Stag Nights

There was a time when the traditional Stag night, one of the last nights of freedom of an ensnared groom, was celebrated in the local pub. The idea was to get the groom drunk, arrange for a busty kissogram to shake her knockers at him and take photos, and then remove his trousers on the way home, so he had to call someone from the telephone box to get a friend to pick him up. In the hours before the wedding he would then have to plead with his wife-to-be to keep the wedding on, after she’d seen photos of him with another woman and heard he had been walking along the High Street in just his Y-fronts.

Thankfully, things have become a little more sophisticated in the last few years. Stag nights and Stag weekends have become a multi-million pound industry. There are brochures which market them, internet sites which sell them, and cities across Europe that encourage them as a means of earning extra currency. As the phenomenon grows so does the sense of adventure of British people when it comes to the locations they decide to visit. A recent survey listed the following cities abroad as big favorites of the Brit's on Stag weekends: Budapest (Hungary), Dublin (Ireland), Vilnius (Lithuania ), Barcelona and Tossa de Mar (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), Prague (The Czech Republic), Riga (Latvia), the Algarve (Portugal), Amsterdam (Holland), an eclectic choice you must agree. And if people want to spend a weekend in Britain there are a growing host of outdoor activities which are popular such as karting, off-road driving, paint ball wars, target shooting and water skiing. The market has become so sophisticated that internet sites provide a pick and mix choice of location and activities depending on the sort of weekend a Stag group wants.