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mate of mine interested in going on a stag do to france. anybody been anywhere they can suggest? Needs to be nice but cheap?! If there is such a thing!

Anyone been to lille?

Just back from a stag in Dublin. F*cking ludicrously expensive. Great place though...

Never been to France and would never go, but what with the poor euro rate I would avoid europe. The further east you go the cheaper it gets I find.

why would you never go?

hate the french

Racist

thanks for your, er, help sippo.

Disneyland Paris???? that would be possibly the most random stag do ever??

Agreed though Dublin is deeply ace but deeply expensive - was it your first time there?

fourth. we didn't even go to temple bar this time. great place, one of my favourite citites, but six euros a pint!!

I once went on a stag weekend to Reims.  Spent the day getting trashed on cheap champagne and the evenings getting trashed on beer.  All of which means I remember very little about Reims.  Sorry.

Much as I love the place.....i wouldn't be considering France for a stag weekend.  They're just not cultural enough to have properly grasped binge drinking yet.

Many's the time I've wandered through some gorgeous town or other, admired the bars, the street life, the.....only to find it all shut up come beer o'clock.

Lille is as good a shout as anywhere (in that it is pretty, easily accessible and lively), because it's practically Belgian.  But not cheap.

Have you considered anywhere in Germany or Holland, for example, where the natives might be a little more like-minded, if you like that sort of thing?

Some of my best ever binges have been in france, small one or two bar villages are best, they are normally delighted that they get tourists, and in my experience stay open until you've drunk everything.

This has to be the only time anyone has ever used the phrase "practically Belgian" as a recommendation :)

In fact Belgium would probably be better for a drinking weekend, but I know what pauld means

Went to Paris for my honey moon in 1981. Awful experience & was confirmed on a vist 10 years later. Why would any one go to france when Spain is warmer, cheaper & friendlier. ? Even the illegal immigrants can't wait to get out of france.

Northen France is indeed the pits.

The South however is brilliant. Weather is great, some great towns and cities and really friendly locals (Apart from Marseilles).

I guess the thinking was ease of eurostar. as a group we've bbeen to spain, amsterdam, prague, talinn, ireland, hamburg, so just fancied summat different. The stag is a bit retiscent to go to eastern europe, so were looking at other avenues.

so where do you want to go Nice or Lille, make your mind up

he he. Nice is nice, but tres expensive. Or it was when I went with my old man in 1989!

Someone else has already said it, but go to Belgium. Eurostar ticket to Brussels entitles you to free onward travel and Bruges, Antwerp or Ghent will adequately serve your needs. If bars with beer menus consisting of over 50-100 different brews sound like your kind of thing, then Belgium is your kind of place.

Alternatively, just all go down this bloke's local pub and get shit-faced. Never quite understood the modern need to inflict our mass piss-ups on the rest of the continent...

Stade de Rheims, got to the European Cup Final in 56 and 59....I recall a great side Raymond Kopa, Juste Fontaine and Michel Hidalgo. They lost both times and fell away into Div 3 obscurity....

I'd have thought the rugby playing bit of France might have cottoned on to binge drinking, go somewhere like Angouleme, Agen, Castres, Carcassonne, Beziers or Tarbes.

I loves France....French are a bunch of cunts, but that's part of why I like them...too much Anglo/Americanism in the world is a bad thing.

France is a crap choice for a stag venue. You get a much better night out experience in Germany or Belgium than France. What about Brussels, Bruges or Antwerp?

I went to a stag do in Saint Malo once. Did the Portsmouth to St Malo overnight ferry. Which was fine getting pissed on the way out. Crap feeling hungover on the way back. I think St Malo was OK. It's a bit hazy in the noggin.

I've been through St Malo a few times, from memory, it's got a fine old looking old town wall going around it, which like much of the town was completely rebuilt after getting razed to the ground during the war. Not a place where many people hang about though.