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As a Christmas party planner you would have thought our party would be the best xmas party ever - and you would have been right!

After organising the xmas party (a little late in all honesty, we have been a bit busy planning other company’s) we opted for a dual theme Christmas event in Brighton – Hove actually!

The girls (being addicted to the finest things in life) decided it would be a good idea to have a formal Black Tie dress event. Of course this was a shallow effort to cover up the fact they all wanted to buy new dresses and make a big fuss for the Christmas Party. This also meant the guys needed to dust off their 007 suits and prepare for a decadent night of drinks and dancing.

So kicking off on arrival we had a champagne reception, just to relax into the evening at the Christmas venues bar, we were then invited to enter the party, which was tastefully themed with white a red drapes, Christmas tree’s and Christmas table decorations. A good effort with the decorations and lighting!

The Christmas evening menu had options, but I think we’re all carnivorous and opted for the traditional roast turkey, starters, some opted for Goat’s cheese salad or home made soup and for pudding, chocolate log or a ginger Fool, of course mince pies and coffee’s etc were plentiful.

It’s show time….

Part 1 – The Christmas Cabaret – A Christmas Carol

Now we had not quite expected an alternative themed Christmas carol to be different, and for some reason it was quite bizarre! Having a cast of 16 on stage with back stage hands the xmas cabaret show was a full on dancing and singing spectacle.

Full grown adults singing their favourite Christmas songs with healthy participation from the audience was a great way to start the show. The bizarre part was the costumes, one part had the carols singers singing whilst wearing different types of drinks on their heads and a variety of colourful costumes!

All in all, if you entered the evening with the Christmas Party spirit then a good time was had!

Part2 – The Christmas Elvis

Now everyone loves Elvis, and our Christmas Elvis was simply brilliant, he knew how to get a party going with the infamous favourites only an Elvis tribute act can provide.

The event went from strength to strength with plenty of dancing, or certainly some of it looked vaguely like dancing.

The night was a fabulous success and we are all looking forward to the next office Christmas party in 09!

You can see some images on our Flickr account , why not have a look and leave a comment – we love to talk!

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Other festive office activities revealed include the photocopying body parts and, in an additional survey of Canon UK’s 700 highly-trained technical support team, 46% of those questioned stated that they had been called out to repair a printer/copier due to ‘non-work related’ incidents, such as revellers sitting on it or office-workers standing on it to put up Christmas decorations.

Do you have a favourite Christmas party anecdote? Let us know!

Adventure Connections, the South’s leading independent events co-ordinator is pleased to announce record numbers of bookings for its stag and hen weekends. The company has grown by 100% per cent in the past year, and forward bookings for 2009 are looking very robust.

“We’ve worked hard and the number of enquiries coming our way has doubled from last year,” says Adventure Connections MD. “Despite the financial insecurity that is around, we area finding that people are still approaching us but what they are asking for has changed.”

Adventure Connections reports that it is noticing a trend from its enquiries where stag and hens are moving away from the traditional long weekend abroad and concentrating resources on weekends at home – with locations like Brighton and Bournemouth for example, being very popular.

There are numerous benefits to staying in the UK for a stag and hen weekend”. “You want fun, without the inconvenience of travel and having to navigate your way around unfamiliar surroundings. You don’t have to worry about foreign currency, foreign languages. You can arrive at your hotel at a reasonable hour after work on a Friday and get home again on a Sunday afternoon, so you don’t have to commit yourself and your friends to a long weekend. You can relax into your weekend instead of starting out tired and stressed. A weekend near home is more attractive to friends who have work commitments or who are feeling the pinch.”

Why not have a look at some great images of the team and our video presenters on flickr!

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Quality hen weekend

If we said, you can have anything you want for your hen weekend,
I mean 5 star luxury, sun bathing on a Sunseeker sports boat, full body massage whilst being fed chocolates by your imaginary fantasy guy, would you really want it? Or should it remain in the realms of your ever demanding mind?

What is quality to you?

Quantity hen weekend

So you want it all and you want it now! Hen hotels, shows, limos, restaurants, activities, the whole works! You want it gift wrapped and delivered yesterday, hen party planning - done!

What is quantity to you?

You want both types of hen weekends - don’t you, but here’s the crunch you can’t have both as a luxury hen weekend is going to cost! So what are you really a quality girl or a quantity girl?

Of course you’re a quality girl, you want to book the best your money can get, you want confidence that your hen party will be brilliant and if you’re honest with yourself you don’t really mind paying a little extra to get it just right.

This is where we can help – really help, advice is free why do you think we have produced high quality activity videos, why have we produced this blog site? We do this and so much more as we really care about our product and we really care about you!

So if you are looking for some original hen party ideas, and want a high quality luxury event then please get in touch, just for some advice of what will work for you! Your hen party you choose.

