Ideas for a stag weekend in Europe

Doberman83

Im the best man for my mates wedding so its up to me to sort out a stag weekend. The stag is going to be at the start of july and I was thinking of somewhere in Europe for a weekend, preferably somewhere with 24 hour drinking. A weekend in England taking in a premier league game or darts championship would have been ideal but at that time of year its not possible. Any suggestions on where is good for a stag or any festivals on around Europe from late June to mid July. Cheers

AnonoBoy

Hast thou considered Athlone?

KeithM89_old

Disneyland. Or Amsterdam.

seaniefitz

Edinburgh!

great pubs, clubs and the birk and hair! enough said

billymitchell

Doberman83 wrote: »

Im the best man for my mates wedding so its up to me to sort out a stag weekend. The stag is going to be at the start of july and I was thinking of somewhere in Europe for a weekend, preferably somewhere with 24 hour drinking. A weekend in England taking in a premier league game or darts championship would have been ideal but at that time of year its not possible. Any suggestions on where is good for a stag or any festivals on around Europe from late June to mid July. Cheers

Travel forum perhaps??
People will just tell you "Blast her with piss" around here

Sanjuro

So O'Reilly's under Tara Street station, yeah?







Oh wait, sorry. Wrong thread.

firefly08

Do your friends like machine guns? In the Czech Republic they have beer, strippers and machine guns.

clived2

Doberman83 wrote: »

Im the best man for my mates wedding so its up to me to sort out a stag weekend. The stag is going to be at the start of july and I was thinking of somewhere in Europe for a weekend, preferably somewhere with 24 hour drinking. A weekend in England taking in a premier league game or darts championship would have been ideal but at that time of year its not possible. Any suggestions on where is good for a stag or any festivals on around Europe from late June to mid July. Cheers

billymitchell wrote: »

Travel forum perhaps??
People will just tell you "Blast her with piss" around here

I think he is in, the right place.

Kiith

Hookers and beer. Who cares where it is.

landsleaving

Copenhagen. Clubs open all night, great nightlife, cheap booze, shots of fisherman's, little to no crime/danger, you can drink on the street, friendly people who all speak english, fantastic looking women for the single lads to be rejected by repeatedly.

I think that should do nicely.

youcancallmeal

You'd want to be booking now to get a good price on the flights. Anyway you've loads of options but if it was me I'd go for one of the big german cities like Berlin, Munich, Dusseldorf etc

Yakult

Prague!

Snakeblood

Doberman83 wrote: »

Im the best man for my mates wedding so its up to me to sort out a stag weekend. The stag is going to be at the start of july and I was thinking of somewhere in Europe for a weekend, preferably somewhere with 24 hour drinking. A weekend in England taking in a premier league game or darts championship would have been ideal but at that time of year its not possible. Any suggestions on where is good for a stag or any festivals on around Europe from late June to mid July. Cheers

Just kill a prostitute in Budapest like any normal person.

billymitchell

clived2 wrote: »

I think he is in, the right place.

Are you, sure??

BraziliaNZ

God I've to go to Riga soon for a stag, really dreading it, they hate gangs of British/Irish lads in those places

jimthemental

Start of July you say, how about a little bit of excitement in Drumkree?

Alternatively see animals in their natural habitat of Semple Stadium during the Munster Championship.

conorhal

Prague is a decent spot, the city center is quite compact and friendly, downside: there are a hell of a lot of other stag parties there.

I was on a stag in Cork a few months ago, had a blast!


My tip of the day is: Avoid Budapest like the plague that it is. A friend of mine has just come back from a stag there. He said that if you pick up a taxi on the street they charge litterally extortionate rates, many of the strip clubs are mafia fronts that do little but roll tourists for every cent they have, the city is dirty and the people very unfriendly.

Doberman83

Doberman83 wrote: »

Im the best man for my mates wedding so its up to me to sort out a stag weekend. The stag is going to be at the start of july and I was thinking of somewhere in Europe for a weekend, preferably somewhere with 24 hour drinking. A weekend in England taking in a premier league game or darts championship would have been ideal but at that time of year its not possible. Any suggestions on where is good for a stag or any festivals on around Europe from late June to mid July. Cheers

What do you need to go anywhere for if you just want to drink save the money and sit in a house in dublin

phill106

I heard rumour ireland is now in europe. You should go there!
Flights should be very cheap!

jackiebaron

Liverpool.

Great town in summer. Loose, saucy, scouse birds. Won't break the piggybank.

RMD

Prague is the best European city I've ever been to for a stag type trip as it's relatively cheap, clubs are good and open pretty much all hours. Berlin has some great clubs but is a lot more expensive.

PeterIanStaker

Don't go to Austria - they really do lock up their daughters! :pac:

The_Kew_Tour

jackiebaron wrote: »

Liverpool.

Great town in summer. Loose, saucy, scouse birds. Won't break the piggybank.

+1

mrgaa1

jackiebaron wrote: »

Liverpool.

Great town in summer. Loose, saucy, scouse birds. Won't break the piggybank.

