Expensive hens… why

I honestly for £340 would at least expect my own bed. What is it about grown adults being expected to share beds ffs, how hard is it to sort twin rooms? It's just not on.

This is pointless because for me £340 is a lot of money, but there are a lot of high earners on here who will come on and tell you that £340 is nothing, and it probably isn't when you're on about 90k a year but in the real world most people are not...

Is it a lot of money? Yes.

Is it a lot of money from the perspective of the property owner taking a risk of 17 people "partying" in their property? No.

its also a captive market because there aren't loads of places that accept massive groups.

Blame the breastfeeding and opt out now.

Personally I'd prefer to stay local and put on a menu of stuff over a weekend - Friday, out out, Saturday, brunch, Sat evening, dinner out, Sunday, spa & takeaway. Prob not much cost difference but save on accommodation for activities and noone needs to commit to something they don't want to do without being In or Out of the whole thing.

I honestly wish stag and hen parties would go back to a night at the pub.

Disappointed it's not about chickens but did want to say costs for accommodation have gone up massively over about the last two years. it would be the not going out thing I wouldn't like. What if people don't get on?

It's a complete rip off and I wouldn't pay that sort of money and decline.

I was going to start a very similar thread.

I’m going on a hen-do that’s been restricted to one night as everyone said they’re on a budget.

£150 for one night in an Airbnb in the arse end of nowhere, hours away from where everyone lives. The MOH has said about us going out for the night which a taxi works out at £20pp (not thinking of logistics if people leave the night out early and each cab is at £80…)

Then my biggest bugbear is paying £150 for accommodation and it’s looking likely that we’re all going to have to share beds.

My definition of sharing a bed is to save costs. Aka you’ve all gone on a night out and falling into bed at 3am which you’ve split the cost of the £80 room with your mate.

The cost is a rip off.
I was here for the chickens though.

I see I wasn’t the first to think same! I made my post before I’d finished reading the OP. I’m not original at all.

That does sound quite expensive if your not doing any activities. I admit I did have an abroad hen do as did many of my friends but it was probably about £350 for 2 nights flights, accomodation and activities which often included drinks so we didn't have to spend too much more on top. But recently I've been invited to an abroad hen do that is coming up £600pp just for flights and accomodation - no activities, food or drink so it can easily spiral. I am not going particularly cos of the price but also don't want to leave my baby for that long.

I thought this was about re homing chickens and it costing you more than you anticipated. 😁

And presumably she's paying the same as everyone else for the pleasure of cooking fior everyone else.

It's all for the pictures. If you don't have lots of people with you then you aren't popular and are therefore failing in the rest of you life.If you haven't gone abroad/ huge house in your home country you are clearly not worthy. It's sad really because lots of the people on that hen will be stressing about paying for it/ going/ sharing a room / bed with a stranger. None of it is fun but it'll still cost everyone more than they want to pay.

I think the price is probably OK if that is all you are going to pay and it includes a contribution to cover all food and drink etc. But as others have said, there is always "extras" that pop-up along the way.

But 17 people, and possibly sharing a bed? My idea of hell, so I personally would be giving it a miss, but I can see that others would enjoy it and embrace it, and as long as everybody there had a similar attitude it could probably be a lot of fun. But it only needs one mardy-arse to cause friction and it's difficult to pull back on track.

Oh, you have the perfect get out.

Please tell.

🙄 at all the "I thought this would be about chickens!!!" posts

Properties for a lot of people are expensive. I’ve recently organised a family celebration weekend for 20 plus two dogs and it was a nightmare. Everyone moaned about the cost and yet nobody actually managed to find anything cheaper that didn’t involve a dorm room.
I’ve recently been on two big birthday weekends away. One cost £350 for two nights, train, one meal and a show. All drinks, transport around the city and other food was on top of that.
The other cost £380 for two nights, train and a spa afternoon which included lunch. All other food and drink was extra.
Ours covered costs for the celebrating guests as well presumably your is covering the hen too.

Me too!

I clicked on it because I was intrigued as to what breeds they were.

I’m feeling sorry for the person cooking for 16, that’s no little holiday is it !!!

I don’t think sharing rooms or beds is unusual for a hen. Presumably you share with friends not strangers. It seems typical cost wise. I paid the same for a hen this year (sharing a bed and one other person in our room, shock horror). But that included a lot of activities out of the house! The accommodation was only about 160 each I think for a similar number of people and it was in Bristol so not a particularly cheap area. It was quite basic though so I guess your group wanted to spend more on a nicer place and less on activities.

Another one here for the expensive chickens 😂.

Honestly OP, bin off the hens, and spend the money getting some chickens instead. Much better return on your money, and long lasting fun also!

Another disappointment as I was thinking it might give me the price of an Eglu and hints as to how to look after the hens!😂😂

It’s an apartment not a house
at a cost of 5.5 k roughly for 2 nights

340 x 17 people is 5.5k roughly
for 2 nights

where on earth are you staying
not a house but an apartment that’s costing that much

and I bet the hotub at a max will fit 8 people

you can guarantee that if people fall out / can’t go then the price will go up & up you could easily end up spending 400 -450 if people drop out

and you might have to share a bed
fuck off with that