Many stag parties are travelling to Eastern Europe for a truly exceptional experience: the Trabant trek is the ultimate road-trip while combining the chance to travel in a classic of Eastern European engineering.

With a name taken from the German word for ‘satellite’, the Trabant is an East German-built car originally made as a motorbike. The once-popular car is made of a steel frame; the body is made of Duroplast, a plasticised cotton waste. It has a 600cc engine and 26 hp. One of the beauties of the car is that it is so easy to fix: a good mechanic can replace the engine in fifteen minutes! With a top speed of just over 50mph these cherished relics are becoming an ever-popular car to drive, with stag parties coming from all over Europe to drive the classic motors.

The car was so popular around 3 million cars were made up before production ceased in 1991. Many of the cars were exported and were favourites of many communist countries, being spacious for all of the family it was small, compact and very lightweight. Nicknamed Trabbi or Trabi, where were many versions, namely the Trabant 500, Trabant P 50 and the Tranbant 601. Now, the Tranbant has become a collector’s item with people all over the world and it has been used in many popular films.

Many people love the car for its nostalgic qualities, with collectors all over the world. Its bodywork made of recycled materials was the result of extensive research into alternative materials. Made of a resin, which is reinforced with cotton fibres, Duroplast is very similar to fibreglass (the latter was more widely accepted in the UK, as communist production was not very popular in other countries.)

The Trabant trek is a fantastic opportunity to take one of these enigmatic cars around the Eastern European countryside. With a couple of cars and the blokes in the back, you can have your own version of The Italian Job, or just take in the sights, while driving around at a leisurely pace. The Trabant trek is becoming a widely popular craze with people travelling all over the world in these little plastic cars. Take a picnic, or taste the local delights in the heart of the Hungarian hills.

The hottties go crazy over this little car and driving one will make you the envy of other motorists – at least in theory. You can get cosy in the back or pose with cute local girls on the bonnet. You can take part in the Trabant trek both in summer and winter; both are memorable for different reasons!

Take a soft top in the summer so you can get a closer look at the landscape or challenge your mates to a drive in the snow. The car’s two-stroke engine and dashboard gear-stick will only be the first part of the challenge. Whenever you decide to take on the Trabant trek be sure to allow the day, as you never know where this classic little car will take you.

Prague has become one of the most popular destinations for British stag parties in recent years, earning titles such as “Stag Capital of Europe” and “Amsterdam of the East”. But with all the excitement the city has to offer, it’s certainly no surprise.

As one of Europe’s most beautiful and charming cities, Prague has some incredible architecture for history fans, including Gothic spires, ancient coffee houses and medieval streets. However, it’s the city’s beautiful female inhabitants, wide range of strip bars and night clubs, top class restaurants and beer costing as little as 50p a pint that makes Prague the real winner among British stag groups.

By day, Prague caters to stag groups by offering a huge range of activities which the lads can enjoy together. Whatever your level of love for the outdoors, you’ll be able to find an activity of interest – ranging from bobsleighing to bowling, paintballing to parachuting, clay pigeon shooting to a Czech football match. Or, how about a mini grand-prix race on the go-kart track followed by a tour of a local brewery? Those seeking a real jet fuelled experience can even get strapped into the Czech-made L-29 military plane, where they’ll climb at 4000ft per minute and fly through Czech airspace at over 700km per hour!

By night, Prague’s numerous bars and night clubs pulsate with activity. One of the most famous night spots is the multi-venue Acropolis which hosts a number of live gigs, theatre performances, cafés, club nights, bars and beer halls, making it one of the most well frequented night spots in the city. Eating out in Prague is great value and the perfect way to sample some hearty Czech cuisine, such as pork or beef stew with dumplings and delicious apple strudel for dessert, all washed down with a pivo (beer), for which the Czech Republic is world famous. There are also many western style and fast food restaurants, so there’s something to suit all palettes.

With so many established companies offering fully organised stag weekends to Prague, arranging your trip is simple. Most companies have stag weekend package deals to suit all budgets, which include transfers, accommodation and offer plenty of additional options to cater to the tastes of any group. And the fact that there are so many flights to Prague from London and throughout the UK, which take only two hours to reach the Czech Republic, means the city is easily accessible from the UK at a low price.

So, if you’re looking for a place to hold a stag weekend you’ll find no better city than Prague – the European stag capital!

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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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With 800 years of experience, there are few cities that can boast the atmosphere that Riga offers for stag parties. A vibrant, modern city with a special love of music, Riga offers a blend of adrenaline-raising activities and heart-pumping night life that make stag parties in Riga the sort that you’re still talking about years later. The Old Town in Riga boasts clubs, live music, DJs, casinos and bars that cover the spectrum from posh to dodgy. And if shopping is part of your agenda, Riga’s city market is the largest in the world.

Shopping on a stag weekend? Stag parties in Riga find some unusual things to do, and shopping is one of them. The City Market is housed under four enormous renovated zeppelin hangars, and is a great place to test your Stag’s mettle in the face of the local ‘scenery’. It’s just a few minutes walk from Old Town Riga, where dozens of pubs and bars offer an excellent venue for a Riga stag parties pub crawl. If you’re not certain of the best watering holes in the city – and who’d expect a bunch of tourists out on a holiday stag jaunt to know? – you can turn the planning over to a tour organizer that specialises in arranging activities for stag parties in Riga.

