Drunken debauchery, lapdancing clubs with strippers galore and naked men chained to railings the night before their wedding! It can only be the most celebrated tradition of the 21st century – The Stag Do!!

The Stag Night Weekends invariably took place over an evening – traditionally the night before the wedding – however, modern day men celebrate the hardcore way with stag weekends celebrated over as many as 3 or 4 days. The elongation of the traditional Stag Night Weekend has the stag and his party jumping for joy, so no wonder some women get just a little apprehensive when their partners announce they are off on a stag weekend with a bunch of testosterone enhanced buddies!

The choice of destination is merely the beginning, with activity centres opening up all over the world, extreme sports is the tip of the iceberg and strip clubs an exciting reality. These days our men not only have it too good, they’re not ashamed to take the bull by the horns and go all out for the party experience of their life! With stag nights and stag weekends drifting abroad, Europe is a top stag destination with places like Reykjavik, Riga, Estonia, Prague and Amsterdam tipping the top of the popularity boards.

Websites such as www.betterweekends.com, promote group activity Stag Night Weekends and stag breaks to these European cities for a long weekends of cheap drinks, Extreme sports, go-karting with strip clubs aplenty.

Foreign embassies are becoming so overwhelmed with Stag Night Parties, who turn to them for help with replacing lost passports or tracking down lost friends, they are going to impose an £84-an-hour charge for consular time.

So what is the key to a safe and successful Stag do?

Firstly and fore mostly, plan ahead and make sure everyone knows where they are going and what the itinerary is before the weekend.

If you can’t be responsible for yourself, nominate someone – it’s generally a good idea if it’s the best man or the person that’s arranged the stag do - to be responsible for planning the itinerary and gathering the group together.

Make sure the passports are valid, photocopied and handed to the group organiser to put in a safe place in the event of passports being lost or stolen – this saves so much time, hassle and money if like in many, many cases they do go awol.

Take down everyone’s mobile number at the start of the stag do and before you leave British soil! Believe it or not, your loved and trusted friends can go missing (a mix of alcohol and ladies is enough to lead any red bloodied man astray whatever his normal good intention are) and this may be hysterically funny at first, however, it can turn into a anxious nightmare, if, at the end of the stag do, they still haven’t reappeared! It sounds extreme, but believe me it happens and it happens a lot!

Be aware that you are in a strange country and bad behaviour is rarely tolerated. Research the area you are travelling to and check out the do’s and don’ts before you go.

Know your alcohol limit – it can impair judgment, lead to accidents and can increase the risk of you becoming a victim of crime.

Finally, have a great time and enjoy the whole experience.

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In a time when football stars don alice bands to offset their fresh blonde highlights and rockers turn to macrobiotics and prune juice rather than whiskey and hookers, the stag weekend may well be the last bastion of old school masculinity. Amalia Illgner takes a look at the modern incarnation of this rite of passage and discovers there’s a lot more to the modern stag weekend than just a boozy night of bonding and bristols.

Back when Michael Caine was a sex symbol, Michael Jackson still black, and Chicken Tikka was considered the height of culinary chic; the perfect stag night simply consisted of a case of beer, your best mates, a fully loaded Polaroid, and an amateur stripper named Bambi. How times have changed…

According to the office for national statistics we’re now far less likely to get married in the first place and if we do get dragged down the aisle it’s far later than ever before. In fact for men the average age has crept up to an all time high of 30 and a half years, so there’s little wonder that it’s not just a small cause for celebration when two people in this Bridget Jones world manage to step away from their work stations, microwave-meals-for-one and eBay auctions and actually commit to each another.

