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Date Published: 03/05/2023

ARCHIVED - Boozy British bachelor party in Benidorm tried catching dwarf dressed as Pikachu, and other crazy stag do requests

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It was just one of several bizarre requests to British stag and hen provider, Last Night of Freedom

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Boozy British bachelor party in Benidorm tried catching dwarf dressed as Pikachu, and other crazy stag do requests

A group of stags in Benidorm tried paying a dwarf to dress up as tiny Pokémon character, Pikachu, so their mate could ‘catch him’ with a big ball.

The surreal stunt was one of several bizarre requests fielded by staff at Britain’s biggest stag and hen party provider, Last Night of Freedom.

The firm has revealed that the pranksters wanted to dress the dwarf up as Pikachu – a short, chubby rodent Pokémon – and have him be chased through the streets of Benidorm during a boozy trip to the Spanish resort.

“The groom was going to be dressed as the main character, Ash, and the group wanted to see if we could catch the dwarf as if he was a real Pokémon,” said Matt Mavir, Managing Director of Last Night of Freedom, which does offer ‘Handcuffed Dwarf’ activities, in which a little person dressed as “a woman, smurf or Charlie Chaplin” can be cuffed to a stag for an hour.

“I’m not sure what the plan was if they did [catch him], but unfortunately it was a no-go.”

However, as requests go, Matt admitted that dressing a dwarf up as a cartoon rodent was pretty tame.

One group approached the Tyneside firm and asked if they could arrange for the groom to “literally be tortured”.

“The best man asked if we could send the stag to an escape room in Eastern Europe, where the staff could do all sorts to him after he signed a waiver,” added Matt.

“They wanted them to hurt him, injure him and for the groom to literally be tortured on his own stag do.

“We gave that one a wide birth as it sounded like something from Hostel, and I just hope the groom found some better mates once he’s married.”

The firm was launched in 1999, and has since organised in excess of 45,000 stag and hen parties to over 60 destinations in Europe and beyond.

According to Matt, the vast majority of customers want to keep it simple by booking traditional activities like go-karting, beer bikes and bar crawls.

However, a growing demand for quirkier activites in recent years has seen demand for leftfield pastimes to rocket.

“In Europe, we now offer everything from mud wrestling to flying a fighter jet,” added the businessman.

“I think that’s made customers more confident about approaching us to see if we can fulfil an unusual request. In the past we’ve had everything from grannies wanting a Gary Barlow impersonator to a group of stags asking if we could charter a submarine for them, and no matter what the idea is, if we can make it happen, then we will go above and beyond to pull it off.”

“One man asked if they could do every strip activity in Prague – the only thing was they were going alone,” added Matt.

“He was basically planning a one-man solo strip club tour of Prague and wanted us to book it, which was odd in itself, but we drew a line when he asked if we could also recommend any massage parlours offering happy endings.”

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