If you’ve booked a villa in Novalja for a week of Zrće nights, the gear question is simple: what do we play music on at the villa pre-game, by the pool in the afternoon, and on the rooftop at sunset?
Bringing a JBL travel speaker from home doesn’t cut it. Renting a club-grade PA is overkill. The middle is exactly what PRC is built for.
If you’re still at the stage of working out what the week even looks like, read the hour-by-hour Zrće week villa checklist first — it maps which gear earns its keep at which point in the day, and lists the five mistakes groups make every season.
The default Zrće week setup
Zrće Pre-Drinks package: one JBL PartyBox 710 + a Pioneer DDJ-FLX4 controller. The PartyBox has built-in lights, runs ~6 hours on battery, has wheels so the move from pool to rooftop to inside is one trip. The FLX4 plugs into the back via cable and you’ve got a real DJ rig.
This is the most-booked package for the Pag/Novalja zone for good reason: it covers every “we want music” moment in the week except the actual nights at Aquarius/Papaya/Kalypso (which obviously have their own sound).
Add the party-prop pack
The night you’ve been planning since January deserves more than just music. Add à-la-carte to the Zrće Pre-Drinks package:
- Color smoke flares for the daylight rooftop photo moment
- Cake / bottle / handheld sparklers for the bottle service moment
- DJ Shotgun with confetti cartridges — the actual confetti gun for the drop
Customer cost: usually €80-180 added to the base rental. The consumable bits (smoke flares, sparklers, confetti) you keep what you don’t use.
If the week has a theme night in it — neon, white shirts, body paint — the UV blacklight bar changes the whole room for less than a round of drinks, and the LED super strobe is the cheapest way to make a rooftop drop actually land. Both are lights rather than consumables, so they go back in the van with everything else. The rest of what we send to Pag villas sits on the party equipment rental catalogue if you want to build the week yourself instead of taking a package.
Common mistakes
- Booking too small. Group of 12 will outgrow a single Bose speaker by Tuesday. Get the PartyBox.
- Booking too big. Group of 6 doesn’t need the full Festival Pre-Game Kit. PartyBox + FLX4 is enough — and for six people who mostly want music at the pool, the JBL PartyBox 310 is the cheaper wheeled box with a much longer battery than the 710.
- Forgetting consumables. The sparklers and smoke flares are what make the Instagram. Add them at the same checkout as the gear.
When to book
3-4 weeks ahead minimum for peak season (mid-July through August), longer for Hideout weekend (late June / early July). Pag villa rentals book up fast and so does our delivery calendar.
Delivery to Pag
We drive from Split via the Pag bridge — roughly 3 hours each way. Doorstep delivery is €440 to cover the round trip, tolls and driver time. Pickup from our Split base is free if anyone in the group has a car driving up. See the Pag zone for full details.