Quote: (02-12-2012 07:43 PM)Citizen_Boris Wrote:
Like someone posted earlier on, it’s not the tournament itself that does the damage, it’s the way it puts the various places into the sights of budget airlines.
I’d bet enormous piles of cash on Lviv going to shit first.
It doesn’t make any difference that England aren’t playing there, it’s simply that it ticks all the right boxes:
Firstly, they’ll be flying to a shiny new airport renovation, secondly it’s close enough to Poland to not be too scary and foreign to the stag night crowd...
Most importantly, it’s the only place in Ukraine that has a largely untouched UNESCO protected centre.
Stag groups don’t go to places like Donetsk and Kharkiv, they’re too much effort, and have no tourist architecture whatsoever.
You’ve got to remember when these groups of guys plan these trips, it’s got to have some loose holiday/weekend break feel about it to appease the wife/girlfriend back home, and not make you look like an obvious sex tourist... ALL the places on the stag map have quaint medieval centers (even though the whole trip revolves around beer and strippers).
That’s why places like Bratislava didn’t fair as badly as Prague. Budapest, although bad, has also not done too badly because the nightlife is spread out and the city doesn't have one main drinking square (Vaci U. excepted) I hate to say it but Lviv looks perfect for being ruined. (Maybe not for a while)
Poland won’t be too bad. There’s TONS of flights there from Britain already, they’ve had years to ruin places outside Krakow...
I can only talk about English guys (I’m from there) I have no idea about Dutch etc.
Well there has been cheap flights from London to Lviv before and there wasn't a surge of foreigners. Wizzair is starting again in March to Germany and Italy.
I really can't see Lviv becoming attractive to stag parties; the beer is shit, there are very few decent bars, food is grim, the service is abominable, the nightclubs play terrible pop music
Ok there's some nice architecture, but it's a small city and you can see everything in a couple of hours, for stag weekenders sightseeing is secondary to getting wasted and trying to bang chicks.
Krakow, Budapest, Prague are safer bets, who wants to be the friend in the group that suggests they all go somewhere ghetto, then it turns out to be a shit hole?
I mean let's look at Euro 2012, almost all of the football teams have based themselves outside of Ukraine, here there is no satisfactory accommodation,and the infrastructure is probably beyond anything they've ever experienced
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sport...r-ukraine/