Sinterklaas
for hire
An experienced Sinterklaas with Pieten for your company, club, school or living room. We arrange the visit and coordinate it with the rest of the afternoon.
Hire Sinterklaas through one point of contact
Anyone hiring Sinterklaas mainly wants to be sure it goes well. A Sinterklaas who knows his lines, stays calm with a crying toddler and knows how to quieten a room of thirty children. That takes skill. We arrange an experienced Sinterklaas and Pieten and fit the visit around the rest of your programme.
For you, that means one point of contact. We pass on your wishes for the timing and the information for the big book, and coordinate Sinterklaas's arrival with whatever else is happening. If there's a game or scavenger hunt from us as well, it all runs in one schedule.
- Experienced Sinterklaas and Pieten
- For companies, clubs, schools and at home
- Can be combined with one of our scavenger hunts or parties
- One point of contact for the whole afternoon
Four kinds of visit, each with its own pace
Company
An afternoon for the staff's children, in the canteen or a hired hall. Sinterklaas calls each child to the front, and parents suddenly see their colleague as a father or mother.
Association or sports club
In the clubhouse after training or on a set Saturday. At a club, Sinterklaas often knows the best details from the book, because the coaches supply them.
School or childcare
A visit to the classrooms or a welcome in the playground. The pace is different here: Sinterklaas has to visit several groups and each group expects to have him to themselves for a while.
Home visit
Sinterklaas and one or two Pieten at your home, for the family's children or a few families together. Small-scale and personal, with time for each child.
Combine it with a scavenger hunt or party
A visit from Sinterklaas lasts half an hour to an hour. For a company or club that wants to make an afternoon of it, that's the highlight, but the rest of the afternoon needs filling too. What happens before and after is something we create ourselves.
For children, a Sinterklaas scavenger hunt works well as a warm-up: they search for a lost present or the missing book, and Sinterklaas comes in once the puzzle is solved. That gives the afternoon a story, and the children don't have to wait an hour for the moment the door opens.
For adults there's the Sinterklaas party for companies, with games, a quiz and poems. A short entrance by Sinterklaas at the start of an evening like that works even when everyone's over thirty.
Book early and prepare well
The season is short. Everyone wants Sinterklaas on a Saturday at the end of November or on the evening of 5 December, and those slots go first. If you start calling round in October, you may have to move to a weekday afternoon. So book as soon as you know the date.
For the big book we need a name and one or two things for each child: something they're good at, something that happened to them this year. We also agree where the presents will be, how they're labelled and where Sinterklaas comes in and sits. Put his chair a little higher than the rest, so the children at the back can see him too.
We work throughout the Netherlands, from Enschede. You'll get the price after a short enquiry, within one working day.
Frequently asked questions
How far in advance should you hire Sinterklaas?
For a Saturday at the end of November or the evening of 5 December, as early as possible, ideally straight after the summer. Those slots fill up first. On weekdays during the day, at a school for example, there's availability for longer.
Do you come as Sinterklaas yourselves?
No, we arrange it, with an experienced Sinterklaas and Pieten. We fit the visit around the rest of your programme and are your point of contact. So you deal with one party for the planning, including when a game or scavenger hunt of ours is part of it.
How long does Sinterklaas stay?
For a home visit it's usually around half an hour to three quarters of an hour. At a company party or a club with lots of children it takes longer, because every child has a moment with Sinterklaas. We agree that in advance based on the number of children.
What does it cost to hire Sinterklaas?
That depends on the date, the length of the visit, the number of Pieten and the travel distance. A home visit on a weekday afternoon is cheaper than a party on 5 December. You'll get the price after a short enquiry, within one working day.
When should Sinterklaas come?
Tell us the date, the place and the number of children, and we'll check what's possible within one working day.
Sinterklaas at your party
Tell us when and where, and we'll arrange the visit and help you plan the rest of the afternoon.