What this means for the stag weekend is that generally couples have more money to spend on their respective hen and stag weekends and what that means is that the stag weekends are getting more elaborate, adventurous and action packed. In other words the ante is being upped along with the expectations. Forget sitting on your rear and ordering the seafood special at your local, the typical 21st century stag weekend consists of action packed days filled with paintball army combat style, canyoning, quad biking, Munich beer halls, Estonian feasts and coasteering. For those of you who think crossing Piccadilly Circus during peak hour is about as rugged terrain as you’ve ever seen, coasteering is the fine art of scrambling around a coastline and leaping off cliffs into wave lapped coves below. It’s about as close to becoming Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as anyone who works in an office is going to get. Ever. And the guys are loving it. In fact, coasteering – as well as the trusty faithfulls like paintball and quad biking – is fast becoming the new black when it comes to planning the ultimate stag weekend. There truly is nothing like getting a bunch of lads together adding a strong element of fear, the smell of competition and the threat of ritual humiliation to bring out the dormant Evil Knieval within.

And it seems this chest beating machismo and daring even stretches into the cultural realm as scores of quintessential British stags are downloading Google earth, thumbing through a phrase book and heading off shore to experience far flung destinations for their weekend of freedom. The foreign office released a detailed survey at the end of last year and found that a staggering 70 per cent of young Brits “now prefer to travel abroad for hen and stag parties”. That sure is a giant leap from our parents’ night out in Bournemouth. And perched at the top of the destination pack is undeniable the cool of Eastern Europe. Riga. Vilnius. Tallinn. Bratislava. Moscow. They’re so cool they’re hot. The Iron Curtain is cool and the Eastern Bloc is rocking. This is principally from the recent expansion of the European Union making costly and irritating visas at thing of the past and the fact that flights are now cheaper than a ticket to see Rod Stewart’s Greatest Hits tour at Wembley. And let’s not forget the exchange rate. Ah the sweet exchange rate, where often one humble quid will be enough to buy more than one pint of quality local brew. This point is often argument enough to entice punters from expensive metro poles like London (where one quid may buy you a copy of The Sun and half a mars bar).

So 21st Century Stags unite! The options are as endless as your imagination. That really is the easy part. Now it’s just a matter of convincing her to marry you…

If there’s one city in the world that knows how to party, it’s Manchester. This isn’t exactly news to the hip and the cool – Manchester has been the center of hip for decades now. Trendy music, classic style, the original Pub crawl capital of the world and home to the Curry Mile – not to mention the Hard Rock Cafe – what more could you ask from a city if you’re planning a stag do? Stag parties were made for Manchester – or should that be the other way around?

But there’s more to Manchester than night life. By day, the cheeky city boasts some of the best sporting and active pursuits any man would be proud to admit to indulging. Stag parties in Manchester tend to run to full stag weekends of non-stop rousing and Arousing fun. Whether it’s a spot of paintball (or a whole lot of paintball spots!), a round of golf, a jaunt around the course in an armored tank or a walk on the wild side in Manchester’s hottest nightclubs, a Manchester stag weekend can boast something for everyone.

So you’re the bloke that gets to plan a stag party in Manchester? Here’s a handful of helpful tips to make sure you send your mate off on his wedding day with a photo album full of memories. (And you can’t blame us if they’re the sort he’ll pay to keep hidden!)

Start with a THEME. In a city full of college pranksters and swaggering Mancunians, you’ll need a way to make the Stag stand out from the crowd. Who could miss him strutting down the street in the midst of a dozen toga-clad Senators? Or if togas are a bit too Greek for your lot, why not hit the clubs wearing pith helmets and monocles for a jolly old night on the town?

Don’t forget the PRANK – the lynchpin of any stag party in Manchester or anywhere else. The best we’ve heard is a direct steal from MAS*H – get your guest of honor totally soused… then encase him from neck to knees in a plaster cast. All right – that one might be a touch rough to pull off, but it’s a bit more imaginative than hiding all his trousers and leaving him nothing to wear but a pair of boxers stamped with bright pink ribbons.

Even if you decide to do away with the theme and the prank, you’ll still find a lot of benefit in some advance planning for your Manchester stag weekend. In fact, say many professional tour operators, you’d do best to start making your plans and reservations as much as six months in advance, especially if you want to include popular activities like quad bikes, five a side football or hovercraft racing. If you’re feeling especially organized, you might even arrange a full weekend of spy games to entertain the man of the hour in his final hours.

