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Hen party company or book on my own?

  • 11-01-2018 9:13am
    #1
    StarBright01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 731 ✭✭✭


    Hi, would ye recommend going with a hen party company (there are so many!!) or just booking directly myself?


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  • #2
    iluvfatfrogs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭iluvfatfrogs


    StarBright01 wrote: »
    Hi, would ye recommend going with a hen party company (there are so many!!) or just booking directly myself?

    If you like organising trips, and you know/trust the people coming to pay when asked, I'd save the money and book yourself.

    If the answer to any of the above is No, go with the company,


  • #3
    Maldesu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭Maldesu


    I've gone with a company. No way was I running around doing all that work. Even with them doing it, I'm still wading through some BS, with people changing their minds (after 2 days), twenty questions about things. All the company need to know is final numbers and payments 3 weeks before hand, which is grand


  • #4
    mcgiggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭mcgiggles


    StarBright01 wrote:
    Hi, would ye recommend going with a hen party company (there are so many!!) or just booking directly myself?


    Look into them cos some charge an ABSOLUTE arm and a leg! Just price it all out to get best deal!


  • #5
    qwerty13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭qwerty13


    If you go the company route, be very sure of what you’re getting for the price. I was on a hen through a company a few years ago, and I felt that they bigged up the description, but that what we got was pretty bargain basement.

    And (being a cousin of both the bride & bridesmaid), there were still people who hadn’t paid up - it being through a company didn’t seem to stop that carry on. And also people who emailed the chief bridesmaid with their changes re food, which night they were staying, who was sharing rooms, rather than through the company. I don’t know if that’s what you’re supposed to do if it’s booked through a company, but I know my cousin the chief bridesmaid thought it would all be far simpler if booked via a company - but she still had to deal with loads of queries, changes, and late payers

    We weren’t looking for five star, but a cocktail lesson in a barely cleaned from the night before nightclub, with a sticky bar and young lad who I’d say his biggest experience of cocktails was a mixer with vodka did not bode well! And the ‘VIP’ pre booked part basically involved 2 shots each.


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