Stag Party

[natefz6]

Hey all,

I have been given the honour of being a best man for a very good friend. Part of said duty is to organise a suitable sending off from bachelor life. Now this fine chap was my best man and did a great job of organising a trip to Cornwall with a few activities including Coasteering, paint balling and zip lining. I am looking for ideas of what people have done and what you enjoyed.

We are not really the type of people who just want to get completely wankered and end up asleep in a titty bar. I mean that may happen but that should not be the main focus of the event. I was thinking about the Stuttgart Beer festival but the groom thinks people might prefer UK based, some of those going have kids.

What was the best stag/boys trip you have been on?

What was the worst?

Any advice from anyone who has done the job before (Best man)?
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[arry]

I've got some ideas

[stinkwheel]

Last one I helped organise, we hammock camped in Keilder Forest (with plenty of beer) and sandcast a bronze axe-head on a hand-bellows charcoal forge.

https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/bronzeaxe/ZOE_0127_zps066e6560.jpg

https://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/stinkwheel/bronzeaxe/ZOE_0129_zps7e27889d.jpg

Oh, and we hired a midget. Once you've thought of hiring a midget, you can't not.
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[Skudd]

My best man at my first wedding fucked off with my now ex wife.
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[dodsi]

I went to Budapest with a few mates, the saving on beer, food and activities paid for the holiday happily.

I did a second stag party more locally in Brighton for those who didn't want to go to Budapest/were not in the 'inner circle'. Watching both father in laws (she has divorced parents) get excited about going to a titty bar was enough for me to leave (with members of the inner circle) them in said titty bar 15 mins after arriving there. We got upto our own mischief then.

[angryjonny]

[Howling Terror]

Go pubs with mates then go home.

If you're low on mates ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-39771689
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[Alpineandy]

The best one I've ever been on was 2 weeks in Thailand in the late 80s (seriously!).
Nowhere near as debauched as it could have been but it was real fun.
3 of us managed to refrain from getting the drunk groom a ladyboy, but it was a regular discussion...
Having said that, holding the wedding in Singapore made it possible...
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[natefz6]

Singapore might be a stretch Keilder Forrest looks more like the type of thing.

He went to uni round south wales so I might see if there is some gorge walking/whitewater rafting type of activities around, we could do that and then head to Cardiff for a night out.
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[Feasty]

My stag do was organised by my 2 brothers and my now brother-in-law tagged along, I put my brothers in charge thinking they'll come up with something 'fun'.

How wrong was I!? They hired a boat for us all to go fishing/sleeping on a lake for 2/3 days - except fishing is their forte, I find it incredibly boring and quite frankly only went for the 'bonding'. My brother-in-law felt the same way so he ended up watching rugby on the little telly on the boat all weekend - I don't like rugby either!

Such a very, very boring weekend that was... that was the weekend I realised never to leave planning 'good stuff' to my brothers ever again.


Don't do fishing...
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[stinkwheel]

Oh, for my brothers one we went went rage buggy driving then played 54 holes of crazy golf in the afternoon (3 seperate courses, he LOVES his crazy golf). Then we played pub golf round Edinburgh while appropriately dressed.

For mine we went hovercrafting then went and got pished round a campfire.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Feasty]

[Rad82]

Just come back from friends stag in Las Vegas. Stayed in MGM Grand, wot a pkace to be, 4 nights in vegas, hazard, booze, women....

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Alpineandy]

[BTTD]

Best one was super organised, mostly paid up front (included kitty for beers, but not food). There were some activities, quad biking, paintballing, an assault course, and minibuses were all booked in advance for the whole weekend with drivers to take us everywhere including to the pub / strip club in the evening and back home again.
Minibus drivers were big burly lads but a good laugh once they clocked that we weren't a bunch of cnts and were being respectful of the van etc and not dicking them about.
It was a really relaxed fun weekend, with nothing to organise on the hoof and everything paid for weeks earlier everyone could just relax and have a laugh.

[stinkwheel]

Oh yeah.

Get the money/deposit off everyone before you book. No money, no place unless it's someone you really want there and have decided will be otherwise paid for. Be clear a deposit is a deposit, you don't get it back but you can find someone else to go in your place.

Otherwise you can land up shelling out a lot of money off your own back and people fuck you about.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[dransy]

Went one one last weekend to Newcastle . Although I thought Newcastle was a bit scratty we did Gokartung on Friday which is always a right laugh ! On Saturday we did half a day of paint balling and half a day clay pigeon shooting .

Never been clay pigeon shooting before but I'd recommend it even though I was absaloute dog shite at it ! But I didn't mind as I got a trophy for winning at karting 😂
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