Bernie, the mobile caravan bar!

No. The staff in Bernie SERVE alcohol and drinks that are supplied by the event organiser/ hirer/ you or third party. This is a win-win as it means no liquor licensing is required, and you – the host – save money by buying your drinks direct. If you wish to get your own alcohol lisence and sell from Bernie just get in touch!

Your event manager (or us) can help you with selection and quantities and can provide you with an educated recommendation based on the type of event and number of guests.

YES! We currently offer both dry hire and staffed options for you event. You can send us a request if you would like us to provide staff and will send you our full shebang package!

Dry Hire means you hire Bernie only, and your catering company (that we must approve and hand over to) staff him. This works well if your catering company are providing a package including bar staff, or if you want to hire him for multiple days as a pop up store, or an event or festival etc.

Yes! We can have up to two kegs running at one time (up to 50L each) – that means two types of beer, or a beer and cider combo. We can guide you as to where to source tasty brews as we're pretty well connected in these parts and can recommend our fave local breweries. If you'd rather serve bottles – no worries, you can have these displayed on ice in the sinks in the bar. Of course we also serve wine- and the rest!

Our base staffed option includes 2 staff serving from Bernie only - if you envisage roaming waiters please get in touch with us. Yes, we can serve cocktails (during set hours) and this includes extra staff.

However long you damn well like! No two events are the same, so you let us know what you envisage and we'll go from there. Fill in the details on our contact page for a personalised quote. Dry Hire rates are per day. This would generally mean we drop him off and set him up in the morning, hand over to you catering company and collect him at the end of your event that evening/next morning.

Yes! Bernie has a super duper fantastic sound system that operates using blue tooth, so you can give us your play list, or we have some good tunes too. Look up 'Bernie Caravan' on Spotify for some great and ever evolving play lists. (For the techy ones: Inbuilt speakers in Bernie 2 x 280Watt, 200 watt subwoofer -in Bernie's floor, and 2 x external surround sound speaker of 200 watts- in other words- yes! It is loud and crisp and basey enough to be the tunes at your party). No, we do not have provision for a microphone.

Bernie is Queenstown (New Zealand) based and happy to travel within Central Otago. Just ask! Mileage fees may apply for areas outside of the Wakatipu Basin. We love visiting Wanaka and have special rates for this gorgeous area of Otago!

Not necessarily. Whilst Bernie has 1950's charm, he has modern tech; he can do his thing off the grid! Not having to plug into mains power means avoiding noisy generators and ugly power cords- bonus! *Long events may need power.