About GoJumps
GoJumps is an independent buyer's guide to backyard bounce houses and inflatable water slides, written for the parent who is about to own one rather than rent one.
A listing sells an inflatable on its photo. The details that decide whether it works for your family sit further down the page, or in a PDF manual nobody opens: how much lawn it claims once it's staked out, what each child may weigh, the age it was built for. We move those numbers to the top of every card, and we leave off the ones a seller can't keep straight.
The guides so far cover backyard bounce houses, bounce houses with slides, water slides, toddler and indoor units and bigger units for older kids. Each one sorts its picks by the size of yard they need or by how kids play on them, so you can skip straight to the ones that suit your lawn.
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Listing titles are written to be found, and they round up. Weight limits, ages and blower details come from the spec table or the maker's manual instead. When a listing argues with itself, the card says "Listing disagrees" rather than picking whichever number sounds better.
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Most manuals we've read ask for 2 meters (6.6 feet) of open ground around the unit, and a few ask for more. Every card draws the unit inside that zone, at one scale per guide, so two picks can sit side by side and you can see which one your lawn will take.
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Before a pick goes up, and again whenever a guide is updated, we check its Amazon page for the "Frequently returned item" warning and whether it can actually be bought. A pick that fails either check comes off the page, even a good one.
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Inflatable prices move from week to week, and Amazon shows today's a click away, so we don't print one that might be stale by Saturday. Star ratings and review counts stay on the listing for the same reason: the live ones are more honest than any copy of them.
From 2003 to 2023 this domain belonged to a moon bounce rental company in northern Virginia. That business has no connection to GoJumps, and its history isn't ours. We don't rent, deliver or set up inflatables, so for a one-day party a local rental company is still the call.
If an old bookmark or link brought you here, the guides below are the nearest thing we have to what you were looking for.
Bounce houses with slides
Compact combos to double lanes, each with the lawn it needs.
Water slides
Splash pools, sprayers and what the grass looks like afterward.
Toddler and indoor
Units small enough for a playroom and gentle enough for age 2.
Big kids
Higher limits and sturdier seams once they pass age 8.