Pergola Tent 100-Seater for Hire (5 × 10 m)
The pergola tent 100-seater is the long one of our two pergolas: posts, beams and rafters over a 5 × 10 m floor, with white fabric drawn under the rafters. KSh 35,000 per tent for a 24-hour hire, built and taken down by our crew.
1 × KSh 35,000 = KSh 35,000 · deposit KSh 17,500
- Setup, teardown & collection included
- 50% deposit secures your date
- Transport charged by distance: check it for your venue
Your hire covers
The 24 hours run from the moment the frame is finished. Not included: transport, worked out by distance; tables, chairs, lights and flowers; damage beyond ordinary wear.
- The 5 × 10 m pergola frame with its fabric
- Building and fixing it where you want it
- Taking it down and carrying it away
What it costs
The hire, and the 50% deposit that holds your date. Transport charged by distance, added on your quote.
A long lunch for 60: 1 long pergola KSh 35,000 + 6 rustic tables KSh 13,200 + 60 rustic chairs KSh 30,000 = KSh 78,200 before transport.
- 1 tentKSh 35,000deposit KSh 17,500
- 2 tentsKSh 70,000deposit KSh 35,000
- 3 tentsKSh 105,000deposit KSh 52,500
The long pergola in numbers
- 15 × 10 m, 50 m² of floorThe 17 × 34 ft on its label (34 ft is 10.36 m).
- 2About 60 at tablesOur planner's count. UK and US makers' per-guest areas give 33 to 45.
- 3About 50 on chairs in rowsGala Tent's 1 m² a chair; "100" is the trade label.
- 4Shade, not a rain roofWe confirm the roof fabric for your date on the quote.
What is a pergola tent?
A pergola starts life as a garden structure: upright posts carrying beams, with rafters laid across the top. Bob Vila's guide to garden buildings describes its roof as an open grid of beams, rafters and purlins. Our pergola tent turns that frame into an event cover. White fabric is drawn beneath the rafters for shade and drapes can be gathered at each post, so the wood stays on show and guests sit in something closer to an outdoor room than a tent. This is the long size, 5 × 10 m. Some people type it pargola or pegola; it is the same thing.
How many guests, and what "100-seater" means
The name is a trade label for a 50 m² floor. It is not a dinner count. Our planner, the rule behind our packages, puts 1 long pergola over 60 guests at tables, and 2 over 100. Makers abroad plan more room per diner. American Tent, a US tent maker, seats 50 at a sit-down dinner in 20 × 30 ft, which is 600 sq ft; our pergola is about 538 sq ft, so by its table roughly 45. Gala Tent's 1.5 m² a diner gives 33. Chairs in rows for a ceremony fit about 50 at 1 m² each. So if you are asking how much is a tent of 100 seats for a sit-down meal, it is two of these, KSh 70,000 before transport.
One long table down the middle
Five metres wide and ten long, this pergola suits a banquet layout better than round tables. American Tent allows 80 sq ft, about 7.4 m², for a 6 ft table seating eight with its chairs, so six such tables fit with walking room. Our rustic 3 × 6 ft tables seat 10 each when they stand alone. Pushed end to end, five of them make a 9 m run that fits the 10 m length with a step to spare at each end, though a joined run loses the seats at the table ends. Wood overhead, wood underfoot: wooden folding chairs or rustic chairs carry the same material down to the grass.
Does a pergola tent have a cover for rain?
Treat it as shade. Bob Vila's comparison is blunt: a pergola gives negligible protection from rain, and a canopy added to one does not offer much weather protection either. A gazebo roof is different, fixed and pitched so water runs off. Nairobi has two rainy seasons, the long rains from about March to May and the short rains from about October to December, and a wedding booked in either of those windows needs a plan for a wet afternoon, whatever the forecast says a week out. Make one. If rain is likely, our plain high-peak 100-seater covers the same 5 × 10 m floor under a closed, peaked roof. The 17 × 34 ft canopy tent is the flat-roofed shape on that footprint too. Tell us your date and we confirm the roof fabric that comes with the pergola.
Pergola tent price, worked out
KSh 35,000 per tent keeps the long pergola standing for 24 hours. The crew's building, dismantling and carting away are inside that figure; only transport is added, priced on the road distance from our yard on Waiyaki Way, Uthiru. The lunch in the box above (one pergola, six rustic tables, sixty chairs) works out to KSh 78,200. The 5 × 5 m pergola tent is KSh 18,000 per tent for half the floor. A 50% deposit is what holds your date.
Dressing it for a wedding
A wedding pergola tent earns its price through those rafters, so use them. Strings of 30 m fairy lights along the beams turn a lunch cover into an evening room, and electric candles give the tables a flame look with no flame near the fabric. Drapes at the posts, greenery or flowers are not in the tent's price: name the look and the colours when you book, and we confirm what is free for your date. Both sizes, and how they compare, are on our pergola tents page.
The ground it needs
Choose level ground a little larger than 5 × 10 m, with no low branches over it. Our lorry has to get near, so warn us about a narrow gate, steps or a long carry. The frame is fixed into the ground: point out water pipes, cables or a septic line before the crew starts. Once it stands, nobody moves a post or a rope; call us instead. Keep jikos and grills well away from the fabric, and if a storm makes the pergola unsafe, safety comes before the plan.
Sources: Bob Vila (US home-improvement publisher), "Pergola vs. Gazebo", updated 19 August 2024, read 2026-10-24; American Tent (US tent maker), tent sizes and capacity chart, read 2026-10-24; Gala Tent (UK marquee and gazebo maker), marquee capacity guide, read 2026-10-24.
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100-seater pergola questions
How much is the 100-seater pergola tent?
KSh 35,000 per tent for 24 hours, built and taken down by our crew. Transport is added by distance.
How many people sit at tables under it?
About 60 by our planner; for 100 at tables, book two.
Is the pergola tent waterproof?
Plan it as shade. We confirm the roof fabric for your date, and the high-peak tent is the choice if rain is likely.
What size is it?
5 × 10 m, or 17 × 34 ft: 50 square metres.
Are drapes and lights included?
No. Tell us the look you want and we quote them with the tent.
Can we move or adjust the tent after it is set up?
No — and this is the rule that causes real injuries when it is ignored. Once our crew has rigged and secured a tent, nobody may remove, loosen, reposition or interfere with the ropes, weights, anchors, poles or structural components. If something needs to change, call us and we will send someone. Before we install, please tell us about any underground electrical cables, water pipes, drainage, irrigation, gas lines or septic systems, because we anchor into the ground. Open flames, charcoal jikos, BBQ grills, unapproved heaters, fireworks and hot cooking equipment must not be placed against or inside a tent without our prior approval. We will stop installation, change a setup or dismantle equipment where continuing would create a serious safety risk.
What happens if it rains on the day?
Our canvas is heavy-duty and waterproof, and an ordinary Nairobi downpour is not a problem. What we will not pretend is that a tent is a guarantee against flooding, severe wind, storms or genuinely hazardous conditions. Where conditions become unsafe we may delay installation, change how we install, recommend an alternative location, suspend use of equipment or remove it. Safety decisions take priority over aesthetics and over the planned layout — that is not us being difficult, it is the one call we will always make the same way. Where weather prevents performance we work through the options with you first: delayed performance, alternative setup, substitution or rescheduling.
