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| CZECH BUSINESS WEEKLY [CZ] - 27 August 2007 |
| Go east young men |
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Prague appears to be losing its status as the stag and hen party capital of Europe, as other eastern European cities rush to take on the mantle. The loss of revenues is already hurting some local businesses, but tourism providers say they are glad that the stag party era is winding to a close.
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| INTHENEWS.CO.UK - 20 August 2007 |
| Cheap flights and booze fuelled bad behaviour – Brits abroad |
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The current crash in the price of airline tickets and the propensity for stag and hen nights abroad are tarnishing Britain’s reputation in foreign countries.
With cheap flights becoming more and more available as the airline industry reaches an unprecedented peak of competition, more Britons are opting to turn the traditional... |
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| DENIK [CZ] - 04 August 2007 |
| Praha láká Brity i díky pití, sexu a střelbě |
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Ztrácejí pasy, končí v nemocnicích a na policejních stanicích.
Horší než v Čechách je situace už jenom v Thajsku, Austrálii a Indii. Informaci přinesla ve čtvrtek hodnotící zpráva britského ministerstva zahraničí. Ale: nemohou si za to tak trochu sami?
Na střelnici do Česka
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| THE GUARDIAN [UK] - 02 August 2007 |
| Prague counts cost of Brits behaving badly |
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Prague is renowned for many things: Franz Kafka, the Charles bridge, a peerless astronomical clock, and some of the finest, cheapest lagers on Earth. But the Czech capital has now gained a reputation for something it could almost certainly do without: it appears to be an international centre for badly behaved Brits abroad.
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| NEW YORK TIMES [USA] - 08 May 2007 |
| British Bachelor-Partiers Are Taking Their Revels East |
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By midnight, wearing nothing but his socks, Paul Roe had crawled the length of a strip club catwalk here, led on a leash by one barechested blonde woman while another whipped him with a belt.
As one might imagine, Mr. Roe, 27, was inebriated, celebrating his final days of bachelordom in that timeworn rite of passage known as... |
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| DER SPIEGEL [GERMANY] - 05 April 2007 |
| British Stag Parties Head East in Search of Cheap Beer |
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Just a short and cheap EasyJet or Ryanair flight away from London, Western European tourists are storming Eastern European cities like Tallinn and Riga. Unfortunately, British binge drinkers are too.
It's early in the morning in Dicken's Pub, and the punters are hung over. Sean from Worcester has lost his passport. Brian from... |
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| SKY NEWS / CHANNEL 5 - 13 February 2007 |
| 'Sex Abroad Seems Fine' |
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As new laws to make prostitutes safer are considered in the wake of the Suffolk murders, some British men are travelling abroad to buy sex.
In part 2 of her week-long series looking at the oldest profession, Sky correspondent Leyla Hayes visits the Czech capital, Prague, where British men are among the biggest buyers of sex.... |
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| CZECH BUSINESS WEEKLY - 20 November 2006 |
| Embassy targets clueless Brits |
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A weekend in Prague usually offers a bit of relaxation for any of the more than 4 million tourists who visit the Czech capital annually. But for British Embassy staff, such weekends sometimes turn into real detective adventures that could even baffle Miss Marple.
The problems encountered by the embassy’s weekend staff fall... |
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| DAILY STAR [UK] - 30 July 2006 |
| Special Brew! Prague is Party Central |
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Just five years ago it was branded the 'New Amsterdam'. Cheap flights, cheap beer, and gorgeous women made Prague THE place to head for party-loving Brits.
Since then a host of other European cities have opened their doors to the UK's free-spending booze monsters. And though they are each battling for the title of the 'New Prague',... |
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| BUSINESS WEEK [USA] - 10 May 2006 |
| Lost Weekends on the Continent |
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Thanks to EU expansion and a proliferation of low-cost flights, Eastern Europe is drawing hoards of rowdy British revelers
His plane only touched down in Prague an hour ago but Briton Matt Slade is already speaking Czech with gusto. "Na Zdravi" [Czech for "cheers"], says the 28-year-old prison officer from Reading before... |
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| RADIO PRAGUE [CZ] - 07 September 2005 |
| Prague - a cheap paradise for British stag tourists |
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Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of the most visited tourist destinations in Europe. But in the last few years the Czech capital has also become hugely popular with British stag groups, large groups of men celebrating some husband-to-be's last weekend of freedom, or just here to have a good time in a city... |
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| THE TIMES [UK] - 02 September 2005 |
| Advice to ease stag night headaches for embassies |
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SHORT of a royal visit, the one thing British embassy staff abroad dread most is an invasion of staggers and henners.
