If a mere weekend on the slopes isn’t epic enough for your bachelor party, check out the Snowbombing festival, which happens every April in Mayrhofen, Austria. If you want to get really freakin’ far away, Shymbulak Ski Resort, located just outside Almaty in Kazakhstan, sells lift passes for $10 to $20 a day and nearby Medeu, a massive Sovier-era outdoor ice skating rink, costs just $5 for an all-day pass. Also, most big resorts in France have banned snowboarding, so opt for Switzerland or Austria if you’re heading to Europe.

Just make sure you avoid the ski-only snobbery of Deer Valley Resort in Utah or Mad River Glen in Vermont. There’s a myriad of ways to respond to this reality, but the simplest solution just might be to keep it simple-maybe celebrate at your favorite local restaurant-or offer flexibility for traveling guests.Obviously, the criteria listed above for skiing applies for snowboarding too. When all is said and done, your special day might cost the people you want to be there a lot of time and money they may not have or be willing to part with. “Think about someone who maybe needs to pay it with a credit card, maybe has a different type of cash flow situation.' “Having those flex times I think are very important and I think putting yourself in the shoes of maybe someone who says, ‘Look, I could be comfortable in my financial situation,’” Bodine said. If you’re dead set on having a bachelorette party in Miami, give people options on how they are going to get there and be flexible if some people choose to stay at a cheaper hotel-you’ll all still be together for the big moments at the brunch and beach day. Instead of picking the hotel, the restaurants, the venues, etc., make some parts less mandatory. To avoid running into this dilemma for your own big celebrations, Bodine advises to make events a bit more customizable for each person. We had three years where all of those life moments were on hold, and now the Instagram application of travel, it’s like if you don't see it and it doesn't show up on social, does it exist?” Trustpilot marketing executive Dana Bodine muses that all these over the top celebrations come from two factors. For example, a colleague had a wedding they were invited to attend recently, and the hotel that the bride wanted everyone to stay at was $500 a night for a multi-night celebration. And 68% say they “begrudgingly” use PTO or holiday time to attend weddings and wedding related events.ĭon’t get me wrong, we all love and support our friends, but sometimes it just isn’t financially feasible. At least 34% of respondents to Trustpilot’s survey say they would decline invitations to international bach celebrations.

The survey also found that 40% of Americans report that the cost of travel for attending bachelorette/bachelor parties is their top frustration regarding the event. These high prices are causing about 38% of people to say no to events like wedding parties and bach parties. Trustpilot survey data shared with Thrillist reports that more than 65% of people say that the events are too expensive.

That sum is nearly the average price of rent in the US, and it's stressing out some attendees. Trustpilot reports that the average cost of attending a bach party is $1,326 per person. While that cost is often hurting the pockets of newly married couples and their families, the spending doesn’t stop there. The sticker price for the average wedding in the US has soared in recent years, running upwards of $50,000 for the special event.

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