If you have found this blog of some interest why not leave a comment, do you think quality is key or do you think quantity is the way forward? - we love to talk!

In all honesty if it has it has not affected us! Sure some groups have changed their minds and gone for a more economical option for their stag party, and some have just booked activities, hotels and nightlife here in the UK rather than flying across the world. I think maybe the difficult position with flight operators has certainly not helped with consumer confidence but people are much happier to stay in good old Blighty!

And really why go to Europe when everything you need is laid on a plate with a language you can understand, furthermore the costs of jetting off to the rest of the world has escaladed so much over the last 12 months it’s definitely not cheaper nowadays, not even mentioning the time sitting on your butts waiting for delayed flights!

But I digress…

Has the stag and hen market hit a recession?

Not a chance! You have been waiting for your wedding, planning, hours spent imagining what married life is going to be like and bang you are going to cancel it! Not a chance!

Not even the bravest of souls will air the subject let alone make the announcement. Just imagine ‘darling, I don’t think we should get married just yet as it’s going to cost too much money’. ‘Darling’, in response, ‘of course puppy love just because I have waited since birth to walk down the aisle I’m happy to put it off until you say we can afford it’. Yeh right watch as ‘the proverbial darling’ adds some new ornaments to the shelf, with a, ‘you tight*******, my mother always said you were a#!!??#!!!’

I digress again………

stag and hen recession? nope not a chance, as long as we have sisterhood booking the weddings the stag or hen parties are going to keep rocking!

If you have found this blog of some interest why not leave a comment, do you think you will cancel or postpone your wedding because money is tight, if you want to cancel the wedding but dare not for the above reason let us know - we love to talk!

We have often asked ourselves why the stags leave it till the last minute to organise their stag party, but now the hens are becoming a little last minute themselves. Do you think it’s because of last minute bargains? Is it in today’s society that everything should be on tap when you want it, are people just so busy and forget about it?

Are you part of the above cult? Do you see last minute special offers as the way forward or is your life style just to crazy to get something booked?

In all honesty you are kidding yourself, yes you can pick up a last minute deal, as someone has unfortunately cancelled at the 11th hour, but what happens if this is not the case? And yes we are all busy nowadays but you want to stay somewhere nice, you want to have options, don’t you?

Well do you?

We organise 100’s of stag and hen parties and the very best are the ones planned out well inadvance. The advantages weighed up far exceed winging it by the seat of your pants. Your hotel - of choice, your party activty - of choice and then you can sit back and relax (and get very excited - we get umpteen calls from very excited people, (hens generally). You can then think about which bars or restaurants to visit and all the small bits and pieces, and then you can get all excited again!

So take our advice book it early, a last minute stag or hen party rarely is a stress free process - unless you use an organisation so they can sort it out for you.

If you have found this page looking for some special offers then take a peek, or better still call we love to talk!

I was taught the rumba, or at least a simplified version, which in all honesty I was thankful for, because my husbands tango looked a lot more difficult. I’m disappointed to say my dance partner and I didn’t get very far – I’m still finding it difficult to believe the judges weren’t impressed by us.   

The grand final was impressive to watch and the overall winners, who danced the rumba, were a joy.  The evening was a great success and enjoyed by all, including those who had to leave their dreams of ever being the next Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers back at the reception. 

Join our blog, we would love to hear your stories of any wedding receptions with a difference you have been to.

I believe that’s a great way to describe our team here at Adventure Connections – And why shouldn’t we be, we are in the privileged position of making our clients life’s easier and more relaxed at a time when stress levels can go through the roof.  When it’s a hen or stag event we’re organising, 99% of the time our clients are very aware that making a success of the event is extremely important – They want the event to be remembered by friends and family for all the right reasons – What they don’t want to hear on the first anniversary is “Oh my, do you remember the terrible time we had at “Jane’s” hen night, the hotel was disgusting, the entertainment dire, an experience never to be repeated”. We know our clients can sit back, relax and discuss again and again the fabulous experience they enjoyed.   For our corporate clients the right choice of event and venue etc is a reflection on their company as well as ours and a successful event is the only acceptable outcome.

We understand how important it is to build a relationship with all our clients right from the first point of contact – How can we give a first class service without knowing a clients likes and dislikes, what interests them with regards to entertainment etc? – All our groups have individual personalities and we strive to reflect those personalities in the packages we put together.   

We all know how difficult it can be to actually talk to another human being at the end of the telephone nowadays; emails have also had an affect on voice to voice contact, with all the call centres etc, personal contact almost seems a thing of the past – We here at Adventure Connections find this a sad scenario. 

I believe here at Adventure Connections we deliver a better service through getting to know our clients. 

We would love to hear if you agree or disagree with us – Are company/client relationships important to you as a client/prospective client?

 Let us know your feelings on the above subject and any other subjects you would like to discuss by joining our blog - We look forward to hearing from you.