I have to arrange a stag weekend, any tips on how to do this online

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A. There are lots of websites that will help you plan a stag night, weekend or even week if you're up for it. Most UK sites cater for stag celebrations in the UK although some will venture further a field, with Amsterdam being the favourite overseas location.

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Some of the best sites include the following:

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Stag Weekends: Claims to be the only company in the UK that specialises purely in the Stag Party market - and if you book your night out with them they organise the whole thing (which lets the Best Man off the hook too easily, surely ) from hotels, outdoor activities, clubs and even strippers.

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It organises weekend breaks in Nottingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Blackpool, Amsterdam and St Lucia - and what you get on your weekend away really depends on your venue and how much you want to spend. It caters for low, medium and high budgets in its weekend packages.

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To give you an idea of what these budgets actually cover, take a low budget weekend in Nottingham for example. This will set each person back �81.13 and for this you will get half a day of paint balling (minimum of five games), one night's B&B in a local hotel and entry to a night club. In comparison, a high budget weekend in the same city will cost �210.50 per person - and for this you will get half a day of driving (you choose from Honda Pilots, Mini Motos, Yamaha Quad Bikes or Chuckle Buggies), half a day of paint balling, two nights in a hotel with breakfast, entry to clubs on each night, with lap dancing thrown in.

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Tickets to Amsterdam start at �245 including flight, and tickets for a week's holiday in St Lucia cost around �575 (activities include water sports, horse riding, snorkelling, party boat, scuba diving and quad bikes). A full brochure is available from the website at www.stagweekends.co.uk or by phone on 0115 9385300.

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Senor Stag: If you fancy a Spanish stag night, Senor Stag specialises in weekend stag breaks in Barcelona. Senor Stag lets you create your own package of weekend activities on its website, there is no pre arranged package and price and you also have to organise your own flights. And although this may mean that the Best Man has to do a bit more work, it could be worth it in the end.

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For example, you can watch football at Barcelona's Nou Camps stadium (ticket prices range from �22-�47) - the season's remaining games including 2002 fixtures are listed on the website; 2 nights B&B (�64); airport transport (�13); paint balling (�28); bicycle hire (�13); Go-karting (�28); Senor Stag Fiesta (meal, alcohol, club and stripper for �33). You can also go sight-seeing, see Barcelona from a hot air balloon, go to a casino, visit the Olympic stadium or go to the beach - you just choose what you and your gang want to do and book it online.

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Last Night of Freedom: Specialises in Stag and Hen weekends at loads of locations in the UK these include: Bournemouth, Brecon Beacons, Brighton, Bristol, Chester, Edinburgh, Leeds, Lincoln, Newcastle, Newquay, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, St. Albans, Watford & York. You can organise your whole weekend online which can include the traditional stag night of drinking loads and being tied naked to a lamp post - or you can opt for a stag night with a bit of a difference e.g. themed nights such as James Bond - you can even book a no alcohol weekend!

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If you want to venture out of the country Last Night of Freedom also organise stag trips to Paris, the Czech Republic, Dublin, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam, New York, Las Vegas and even Sydney, Australia. This site also sells stag night themed merchandise e.g. T-shirts.

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As most people can only afford stag nights closer to home, an example of their stag packages include the following activities:

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In Birmingham for example you can book:

Golf, Clays and Clubbing - �172 per person; Paintball, Dogs, Karting and Clubbing - �176 per person; Jet Skiing, Snowboarding and Clubbing - �177 per person; Powerboating and Clubbing - �267 per person; Paintball and Clubbing - �121 per person; Comedy Club, Day at the Races & Clubbing - �179 per person. Prices include B&B in a 3 star hotel, lunch, night club entrance and transport. Activities at different venues vary.

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Other stag nights and weekends can be booked at http://www.hitched.co.uk/roles/bestman/stagnigh.as - its activities include clay pigeon shooting, go-kart racing, paint balling, quad bikes, laser quest; http://www.nights-out.com/pubtours/stag.shtml, http://www.stagparty.co.uk and http://www.partyparties.co.uk/.

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By Karen Anderson