Private Island Party Review

Thursday, March 20th

2025 Party Planning Supply Store Reviews

Private Island Party

• Free shipping on orders over $100
• Costume accessories
• 30-day return policy

Private Island Party is a novelty shop that ships their products worldwide. They specialize in costumes and accessories to fit unique events and party themes. One of their main products is bulk sunglasses along with fedoras, face masks, and other apparel. Their multi-packs make it so you can dress yourself and a group of guests with unique items to make your event more exciting and fun.

Needs a makeover

Private Island Party's website needs a major makeover. It's one of those websites that makes you question in the back of your mind whether or not your credit card information will get stolen by the end of your experience with them. There are quite a few popups and the look of their site isn't the most appealing.

Trinkets and costumes

What you'll find here is mostly trinkets and costume accessories. For example, when we selected the "UFO Party” theme, we were shown an alien mask, alien sunglasses, slime, and inflatable pool aliens. Some themes provide generic items like "Barbeque”. Here there is a variety of fedoras, cheap colorful sunglasses, sticky hand or bubble party favors, and other random things that seem to have nothing to do with a barbeque. Some other themes include gangster party, medical party, flapper party, fiesta party, mustache party, vampire party, disco party, and more. To us these aren't really "party” themes, but rather Halloween topics where you can find accessories for your costume.

Random assortment

If you were throwing a party, you'd want some of the basics like plates, napkins, cutlery, and cups. You can search for plates and you'll find 6 plain colored options you can choose from. They sell 20 plates for $2, which isn't bad. A search for cutlery yields 11 color options of plates, napkins, cutlery, and cups for 48 people. The cost for this is $96, which actually seems like a lot of money since there is nothing unique or exciting about their selection. You can further search for items like balloons or banners and see what comes up. Most items aren't theme-specific except for a few "Happy 50th Birthday” items here or there. You'll mostly get a random assortment of things.

Vague delivery times

If you spend over $100 at Private Island Party, the company will ship your order for free. To see all your shipping options, you'll need to add items to your cart and go through checkout. When we spent under $100 here, we were charged $22 for ground shipping or $12.95 for USPS 4-5 day priority shipping. Either way, it didn't show the date that our items would arrive.

Confusing return policy

You'll need to send back your unused, unopened, new products to Private Island Party within 30 days of purchase in order to qualify for a refund. Before doing this, you'll need to get a return authorization from the company by filling out their returns form and emailing it to them. The full return policy is long and actually quite confusing, so if you really want to buy something here, be sure to read through it. They mention that you cannot return fedoras for any reason and you can't return "party favor quality sunglasses” just because you don't like the quality. The company essentially says these are not high-quality sunglasses and that if you're paying such a low price, you should know this. Another confusing line they add is, "You are only able to return the products you have an issue with, not the entire order, no exceptions.” What does this mean? We don't fully trust companies that don't have clear policies.

Poor customer feedback

Private Island Party has a lousy "F” rating from the Better Business Bureau. They don't have a ton of customer reviews, but the ones we found did not fill us with confidence. Most people complained about rude or condescending customer service representatives. Some said that their orders came with products that were different from what they thought they had purchased and reported that shipping is really slow. Most customers who have left feedback about Private Island Party don't have good things to say.

Doesn't fit our needs

When we plan a party, we want a retailer that will provide us everything we need to fit our theme or go along with the holiday or event we are celebrating. Private Island Party doesn't fulfill this for us. Their website is unappealing and they mostly sell cheap knick-knacks here that don't really seem related to throwing a party. If you need an off-the-wall accessory to go along with a costume you're wearing for Halloween or a special event, it wouldn't hurt to quickly see if Private Island Party carries it. Otherwise, we wouldn't waste our time shopping here.