The stag do planner that runs the weekend for you.

Organising a stag do is a thankless task: a dozen blokes who won't read the group chat, flights booked on different days, money owed in every direction, and a stag who mustn't find out what's coming. A stag do planner takes the admin off the best man. HolidayPal puts the whole weekend in one shared trip — flights, hotel, boarding passes, the itinerary and the budget — so you're not the human switchboard answering the same questions twenty times. Everyone sees the plan; you get to enjoy it too.

The airport is where stag weekends unravel. Someone's in the wrong terminal, two are still in the car park, and one isn't answering his phone. Drop a meet-up pin — "Wetherspoons, past security" — with a time and a note, and every lad sees it with a live countdown and one-tap directions. Store everyone's flights and boarding passes in the same trip, with live flight tracking, and the ring-round at dawn is over before it starts.

Half the fun of a stag do is the stuff the stag doesn't know about — the bar crawl, the matching shirts, the prank with his name on it. HolidayPal has a surprises section only the lads can see. The stag taps "I'm the stag" on his own phone and those plans vanish for him, while everyone else still sees the full running order. The big moments stay a surprise right up until they happen, without you having to run a separate secret chat.

Stag weekends get expensive fast, and someone always ends up out of pocket. A shared group budget keeps a running tally of what the weekend's costing across the group, so it's all out in the open. Everyone joins the trip with a code or WhatsApp link — no accounts — and one person (usually the best man) buys a one-off £19.99 Group Passthat unlocks the meet-up pin and surprises for the whole trip. Planning a hen too, or a mixed group? See the hen do planner and the group trip planner.