Fitting IV Therapy Into Your Event Run of Show
Organizers rarely ask how an IV works. They ask how many minutes it costs them, and whether it will hold up the bus. Both are answerable. Our treatments run from a ten-minute B-12 injection to a 90-minute NAD infusion, and the useful planning number is not the drip time but the throughput: how many guests one station can move through in the window you have. That number depends on which treatments the group chooses, how many chairs you can accommodate, and where in the day you place the station. This page gives you the real durations, a way to estimate throughput, and the placements that work at a golf shotgun, a wedding morning and a race finish. Call (831) 253-9537 with your schedule.
Chair Time by Treatment
These are the real durations, chair time only. A Methylcobalamin B-12 Energy Boost is about 10 minutes. Lipo B is 15. VIP Golfer Wellness, our 17 Mile Performance formula, runs 30 minutes. The Myer's Cocktail, Forever Young and the 500 ml 17 Mile Performance Hydration are each about 35. Shark Attack, the Big Sur Immune Booster and The Basic Boost are 40-minute liters. The full 1000 ml 17 Mile Performance Hydration is 45 minutes. NAD Body Refresh 250 mg is the outlier at 90 minutes and is planned separately, not slotted into a moving queue. Add roughly ten minutes per guest on either side for intake, consent, placing the line and removing it. So a guest choosing a 40-minute liter occupies a chair for closer to 50 minutes in real terms, while an injection guest is genuinely in and out in under fifteen. Groups that mix the two move much faster than groups that all pick liters.
How Many Guests an Hour a Station Serves
Throughput is chairs divided by chair time, and chairs are the lever you control. Because infusions run steadily once the line is placed, one clinician can keep several chairs going at once. The bottleneck is the starts and finishes, not the drip itself. That is why a station with four chairs serves far more than twice as many people as a station with two. The planning move is to work backwards. If you have 24 players finishing a shotgun round at Poppy Hills inside a 90-minute window and half of them want a liter, that is a different staffing and chair count than 24 people who mostly want a B-12 before dinner. Give us the headcount, the window and your best guess at the mix, and we will tell you how many chairs and how many clinicians it takes. We would rather size it honestly than have a queue form at the tent.
Where the Station Belongs in the Day
Placement matters more than duration. IV therapy belongs in a gap the schedule already has, not in a slot you invent. Good gaps: the 90 minutes between a morning round and the awards lunch; the window after hair and makeup but before photographs; the hour after a general session lets out; the first two hours of a load-in day before crews go to positions. Bad placements are the ones with a hard downstream deadline and no slack. Do not put a 45-minute liter in the 40 minutes before a bride walks. Do not start a drip fifteen minutes before a shuttle leaves for a Pebble Beach dinner. And be careful with anything immediately preceding physical exertion, because a guest who has just finished 1000 ml wants a restroom before a first tee time, not after it. When organizers bring us the run of show early, most of these conflicts resolve by moving the station half an hour, not by cutting anything.
Setup, Teardown and the Hours Around the Window
The service window is not the whole booking. Plan for setup before the first guest and teardown after the last, and put both on the schedule with the same seriousness as catering. A station needs its space clear and accessible ahead of the window, not while guests are already waiting, and the team needs to break down and remove clinical waste afterwards without competing with a strike crew for the same door. At the Big Sur International Marathon, that arithmetic is unforgiving: the field arrives at the finish in a wave, the recovery area has to be standing before the first runners cross, and the site has to clear on the event's timetable. At a wedding it is gentler. A station set up quietly in the suite while hair and makeup run means the first drip starts the moment someone is free. Tell us your load-in and load-out constraints with the booking and we will build to them.
Multi-Day Events and Rolling Schedules
Not every event wants a single block. Across Monterey Car Week or a Laguna Seca race weekend, organizers usually want a presence rather than an appointment: a station available at set hours each day so guests and crew drop in when their own schedule allows. That changes the planning question from throughput to coverage, meaning which hours matter on which days, and who has priority when two people arrive at once. Rolling schedules work best with a named on-site contact who can wave people over, plus a soft appointment list so the busiest hours are not a scrum. Practically, a 30-minute VIP Golfer Wellness and a 10-minute B-12 can share the same station all afternoon if someone is sequencing them. We will hold slots for whoever you designate as priority, whether that is drivers before mechanics, principals before staff, or talent before crew, and fill the gaps with walk-ups.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does each guest actually take?
Chair time runs from about 10 minutes for a Methylcobalamin B-12 Energy Boost to 45 for a full 1000 ml 17 Mile Performance Hydration, with most liters at 40. Add roughly ten minutes per guest for intake, consent and placing the line. NAD Body Refresh at 90 minutes sits outside a moving queue and is scheduled on its own. Mixed groups clear far faster than all-liter groups.
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