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“Newcastle Stag Weekend”

written by Jadyn1984 on 30/07/2015

Please please please, save your hard earned money and arrange your own weekend.
Booked up for a stag weekend in newcastle for my brothers stag with friends and family. We all paid £184 each for two nights hotel stay with breakfast, go kart experience, night club entry with private table and drinks package and entry to lap dance club.

Here is where it all went wrong.

1. Despite being advertised as a Newcastle weekend, we were dumped in, at best, a two star hotel in Gateshead. This in contrast to the promised hotel within 15 to 20 minute walk of the city centre. This amounted to approx £60 in taxi fares to and from the city centre. Breakfast consisted of cereal, cereal or cereal served with luke warm milk. Hot breakfast was a £6 surcharge.
2. Go karts. Booked for 10 am for 8 guests. Turned up at 1010 am to be told we were far too late and should have been there at 0915 am. As such could not get on. No mention of this in the booking. Only that it was booked from 1000 am.
2. Nightclub entry. Turned up at Tiger Tiger at 2300 pm. Shoehorned into a table with no legroom at 2320 pm. After waiting 40 mins for the non existent drinks package, we were told we were too late to order our inclusive food. As such left Tiger Tiger to head for the lap dancing club.
3. After a 30 min walk from Tiger Tiger to the club, the doormen told us we had to go back to where we started to have our hands stamped, to then walk back down to gain entry. However, if we were willing to pay £10 each we could gain entry straight away. Confidence trick?

In summary, if you want a 2nd rate hotel 6 miles away from your chosen city, with 2nd rate entertainment then book this package. Otherwise pay £184 for a top notch city centre hotel for two nights and make your own entertainment!