Real numbers per destination, per category. What nobody tells you about the budget until it is too late.
Bachelor weekends cost more than people think, and less than people fear. What follows is where the money actually goes — the honest numbers from the dozens of apps we have built — broken down first by category, then by destination, then by the one rule that matters more than any of them.
Flights are the first line and the easiest one to move. Between €50 and €300 per person depending on destination and season. A typical northern European hub to Prague in November is the floor. A typical northern European hub to Ibiza in August is the ceiling. Booking eight weeks out instead of three is worth more than any other single decision on this page.
Accommodation is the line that swings the widest. Reckon €80 to €400 per person per night. A shared room in a Prague hotel sits at the bottom; a bed in a Marbella villa split ten ways sits near the top. Villas look expensive on paper and often come in cheaper than hotel rooms once you divide the cost across the group — but only if the group is eight or more.
Food and drink is where the maths quietly drifts. Assume €80 to €250 per person per day — daytime, not nightly. That is coffee, lunch, dinner, and the bar tab that somehow grows between them. The number is higher than people expect because they budget for dinner and forget the rest of the day exists.
Venues and activities is the line that separates the trips. €50 to €300 per person across the whole weekend. A beach-club day-bed at Bastian. A club cover at Hö. A go-kart afternoon. A hammam in Marrakesh. Pick two. Three is a lot. Four is the group who comes home broke and says the trip was great, which is a different statement.
Then the line nobody writes down: the groom subsidy. The rule we give every best man is to budget an extra ten to fifteen per cent of your own cost to cover the groom’s flight, bed, or dinner. It is not negotiable; it is the job. Build it into the per-person number from the start and nobody argues about it on the last morning.
The floor of the European map. A three-night weekend lands between €400 and €600 per person and it is genuinely hard to overspend. The spread comes down to hotel category and whether the group insists on a private club table on the Saturday — neither is necessary. Off-season, a November or February weekend, drops the floor another €50. Worth knowing before anyone complains about the weather.
The all-rounder, and priced like one. The spread is driven by whether you add a proper beach-club day. A Bastian or Opium day-bed adds €100 to €150 per head and is the single line item that decides which end of the range you sit at. June and September are the sweet spot. August is expensive for no better weather than July.
The same total as Barcelona, different shape. Flights are cheap, food is cheap, but a proper riad or villa in the palm grove pulls the number up fast. The spread depends almost entirely on whether you rent the villa or book rooms. A villa for twelve in Palmeraie costs less per head than a four-star hotel once the group clears eight. Add a hammam afternoon and a dinner at Le Jardin and the trip pays for itself in pictures.
The island punishes half-commitment. The spread is wider than anywhere else on the list because the club bill does what it wants. A table at Pacha or Hö on a Saturday starts at €2 000 minimum spend before the first bottle is ordered. Split ten ways it is fine; split four ways it is the whole trip. May and October run materially cheaper than July and August — closing weekend is the exception, and costs accordingly.
The ceiling. The spread is driven by the villa — Puente Romano-adjacent villas in July start at €2 000 per night and climb. Nikki Beach and Ocean Club beds are €150 to €250 per head before anyone orders. The trip scales beautifully with group size and becomes unreasonable below eight. If half the crew is quietly doing the maths, this is the wrong destination; the weekend only works when nobody is counting.
The tally · April 2026
A cheaper weekend is not a worse weekend. Prague with the right eight guys, properly planned, beats a mediocre Ibiza every time — and we have watched both happen inside the same month. The destination matters far less than whether the group is comfortable being there. A crew that cannot relax about the bill does not relax about anything.
So the rule is simple. Do not pick Marbella if half the crew cannot afford it. Do not pick Ibiza if the groom is the only one who actually wants it. Ask the quietest person in the group what they can comfortably spend, and build the trip around that number — not the loudest person’s ambition. The floor clears the ceiling every time, and the weekend is better for it.
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