OT: AA Bachelor Party Locations
I have a bachelor party to plan for my brother for some time in September, and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a locale? I was thinking of possibly renting out a room at a brewery somewhere and having something low key. Anyone know if ABC or Grizzly Peak or somewhere like that rents out rooms? Other ideas? Many thanks in advance!
On a side note: My whole family has been through UofM at some point in time, but my brother has somehow got himself engaged to an OSU fan. Remember those UM/OSU commercials? Yeck.
Edit: This is not going to be your typical bachelor party. Strippers and going to Windsor are pretty much out of the question. Lame, I know.
Go to Deja Vu in Ypsi. They have great seafood there.
You beat me to it.
The Vu!!!
Definitely head to Ypsilanti...and then maybe to Windsor
For a good Coug Hunting trip, Melange on Main St.
I am going to Louisville to Chruch Hills Downs this weekend for a bachelor party. It's obviously a little easier for us since we are coming from central Illinois and not Michigan...
Grizzly Peak will reserve the corner portion (that used to be the Del Rio) for private parties. Don't know about the cougar aspect, though.
Conor's rents out their Celtic room.
whirrly ball might be a good warmup. drunk driving on bumper cars is always fun.
The red car #3 always starts out strong but slows down significantly throughout the game. The red car #6, however, is the Rocket Ismail of Whirly Ball. Always a strong (to quite strong) choice.
You had to use Rocket Ismail, huh?
NOT...OLD...ENOUGH...TO...REMEMBER...
THAT...HE...WENT...TO...NOTRE...DAME...
WILL...SELF...DESTRUCT...IN...THE...TIME...
IT...TAKES...CHARLIE...WEIS...TO...TIE...
HIS...SHOES
You've got some time then.
My law firm has rented out a room at Arbor Brewing before on a weeknight for hosting a recruiting event. No clue on cost or what the availability is on a weekend.
I feel for you and your brother. For some strange reason, I ended up with a girlfriend who is an OSU fan. We've broken up twice in the past (because I just couldn't stand the fact of it) but now live together.
Be kind to him. He will question it for the rest of his life (or at least every fall).
Unfortunately, the best bar in town for that kind of thing closed its doors and moved to Colorado.
For my brother's bachelor party this summer I rented a cabin in Waterloo State Park, just a 20 minute drive west of AA, but still wilderness-y enough for everyone to get drunk. Really cheap too ($60/night for an 8-bed cabin). We grilled dogs, played a game of Jewish football (like Michigan football except without any talent), some guys went fishing, we all got hammered, made tons of noise, went adventuring in the woods, etc.
There's a golf course there too. Because some of the guys were married with kids already, and because we wanted to incorporate the father of the bride, my father, and some of his friends, we had the older folks meet us for 18 holes early in the morning on Saturday (though we did this at a course in AA, but the Waterloo course is really nice too). We all had lunch after the golfing, and then the older guys went home and we went back to the cabin.
Sunday morning, I stomped the whole smelly crew over to Broken Egg for breakfast, then everyone released.
Final cost was 100 per participant. Everyone had a good time, participating to the level they could handle (except the bachelor was so tanked he passed out at 8 p.m.)
And as someone who's currently out in Denver, I can say that Leopold Bros. the bar didn't even move here. There is no bar. They're merely operating a distillery and selling booze to retail stores and restaurants/other bars. Which is all very lame. Their beer often smelled like feet and one bartender in particular used to routinely be too drunk to serve me competently, but I really liked that place. I also lived right up the street, so that helped.
ETA: Also, thanks for the cabin advice. We've been looking for something kind of rustic but nearby and Waterloo looks like a great idea.
yeah, their liquors were better than the beers. it sucks that the liquor was basically why they had to leave Michigan.
More so than the service or what they served, IME.
That and the jukebox.
And the board games. We took Lord of the Rings Risk there once, though. Bring Lord of the Rings Risk to Leopold Bros., gonna have a bad time.
For some reason the idiot owners put in dark tinted front window glass, and with the already very low lighting levels inside, it always looked closed even when it was open. Looks no different now. Service was the kind where the smug, disdainful bartender thought they were doing you a huge favor by just acknowledging your existence. Menu sucked, and so did the beer. The stuff brewed at Grizzly and ABC blows the shit Leopold's made out of the water. I guess if you lived right down the street the convenience might make up for some of it, but that's one place I'll never miss.
Boats and Hoes at the Catalina Wine Mixer.
Why not Rick's or Skeeps?
Early September, freshman girls partyjumping from West and South Quads, imagine it: you can get like 50 1/4 barrels of Natural Light from Campus Corner for around $25, play volleyball with your boys and the fraternity right on State Street, throw the frat a little cash and they'll probably let you control the tunes off the balcony, then flirt like a weirdo with young Michigan coeds. You'll feel like a college kid again for a couple hours. Then go to Champion House on Liberty for sake bombs or Grizz for steaks, then roast your boy at either ABC or Connors.
Except that those guys are all tools. Every one of them.
Even all the alums?
I suppose not all of them. All of them when I was in college (I lived next door, bet you were shocked to hear that).
Gay night, IIRC. Should be a fabulous time. Enjoy!
buy enough beers and anything goes.
I'm glad to hear that pit is still in business. My dad and brother and I used to go there for lunch on our way to the game not to mention other random intervals.
The place was to M football what Thano's Lamplighter was to M basketball with old football pics all over the walls and 2 inches of clear varnish on their cigarette tar glazed, beer ringed wooden tables.
I loved that place. Not sure I'd ever have a bachelor party there though. I mean, where's the sexy women? All you get is beer, burgers, fries, sports and pinball... err, that was the case the last time I was there in '90.
Wait... what do you mean "anything goes"? What the hell happened to this place in 20 yrs?
I wonder if they still have Billy Squire on the jukebox.
You really should consider going to Windsor...
Go to ricks and get messed up. Dont be a pussy.
Every time i've been this summer - $1 drink specials (well-drinks and domestic bottles, shit like that)
I had my bachelor party last spring, at a place in Techumseh.
What did we do in Techumseh, you ask?
Skydiving.
Best. Bachelor. Party. Ever.
Napoleon is better, you can go solo.
Hmm... I might have to try that now. Since I'd never done it before, I figured it was best if somebody who knew what they were doing was there, but now...
Now, in the past 15 years or so there have been two people killed there that I'm aware of. But, it's a risk driving down the highway you know?
I used to write for a safety magazine, and one time I was doing an interview with a guy who ran a training facility for Army paratroopers.
In the course of the interview, he was going over all of these safety features and practices and kept stressing "redundancies" on everything. Being a snarky young journalist, I gave him one of those questions meant to knock your interviewee down a peg:
(paraphrasing)
"If you're really following all of these safety features and practices, then why does your facility have one of the highest rates of injury and death of any Army camp?"
His answer, I'll remember for a lifetime:
"Because....we jump out of planes."
Nice