Apparently Newcastle is the same as above - saw a programme on TV last night and they all seem to want to have a good time

Retrovertigo

Barcelona, hands down.

Lived there for a few years myself. Top quality food, drink and clubs plus you have the Nou camp only a short hop away in a taxi. If you're heading over from May onwards the place will be covered in drop dead gorgeous women wearing next to nothing.

Deus Ex Machina

Doberman83 wrote: »

Im the best man for my mates wedding so its up to me to sort out a stag weekend. The stag is going to be at the start of july and I was thinking of somewhere in Europe for a weekend, preferably somewhere with 24 hour drinking. A weekend in England taking in a premier league game or darts championship would have been ideal but at that time of year its not possible. Any suggestions on where is good for a stag or any festivals on around Europe from late June to mid July. Cheers

Have the couple made any plans regarding procreation?

dotsman

Most people hated going abroad for stags/hens during the Celtic Tiger. These days, they completely detest it.

Don't get me wrong. Most of the stag's friends will go, out of loyalty to the stag, but they will hate you for it. Those that don't go will hate you even more as you were the cause of them not being able to go.

Trust me, the key to a good stag/hen is to keep it simple and cheap.

The purpose of a stag is a great lads session. And a great session has little to do with where you are, but who you are with and what frame of mind they are in. Everybody who wants to go being able to go and not worry about money or time off work or away from the wife etc is what you need to be aiming for.

Pick a random town in Ireland that easy for you and your friends to get to. Book a hostel. And have a fcukin' great weekend. Do not book a hotel. You are lads. You will be drinking most/all of the day. You will not be using the gym, pool, spa etc. All you want is a place to crash that night.

Ricardo G

Amsterdam !! Great lively spot with ALL the amenities and activities you require, cheap to get there (not so cheap when you arrive) and a great laugh for a few days !!

Nadser

landsleaving wrote: »

Copenhagen. Clubs open all night, great nightlife, cheap booze, shots of fisherman's, little to no crime/danger, you can drink on the street, friendly people who all speak english, fantastic looking women for the single lads to be rejected by repeatedly.

I think that should do nicely.

Cheap booze?? I was in Copenhagen the other weekend and pints were over €7! Great city, but hardly cheap!

Fizman

I am currently in the middle of wedding/stag season with a lot of my close mates. The best bet is to get an email going around with the core group of lads (excluding the groom obviously).

Put out a few feelers in terms of locations and suss out the general mood amongst the group. You should find out fairly 1. if enough people are genuinely up for going abroad and 2.if they are, where to go.

ScumLord

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

God I've to go to Riga soon for a stag, really dreading it, they hate gangs of British/Irish lads in those places

Ya Riga can be rough, I didn't have many problems my self but a group of us had a glass thrown at us by some Russians. It wasn't even a group of Irish, it was a very mixed group. That was all I witnessed though, other than that most locals where sound just sick of loud tourists in particular.

gaz200

krakow is deff 1 of the best places for a stag

winston82

Hamburg - sick place, perfect for a seedy, sleezy stag weekend

papermaker

another vote for Prague...been there 3 times....don't miss Atlas off Wenceslas.. fabulous girls..:D

Mac puppy

Doberman83 wrote: »

Im the best man for my mates wedding so its up to me to sort out a stag weekend. The stag is going to be at the start of july and I was thinking of somewhere in Europe for a weekend, preferably somewhere with 24 hour drinking. A weekend in England taking in a premier league game or darts championship would have been ideal but at that time of year its not possible. Any suggestions on where is good for a stag or any festivals on around Europe from late June to mid July. Cheers

copenhagen would be a great place for it, only problem is its not cheap.

Terry

firefly08 wrote: »

Do your friends like machine guns? In the Czech Republic they have beer, strippers and machine guns.

Yakult wrote: »

Prague!

RMD wrote: »

Prague is the best European city I've ever been to for a stag type trip as it's relatively cheap, clubs are good and open pretty much all hours. Berlin has some great clubs but is a lot more expensive.

papermaker wrote: »

another vote for Prague...been there 3 times....don't miss Atlas off Wenceslas.. fabulous girls..:D

I've never left Leixlip, but, according to reports from several stag parties, Prague is brilliant.
Several friends have gone there repeatedly.
Following the advise of a Czech girl who lives locally (Philly, you lucky bastard), go to the old part of Prague for cheap hookers and cheap beer. It's dodgier than the newer part though.

The first post above mentions guns. They have shooting ranges there, s you can get a nice buzz firing automatic weapons before getting hammered and doing whatever else.

Alter-Ego

conorhal wrote: »

Prague is a decent spot, the city center is quite compact and friendly, downside: there are a hell of a lot of other stag parties there.

I was on a stag in Cork a few months ago, had a blast!


My tip of the day is: Avoid Budapest like the plague that it is. A friend of mine has just come back from a stag there. He said that if you pick up a taxi on the street they charge litterally extortionate rates, many of the strip clubs are mafia fronts that do little but roll tourists for every cent they have, the city is dirty and the people very unfriendly.

