Stag in Ireland?

Stocious

hi folks,

looking to have a stag in Ireland in February - have narrowed it down to the following:
1. Dingle
2. Carrick-on-Shannon (including boat cruise perhaps)
3. Aran Islands
4. Kinsale
5. Lisdoonvarna/Doolin

I'm ruling out the likes of Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Cork city as looking to stay away from the cities and head to a small town. Looking at maybe hiring a minibus for the saturday and heading out to the country for a tour and pub crawl. Any thoughts on which is the best from the list above or any other good spots???
We're from the North and have done the whole Donegal and Westport scene. Love a good music seisun too. Any thoughts would be much appreciated, thanks.

biko

Doolin has activities during the daytime too, lovely walks on the beach, the cliffs of Moher. Great trad there.

You could do www.pureskill.ie in Galway during the day and head down to Doolin/Lisdoonvarna late afternoon, go to the pubs there and see the cliffs the next day before heading home again.

atomicent

Stocious wrote: »

hi folks,

looking to have a stag in Ireland in February - have narrowed it down to the following:
1. Dingle
2. Carrick-on-Shannon (including boat cruise perhaps)
3. Aran Islands
4. Kinsale
5. Lisdoonvarna/Doolin

I'm ruling out the likes of Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Cork city as looking to stay away from the cities and head to a small town. Looking at maybe hiring a minibus for the saturday and heading out to the country for a tour and pub crawl. Any thoughts on which is the best from the list above or any other good spots???
We're from the North and have done the whole Donegal and Westport scene. Love a good music seisun too. Any thoughts would be much appreciated, thanks.

Carrick on Shannon, definately, stag and hen capital of Ireland, I live in carrick, so I will be a bit in favour, but theres so much to do, paint balling, cruises as you say, go karting, and a lot of pubs will do events for stag and hen parties if you book with them in advance, ie rodeo bull nights, foam parties etc....

djk1000

Why stay in Ireland? Not talking down Ireland at all, I've been to some great stags here. Doolin is great.

But when you get home and tot up the costs, you inevitably notice that you could have gone somewhere more exotic (eastern europe etc) for the same money. Last stag I was on was in the boom times, maybe there are better deals now, but probably better deals for going abroad too..

Just my two cents!

kmick

I went to Carrick on Shannon. It was pretty mediocre. They would not let us on the bota and we were sober at that stage. The best part was we went shooting beforehand. 3/10

Stocious

djk1000 wrote: »

Why stay in Ireland? Not talking down Ireland at all, I've been to some great stags here. Doolin is great.

But when you get home and tot up the costs, you inevitably notice that you could have gone somewhere more exotic (eastern europe etc) for the same money. Last stag I was on was in the boom times, maybe there are better deals now, but probably better deals for going abroad too..

Just my two cents!

I'm actually realising that, for example, the train from dublin to tralee is €72 return, then looking at hiring a bus to get to dingle. almost the cost of a flight. If going to Doolin will have to price a bus and see how it works out.

Wantin to stay in ireland as we've been to krakow and oktoberfest in the last 18 mths, and also going to barcelona and hamburg or berlin again next year on other stags. so just thought i'd keep it here, and also, there may be some oul lads goin as well. cheers for the suggestion....

Stocious

as for carrick on shannon, did a 3 day cruise a while back and ended up there at the end of it, most people to wrecked and didnt really get a good crack at it. so not sure what the town is like. maybe a bit too many stags/hens? its definitely an option. have to see if can do a day cruise perhaps for the saturday then back into town for the night.....thanks for the thoughts, keep em comin.

Stocious

Magnus wrote: »

Doolin has activities during the daytime too, lovely walks on the beach, the cliffs of Moher. Great trad there.

You could do www.pureskill.ie in Galway during the day and head down to Doolin/Lisdoonvarna late afternoon, go to the pubs there and see the cliffs the next day before heading home again.

thanks for that, not sure if a walk along the beach or the cliffs would suit 20 lads though. maybe a bit of scenery from a bus window would do durin a country pub crawl....

atomicent

Stocious wrote: »

as for carrick on shannon, did a 3 day cruise a while back and ended up there at the end of it, most people to wrecked and didnt really get a good crack at it. so not sure what the town is like. maybe a bit too many stags/hens? its definitely an option. have to see if can do a day cruise perhaps for the saturday then back into town for the night.....thanks for the thoughts, keep em comin.

you should be able to get a good deal from emerald star or carrick craft at this time of year for hiring a boat for the day, moonriver at night either, it comes back just in time for the nightclubs, either the swingin donkey or murtaghs,

Balmed Out

clonakilty is good. always a few hens and a stag or two around and ye will let in wherever. Go surfing at inchadoney surf school during day.

MotteDai

I'm in the same boat, pardon the Pun. Organizing a stag for early March, just back from Carrick on Shannon and it was a good laugh. At the same time once was enough.
We had shortlisted Kilarney, and down that area, I like the idea of driving about to some nice country pubs. But I could foresee hassle with Bus drivers.
We're from Galway/Westport so have been local many times..

The www.odd.ie looked good as did the www.mysterytrips.ie site but I'd love to hear some real references. Anyone out there truly recomend any of these?
Also had looked at boat down the Shannon but it looks like we're just out of Season..

Baldie

MotteDai wrote: »

The www.odd.ie looked good as did the www.mysterytrips.ie site but I'd love to hear some real references. Anyone out there truly recomend any of these?
Also had looked at boat down the Shannon but it looks like we're just out of Season..

Has anyone had any experience with these web sites or with www.thefunfactory.ie ? I'm looking t obook my stag for May.

Stocious

Going to make the trip to Dingle for the stag. According to tripadvisor alot of pubs aren't welcoming of stags though. This was from a discussion post in 2007. Therefore would they be more happy of the custom now? Does anyone have the lowdown on any problems that a group of 20 odd lads (mostly late 20s/early 30s and a few older lads) would have in Dingle?

Also, for the train (Dublin-Killarney), is drinking on the train allowed?

Lastly, looking to rent a house or two - any recommendations? again, would there be any issues if for a stag?

thanks.