An estimated 70 per cent of young Britons now prefer to travel abroad for their prenuptials, and a quarter of those land in some kind of trouble, from loss of passport to death by drowning, according to a Foreign... |
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| SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (UK) - 04 October 2004 |
| Is the party over for Prague? |
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Mick from Huddersfield is getting them in. "Fourteen pints, 10 voddies and four tequila slammers," he's yelling to the barmaid.
"Magic!" It certainly is for Mick, who's been out all night drinking, forgotten the name of his hotel and decided he and his mates might as well carry on with a liquid breakfast here at the George &... |
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| THE TIMES (UK) - 18 August 2004 |
| Stag and hen nights boost number of foreigners visiting the Czech capital |
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The advent of cheap flights following the collapse of Communism has seen thousands of British visitors flocking to Prague's twisting streets and ancient squares in recent years.
Some make the journey for the Czech Republic capital's breathtaking mix of Romanesque, Renaissance and Baroque architecture, and more than 300,000 Britons... |
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| MLADA FRONTA DNES (CZ) - 18 August 2004 |
| Slavící Britové v Česku utrácejí miliardy |
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Mnozí vlastníci barů před nimi zavírají dveře. Hoteliéři od nich vybírají zálohu na případné škody na vybavení pokojů. Turisté, kteří Prahu vyhledávají jako ideální místo pro bujaré loučení se svobodou, však v tuzemsku také utrácejí čím dál více peněz.
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| BELFAST TELEGRAPH (UK) - 13 April 2004 |
| Practical Prague |
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PRAGUE is now the third most popular citybreak destination for British travellers, after Paris and Amsterdam, and ahead of Rome.
Later this month, daily plane loads of Ulster tourists will be among the visitors who pour into the Czech capital, with the introduction of the Jet2.com service from Belfast International.
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| AFP WIRE - 13 March 2004 |
| Stag party becomes Prague party |
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Stag nights abroad? The traditional English habit of a bachelors' party, or more accurately an all-male booze-up for bridegroom and pals the night before the wedding, has taken on international dimensions.
The trend has even reached the websites, with tour operators touting such attractions as Prague Pissup, an all-in... |
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| RADIO PRAGUE - 04 February 2004 |
| Benefits that stag parties bring |
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I went to Rocky O'Reilly's last weekend and, as usual, the place was full of stag parties. I eventually found one group that was willing to take time out from drinking to share their impressions of Prague with me, but only after they had finished singing:
Stag-party member singing "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" very drunkenly... |
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| MLADA FRONTA (CZ) - 08 December 2003 |
| Czech Adverts to tempt foreigners for Prague and beer |
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Foreigners are drawn to visit the Czech Republic mainly because of the capital Prague. When they talk of this country, they mainly talk about beer, ice hockey and attractive Czech girls.
This comes from research, which was carried out by the Czech Tourism agency between 1800 tourists.
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| PRAGUE BUSINESS JOURNAL (CZ) - 30 October 2003 |
| The Union Jack attack |
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Surf and Turf in a London restaurant or “Steak and Tits” in a Prague pub—which would you rather have? A pair of British expat entrepreneurs-and creators of the catchy culinary and cultural program mentioned above-is betting that most fellows will opt for the latter.
For young and middle-aged Britons wondering where to throw the... |
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| LIDOVY NOVINY (CZ) - 14 October 2003 |
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Merry Brits discover Prague
Around 10.30 in the evening, the waitresses in the touristy restaurant of U Fleku have already started to cash-up. Merry middle-aged Spaniards, Germans and Dutch, fortified by shots of Becharovka, dark beer and typical Czech cuisine are beginning to leave the restaurant.
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| FINANCIAL TIMES - 23 August 2003 |
| The British Abroad |
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...young Brits have plenty to spend and will find other destinations that need their money and offer similar attractions. Prague now hosts British stag and hen parties shut out of Dublin's Temple Bar district because of their rowdy behaviour. The Praguepissup.com website invites men and women to visit the Czech republic... |
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| BUSINESS TIMES ASIA - 25 July 2003 |
| British bridegrooms booze in Prague |
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Stag nights abroad? The traditional English habit of a bachelors' party, or more accurately an all-male booze-up for bridegroom and pals the night before the wedding, has taken on international dimensions.
