How much is reasonable for an abroad hen?

[Mabmabdwarf]

As the title says… How much is reasonable to pay for an abroad hen do?

What amount would you expect to pay for to go abroad on a hen do? Not including spending money?

This isn’t asking if people agree with hen dos abroad but just how much would you expect one to cost you.

In Europe over a weekend.

£0 for me. That's my budget. What's your budget, OP? It's affordable if you can afford it.

Well, I'd rather not go, but I can't imagine you could do it for much less than a grand. Flights, accommodation, food, drinks, activities, airport transfers, miscellaneous souvenirs and snacks...

Depends what the age and vibe of your group is, but I wouldn't expect to be cutting corners at my age.

A grand.

The thought of going away with a bunch of random women makes my blood turn cold. I’m weird as I’d much rather spend my money and free time with my DH and DS 🤷🏻‍♀️

If you’re looking for bog standard, then Dublin is the place! But don’t expect it to be cheap…

It depends upon everyone's own personal circumstances. I would say.. Weekend only, cheap and cheerful is the way to go

Need more info but I'd want my room so I'd be budgeting about 1k for flights hotel and food and drinks out

My OWN room.

I'm going to guess you're the bride.

I don't think it's ever reasonable but if everyone is up for it I'd say no more than about £200.

It’d be cost vs value for me, rather than an actual number.

Cost would be how much it physically cost ££££, time away from my family, and how much annual leave I’d need to take for it.

Value would be how much I’d enjoy it: people, location, itinerary. Against would there be a better use of the money/time (nearly always with family). Will using AL mean I’d feel
a pinch elsewhere, ie personal holidays, relaxation after busy spells, school holidays etc.

Personally I see overseas or protracted hen parties as unbelievably selfish, unless everyone is young free and earning comfortably. You are basically asking for a group of people to prioritise you over their own lives. Say it cost £1000. What would that have represented to them? Even many of the young free and single have a future to save for.

Then that's down the the company not the location.

What with cost of living you're best of canvassing the opinions of your guests. Personally I can't justify more than £100 on socialising a month at the moment. So give me say 3 months to save and £150 is the most I'd dedicate to a hen do.

Yes I think this nails it. A weekend somewhere I want to go with only my close friends is a very different prospect to somewhere I don't want to go with a mixed group.

Anywhere between 500-800 including flights, accommodation, spending money & activities. Assuming it's 3 nights. X

£300-£400.

I wouldn't go. Thank god this has never come up for me.

But it's all relative to your friend group. If they all do multiple foreign holidays every year and don't have families at home, then £500+ is feasible. If they save for one family holiday a year then asking them to pay out for this is not going to work.

£400-500

I really couldn’t bother paying much for someone else’s hen do.
Already have to pay enough for wedding.
Maybe 50 tops, if it’s something I really want to do also.
If it’s just about drinking, forget it.

I totally blanked on the abroad part!
Yeah, I would never go.
I don’t understand these crazy hen’s at all!

I’d say around £400 for flights and a decent hotel, then I’d expect another couple hundred spending money. I think the main thing is giving people notice. I’m soon going on a weekend away for a hen do in the UK which was £300 but because we’ve paid £50 to the organiser every couple months for the last year I’ve not even noticed it.

I’ve never been invited on a hen do abroad. So when you say “bog standard hen do abroad” I literally don’t know what you mean. To me “bog standard” is renting a house, doing games, maybe a hot tub, excursions and a bit of drinking. A decent weekend away abroad will cost £1k, but I’m not spending that when I have 2 children, bills and a mortgage to fund. I used to live in Asia, which is generally cheap, and would go away for weekends to various countries and spend £800 a time, and that was 10 years ago (Bali, Thailand, Malaysia etc). My life is different now so £200-300 is my max for a hen, I don’t care where it is. I wouldn’t expect to be able to afford a hen abroad.

I honestly don't know, because thank goodness all my friends are sensible and didn't expect their friends to do this. The biggest hen dos i went on involved a couple of nights in a fairly inexpensive air bnb in the Uk and came in around £250 and tbh most of us felt it was overkill.

£300-400 for flights and accommodation with activities and food, drink etc. on top of that.

I’d be prepared to pay more if it was for an ‘event’ I was interested in.

Around £500. Better be a good / best friends hen to get me to spend that amount + and use annual leave entitlement 🤣

Be interesting to see how many of those 14 actually end up going.