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Using a company to organise your stag weekend

{ Posted on 13:58 by Rob the Blogger }
If you've been browsing the internet looking for ideas for your stag weekend you've probably come across dozens of companies offering to organise your weekend.

This entails the company finding activities, venues and accommodation for your party based around your tastes, requests and dates. Some companies will also include the travel arrangements in the stag package.

It is rare that these companies directly manage any of the places that they offer to send you, so therefore they form a partnership with each location. The organisers send business in their direction, allowing them to negotiate favourable rates, but they will then charge you a commission in order to make a profit.

For example if you want to do paintballing on your stag weekend in Bournemouth and you organise this yourself you may be paying £30 per head for your activity, whereas if you use a company, for example Red Seven Leisure, you may be paying £40 per head.

Therefore you will always be paying more for what you receive compared to if you do this yourself, but using a company does have its benefits to compensate for this extra cost.

Organising a stag do for 10 or 15 people is a nightmare as you have to persuade a hotel to house you, a restaurant to take your booking and a nightclub to let you on the guest list. You also have to locate these venues and activity centres in a location that you will often be unaware of. The organisers will co-ordinate this for you and you just need to pay them, rather than each place individually.

On the down side though is that some destinations will be kept from you as organisers do not want you to gain advice from them only to book it yourself afterwards. Therefore there is the risk that venues will be chosen that are not to the tastes of your book.

In conclusion, if you are prepared to organise your own stag do then it is certainly in your interests to do so. If you are very busy, unorganised, or seriously lacking ideas for your stag party then use a company.

In a later post we will profile some of the big players in the industry.

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