100 New Zealand dollars
BOOKING POLICY
1. We understand that plans may change due to illness, injury or people simply changing their minds. In turn, we ask our guests to understand that we may have turned away a number of keen people for those reserved bookings on our farm and may have incurred staffing and booking expenses.
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2. All prices quoted are in $NZD. 1 hour field hire is $100 for up to 10 people (if you plan to bring a professional photographer to take photos of your group of 10, they may enter for free). Any additional attendees over 15 people can attend for an additional $15 per person per hour. This additional charge can be paid upon entry to the farm for your booked session, or prior your session via online banking.
3. Your booking will be confirmed after completing the online booking form, and once full payment has been made. All midweek visitors to Franklin Farm must have booked, paid and confirmed their session before arriving at Franklin Farm. No payment = no confirmed booking.
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4. It is the booked visitor/s responsibility to make themselves familiar with Franklin Farm and the requirements of visiting. This includes cleaning requirements, parking etc. The booked visitor/s must only stay as long as they have been booked and allocated.
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5. You must arrive on time for midweek booked sessions. You are welcome and encouraged to arrive early and prepare in the carpark. Please be mindful that hour long sessions are booked back to back, and if you are late, that cuts into your session time. Please be respectful of staff and other visitors and arrive on time/early and leave on time. Please don't walk into the flower fields until you have been greeted by one of us staff. We will meet you in the carpark to take you in to your session on time.
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6. You are welcome to bring props, food, ladders etc to your booked session. Please ensure you take home everything with you, and use only your allocated 1 hour to pack up and pack down these items.
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7. Noise - Noise/music levels must be kept at an acceptable level out of respect for our neighbours. Failure to do so may result in the booking being stopped early.
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8. The gate will be locked upon your arrival. You will be emailed the gate code for your booking. Please ensure you lock the gate behind you when you park - this will save random people coming in on your session.
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CANCELLATION POLICY
Franklin Farm can reschedule or refund your booking due to bad weather. The weather can change rapidly, and calls for cancellations will be made by Franklin Farm only by 12pm on the day. We're experts on watching the radar and want to make sure you have the perfect session - but don't want to cancel or move bookings unnecessarily.
We understand that sometimes life happens, and that bookings need to be cancelled or rescheduled. Franklin Farm requires cancellations or rescheduling notifications 48 hours prior to your booking for a full refund. The flower fields are in high demand, and late notification means others miss out unnecessarily. Where a booking is cancelled within 48 hours, NO REFUND will be given. 'No-shows' who fail to notify cancellation will not receive a refund or reschedule.
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Franklin Farm reserve the right to cancel or amend any booking for any reason within or beyond our control. In the case that Franklin Farm cancels a booking, customers will be offered a full refund, or rescheduling of their booking.
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Any cancellations by Franklin Farm (due to rain, or weather events that damage the fields) will result in a full refund. Any rescheduling by Franklin Farm for the same reason will ensure a full refund or transferred credit. We are pretty good at keeping an eye on the weather radar, and we will be in contact if the weather is looking questionable prior to your booking. We will do everything possible to ensure you get your special session in the fields.
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Franklin Farm Sunflower Fields will operate while the sunflowers are blooming as long as reasonably possible. If Franklin Farm deems the sunflowers are not in good enough condition for booked clients (ie bloomed faster than expected, weather damaged etc) a full refund will be given.