Stag Weekends in Edinburgh

If God had a stag night, he'd have it in Edinburgh

Steeped in both history and alcohol, Edinburgh throws together an amazing number of pubs within easy staggering distance. The city, watched over by the towering castle, is a bundle of character, tradition and mayhem. It’s split into a new town and an old town, the old famous for its legendary Grass market area of pubs and cobblestones - a stag weekend in Edinburgh provides groups with a drinker’s paradise with statues and monuments thrown in for good measure (speaking of which, the measures in Edinburgh pubs are extremely good so watch out).

The Grass market is stag heaven with cobblestones - Guinness galore, whisky chasers and marvelous craic. They have real pubs with real people - the kind of place where groups of welsh rugby fans can bring into close harmony singing without anyone batting an eyelid. Oh, and there’ll be plenty of hen groups knocking about too, wherever you go.

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Mel Gibson’s liver’s Mecca. It would be easy to believe that there are more pubs here than people. Whereas in Vegas you could spend 48 hours gambling between casinos without necessarily seeing daylight, Edinburgh stag weekends allow the aspiring alcoholic to achieve the same feat in drinking. But it is the friendly, open, warmth of its pubs that leaves an imprint on the mind. Staff, stag groups and locals mix with an ease and understanding that tells you they’ve all been doing it for years. There is no drinking snobbery here, just a belief that the city is taking care of us and encouraging all and sundry to go with the flow. Eat, drink and be very, very merry.

But it’s not just the pubs, since this is a place with bundles of must-see landmarks, blindingly tasty diners or restaurants, splendid activity centres and scintillating strip clubs… If God had a stag weekend, he’d probably have it in Edinburgh.

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