Bachelor Party Help

[nole71911]

Tribe...........sounds like we need to hangout, NOLA>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Key West

 

[nole71911]

As mentioned before, we have done Vegas several times and are just over it. Not sure why thats so hard to understand for some.

I was trying to push NOLA but bachelor shot that down.

Cancun and CR are still on the table, definitely a possibility as I have heard awesome things about CR but never been. Key West definitely sounds interesting and we would not mind a trip that was not like The Hangover in terms of craziness.

A few friends did Costa Rica (my fiancé at the time wouldn't let me go b/c she knew what was going down).......but they had a GREAT time. The "extracurriculars" were very cheap and quality from the videos/pictures/stories I saw/heard.

 

[nynole1]

A few friends did Costa Rica (my fiancé at the time wouldn't let me go b/c she knew what was going down).......but they had a GREAT time. The "extracurriculars" were very cheap and quality from the videos/pictures/stories I saw/heard.

Some of my group is in a similar position with their significant others...

 

[FSUTribe76]

Some of my group is in a similar position with their significant others...

That's why it should be Nice/Monaco/Monte Carlo. It sounds sophisticated and it is.....sophisticated debauchery.

 

[FSUTribe76]

Tribe...........sounds like we need to hangout, NOLA>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Key West

Key West is perfectly fine as a place to chill with my wife (she enjoys diving, snorkeling, boating, fishing etc...) and its relatively energetic and fun during Goombay and/or Fantasyfest but it's not place to hang out with the bros on a bachelor party. I was trying really hard to think of someplace in the US I would want to go for a bachelor party besides NOLA and it's tough. They all have big flaws. Vegas is too spread out for a quality bachelor party (maybe Fremont street would be the closest to having everything (boobs, booze, gambling, food and entertainment) in a semi-nearby area. Atlantic City has boobs, booze and gambling but outside of White House Subs and taffy I can't say they really have food and entertainment. Biloxi has a couple of strip clubs but outside of having a few strip clubs it's like a much lesser NOLA and so close to NOLA you might as well go there. Tampa, Miami, San Fran, NYC and LA have all of the requisites except good casinos but they're all really spread out. Montreal may be my legitimate fourth best bachelor party destination in North America (after NOLA, Vegas and Cancun in that order) as its strip clubs are legendary and you can find strip clubs, great food (Montreal is an underrated food city), a casino (although smaller and tighter than Harrah's in NOLA) and entertainment within easy walking and taxi distance. Not as consolidated as NOLA but not as spread out as the other options even Vegas. A surprise choice I just though of is Memphis. You've got a bunch of loose casinos in nearby Tunica, Beale street is the closest you'll find to the French Quarter and Frenchmen Street in NOLA, lots of great restaurants and the only downside is the "strip clubs" have a 2013 ban on toplessness if alcohol is served so you only get pasties. But it sounds like the OP is far tamer than I am and I'm pretty tame by most standards. Memphis might be a really good bachelor location for the tamer than even me set.

 

[Noleguy06]

As mentioned before, we have done Vegas several times and are just over it. Not sure why thats so hard to understand for some.

I was trying to push NOLA but bachelor shot that down.

Cancun and CR are still on the table, definitely a possibility as I have heard awesome things about CR but never been. Key West definitely sounds interesting and we would not mind a trip that was not like The Hangover in terms of craziness.

Never been but I heard Nashville is a great time.

 

[ericram]

Is Reykjavik out of the question?

 

[southgateNOLE]

Go to Costa Rica. Especially if you are going with a decent size group. You can rent a giant house for a few days that comes with a maid, a cook, and a driver with vehicles who can literally get you whatever you want. Yes, I said whatever you want.

 

[NolaNole9]

It's a lot more than just gambling. NOLA has:

1) high class strip clubs (meaning absolutely beautiful women half of whom can do more on the multi-story pole than you can get at a Cirque),

2) low class strip clubs (meaning decently attractive women who will give out blowjobs for a $50 or a less and even more if you're in the mood for gonosyphylherpelaids unlike me but I have been on bachelor parties where others partook),

4) the best live music anywhere on Frenchmen Street, while Key West has a few decent Jimmy Buffet and Bob Marley cover bands it's got nothing on bar hopping from Blues band to rock band to NOLA brass band to rap to bluegrass to blues band like you can do on Frenchmen,

5) high end bars like the Sazerac Bar, Carousel Bar, Swizzlestick and Tujagues who make the best cocktails on par with the best places in NYC and San Fran, there's no place at the absolute high end like NOLA other than Vegas, Miami, NYC, LA and San Fran, Key West doesn't come close,

6) low end street bars like Tropical Isle and Jesters who make high alcohol/high sugar daiquiris for the Tourons and slutty coeds, while Key West has a few of these it's not as easy as walking up to a literal hole in the wall of the bars like in New Orleans, plus hurricanes, hand grenades and jesters beat

7) 80% of the people in the French Quarter after 10 pm are there for sex while 80% of the people in Key West after 10 pm are old people from cruise ships,

8) the food is not even close to being comparable. There's so many great places in NOLA you will find great food literally by accident, but in Key West most of it is %*%y tourist food consisting of previously frozen seafood fit only for Chilis and TGI Fridays. You have to know what you're doing in Key West to find actually good local fresh seafood, while in NOLA you can literally stumble into a random restaurant and be amazed.

