posted
12/4/11
When it comes time to send a buddy into matrimonial slavery in style, some locales are far superior to others. Assuming your crew’s got a little scratch and is willing to travel, here are six debauchery-friendly bachelor party spots where every dollar will be well spent. Sorry Sheboygan, Wisconsin, you just missed the cut.
1. Las Vegas
Obligatory. While it’s not the Sin City of its glory days, it remains a great place to go be a man for a night or three. Drink, gamble and chase tail, but don’t pay for it—Las Vegas is just about the only place in Nevada where you can’t rent a lady for the night. Still, you can play lots of cards and dice and take in an old-time Vegas show before hitting the bars and casinos all over again. For gents who like to smoke, take heart: the casinos are pretty much the last place on earth where you can legally light up. And last time we checked, you can drink in the streets!
2. Amsterdam
It’s a bit of a hike and you’ll need to save up some scratch, but there’s a reason this is the go-to spot for British men on their last night of freedom. Yes, yes, there’s weed and hookers. Guess what? There are probably weed and hookers where you live, too. More than that, however, there’s live sex shows, sex museums and um… the Anne Frank House? The point is, Amsterdam is a place where adults are allowed to run wild and have fun. Watch your wallet and don’t toke in public, but otherwise hit it up for a time you won’t soon forget. Actually, you probably won’t remember much, but isn’t that the point?
3. New York City
“New York, New York, is everything they say / And no place that I’d rather be / Where else can you do a half a million things / All at a quarter to three”
There is literally nothing you cannot do, see or buy in New York City, and Ol’ Blue Eyes wasn’t kidding when he called it the city that never sleeps: pretty much every bar is open till 4 a.m., and even though Rudy Giulani had to go and clean up Times Square, there are still plenty of fine gentleman’s clubs in and around midtown. Our personal favorite is Rick’s Cabaret, which in the evenings has as many as a hundred showgirls performing at once. And we didn’t even mention the shopping, probably because there are about a thousand more fun things to do there.
