FI's Bachelor Party in the city...help please : )

Rempala2B · July 2010

FI's brother & best man is expecting a baby 3 wks before our wedding so he decided that it would be best to throw FI his bachelor party early...way early! this was decided about a month ago, that his b party will be July 17th. IDK if he didn't start researching stuff early enough or if stuff was already booked but the problem is that there are NO hotels available that night in the city (that they can find). The plan (that I know of) is to just go do dinner and bar hop near Rush and Division and they wanted to get a couple hotel rooms since we live in the nw burbs. I know it's not my place, but I feel terrible for FI that first of all his party has to be so early and then the lack of planning - making for kind of regular night out instead of doing something special and fun.

We don't know the city and it's neighborhoods very well, I thought for sure I'd be able to at least find a hotel that's available but it's not easy when you don't know what you're looking for. Do any of you ladies have any suggestions or can you guide me in the right direction?? I just feel so bad for him : (

u_rica77 · July 2010

Honestly, I think you should sort of just let the guys figure it out themselves. They are grownups and they have the internet- let them deal with it. It's not really your place to get involved with the bachelor party. I think if I was a guy and the fiancee was jumping in and trying to help, I would be kind of annoyed. If the men aren't putting the effort in to the party, that kind of sucks but it's your fiance's friends/brother so he needs to speak up if he's not happy with the plans. Aren't there any other guys in the wedding party that can step up and help?

samiheartsu · July 2010

I am not sure if the brother has really done his homework or not, in 2 minutes on expedia I found over 500 hotels with availability on July 17. It's tourist season and there really should not be a problem finding multiple rooms. Maybe you could do some research on hotel rooms for them, like if you have a budget to stick with. Or you could encourage the best man to check up on hotels again. Hope you guys can work something else.

Rempala2B · July 2010

thanks girls.

@ u_rica - i get what you're saying but FI did ask me if I had any ideas, I'm not planning it for him, just seeing if there's anything that a Chicago Knottie can suggest.

@ samiheartsu - thanks for checking, I just looked myself and unfortunately expedia says 589 but when you scroll down, there are only about 3 that are availabe for $500+/night.

aimers1525 · July 2010

I don't know if you/he tried this yet, but I used Priceline to book a room for my friend's bachelorette party pretty last minute. You can specify how much you want to spend, the # of stars and the location with a certain mile radius you would like to stay. I hope everything works out for them!

ladybug7485 · July 2010

Check www.homeaway.com. You can rent condos in the city for a night or weekend and you usually save money. They're usually really nice too! Also a lot of them are big and can sleep a lot of people.

Also don't feel bad about the party being early. Mine bachelorette party is 2 months before the wedding and FI's is the week after. Most of the bachelorette parties I've been to recently have been about this far out too.

Rempala2B · July 2010

thanks ladybug! I emailed FI a link to that website. I guess I didn't realize people have their b-parties that early either! This all just hit me last night when I was talking to FI about what my MOH and BM's are looking into for mine and he kind of had a sad look on his face.