It should be clear I'm not knocking Key West as a vacation spot. My wife and I loved when we went down for the Goombay and Fantasy Fest two years ago, and diving the reef and going on sunset dolphin cruises are quite memorable. But I'm not diving the reef and drinking a margarita on a yacht while watching a sunset with by "bros", if that were true it would be a gay wedding in San Francisco and while there's nothing wrong with that TM* that's not how I envision most straight bachelor parties going down. I want to drink both high class to get me started and low class to keep me going, eat fine food, stare at high class t%*%ies performing insane circus acts, shake it down with some random strange while at great live music or dance venues. And that's me being "tame", others in parties I've been in want to sample the more forbidden fruits beyond willing coeds and out of town bachelorette party members and go old school tootin with a narcotic amuse bouche.

I'm sorry, but I stopped reading and can't stop laughing at your Tropical Isle recommendation. No wonder you defended Two Sisters.

Edit: que the crying laughing emojis that won't show up on warchant

 

[Noleguy06]

A few friends did Costa Rica (my fiancé at the time wouldn't let me go b/c she knew what was going down).......but they had a GREAT time. The "extracurriculars" were very cheap and quality from the videos/pictures/stories I saw/heard.

You're fiance wouldn't let you go? I would hope she isn't anymore.That's insane.

 

[FSUTribe76]

I'm sorry, but I stopped reading and can't stop laughing at your Tropical Isle recommendation. No wonder you defended Two Sisters.

Edit: que the crying laughing emojis that won't show up on warchant

First of all, you must have missed when I derisively called it (and Patty Os, Jesters and all) as high alcohol high sugar touron bombs. Second, while daiquiris may not be what you locals pretend to drink (although hilariously most defend some neighborhood %*^%hole daiquiri place which sells the same type of #^*%), that is the quintessential NOLA experience. Third, none of the ^*^* daiquiris cover up the massive amounts of low quality alcohol as well as the hand grenade from Tropical Isle (which I get from one of the hole in the walls not the main bar or those nearest the strip clubs so I wait no time to grab it on the fly). Fourth, don't be that ^*^^+ who tells nubes and bachelor partiers NOT to go to the French Quarter and drink sugary mindwipers, your brand of low class gutter sleeze is why 90% or more people go to NOLA in the first place. Even though I've been there dozens of times, I still almost always end the night at 3 or 4 AM on Bourbon with a fresh handgrenade. Yes I start at the sophisticated places getting real drinks but by 4AM the sophisticated places have long since closed and I'm probably still in the mood for entertainment and mood enhancing.

 

[FSUTribe76]

Go to Costa Rica. Especially if you are going with a decent size group. You can rent a giant house for a few days that comes with a maid, a cook, and a driver with vehicles who can literally get you whatever you want. Yes, I said whatever you want.

Well 50% of my party got botfly larvae in their skin.....so there's that.

 

[NolaNole9]

First of all, you must have missed when I derisively called it (and Patty Os, Jesters and all) as high alcohol high sugar touron bombs. Second, while daiquiris may not be what you locals pretend to drink (although hilariously most defend some neighborhood %*^%hole daiquiri place which sells the same type of #^*%), that is the quintessential NOLA experience. Third, none of the ^*^* daiquiris cover up the massive amounts of low quality alcohol as well as the hand grenade from Tropical Isle (which I get from one of the hole in the walls not the main bar or those nearest the strip clubs so I wait no time to grab it on the fly). Fourth, don't be that ^*^^+ who tells nubes and bachelor partiers NOT to go to the French Quarter and drink sugary mindwipers, your brand of low class gutter sleeze is why 90% or more people go to NOLA in the first place. Even though I've been there dozens of times, I still almost always end the night at 3 or 4 AM on Bourbon with a fresh handgrenade. Yes I start at the sophisticated places getting real drinks but by 4AM the sophisticated places have long since closed and I'm probably still in the mood for entertainment and mood enhancing.

First off, I did miss that part because I stopped reading after I saw the word Tropical Isle.

Second and third, I don't drink glorified Icees.

Fourth, all I think about when I hear, 'Tropical Isle,' is the bar that I could get into when I was 19 years old....I could have sworn I read that the OP was in his 30's.

 

[nole71911]

You're fiance wouldn't let you go? I would hope she isn't anymore.That's insane.

No we are married, but she knew it was going to be nothing but whores, alcohol, and more whores. She knew it was going to be an orgy......plus we were planning/paying for our wedding so blowing that kind of money for that she kind of squashed that idea. But next Costa Rica or Belieze trip I will DEFINITELY be on it!

 

[peezy28]

Costa Rica or Dominican Republic.

 

[RancheroNole]

Louisville looks open at the present!

 

[LesClaypool]

Just wanted to add that Norweigan Air has JFK to Gatwick for $450 for a Saturday to Wednesday trip in March

This is what infuriates me about living in Tallahassee. We pay practically that much to fly round-trip to Atlanta. Seriously. It's like $375-$400 no matter how far out in advance you book.

I can't imagine flying to London for under $500. That's nuts! In light of that info, I vote for London!

 

[PoopandBoogers]

San Juan, PR. Or hell, now that Cuba's opened up, I am intrigued about the trouble I could get into for pennies in Havana.