Stag Parties in Kraków

I disagree: I've seen stag groups which have been very well behaved and good fun, not all stag groups are drunken idiots. All that needs to be done to drive away the ones that are is to enforce the existing laws on public drunkenness. Once it goes round the UK that if you're a drunken idiot in Poland you automatically get locked up and fined, suddenly the groups that would cause trouble will go elsewhere. Apart from anything else, taking idiots to the drunk tank is pretty much a revenue generator!

Let he/she among you who is without sin cast the first stone!

That's true. Mind you, the police have now cottoned on that if they take someone there on the grounds of the alcohol level in their blood and general carousing and merriment rather than actual disorderly or dangerous conduct, they are liable to be sued for compensation in the European court. A woman in Warsaw got 7000 Euros for that recently.

How did she manage that? Isn't it illegal to be drunk in public here?

Yes, but the European Court overruled that. You have to be actually doing something bad. Weaving along the pavement is within the range of normal behaviour.

If they dotted a few toilets around and had more than one urinal seving a bar seating 100's the monuments could be saved from british p1ss.

Avoiding drunk dickheads is easy if you know where not to go! Prague still has many hidden gems that the stags wouldnt want to frequent because they have "charm" The main club in Prauge is also big enough to avoid said pr*cks.

I am assuming Danny, you heard about the good old days in Prauge, well, yes it was cheaper but that was due to currency exchange nothing more - back in 1999 you could get about 50 crowns to the £ now we get 28 so it stands to reason that it feels more expensive, having said that a pint hasnt really increased in 10 years! (well not in the bars I go in, probably in the stag places though)


Because sweetie they cant behave and they act even worse when abroad - the ONLY reason they go to Warsaw or Krakow is because its cheap, nothing more nothing less.

i must agree here...

I once saw a stag party from Brum spending all day in Champion's Bar (at the Marriott) playing pool. They'd got on a plane, flown to a capital that was new to them and chose to spend the whole day in Western-style bar. May as well have stayed at home.

Punish the offending action. Immediately. Banning advertising and crap like that ends up just turning the people passive aggressive and people will continue to ***** and moan. Don't like offensive behavior? Enact legislation to counter it. It worked in Prague.

That does my tits in. So many tourists do it though. I'm all for maybe having one familiar meal while on holiday, because everyone likes that bit of comfort. But there is no point coming to a different country and then doing exactly the same as you would at home. Not only that, but you hear loads of people moaning that not enough people speak English, or that they don't have the same shops. If you want a holiday that is the same as being at home, then book a nice break somewhere else in the UK, there are plenty of lovely places there that are cheap and everyone speaks the same language, buys the same drinks and shops in the same places.

The same can be said of a lot of expats sadly, living here for years and hanging about almost exclusively with other expats and tourists, eating the same food as back home and moaning about almost everything. Don't get me wrong, I will spend the odd night down Nic Nowego chatting in English and reading the papers, and when I cook at home it's mostly british food I eat (that's what I know and have been taught)...but most of the time I eat Polish food and hang about with Polish friends from work...sure it's not easy when everyone is speaking a different language from me, but it is a great way to learn, and it means you don't need to rely on a few people who can translate for you.

You should see Bar Below in Warsaw. I've only been twice a few years ago and it didn't seem a bad place, but the only expat I see regularly goes there for the football. He says it's full of Brits paying 9zl a beer, grumbling about their divorces and trying to shut the outside world out. Culture shock's only supposed to last a few months!

pretty sad picture...

Your mate is rather out of date!

Is it more than 9zl now?

And I bet you know which football fan I mean :-)

Why not? free planet.

Having said that, I haven't met a single person who isn't Polish in the six months I've been in Krakow.

Plus, Kraków is developing a reputation for being a cool place to party and it is semi-exotic for some from the UK. Poles came to us and we are coming to them.

The local gangsters here hit *CZ and PL to go target shooting(practice), for the cheap lager and loose women.

Great sort of clientele.

*so bad in fact, my local MEP brought it up in Brussels.

I think you will notice, I didn't say people aren't allowed to do that. I just said that there is no point.

If the roles were reversed, with you criticising other ethnic groups in the UK for not integrating themselves and hanging onto their own customs and cultural norms, you would be called a racist.

I think Iain's point was about going on holiday to another country. Rather than moving there.

Terry? He's got the 15% discount card so he's only paying 8.50 for his beer. The bloke must be more jaded that I thought these days! I haven't heard anybody complaining about their divorce since Alan left (which is more than two years ago now).

Anyway, that bb scene will soon be very much a thing of the past.

He never told me they have a discount scheme!

Anyway, I'm off to my local (Piotruś on ul. Nowy Świat - 7zl without a discount card and not an English speaker in there) if any of the armchair warriors want to find me.

Exactly

However,


I do agree with this statement and it angers me when I hear about places in the UK having to change to suit certain groups of immigrants. I have lived in many different countries all over the world and every place I have adapted to the local customs and respected local cultures. I think it's terrible when people, if they are moving to the UK, Poland, Dubai, etc, don't accept that they are somewhere different and adapt to that environment.

Some people are using the term 'post-national' now. A very new phenomenon but I suspect it's growing especially as the EU develops.

It was funny a couple of nights ago, the boilers fecked up in Clark House. I was dropping them off some heaters for the bedrooms and got chatting to some Polish nurses, as soon as I said one word in Polish off they went bla bla bla po polsku. I'm like just cos I can doesn't mean that you should be speaking Polish in front of the patients :D

Mine and your grandchildren will probably refer to themselves as europeans, not Brits, not Irish, not Poles. Just europeans.

Sad.


Thats fair 'nuff.

Wow yeah, never heard of that! sounds great! where is "Prauge"? sounds French.
Right, ok.. enough is enough! I am going to Krakow with all my friends and I simply want to know where is best to get pissed, shag a ***** then go back to my hotel to sleep it off. rinse and repeat for 3 days.

I dont care about all the arguments and do gooders twining on.
It's going to happen there so I say join em!
Poles act the **** in my country so i could not give a furry **** about the ethics of being lairy in a beautiful city.

I suppose if they stuck their hand in a fire, you would do that too?

I love public school boys!!! Always make you laugh :D