Prague is a bit overdone and touristy. British stag parties everywhere!

+1 on Budapest though. Everybody in that city is trying to screw you one way or another. A strip club tried to charge 10k to a friends Laser card but the bank blocked it.

Edinburgh would be relatively cheap and its got 24hr drinking AFAIK.

If you decide to keep it in Ireland, Killarney is beautiful during the day and a circus a night.

Try Dundalk if you haven't been stabbed in a while.

sheesh

cologne was good

landsleaving

Nadser wrote: »

Cheap booze?? I was in Copenhagen the other weekend and pints were over €7! Great city, but hardly cheap!

Wow really? I was there about 3 years ago and it was really cheap. Depended big time on where you go though. One bar had 4 bottles of beer for the equivalent of about 3 euro.

Zebra3

Tirana.

Top spot.

Celly Smunt

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

God I've to go to Riga soon for a stag, really dreading it, they hate gangs of British/Irish lads in those places

People in Riga hate everyone to be frank

syklops

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

God I've to go to Riga soon for a stag, really dreading it, they hate gangs of British/Irish lads in those places

Whoever told you that has never been to Riga. The Latvians know how to party, and Irish/English/Scottish are all very welcome to join. That at least has been my experience.

Ya Riga can be rough, I didn't have many problems my self but a group of us had a glass thrown at us by some Russians. It wasn't even a group of Irish, it was a very mixed group. That was all I witnessed though, other than that most locals where sound just sick of loud tourists in particular.

So one guy from a group of tourists threw a glass at another group of tourists? Wow that never happens in the likes of Dublin. Feel free to paint a whole city as 'rough' because of it.

Do your friends like machine guns? In the Czech Republic they have beer, strippers and machine guns.

Machine Guns? Pfft. There is a place near me(south of Prague) where you can drive tanks, for the cost of a few beers in Temple Bar.

Following the advise of a Czech girl who lives locally (Philly, you lucky bastard), go to the old part of Prague for cheap hookers and cheap beer. It's dodgier than the newer part though.

Cheap Beer in Prague. Yeah... You have to remember she is using the Czech definition of cheap not the Irish definition. So by going into the old town and getting 'cheap' beer she is probably talking about a beer for 70-80c and a hooker for about 40 euro, versus the 'New' town where a beer is about 2 Euro and a hooker about 80.

rossie1977

another vote for prague, stay out of the touristy areas and you can get beer for about 60-70c a pint, its about 1.50-1.75 a pint in the touristy bars, czech beer that is, other stuff will cost you

midlandsmissus

When I was in prague with the girls we met a stag party whose groom had decided to have the wedding immediately after the stag party in prague aswell. Met one of the lads in the airport on the way home and asked him how the wedding went. He told me the morning of the wedding he woke up caked in vomit an hour late for the wedding, forin a hotel the opposite side of town. Made a dash for the wedding still dripping caked vomit but completely missed the wedding. After a week in prague I nodded sagely and completely understood. Me and my friends went out for a quiet few the last night we were there and ended up out in the middle of the prague countryside at 5 o clock in the morning. Ah a great place! What's the pub in the centre where they have beer on tap at each table?

ScumLord

syklops wrote: »

So one guy from a group of tourists threw a glass at another group of tourists? Wow that never happens in the likes of Dublin. Feel free to paint a whole city as 'rough' because of it.

It wasn't another tourist Latvia is full of Russians. Two English lads came back to the hostel after getting beaten by the police. We were being shown around by locals and they told us to keep our heads down because tourists have a bad reputation.

Like I said I didn't have any real problems other than that glass being thrown at our group. But others did have problems.

Hail 2 Da Thief

Went to Edinburgh on a stag a few years back. Good spot + it's only a short flight!

RachaelVO

Amsterdam is always gonna be a good choice. You can also fly with good on Ryanair into Eindhoven (where I'm living) and you can get a train up if the direct flights are too expensive!

SEPT 23 1989

Lourdes or Amsterdam

thebigbiffo

i hear fatima's some spot the wimmins - they appear out of nowhere...

another vote for prague though from me. some spot, was there for my own stag in 2006. find a beer hall, get pissed on great beer at about 70c a pint and fall into one of the many strip clubs where (and i really mean this) the women are some of the best looking i've ever seen not just in a strip joint but ANYWHERE!

on the downside, my best man got a hiding. in fairness, whoever gave him a kicking was probably only human...or paid for by one of his mates...he's a notoriously bad drunk.

MANUTD99

I used this company when we went away to Prague a few years back

http://www.pissup.com/prague/tours/activities/271/

irishproduce

Sorry for digging out this old thread and God help me posting in after hours but please be nice.
I have booked 11 friends in for Riga next month as part of a stag.
None of them are a*seholes and none of them drink to excess or act the fool, all are fairly mature too. Anyway, has anyone any recent experience of a stag there? Is it really dodge central and it'll be a case of keeping the head down and being chaperoned everywhere?

Thanks
irish