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| SLOVAK SPECTATOR [SLOVAKIA] - 09 July 2007 |
| City, tour groups try to rein in stags |
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WITH STAG party season in full swing, it is just about impossible to stroll around Bratislava's Old Town on a weekend without seeing large groups of inebriated male foreigners carousing in the streets.
After the May arrest of a British stag caught naked in a fountain, stag trips to Bratislava - vacations for grooms-to-be and... |
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| BRATISLAVA PISSUP - 02 June 2007 |
| British stag to be jailed for masturbating in public |
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A Bratislava court sentenced 25-year old George Mallone from Britain to two months in prison for frolicking naked and masturbating in a fountain, Slovak media reported. The daily newspaper SME said that Mr. Mallone has appealed against the decision and is receiving advice and support from the British Embassy in Bratislava.
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| NEW YORK TIMES [USA] - 08 May 2007 |
| British Bachelor-Partiers Are Taking Their Revels East |
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By midnight, wearing nothing but his socks, Paul Roe had crawled the length of a strip club catwalk here, led on a leash by one barechested blonde woman while another whipped him with a belt.
As one might imagine, Mr. Roe, 27, was inebriated, celebrating his final days of bachelordom in that timeworn rite of passage known as... |
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| DER SPIEGEL [GERMANY] - 05 April 2007 |
| British Stag Parties Head East in Search of Cheap Beer |
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Just a short and cheap EasyJet or Ryanair flight away from London, Western European tourists are storming Eastern European cities like Tallinn and Riga. Unfortunately, British binge drinkers are too.
It's early in the morning in Dicken's Pub, and the punters are hung over. Sean from Worcester has lost his passport. Brian from... |
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| ORF TV [AUSTRIA] - 05 June 2006 |
| Hübsch und billig |
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Die slowakische Hauptstadt Bratislava sieht sich in jüngster Zeit mit einem Ansturm britischer Männer konfrontiert, die mit festen und eindeutigen Absichten kommen: Sie wollen Spaß, ehe sie im Hafen der Ehe landen. Und Bratislava hat sich für diese Zwecke offenbar als "Hot Spot" herauskristallisiert.
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| AFP - 22 March 2006 |
| Boozy in Bratislava |
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"Largely undiscovered" Bratislava is bracing itself for a British invasion after being hyped up as the latest 'hot' central and east European destination for stag party tourists.
"Great looking women and eastern Europe's cheapest food and beer mean that it won't stay this way for long," urges stag party agency Bratislava Pissup's... |
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| WASHINGTON POST [USA] - 06 March 2006 |
| Boarding Now On Flights of Fancy |
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Marc Burridge was wearing his trousers again, no longer dressed in the platinum blonde wig, orange skirt and black fishnet stockings that he wore on the flight over from London. But the ruby-red nail polish, another part of his costume for his weekend bachelor party, was still visible as he curled his fingers around a Glock handgun... |
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| TRAVELBITE.COM - 19 January 2006 |
| Stag and hen do's on a budget |
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Travelling abroad on a stag or hen do to destinations like Las Vegas, Moscow and Tallinn could be cheaper than staying within the UK.
Low cost air travel means it is just as easy to catch a cheap flight to Prague as it is to get a bus to Blackpool.
But it is the strength of the pound in relation to other worldwide currencies... |
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| THE OBSERVER [UK] - 13 November 2005 |
| It's a man thing |
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That's the one I just had a go on,' said one of the braver boys, gesturing at her as she walked out of the knocking shop, over the street to the kebab house and then back to work again, a big, greasy lamb doner in her hands, studiously ignoring us all the while. It was 11 in the morning, everyone sat round, horribly hungover,... |
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| SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE [USA] - 24 October 2005 |
| EUROPE ON THE CHEAP - Bratislava comes to life |
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Slovakia's lively capital emerges from post-Communist dreariness
It resembles any other cafe in Bratislava's quaint Old Town: small tables and chairs lining the pedestrian-only cobblestone street. A small bowl on each table holds a brightly colored Gerber daisy. But unlike the other cafes, it's not cheap local beer or foamy... |
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| IAFRICA [INTERNET] - 17 September 2005 |
| Stag parties flood eastern Europe |
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Britons nervously waiting to tie the knot are increasingly heading to the capitals of eastern Europe for alcohol-fuelled final flings with their best friends, otherwise known as stag or hen weekends.
Cities like Slovakia's capital Bratislava and Tallinn in Estonia vie for this fast-growing custom with perennial favourites... |
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| THE TIMES [UK] - 02 September 2005 |
| Advice to ease stag night headaches for embassies |
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SHORT of a royal visit, the one thing British embassy staff abroad dread most is an invasion of staggers and henners.
An estimated 70 per cent of young Britons now prefer to travel abroad for their prenuptials, and a quarter of those land in some kind of trouble, from loss of passport to death by drowning, according to a Foreign... |
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| BBC NEWS [UK} - 02 May 2005 |
| Slovakia's economy enjoys EU boom |
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Slovakia has been attracting investment from big business, day trippers, and stag night revellers since joining the EU last year.
The cobbled streets and fountain-lined squares of Bratislava's old town have always charmed the tourists.
But now Slovakia's capital is gleaming with foreign investment. It has become the eastern... |
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| KAROLA LENEHAN [IRELAND] - 21 April 2005 |
| Stag invasion |
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When I arrived back from Dublin last week I was greeted by the joyous sight of outdoor cafe tables all the way along Venturska and Michalska streets, finally the offical sign that Summer is on it's way! We reinstated the outdoor post-work pints last Thursday, an institution of last Summer, pure bliss! Sitting...talking...laughing... |
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| THE MIRROR [UK] - 01 January 2005 |
| WEEKEND TRAVEL: BLOC BOOKING |
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EASTERN Europe is fast becoming the place to go for a long weekend.
Prague, in the Czech Republic, is already firmly on the hen-and-stag party circuit, while the Hungarian capital Budapest is attracting Brits looking to buy cheap holiday apartments.
And now that much of Eastern Europe has joined the EU, most of the former... |
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| THE SCOTSMAN [UK] - 01 January 2005 |
| Bratislava: Slovakia |
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First there was Prague. We oohed and aahed at its glorious old town - and the prices. But it doesn’t have its own way any more as many more eastern European cities open up after being freed from the shackles of occupation and war. There are stunning cities across that part of the world, all competing for our tourist pounds. Prague... |
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| FT [UK] - 13 November 2004 |
| Where's hot |
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In a recent destination round-up of where was hot and where was not, CondéNast Traveller declared that Amsterdam had gone off the boil. Certainly when it comes to the lager-fuelled stag-party trade, the city would seem to be losing out to now easily accessible eastern Europe: Prague, the Baltic capitals, Budapest and even Ljubljana... |
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| SUNDAY POST [IRELAND] - 02 May 2004 |
| Bratislava's time to shine |
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In the same way that every Irish band that makes it into the charts is "the new U2", there isn't an eastern European city with a medieval square that hasn't been mooted as a replacement for Prague, now that it has succumbed to stag partyitis.
Maybe it's the shortage of direct flights or defining landmarks, but Bratislava has... |
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| THE INDEPENDENT [UK] - 29 February 2004 |
| Bratislava? Quick! Get there before the Brat Pack |
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What's there? Old buildings, jokes about Stalin ... oh, and beer for 30p. The party's about to start.
So where should all those hen parties, stag nights and weekend booze-ups head for now that Dublin has called time on the English invasions? You don't hear much about them these days, which suggests revellers are scratching... |
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