A stag weekend in Manchester is just one example of the unique stag parties that a professional tour operator can help you arrange. If you’re looking for more unique ideas for stag parties in Manchester or any other city, contact a tour operator that specialises in unique and unusual stag nights, bachelor parties and stag weekends.

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The concept of stag party has changed over the period of time as the interests of men have gone through a tremendous change so far. There has been a lot of change in the stag weekend activities just to provide the maximum level of satisfaction and pleasure.

Planning a stag party fro your friend who needs to be pampered before committing to the circle of marriage? Well, there are so ways you can make your friend really special and welcomed. In this article, we’ll talk about many tips and techniques that can help you to plan great stag weekends for your pal.

When it comes to arranging anything men are notoriously known for leaving it till the last minute. If that sounds just like you and your best friend has given you the task of arranging his stag night then read below for some pointers to help you get organized.

Consider Following Important Tips:

Try to plan ahead of eth scheduled program.

Gather all the information about people who can make it into the party.

Estimate an expected a budget.

Fix a date and time.

Make your reservation prior to the D-Day.

Organizing a successful stag event can be complex even if you have never have done such things in the past. Timing everything correctly will ensure that everything runs smoothly on the night. Men are usually better at time keeping in comparison to women so this will be an extra added bonus.

You can plan for drinks in local pub or bar. If you have a group of people attending the stag party then hiring a transportation idea would be quite practical. Hire a vehicle something like Hummer that consist flat TV screen, sound system, DVD player, and other luxuries so that you can have the time of your life. After that, you can go for a meal and can enjoy the delicious meals.

Stag party can be the most exciting time of a man’s life and it needs to be planned carefully with a thoughtful process.

Tales of legendary stag weekends are told by fathers to their sons in pubs the night before the wedding. If you are that son and your stag weekend was less than legendary, or even memorable for the wrong reasons, then the groom will spend the rest of marriage wondering where one finds these mystical stag weekends.

Stag weekends that are legendary are full of stories of conquests and passion. These days stag weekends often involve drinking too much and in one recent stag weekend, that was less than ‘legendary’ for the bride, the groom was arrested (along with the best man) and the wedding never happened.

If you want a stag weekend that is legendary then there are a few pointers to follow that are sure to make your stag weekend OF stag weekends.

Stag weekends don’t have to be fancy and flash like that of Manchester United Football Ace Wayne Rooney, who flew his friends to Ibiza for four days so that they could play on an expensive yacht, but they have to be fun.

Stag weekends spent in your local doing the same thing that you do on a Friday night can be fun, but if you are looking for something else, even a trip to your nearest city can make any stag weekend a bit more exciting. Add a cheap hotel and some dancing girls and you have the ingredients of a perfect stag weekend.

When you are organising stag weekends, it is worth thinking about the stag party. There should be something for everybody on a stag weekend. One of your mates is going to want girls; girls to dance with, girls to watch dance and girl to chat to. Another mate will be about the music and there will always be one who will be about drinking his weight in alcohol. With these ‘types’ of stag weekend blokes on tour with you make sure that you chose a good club, perhaps with a variety of music genres rooms – this covers drinks, ladies and music. So this covers the night, so if you are on a stag night one nighter, then this has it covered. However, if you are out for the entirety of a weekend, then you need to keep yourselves amused and out of trouble during the day too.

Stag weekends where you go paintballing or go karting are obvious, and fun, but you could opt for throwing in another factor. Perhaps you all went to Uni together, in which case re-living your student life on your stag weekend is a sure fire way of bringing put some childish behaviour that will have you laughing all of the way home.

A stag weekend which does require a bit more planning and a bit of a budget is a trip abroad. This could be either a scheduled and organised trip with activities sorted OR it could be a little bit more engineered and full or surprise. For example, everyone hands over £xx before the trip to one person – probably the best man. The best man then buys flights and sorts all the rest out and then everyone arrives at the airport and is handed an envelope. Within the envelope are the tickets and usually stuff as well as a mission for the stag weekend. This could be anything from get the groom a dance with a striper or get his locked out of his room when he is naked. You get the idea – but either way – this will definitely make him feel like he has some legendary stories from his stag weekend to tell his son.

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