My Sheffield Stag Weekend: A Real Groom's Review

Editor's Note (December 2025): This real story from a past groom has been updated to ensure all travel tips and activity details are current for the 2025 season.

I am a proud Sheffield lad. I may have moved further south to go to uni and then get a career, but my heart is based up north in Sheffield. I’ve got the accent, I like a beer, and am a die-hard Owls fan (that’s Sheffield Wednesday for those who don’t know!).

So when I got engaged and my best friend Liam asked me where I wanted to go for my stag, there was only one obvious answer. Back to my homeland. Back to have a **Sheffield stag weekend**.

Friday: Homecoming & Cheesy Clubs

It’s a pretty long drive back home from where I now live, so when the day came around, Liam, "Smelly" (it’s an affectionate nickname, don’t worry), and I all jumped into a car and headed north.

I’m not one of these guys who wants to do nineteen million things when I’m on a stag do – I'm just happy to have drinks with the lads and laugh a lot. Liam knows this, so the first thing we did after parking up was to head to a pub.

The other reason that Sheffield was a good idea was that all of my old childhood friends who still lived nearby could come and join us. Pretty soon we were taking up a 20-odd seater table in the middle of a popular local pub, drinking, snacking, and generally having a great time.

As it got late, the decision was made to find a nightclub – though we all agreed we didn’t want a "big" nightclub, just something cheesy. We found ourselves in Sheffield’s most popular cheesy nightclub. Those of us who weren’t fussed about a dance found a corner to hang out in and watched the single lads at work!

Saturday: Clay Pigeon Shooting

The next morning, breakfast was the name of the game. A quick trip to a cheap, popular pub was the key, with all of us scoffing our way through a massive breakfast each.

Pretty soon, Liam was loading us all into cars. We drove out of the city and into the middle of nowhere. I had started to joke about whether they were going to just dump me out here, until we pulled into the car park of a shooting club.

I was delighted to find out that we were doing the hugely popular activity: **Clay Pigeon Shooting**. I’ve done it a couple of times before, so I was happy to get a quick refresher from the instructor before we all started to take our turns.

It got competitive quickly! There were five of us near the top, and each one was trying to psych out the other four. It came down to the last shot between me and Kev. In order to make sure I won, Liam (the good lad that he is) yelled loudly just as Kev took his last shot, which meant he jumped and missed it. Victory!

Saturday Night: Dogs, Dancers & Casinos

After we got back from the shooting, we went celebrating! A few drinks here, a few drinks there. Then we were off to the **Greyhound Racing** to do some more drinking and a bit of gambling.

The dogs were followed by more bars, and then by a **Strip Club**. I know strip clubs are an acquired taste, but I love seeing a beautiful woman dancing. Again, an advantage of being in Sheffield was that the drinks in the strip club weren’t bank-breakingly expensive!

Once we’d had our fill, we were off to a **Casino**. All in all, that’s what I would call a perfect night out. There were still fourteen of us when we went into the Casino, and while no one had any particularly big wins, no one had any major losses either.

The Verdict

Liam pulled a blinder here. My Sheffield Stag weekend was one of the best weekends of my life, and involved everything I could have possibly wanted. Good friends, lots of booze, and some great entertainment – isn’t that what everybody wants for their stag do?

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