Guys Gone Wild: 7 Unique Ideas For One Flight Away Bachelor Parties
December 2, 2018
Crazy Las Vegas bachelor parties are a thing of the past as grooms choose to indulge their passions, from beer tastings to racing cars.
Oh, Baby Driver
Make a pit stop in your race to the altar at a driving school. Burn rubber at the BMW Performance Driving School (bmwperformancecenter.com) in Thermal, California, before chowing down on a 32-ounce wagyu tomahawk chop at The Edge Steakhouse at The Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage (ritzcarlton.com). Or, head North to Sonoma to get behind the wheel of a McLaren or Formula 3 race car at the Simraceway Performance Driving Center (simracewaydrivingschool.com).
Take your fast car and head to Nevada’s Spring Mountain Motor Resort (springmountainmotorsports.com), where the guy gang can whip around the longest road course in North America in high-end Corvettes, Cadillacs or Radical SR3s. When you run out of gas, retire to the on-property lofts. The clubhouse offers meals, massages and martinis.
Mix It Up
A bachelor party is about “bro”-ing down, but picking up some new recipes at the same time will earn major points. The Wine Country Home weekend package at Napa’s Carneros Resort and Spa (carnerosresort.com) includes a private cooking class with its executive chef in the Viking-appliance-appointed kitchen of a luxurious three-bedroom house. It also includes a caviar and Champagne tasting and a farm-to-treatment massage at the newly renovated spa.
At Estancia La Jolla Hotel and Spa (meritagecollection.com/estancialajolla), grooms pick their spirit of choice (whiskey, tequila or beer), and the mixology team leads an informative high-end tasting, with notes on the chosen liquor’s production and history, followed by a cocktail-making lesson. Then the students become the teachers and craft two signature drinks of their very own. It’s easy to add dinner and a round of cigars to the experience.
Cowboy Up
Monterey County’s V6 Ranch (parkfield.com) hosts dude ranch weekends, cattle drives and cowboy academies for city slickers who want to ride horses through scenic hills while herding cattle, or learn to rope, sort and pen bovines. Bunk down under the stars or in the lodge. If you want to add hunting and fishing to the itinerary, pack your best camo and flannel duds and saunter over to where the buffalo roam.