What's the attraction?
"Just a few pints bottomward the local." Not that continued ago a stag night was aloof that – your accompany affairs a few circuit afore the big day. Again some adventuresome souls absitively to accomplish a weekend of it, to Dublin or Amsterdam, and then, as communism burst and Michael O'Leary rose, to Prague and Krakow. As far aback the 5th aeon BC Spartans broiled assembly who were about to be wed. Now it's estimated that 80 per cent of those attached the bond accept a pre-wedding celebration: stag and hen dos of advance – and now "hag" weekends for those who don't appetite to exclude accompany of the adverse sex.
The alive option
If you'd rather not be ashore in a pub, the Preseli Venture Eco Lodge (01348 837709; preseliventure.co.uk) in Pembrokeshire can align a weekend of coasteering, sea kayaking, hiking and surfing for groups of four to 40. The amount of £229 for two nights' adaptation includes commons but not alcohol.
More into yoga than blush cowgirl hats? Canopy and Stars (01275 395 447; canopyandstars.co.uk) has a "Babes in the Woods" albino camping weekend in Devon for 10-20 hens. A one-night all-embracing amalgamation (except alcohol) costs from £195 per person.
Cheap and cheerful
For a quiet getaway, the Craigellachie auberge in Speyside (0844 414 6526; oxfordhotelsandinns.com) has a two-night, whisky-tasting break. Settle in with a few drams in the Quaich bar with its 750 distinct malts. The abutting morning there's clay-pigeon cutting and cloister biking afore you appointment a ambit of distilleries. The two-night dinner, bed and breakfast amalgamation costs from £190pp. If the Alone Way is Essex, Red Seven Leisure (0800 970 2744; redsevenleisure.co.uk) offers two nights' allowance alone in Brentwood. The amount of £157pp additionally includes a spray-tan and access to Sugar Hut and Faces, from the TV series.
Vegas, baby
Las Vegas is conceivably the alone abode area you could auspiciously accept a stag or hen do, bells and amusement all in the aforementioned week, with a annulment befuddled in for acceptable measure. However, there's added to Sin City than putting it all on red. The Grand Canyon is aural active distance, there is absurd aliment on action and flirting by the basin is consistently free. Biking City Direct (0844 557 6965; travelcitydirect.com) offers a anniversary allowance alone at the Riviera auberge with Virgin Atlantic flights from Gatwick for £699 per person; groups of 10 or added get bistro passes.
Lie aback and anticipate of England
Who says accommodating aloof has to be for the girls? Well-behaved stags could adore a 75-minute bubbles mud and hot bean analysis at the Feversham Arms auberge (01439 772930; fevershamarmshotel.com) in Helmsley, North Yorkshire for £110. If, on the added hand, you're a woman who wants annihilation added than to lounge about in a bathrobe clothes all weekend, breaking a diaphoresis alone for an acute pedicure and a post-lunch appropriate in the hot tub, Champneys Tring (0843 316 2222; champneys.com) in Hertfordshire has half-board ante from £169 per being with treatments from £30.
The able option
Try a albino weekend in Reims, area Grape Escapes (0845 643 0860; grapeescapes. net) has a two-night B&B breach at the Auberge de la Paix for £489pp. Additionally included are Eurostar tickets and transfers, tastings at Moët & Chandon and elsewhere, a three-course dinner, spa appointment and the adventitious to buy buzz and alike accept labels personalised.
Gentlemen can whip their comestible repertoire into appearance at Lucy Cooks (01539 822 507; lucycooks.co.uk) in Cumbria. Courses for stags alpha at £35; there's alike a brewery abutting door, which offers tours.
Budget-airline destinations
First stop for anyone because a stag blow in Eastern Europe should be the biking adviser inyourpocket.com. It gives the abhorrent on cities from Druskininkai to Veliky Novgorod. Belgrade in Serbia (tob.rs) is a top pick. Wizzair (0906 959 0002; wizzair.com) flies there from Luton. Or accede Wroclaw in Poland (wroclaw-life.com). It's Krakow bare the crowds; Ryanair (0871 246 0000; ryanair.com) flies there from Stansted, or Wizzair from Luton and Doncaster. Ladies could hop on Ryanair, easyJet (0843 104 5000; easyjet.com) or Autocrat (0871 9405 040; monarch.co.uk) for a weekend in Ibiza.
Who said that?
"Let's accept a accessible affair with breed and accoutrements and blaze trucks and hookers and drugs and booze!" – From the 1984 blur Accessible Affair starring Tom Hanks
"A man in adulation is abridged until he has married. Again he's finished." – Zsa Zsa Gabor
"Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest." – Yoko Ono
Stay local
In Newcastle you can apprentice how to handle six-wheel-drive cranes. One of your tasks is to lift the groom-to-be 20ft, circle the crane and again accomplish him abseil to the ground. Stagweb (01225 474200; stagweb.com) offers the advantage from £115 per being in a accumulation of 12, including B&B adaptation and bistro entrance. Added than 120 hotels and 30 guesthouses acceptable stag and hen parties in Blackpool (01253 478222; visitblackpool.com).
Life cartoon classes are accessible from Hen Heaven (01273 225 075; henheaven.co.uk) in several cities including Leeds, Bournemouth, Nottingham or Norwich from £29 per person.
If you appetite a abject for a affair in Edinburgh, booty over an absolute hostel. Haggis Auberge (0131 557 0036; haggishostels.co.uk) is abreast Princes Street and accommodates up to 34 bodies for £25 per person.
Get a accumulation of accompany calm in Cardiff to architecture your own bespoke perfume. GoHen (01225 474200; gohen.com) can fix it from £135 per being if there are 12 of you. The amount includes adaptation at the Radisson Blu auberge and bistro entrance.
Insider information
"If you accept an blow on your stag do afterwards 10 pints of lager, you should apprehend that your allowance affirmation will be refused. Some acceptable advice: break abroad from balconies and pond pools at night, and leave your buzz and wallet bound away." – Greg Lawson, Head of Retail, Columbus Direct Insurance