Alcohol Free Stag Do Ideas — Adrenaline, Activities and Zombie Survival Days!

Alco­hol free stag do ideas — adren­a­line, fear and zombies!

An alcohol-free stag do may sound like some men’s idea of liv­ing hell but should exces­sive drink­ing be relied upon as a way to cel­e­brate a friend’s last night of freedom?

Just take a look at some of the celebri­ties going sober: the nation’s favorite funny man James Cor­den was spot­ted look­ing decid­edly sober leav­ing his stag do in Mahiki in Lon­don and McFly’s Harry Judd famously spent his stag do sober.

Harry went back to his old board­ing school for a jolly hockey sticks inspired stag do and, even though he didn’t drink alco­hol, it didn’t stop him hav­ing a late night dor­mi­tory pil­low fight with Rob­bie Sav­age and his band mates!

With more aware­ness about the dam­age alco­hol does to the body and more men tak­ing health and fit­ness seri­ously with marathon and sport train­ing, take the focus away from beer and spir­its on your stag do, and go in for an activ­ity that’s all good clean fun. From zom­bie chases to deep sea fish­ing, find some activ­ity inspi­ra­tion from the ideas below and start look­ing for­ward to a stag do you’ll actu­ally remember.

Nat­ural Highs — adren­a­line fueled stag do ideas

Get a buzz from adren­a­line instead of Jaeger bombs with a stag activ­ity that’s going to get the heart pump­ing. Adven­ture activ­i­ties are prov­ing to be more and more pop­u­lar with stag groups and have a load of ben­e­fits; not only are they health­ier than spend­ing all day in a bar or pub, but a day spent white water raft­ing or abseil­ing is going to pro­vide an easy topic of con­ver­sa­tion for the stags to talk about over the week­end and, at a later date, the actual wedding.

Chal­lenge dar­ing stags to a sky dive – at 12,500ft in the air, it might feel like you need a drink to get you out of the plane but the rush you get from the freefall will be bet­ter than any night out you can remem­ber. Der­mot O’Leary is a fan of out­door activ­i­ties: for his stag he trav­elled with 23 mates to Morzine, a vil­lage in the Alps, for a cou­ple of days of rock climb­ing adventure.

If your stag do falls in the win­ter months, a ski­ing week­end is a bril­liant choice for a stag groups look­ing for a nat­ural high.

Com­pet­i­tive Fun

Alco­hol cer­tainly helps ease social awk­ward­ness and makes it eas­ier to chat to peo­ple, but there are many alter­na­tives to get the group talk­ing and a com­pet­i­tive activ­ity is a sure-fire way to get every­one bond­ing and likely to bring up some good sto­ries for the best man’s speech!

For any soon-to-be grooms who fancy them­selves as the next Rory McIl­roy, take the group to a golf course so he can show off his skills. Give every­one an hon­est hand­i­cap to keep the game fair and sort out a desir­able prize for the win­ner so that every­one brings their A-game.

If you choose a team sport, make sure it doesn’t turn into a stand-off between col­lege friends vs. col­leagues by mix­ing up the teams so every­one meets some­one new and gets talking.

Organ­ise a 5 a-side foot­ball match cham­pi­onship, again with a fun prize up for grabs to get everyone’s com­pet­i­tive edge out. If you’re up for some­thing a bit wack­ier, stag organ­is­ers offer West-country style games where stags can com­pete in quirky coun­try­side sports like the Trac­tor Tyre Roll, Welly Wang­ing and the Pitch Fork Duel – cer­tainly a dif­fer­ent way to get competitive!

Manly Busi­ness

There are plenty of alcohol-free pur­suits that will bring out your man­li­ness. For­get Jonny Walker whiskey and cig­ars and instead exert your viril­ity with an after­noon of deep-sea fish­ing – fight­ing for the brag­ging rights of being the man who has the biggest catch of the day.

If you do pre­fer a stag do that is geared towards the Eng­lish gent, make like Prince William with a stay in the coun­try­side shoot­ing clay pigeons. With your cap donned, no pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence is needed for clay pigeon shoot­ing and it’s a sur­pris­ingly reward­ing activ­ity — it’s also impos­si­ble to guess from the start who is going to have the nat­ural flair for it and is a good activ­ity if you have to cater to a mixed age group.

If you han­ker for times gone by when men hunted, pil­laged and were served plates of meat by wenches think about incor­po­rat­ing a medieval ban­quet into the stag week­end. Medieval ban­quet venues serve up plate after plate of joints, roasts and meat plat­ters, with some even insist­ing that you feast in the tra­di­tional olden day style with just your hands, mouth and knife.

Feel the Fear!

There’s a trend at the moment for hair-raising hor­ror activ­i­ties to try on a stag do. Paint­balling no longer cuts the mus­tard as mates look to ter­rify the stag, and them­selves, in more bizarre and excit­ing ways.

Thrill seek­ing stag par­ties are tak­ing part in zom­bie runs, where the stag and his friends have to run across out­door ter­rain where actors, dressed up as ter­ri­fy­ing flesh-eating zom­bies, lurk and wait to chase you down – there are even zom­bie sur­vival days in aban­doned shop­ping cen­tres where your group has to shoot down zom­bies with replica Benelli M3s.

Put together by Stephanie Shee­han with the help of Eclipse Leisure, New­cas­tle stag oper­a­tors who can organ­ise the sug­gested activ­i­ties men­tioned here. Find out more about zom­bie days with firstandonlyevents.co.uk.