The trend has even reached the websites, with tour operators touting such attractions as Prague Pissup, an all-in... |
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| INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (UK) - 15 July 2003 |
| A stag night in the life of Prague, the toast of boozy Brits |
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Eye witness: Good beer and cheap sex lures packs of young British men to the Czech capital.
At the very spot where the playwright and later president Vaclav Havel addressed the dignified, bloodless Czech Velvet Revolution, a gaggle of British "Elvises" bowled obliviously towards the nearest strip joint.
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| YAHOO UK NEWS - 08 July 2003 |
| Stag party becomes Prague party as Brit bridegrooms booze abroad |
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Stag nights abroad? The traditional English habit of a bachelors' party, or more accurately an all-male booze-up for bridegroom and pals the night before the wedding, has taken on international dimensions.
The trend has even reached the websites, with tour operators touting such attractions as Prague Pissups, an all-in... |
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| THE TIMES (UK) - 15 May 2003 |
| Prague falls to the stag night invaders |
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In a narrow street between Old Town Square, where visitors have been gawping at the famous astronomical clock since the 15th Century, and Wenceslas Square, scene of the Velvet Revolution demonstrations that brought an end to communism, a group of young British men are in their own particular state of Bohemian rhapsody. Whooping... |
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| EKONOM (CZ) - 13 March 2003 |
| A happy life for Brits in Prague |
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It is possible to get from London to Prague and back with easyJet for Ł40, ie not more than 2000 CZK, which is bringing a new type of tourist to Prague. They don't admire the architectural beauty of our capital, or spend time in the shops. They are attracted by something else: a lot of cheap restaurants and 2 hundred night clubs... |
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| THE SUN (UK) - 10 February 2003 |
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Stag nights used to be a barrel of Double Diamond and a stripper in the backroom of a local boozer.
Now thrill-seeking British blokes are roaming the globe searching for the wildest city for their last night of freedom.
Prague in the Czech Republic is the latest party town to be beseiged by marauding stag revellers. The... |
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| MLADA FRONTA (CZ) - 25 January 2003 |
| British travel: beer, women, fun |
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It's a new fashion: more and more British are coming to Prague for their Stag weekends. And why not? Beer is very cheap here...
[The Daily Telegraph article] has started an avalanche. The Czech media have also started to take an interest in how the British spend their weekends in Prague. Is it all humbug, or is it true that... |
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| MLADA FRONTA (CZ) - 20 January 2003 |
| Drunken Brits are far nicer than sober Germans |
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Thousands of British are flying to Prague for their stag weekends thanks to cheap flights, which sometimes cost only Ł18. Often they are drunk before they arrive.
According to Police inspector Daniel Kolar everything is OK, because it is simply economics. According to his opinion, drunken Brits are far nicer than sober Germans.... |
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| THE AGE (AUST) - 18 January 2003 |
| British invade Prague for cheap thrills |
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Prague, the baroque jewel in the crown of Europe, is coming under siege every weekend by hordes of drunken British men on cheap "sex and beer" jaunts.
Thousands of Britons, mostly on stag holidays, descend on the Czech capital every weekend on budget flights that can cost just Ł18 ($A50). An average weekend, plus flights,... |
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| DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK) - 16 December 2002 |
| British men wallow in Prague's sex and beer |
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Thousands of Britons, mostly on stag holidays, descend on the Czech capital every weekend on budget flights which can cost just Ł18, and the men are often already drunk when they arrive. They do not travel to appreciate the splendour of the city's architecture or to tour its enchanting cobbled streets. Instead, they are in search... |
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| THE ECONOMIST (UK) - 12 December 2002 |
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Head for Prague. There, as www.praguepissup.com, a website dedicated to bringing lads to the Czech capital, points out, "an all nighter costs less than five quid!" and "a night exercising the ferret costs 30 quid!" A slew of companies now bring groups of British men to Prague for a weekend of lap-dancing and pub crawls.... |
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| FHM MAGAZINE (UK) - 09 November 2002 |
| What we did this month |
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Witnessed female perfection with the excellent hosting skills of www.praguepissup.com. Cheers lads! |
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