World's best buck's parties
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Sure, a glassy-eyed stagger around Surfer’s Paradise with a traffic cone on your head is a cheapish way to piss goodbye to your mate’s freedom. But for something a little more memorable? Take your pick...
VIP Vegas
The bespoke trip-service Total Experiences can fulfil your every whim, courtesy of a personal assistant to do all the dull organising bit. Need VIP entry into top nightclub Pure? Fancy a golfing lesson at Rio Secco with Tiger Woods’ personal coach? Want to race supercars in the desert with girls from the X Burlesque show? Or just stay in the Caesars Palace suite where The Hangover was filmed and watch the Adult Channel until dawn? All cool. NB: farcical encounters with Mike Tyson not included. Yet.
The damage: Price depends on trip; visit TotalExperiences.com
Test his faithfulness
Want to know how much your groom loves his fiancée? You’ll find out in Stockholm: capital of Sweden and the official epicentre of Earth’s hot girls. Flights plus two nights in a four-star hotel gives you long enough to wander bars sampling the incredible local-female gene pool. Meanwhile, VIP entry to top club Café Opera may see you decide that maybe monogamy – and, indeed, the entire institute of marriage – is stupidly outdated.
The damage: Flights from $2500; FlightCentre.com.au
Drive like a dead set idiot
Perfect your three-point-turn in style by flying your stags to the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds, the vast winter-vehicle testing facility high above Lake Wanaka on NZ’s south island. Hone your power-drifting with a personal instructor, or just drive like a moron on the snow flats with (almost) complete impunity. Then retire to a luxury cabin for dinner, cooked by your personal, in-house chef.
The damage: Two-day course $15,800 based on eight people, not including flights; SHPG.co.nz
Drive over Manhattan
That’s not a poor choice of preposition: we do mean “over”. Specifically over the Rooftop Test Track, nine storeys above New York’s Eleventh Avenue. Designed to show the capability of Land Rover vehicles, the full 160m track leaves you teetering over the rim of the building, before you reverse, alter traction control and almost certainly soil yourself.
The damage: $1300 not including flights and hotel; ManhattanAuto.com
Drink a 20-hour day
Do you have the stamina for the legendary Reykjavik Rúntur in Iceland? Thanks to the planet’s saucy tilt, every Saturday during the northern mid-summer sees 20 hours of daylight; plenty of time to stumble along Laugavegur Street, downing $18(!) pints. Book into the Blue Lagoon spa (BlueLagoon.com) for a slightly girly hangover cure the next day.
The damage: Flights from $2899; FlightCentre.com.au
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