Winnipeg, Manitoba
Stanchion rental in Winnipeg
Coat check lanes, vestibule lines and velvet rope entrances for galas held indoors through a Winnipeg winter, hired out to ballrooms, halls and hotels.
For hire in Winnipeg
What you can rent
Black Belt Stanchion Rental
Chrome Belt Stanchion Rental
Chrome Rope Stanchion Rental
Gold Rope Stanchion Rental
Black Rope Stanchion Rental
Velvet Rope Rental
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Rental prices
Stanchion rental prices in Winnipeg
Posts + Ropes
Gold post + velvet rope
Price per post, with its velvet rope
- Per day
- $19
- 3-day
- $29
- Weekly
- $39
Posts + Belts
Black post + retractable belt
Price per post, with its retractable belt
- Per day
- $19
- 3-day
- $29
- Weekly
- $39
Delivery, setup and collection are available and quoted on their own lines. The final price is confirmed in your quote.
What Winnipeg hires
The coat check is the real bottleneck.
In winter every guest at a gala arrives in a parka and boots, often with a bag of shoes to change into, and the first thing they need is somewhere to leave it all. The cloakroom, not the door, is where a crowd ends up standing in a corridor in its outdoor clothes. So the brief starts in the vestibule: a short line in from the street doors, a longer one feeding the coat check, a way back out for guests collecting their coats as the evening ends and enough room between the two that nobody has to push against a queue to leave.
A lane in and a lane back
Belt posts split the cloakroom approach into drop-off and pick-up, so the scramble for coats at the end does not collide with late arrivals.
Rope once the coats are off
Past the cloakroom the evening looks like a gala again — velvet rope on polished posts from the coat check to the ballroom doors.
Runners over wet floors
A carpet runner through the vestibule takes the slush off boots before it reaches the ballroom, and it goes back with the rest of the order.
Where we deliver
Into the city, and out past the Perimeter.
Winter drops go to loading docks and service doors rather than front entrances, because the front of the building is where guests will be stepping in off the street. Delivery, setup and collection are itemised one by one, and a gala usually takes the setup, since the lanes at the coat check depend on where the hotel stands its racks and that is often the last thing settled.
- Winnipeg
- St. Boniface
- St. Vital
- Transcona
- St. James
- Charleswood
- Fort Garry
- West St. Paul
- East St. Paul
- Headingley
- Selkirk
- Steinbach
- Oak Bluff
Deliveries go to the rooms a Winnipeg gala is usually held in:
- the convention centre downtown and its ballrooms
- the hotel ballrooms around Portage and Main
- the concert hall and the theatres of the Exchange District
- the museum at the Forks and the galleries near it
- the function rooms and suites at the downtown arena
- golf club halls and community centres at the edge of the city
Tell us where the coat racks will stand and which doors guests come in by, and the lines are drawn from the cloakroom outward.
Before the gala
Questions a winter gala brings with it.
- What does velvet rope rental cost in Winnipeg?
- Velvet rope on a gold post rents for $19 a day, $29 over three days and $39 for a week’s hire, and retractable belt on a black post — the usual choice at a coat check — costs exactly the same. Bringing the equipment to the loading dock, laying out the lanes and taking everything away again are quoted apart from the rate.
- How should a coat check line be laid out?
- With drop-off and pick-up kept apart. Guests arrive in a trickle and leave in a wave, so the pick-up side needs more room than the drop-off side even though it serves the same people. Belt posts make two lanes to the counter, with the collection lane longer and leading back towards the exit rather than into the ballroom.
- Can the vestibule hold a line without blocking the doors?
- Usually, if the line turns away from the doors rather than running straight in from them. A short run of posts inside the vestibule holds people clear of the inner doors so the cold stays out, and the longer line to the cloakroom begins once they are through.
- Can you supply a runner for a wet entrance?
- Yes. A carpet runner laid through the vestibule and along the first stretch of corridor catches the snow and salt coming in on boots, which keeps the ballroom floor dry. It travels on the post order and returns with it.
- Which rope colours suit a winter ballroom?
- For hire, the rope comes in five colours: red, black, white, navy and green. Red and green read warm and seasonal, navy and black sit quietly under formal lighting, and white is best kept to a single evening, because coats brushing past it leave a mark that shows.