Welcome to the internet home of the Cheers Over California Hot Air Balloon Team. We are based in Sacramento, California and do most of our local ballooning, including rides, tether operations, corporate events and more in the surrounding Northern California communities of Marysville, Lincoln, Lodi and Woodland. We also travel frequently to special events throughout California and also to Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Oregon.

Cheers Over California is the balloon operator for RE/MAX International in Northern California. We travel with the RE/MAX Hot Air Balloon and other RE/MAX inflatable equipment to promotional events throughout the region from Fresno to the Oregon border. For more information about our corporate operations and how we can help develop a hot air balloon marketing program for you, please visit our Corporate Programs page or contact us any time.

If you are associated with RE/MAX in California and would like more information about our operations, the equipment we operate and how we can help you in your marketing programs, please visit our RE/MAX page or contact us.

What makes us a Team? It's not at all about competition. Hot air balloons require more than just one pilot and a few passengers to fly. We need several additional crew members to help set up and inflate, chase and pack up the balloon after the flight. The pilot needs the crew to get in the air and the crew needs the pilot to provide the balloon. The better we are as a team...the more fun we have.

What's in a name? Early French balloonists carried fine champagne as a gift to local citizens who thought the huge, smoking objects descending from the sky must surely be demons and set out after them with pitchforks. The pilot would lower the bottle to the angry hoards below and offer a toast in exchange for safe landing privileges. Because of this, ballooning became known as the "Champagne Sport." To this day, the tradition lives on and balloonists still carry a bottle of Champagne as a gift to friendly landowners. We celebrate this tradition with every flight and offer a toast to all who see our "Cheers" balloons and share in the joy they bring. For a family reunion, company picnic, corporate marketing program or the wonderful experience of a balloon ride over the beautiful farmlands of the Sacramento Valley, we welcome you to come and see the fun that you too can have, ballooning with Cheers Over California.

So...Want to get involved?? Maybe you have what it takes to join the team!! Cheers Over California and other local balloonists are frequently looking for people who don't mind missing a few hours sleep to have some real fun. For more information, check out our "Team" page.