Stag Weekends In Eastern Europe

Posted by David Whitley Sep 18, 2007

September wedding

My friend is getting married in September next year, and his best man has asked for my advice on where to go for a stag party weekend. The key thing here is that we are all the sort of people that hate the stereotypical bucks’ weekend – knuckle-scraping, grunting, strip clubs and public urination. So where is best to go?

Cheap drinks in Tallinn or Riga?

Well, we want cheap drinks, naturally, so that rules out Copenhagen in Denmark, Oslo in Norway or Stockholm in Sweden. We also don’t want to be surrounded by other stag parties, so that rules out Tallinn in Estonia, Riga in Latvia, Prague in the Czech Republic, Amsterdam in the Netherlands or Barcelona in Spain.

Vilnius or Ljubljana?

The logical conclusion, therefore, is to head to a city in Eastern Europe that hasn’t yet been infected by the stag party curse. Ones that spring to mind immediately are Vilnius in Lithuania and Ljubljana in Slovenia.

Real alternatives

But naturally, my instinct is to try and head for somewhere well off the usual travel map. How about Chisinau in Moldova, Kiev in the Ukraine or Belgrade in Serbia?