Activity Stag Weekends

Brighton is one of the most popular stag do destinations in England. It is a bohemian city with a wild nightlife that is perfect for a naughty weekend by the seaside.

However, its daytime treats are more suited to different ages and women, so what to do before the night time entertainment begins?

Paintballing is a perfect activity of course and if you are planning your own stag weekend you will need to find the perfect paintball venue.

Go Ballistic has a great venue based just 20 minutes drive from Brighton and they have tailor made stag packages, including 'Hunt the Stag' from £37.

If you go paintballing on a stag weekend it is certain that you will want to stitch up the stag to some extent and pummel him with bullets - he won't admit it, but he'll be expecting it too.

The video below is a fine example of how to go about it - the pink bunny suit is just perfect!

What is the strangest thing you've thought of doing on your stag weekend? Read on, as we are sure it won't be as strange as this.

It's a knock-out Stag Activity

For the young ones It's a knock-out was a very popular, if not very werid TV show from the 80's, which incredibly at one point had a royal edition (for charity). Effectively it was an English version of Takeshi's Castle.

Anyway, the fun and games have been recreated in Bournemouth, Nottingham and Bristol and are designed for stag parties to come and take part in all the classic games.

This is the most popular of the three destinations for stag groups. It has purposefully targeted stag groups and has a fantastic range of activities on offer to support the night time entertainment. This is a beautiful city and perfect for those that like to explore new destinations.

Wroclaw

This is without doubt Poland's party city and the one that Poles choose to go to for a good time. It is therefore vibrant, lively and tailor-made for stag weekends, as the locals do not mind sharing their party town with foreign visitors.

A superb stag activity is paintballing, which is high in adrenaline, testosterone and excitement. A good mix we think! It is something the whole stag group can do together, it provides plenty to talk about over your pints in the evening and many memories to cherish for years to come.

However, there are loads of rubbish paintball sites out there, those that just consist of some trees and some overturned tables. If some of your group have experience of paintballing a poor site will be a huge disappointment.

One company that has sites across the country that we can confidently recommend is Skirmish Paintball.

The locations below are available with Skirmish Paintball. See their website above for more information.

Scotland
Aberdeen
Edinburgh
Glasgow
North East
Teesside
Yorkshire
Brighouse
Leeds
Wakefield
East Midlands
Northampton Bedford
Leicester Coventry
Nottingham, Sheffield
West Midlands
Birmingham
Wolverhampton
East of England
Ipswich Colchester
kings Lynn Norfolk
Norwich, Yarmouth
South West
Dorset
Bristol
Exeter
Warminster
South East
Basingstoke
Buckingham
Cobham
Surrey & Kent
Essex
High Wycombe
Wales
Cardiff

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.

What games can you play on your stag weekend? This is a question that usually comes up on route to the party, causing everyone to desperately remember rules and then try to explain them to the group.

Plan ahead and print off some information so you can liven up your stag go with some hilarious party games, which are usually based around the idea of getting everyone drunk quicker than normal.

Our first suggestion is Pub Golf:

(more to follow)