Poprad Stag Weekend

On March 8th 2008, I few out to Slovakia with my Brother-in-Law, Chris, and his friends for his Stag weekend of Skiing and drinking. It was an early flight, 8.30am, from Luton Airport. Its classed as Luton London, despite being over 30 miles from the M25. When we landed, i was surprised to find the temperature similar to when we left the UK...and not much snow on the ground - not a good sign for a skiing trip.

A Short trip from the Airport to Poprad, and to our hotel, the Satel Hotel. A nice 3star in the city center. It was around 12 mid-day so we tried to contact the ski hire at the hotel, but they only open from 8am to 11am and 4pm to 7pm. So we decided to search for a bar. also some of us needed some local currency.
The town was very quiet, not many shops open at all, we all thought this very strange. "Like being in 28 Days later", someone commented. There was 12 of us in total, but 4 had arrived a few days earlier for an extended skiing trip, so the 8 of us that arrived that day eventually found a bar and in we went.
You know that scene from every western movie, when the hero or villain walks into the saloon, and the music stops, and every one looks at him? Thats what it seemed like as we went in. There were plenty of tables, so we picked a corner table and set about translating the menu. "Pivo" it turned out was "Beer" so, armed with this knowledge and hand signals, Richard went to the bar. Soon 8 large beers arrived, and, as they only cost 25SK each (about 50p!) we had another.....and another.
It was about time to get back to the hotel, and meet up with the others, and arrange our first night out with the stag, Chris, present. We set off back to the hotel to get ready.



After everyone arrived in the lobby bar, we went back to the rooms and Chris was introduced to his evenings atire.
Then it was out to the town and some food, we chose "Cafe Crazy", for some real brick oven cooked pizza (and beers).
Then we went to a nightclub, a the door they tried to charge us the equivelant of £12, each! Until we realized that that they were saying that would be the price for everyone, so in we went. The Black lights inside worked a treat on our t-shirts. There were more beers and shots in the dark. Dancing was had by some, but thats where my night ended, about 1.30am, not too drunk, but very tired, as most of us had been up since 4am the previous day.