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Hen day suggestions wanted - we're talking classy but not too pricey!

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MrsMerryHenry · 22/01/2009 15:32

I'd like to suggest some activities for a friend's hen day. We're all in our 30s and like to think of ourselves as fairly classy and intelligent so tack is out!

Thanks in advance!

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BONKERZ · 22/01/2009 15:34

take a look at hen heaven (google them) they offer a good range of activities for hen nights and days.
we have just had a great weekend in burmingham with them!

PortAndLemon · 22/01/2009 15:38

For mine we went to the theatre for a matinee, then to a nice restaurant, then back to a friend's flat (because hers was bigger than mine) for drinks and watching DVDs (actually, I think it was videos at the time ).

Or if you're a more action-oriented crowd you could do the standard "bloke" stuff -- paintballing, clay pigeon shooting, quad biking, a session at Go Ape.

A friend of SIL's hired a narrowboat for the weekend and she and the hen party boated along a canal for a couple of days.

Dozymare · 22/01/2009 15:38

wine tasting????
Private evening at a beauty salon??

Whereabouts are you? If London can give you some specific recommendations!

Dozymare · 22/01/2009 15:39

also, jsut for the day/night or weekend???

MrsMerryHenry · 22/01/2009 15:42

Forgot to say we're in London. It'll be a daytime affair.

(thanks for being so helpful, MNers! xxx)

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Dozymare · 22/01/2009 15:51

Following on then, How about this...

Book out a beauty salon (can recommend Groom or Bliss, both in Knightsbridge) for a couple of hours for oyu all to have treatments followed by cocktails at one of the nice hotels - claridges or the mandarin oriental....then dinner somewhere nice followed by this...

www.luckyvoice.com/venues/soho

Which is tacky, but in a classy, private, fun way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jennylindinha · 22/01/2009 16:07

It's my sister's hen do later this year and we are going to book Afternoon Tease at Volupte!

You can get dressed up in 20's/40's gear - very glam and eat cake and drink champagne! Plus watch rique burlesque - can't wait

jennylindinha · 22/01/2009 16:08

Oops - I meant, of course risque burlesque...

Dozymare · 22/01/2009 16:13

I want to go to Volupte now - me thinks our next GNA...looks like good fun!

HerBeatitudeLittleBella · 22/01/2009 16:15

What about a day at the races?

Fab fun and you can book a room with meal if you want

Lotster · 22/01/2009 17:02

Um, having organised a hen at Volupte recently, I don't really recomend it, sorry!

I will say the dressing up for it was brilliant fun but it went downhill from the arrival at the club.

-They gave us a price for our meal and some wine so we could get money upfront from the girls. What they didn't mention until after we'd eaten was that lots of dishes came without the veg/chips/mash you would want with them, so it all got a bit messy with an extra bill and girls being irritated they had to pay more with these sides being charge for seperately.

-The girls were frankly, a bit ropey and more comedy than burlesque. (we went on a Kitten Club night so maybe it was just that particular group though.) But just didn't feel very glamourous as we expected.

-There were two shows in the evening and a disco. We were the first show, and got plonked in the bar whilst the 2nd meal sitting happened and then they would clear the room for the disco. Meant to be about an hour and a half max but 2.5 hours later, it's half midnight, everyone's too drunk because they've just been sitting there, tired, bored and 2nd service still going. Desk lady gone, waiters not interested, we ended up leaving and going to someone's house as getting 12 drunk hens in anywhere decent without prior booking wasn't happening! Real shame.

Sorry to be negative but do research the night you are going and timings etc.
I heard BeachBlanketBabylon also do a burlesque night but don't know how good...

On the upside Lucky Voice is ace, had so much fun there on another hen night. Sang Betty Davis Eyes (probably badly!)...

Have also had hen trips to the Planetarium via river boat before going to a club. SOunds a bit boring but I really enjoyed it as way to stop from being too drunk and tired by the evening.

Or how about high tea at the Ritz or somewhere??

jennylindinha · 22/01/2009 17:56

Oh dear Well, I guess we'll have to check it out first... Maybe the afternoon tea one will be ok as there is only one sitting and it's in the afternoon? Hope so!

Lotster · 22/01/2009 18:07

And you could find you get different girls too?! Sorry to be a downer but it wasn't the glamour-fest we thought it would be! But again, that couldbe down to the act on that particular night.

I imagined sultry Dita Von Teese types singing in a giant champagne glass sort of thing, and it was all a bit baudy and cellulitey!! (not that that's a bad thing but I can look in the mirror for free...)

lilolilmanchester · 22/01/2009 18:21

a Spa day at the Sanctuary or similar? Champagne capsule on the London Eye?
Depends what you mean by "not too pricey"

fruitbeard · 22/01/2009 20:47

Depends on your idea of pricey - as part of my SIL's hen weekend we went riding in Hyde Park on Sunday morning - absolutely wonderful (but then we are all experienced riders, so I'm not sure how it would be if you were absolute beginners - although they were very good with the fact we were horrendously hung over from the night before and didn't give us anyone too 'lively' to cope with. Lovely horses and a beautiful park - feels really weird riding in the middle of London and having tourists wave at you and take photos!

Champagne afternoon tea at the Waldorf is quite classy and you get to dress up if you want (we did when we went a few years ago)!

We also went here and whilst I wouldn't call it particularly classy (the food was really nice but not enough of it for the group considering the pph) it was a great night out and very good fun.

Ooh, and if you've got good weather go to Le Coq D'Argent at Bank (photo of it here) for drinks (you don't have to book or eat there, just ask the lift guy on the ground floor for the bar and he'll send you straight to the top) - it's amazing!

MrsMerryHenry · 23/01/2009 10:42

Fruitbeard, riding sounds brilliant - though most of us are not riders, as far as I know. I'll look into it, though - have also found a lovely Vintage Fashion Tea fair in Chelsea, which sounds divine!

Thanks loads for your suggestions, everyone!

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