Expensive hens… why

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our group of girls are early 30s in average jobs, some are mums. A hen has been planned for next year and it’s £340 each for 17 people in rural location for 2 nights with hot tub to include food (one of the girls will cook for all guests) booze and activities (games such as mr and Mrs and all low cost games like that). This is all within the accommodation - we aren’t leaving the apartment once. It looks like a lovely apartment though. This is all sharing rooms and even beds at times with others too

is this a rip off? I think it is considering it doesn’t include leaving the place at all. There is an option for 1 night at £240 but I still think that is a lot even taking inflation into consideration

we aren’t lawyers and doctors we are pretty average women

Is it something youd'd chose to soend 340 quid on of your own volition?

Do you have a better use for it?

Id harzard the answer to both is yes.

Hen's are a pisstake these days

And what youve described vertainly does feel a rip off

Bit disappointed. I thought this was going to be about chickens.

But TBH, I don't think that sounds like a crazy price for a full weekend in nice accommodation with food included.

Honestly it doesn’t sound like fun but I don’t want to let the bride down. But I don’t find ‘games’ that fun, and I think spending all that time shut in with others some of whom we haven’t met doesn’t sound that fun either.

That's over £5700 for two nights. How?

Yes I clicked on this thinking it was going to be a conversation about fancy chickens and whether their eggs were better than bog standard bantams. 🤣

Personally I'm not a fan of these sort of hen dos OP, it would be my idea of hell, but some people really go for them.

Definitely a rip off if you might have to share a bed with someone!

I also thought this was going to be about chickens and eggs.

Disappointed - thought this was going to be about the merits of fancy breeds of poultry.

I think that’s a lot for sharing a room.

But it’s all relative. I wouldn’t pay it because it’s too much for me and not worth it. For some people that would be fine.

Sometimes the costs get ridiculous. I went to a hen party last year but only ended up going to one part of it - the afternoon tea - as it was too expensive for me to go to the rest. That was around £70. After we’d all paid for the deposit the chief bridesmaid told us we all had to contribute towards the balloons, games and decorating the venue. Maybe I’m old fashioned but i have never been asked to contribute to decorations and we should have been told the costs well before. With that and the cost of the train and tube fare (I realise that’s beyond their control) if cost me around £200 for an afternoon. It was bonkers.

Sounds pretty grim and the only thing to do will be to drink through it, I hope all booze is included for that money!

I was hoping the same, tbh.

It does sound like the sort of price you'd expect for two nights in a large property with the obligatory hot tub, though. Personally, it's not really my thing, but it doesn't sound particularly overpriced for what it is and when it's specifically targeted at the Hen Party market.

Hen do in a rural location with 17 people?!

My idea of hell.

And sharing beds? No way.

Sounds great for a BBC drama though. 😅

I'd happily pay this with a group friends who were already a group of close friends

Not a collection of otherwise random women thrown together for a weekend of enforced fun

Not my idea of fun. Don't go! There will be 16 others to keep the bride occupied!

I've had a long day, just settled down for some restorative mumsnetting and intrigued to see the expensive chickens thread. Clicked in HUGE anticipation....and now this!! Honestly OP, sack off the hen do and buy a coop!!!!!

The accommodation will be no doubt great for Instagram though !

I also was looking forward to hearing about the price of poultry. I'm disappointed.

I think it sounds reasonable but I don't go to many hens, or out much, so I don't mind spending more when I do. But for the average hen do you need to balance costs for those who you want to come. If the invitees can't afford it then it's not going to be fun or well attended.

Same! Truly disappointed that I now don't have an outlet to tell the tale of my journeys up and down the country collecting fancy, expensive hens.

That's why I clicked on the thread too!

£340 for 2 night, with all food, drink & activities doesn’t seem a huge amount.

You don’t have to go.

Start a thread! Expensive Hens II: The Real Thing

I don't know about expensive hen but I bought very expensive eggs in Waitrose just to see if they tasted better than their ordinary free range....they didn't 😒

I think a hen do that involved more than a night out getting pissed with your mates in the nearest city and staying over in a hotel is a waste of time and money.

That's insane, I would be hard pushed to spend 50 quid on a hen do. And I would tell them all that. Nopetty nope-ville.

Modern hens sound like a ridiculous competitive nightmare, but yours sounds pretty inexpensive in comparison.

You could have been asked to fork out ££££ for a week in the worst part of Ibiza.

I have 3 silkie chickens and I don't find them that expensive for their food and drink. However, they do eat plants and ate all the sweet peas and dug up various bulbs. I got them a chicken garden ornament from Dunelm, that has now gone to half price. The most expensive thing for them was their wooden painted cottage from FlytesoFancy.

It's not especially expensive but I wouldn't go because I wouldn't want to share a room with a stranger. I hate playing games, don't drink enough to get drunk and know that I'd have to spend two days fake smiling and pretending to enjoy myself. Life is too short.