The trend to have your hen and stag weekend abroad continues despite escalating costs

One website, Hotels.com says more people than ever are travelling abroad for hen and stag weekends despite increasing travel costs. Two-fifths (43%) of people have travelled abroad to help friends celebrate their final days of freedom and wedding guests can now expect to spend £170 on a weekend away. Redseven Leisure, a tour operator based in Brighton which helps provide travel arrangements for hen or stag weekends, says there has been no decline in European or worldwide travel despite escalating prices. “There is a 50/50 split on people spending their weekend in the UK or abroad. The groups who have planned in advance and set their sights on an overseas weekend will inevitably do it.”
Redseven Leisure allows parties to tailor their special weekend, with hens preferring a spa weekend and dancing salsa evenings and stags preferring clay pigeon shooting and quad biking weekends. In recent years, there has been an increase in weekends to Eastern European cities such as Prague and Krakow, although Ibiza, Amsterdam and Barcelona remain popular. The most popular hen and stag weekends in the UK include London, Brighton, Eastbourne, Edinburgh and Newquay.