One Riga stag parties activity that you won’t find in many other cities is an afternoon of – bob-sledding. Hurtling down an icy bobsleigh track at speeds approaching blurring, with no brakes to slow your downward descent – is there a better metaphor for the journey your mate is about to embark than that? Other daytime activities for stag parties in Riga include paintball, quad biking, off road karting and… wait for it.. bungee jumping! Let your stag literally take the plunge before he jumps off the cliffs into married life, eh?

Stag parties in Riga really hit their stride in the evenings, though, with dozens of clubs and music venues that offer a taste of every entertainment imaginable. Hit the nightclubs with a guide, or rent out a limousine for a bangup start to your night with a lapdance limo ride. If you make your arrangements in advance, you can end up your pub crawl in one of Riga’s lap dancing and strip clubs for a night of ogling the best girl flesh that Eastern Europe has to offer.

Bobsleighing in Riga is just one example of a fun stag parties activity that a professional tour operator can help you arrange. If you’re looking for more unique ideas for stag parties in Riga or any other city, contact Chillisauce.co.uk, a tour operator that specialises in unique and unusual stag nights, bachelor parties and stag weekends.

In recent years Budapest has become one of Europe’s most popular travel destinations, providing a unique blend of stunning architecture, nightlife and surprisingly reasonable prices.

Thanks to low cost booze, accessibility from the UK and a tolerant attitude towards larger parties, it has also become extremely popular for stag weekends. If you want a stag party that is a little different from your local pub crawl then here are some tips on drinking in Budapest, the best places to go, price and general etiquette.

Budapest has a great variety of bars from the elegant up-market establishments to more rough and ready beer halls that provide an atmosphere and charm all their own – not to mention excellent beer. With such bars aplenty you will have no problem finding one to your liking and that will fit into your Budapest stag weekend theme.

For a traditional Hungarian experience, and with some extremely cheap drinking to boot, you will want to visit a borozo, wine pub, or a sorozo, a beer bar. The former sells cheap but drinkable Hungarian wine at ridiculously low prices, while in the latter you can buy beers for as little as 60p (although decent beers will cost you around £1.50) with spirits being a little more expensive at about £1.50 a shot. Prices to get into clubs can vary in general you can expect to pay between £1.00 and about £3.20. A lot of the clubs open at 10pm but you can always find pubs and clubs that open earlier to cater for the Brit who wants to start early. On top of this the majority of clubs stay open to six in the morning – and many stay open even later. This means that a European stag weekend is a good choice whether you want to start early and party hard or not.

One of the most popular areas to go is Hajogyari Sziget (Shipyard Island), where you’ll find various clubs to suit all tastes from huge outdoor venues to more intimate spots. Another popular place, and one that is said to attract the most beautiful women, is the Café Negro club in Pest. Café Negro not only has some of the best local DJs, and drinks, but also houses a restaurant that is well worth visiting. If you’re home sick and can’t stand being away from your local boozer then there is the always the Morrison English Pub. The great thing about this place is that many travellers go there as well so it easy to find a hen night on a similar tour.

When it comes to drinking etiquette, clinking beer glasses used to be frowned upon. It is said that the Austrian’s clinked their glasses to celebrate the putting to death of a group of Hungarian Generals in 1848 and as such was viewed censoriously by the locals. However, the tradition of not clinking was set to last 150 years – thus in 1998 the widely adopted disdain for clinking expired and Hungarians now clink away with fervour.

Another thing is that although the Hungarians are fairly tolerant they will frown upon large groups of highly inebriated stag partiers – in fact their frowns may be so hard that they could give you a black eye. However, take it easy and enjoy the Hungarians hospitality and your stag weekend will remain memorable and safe – a memorable send off into married life.

Fancy a stag do with exciting daytime activities and exotic night time adventures that do not burn a hole in your pocket? Yes! This place exists and it goes by the name of Budapest. For a mere 80p, you can get a pint of beer while a hearty meal will just cost you less than £5. Couple this with the service of a Chillisauce stag do operator, you will definitely be bound for some pure fun and lasting memories!

Also named as the Paris of the East, Budapest boasts of the Buda section that is the historic section of the city and the Pest, where all the modern malls, clubs and restaurants are located. With a total of 123 thermal springs and a selection of outdoor spas combined with 2000 hours of sunshine each year, your stag do in Budapest will definitely be one of your best experiences ever.

Possible unique daytime activities for a Budapest stag do include a taste of adventure sports in the nearby Pilis Mountains. These would include exciting rally driving experiences, Quad Bike racing and obstacle courses as well as uniquely different thermal spas and exotic Bacchanalian Spas. Unlike the ones in UK, the thermal spas here are located in buildings designed much like castles with fountains and pools of both warm and cold water, as well as bikini clad beauties. These are just perfect for recovery after the heavy booze and hangover from the previous night. Furthermore, other services that complement the thermal spa include steam rooms, sauna and massage services, all of which have been built to cater to your need to relax.

What other unique stag do activities can you expect from Budapest? Well, if you are in for some gambling fun, then there’s the Budapest casino. Chillisauce will take care of all the entry requirements for you so that you can just enjoy the Poker, Roulette and Blackjack, or even have a go at the Slot Machines.

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