[Closed] Morzine.... Any good for a stag?

Do it proper and enjoy your mtb holiday.

Then get your best man to organise a separate stag weekend somewhere else.

NO. hate to be all NIMBY, but the last thing the sausage fest that is morzine night clubs needs its 20 more pished up men in fancy dress fighting over the one dog ugly girl.

I hear ya, but I'm 31, and I'd like to think a little more discerning than the whole fancy dress/typical stag thing. Not my bag at all. Same applies to the guys coming along too really (although I appreciate there's 'always one').

I know what you're saying though.

Bit more info...The main benefit is financially being able to afford an MTB holiday AND stag in one summer. Otherwise the MTB trip may have to go!

There are plenty of late bars and they are used to same sex groups of bikers/skiers/boarders all year round in Morzine so I don't see why not.

'same sex group of bikers'

despite your advanced years that sounds sounds like a fairly weak stag do!

just my 2p

Could work out very expensive. I imagine its more now, but last time i was there it was 5 euro's for a pint.

If you do go, you have to do the Fantasticable over in Chatel. Whether you do it clothed or not will be up to the rest of your stag party...
[url= http://www.fantasticable.com/chatel_decouverte2.htm ]Fantasticable[/url]

Yeah, was thinking about the cost side of things, but last year on a stag in Barcelona each flat Fosters cost us €9 in a crappy Irish bar! Can't be any worse than that!

Tracknicko - any bright ideas for a cheap stag weekend that means I get to do the MTB trip too? The whole Prague, Latvia thing I've done... I want a good laugh, but that's not my thing! every stag I go on I seem to shell out a small fortune... hence tying the two together in Morzine...

beanum - definitely! I clocked that already... looks quality!

Hmmm depends what you want - for day activities it would be fantastic but the times I've been (only the last 2 years in July) the night life has been pretty flat, most bars empty and virtually no women other than a couple of barmaids. Being old we didn't stay out much past midnight so maybe it gets lively after that!?

Got to agree with the other naysayers.

If you've been there in the winter you might have experienced a much more lively nightlife than I did last year.

Lots of nice blokes to talk about MTBing with, while drinking very expensive booze in mostly-empty nightclubs.

I'd have been disappointed with that as a stag trip, tbh.

canary islands.

25 degree weather. clubs that dont OPEN till 4. 1 euro beer.

PROPER hills.

and (drumroll) GIRLS!

Thanks all, sounds like it'll be a nay to Morzine (for the stag at least). Bit of a quandary as I don't want to miss out on the biking trip so I need to think alternative plans to allow both to happen..... (and no, the missus won't postpone the wedding : ))

Bit of an oxymoron, but has anyone been on a 'reasonably' priced stag that was a good alternative to the boring, overpriced Eastern European crud?

Tracknicko - Ears prick up, girls you say...

Could you consider moving the bike trip somewhere with a better nightlife?

Andorra's resorts are close to Barcelona I think.

mate it gets better. in january... flights are 15 quid or less. accomodation is about 5 quid a night.

there are NO english people (we saw 4 of them in 7 days)

and at the weekend every spanish girl on the island descends from the big cities to the clubs on the southerly resorts.

oh and the weather peaked at 28 and never went below 22 during the day...

you can keep morzine!

Does it have to be abroad?

I'm thinking about a mountain mayhem (forest of dean) weekend. With biking on the Friday for those who want to come (I reckon only 5 or 6 will) for my stag

Do it proper and enjoy your mtb holiday.

Then get your best man to organise a separate stag weekend somewhere else.

+1

Err. If I wasnt a mountain biker I'd be 'err right. What the **** are we supposed to do during the day here'?

Imagine someone had you tag along on a horse riding holiday.

Seperate.

Can't argue with any of the points made. Although I reckon there'd be enough in the daytime for the non-MTB'ers, but the nights could be pretty flat I guess. Thought it might be a cunning plan... but now not so sure!

It'll need to be sprint/summer time hence the clash with the biking trip (which can't really be changed) but doesn't have to be abroad.

Main consideration is cost (so that I can still do Morzine) - how about Dublin? Not at all cheap there I appreciate with the €, but surely it'd be cheaper overall than a summer trip to the Canaries, Spain, Eastern Europe etc....

Friend of mine had his stag in Edinburgh, we had a day at GT on Friday for the MTBers and others joined us in the city that eve.

Great nightlife there, ditto Glasgow.

you show me the sums where flying to dublin is cheaper than staying in the canaries on a 15 quid flight with 5 quid per night accomodation.

plus i bet it rains there.

tracknicko - You still talking the same flight & accommodation prices in July/August?

I'll definitely get best man on the case. Is that flying into Tenerife South? Ands which resorts for accommodation?

Cheers!

Tracknicko where are you getting these £15 flights from? We go to Gran Canaria at least twice a year (wife is from there so we visit the in laws) and the cheapest I have had a flight is about £80 one way (from the Midlands inc tax)

Bit of a quandary as I don't want to miss out on the biking trip so I need to think alternative plans to allow both to happen