Bachelor party ideas around Plano, TX

iamthepieman

My college roommate and best friend is getting married soon.

I'm the best man and need some good locations to host or kick-off the bachelor party.

most of the groomsmen including myself are arriving in Plano Thursday morning. the rehearsal and wedding is in Greenville about an hour away.

Here's the schedule:


Thursday
4:00 P.M. - Wedding rehearsal in Greenville
6:00 P.M. - rehearsal dinner also in Greenville
8 'ish driving back to Plano

Friday
7:00 P.M. the wedding

So the only time we have to do something for the groom is Thursday evening after the rehearsal dinner or possibly Friday morning/afternoon.

I would like to kick things off at classy bar preferably with some pool tables and preferably someplace where you can smoke some fat stogies. We have already eaten dinner.

After that we'll head out to make the groom perform our embarrassing list of tasks.

So H/A I need some recommendations for a place to kick it off and some ideas on horribly embarrassing things to have the groom do during the evening. Nothing X-rated please.

EDIT: since we'll be driving back to Plano from Greenville, any place in between the two areas are fine as long as we end up in Plano.

noir_blood

There goes my idea to visit Babydolls then. Hmm, it's going to be kinda hard to think of embarrasing things to do that can't be x-rated.

iamthepieman

well, walking down the street dressed like the Times Square cowboy would be embarrassing but not X-rated.

Also, he's easily embarrassed.

joshofalltrades

There's a new cigar bar in Allen. I can't remember what it's called, but it's on McDermott and west of 75 very close to the Kroger (I'm pretty sure it's a Kroger) in a little strip mall. They have pool tables, cigars, nice furniture and I'm pretty sure they allow drinking as well. It would be cheaper than going to a bar if they do since you can just buy your own beer/liquor.

I'm pretty sure there are few other places that will allow both drinking/smoking indoors in the northern metroplex. You might try the Fox & Hound on Campbell in Richardson. That's where I went on my 21st birthday over 7 years ago and they allowed both activities there when I went. The food was good, but the drinks were pricey. I ran up about $200 worth of alcohol, which would basically take care of you and two or three other people if you were buying from a liquor store.

noir_blood

joshofalltrades wrote: »

There's a new cigar bar in Allen. I can't remember what it's called, but it's on McDermott and west of 75 very close to the Kroger (I'm pretty sure it's a Kroger) in a little strip mall. They have pool tables, cigars, nice furniture and I'm pretty sure they allow drinking as well. It would be cheaper than going to a bar if they do since you can just buy your own beer/liquor.

I'm pretty sure there are few other places that will allow both drinking/smoking indoors in the northern metroplex. You might try the Fox & Hound on Campbell in Richardson. That's where I went on my 21st birthday over 7 years ago and they allowed both activities there when I went. The food was good, but the drinks were pricey. I ran up about $200 worth of alcohol, which would basically take care of you and two or three other people if you were buying from a liquor store.

Never been much of a fan of Fox and Hound. I would recommend Sherlock's over it. There's two in North Dallas area, one off 75, and one in the addison area. I know they still allow smoking, got pool tables and usually have stuff like Karaoke or such. Plus they have happy hour until 9pm.

iamthepieman

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll check Sherlock's and Fox & Hound out. Kinda going blind on this one since neither me nor the groom are from the area.

Scalfin

I've been looking at the map, and the area seems to have a lot of good sized lakes. Take him fishing then organize a giant LAN party at someone's house. If you want to drive to the ocean, chartering a boat to go sport fishing is probably one of the most enjoyable activities imaginable, although surf fishing might be better because I'm not sure there are many owners who would appreciate drinking on their boats (although beaches have various regulations, as would the lakes).

chknsandwich

Bars:
1. Barcadia - A bar with vintage videogames (http://barcadiadallas.com)
2. Double wide - trailer park themed bar (http://www.double-wide.com/)
3. Lee Harvey's - awesome outdoor area (http://leeharveys.com/pages/about.html)

Activities:
There is a place in dallas and plano where you can play "whirleyball", a mix of bumper cars, lacrosse, and basketball (http://www.whirlyball.info/).

Fountain park where you can have him run around and get wet - http://www.fountainplace.com/

Evil_Reaver

Just a suggestion, but is there any way you can do the bachelor party any other time rather than the night before the wedding? You really don't want to get your friend plowed the night before... depending on how he handles hangovers, his wife is going to be pissed if he can't function at the wedding.

Just a thought.

Anyway, fun things to do at a bachelor party.

1. Make up a shirt for the groom to wear. You can order a custom shirt from websites like SpreadShirt and Customized Girl (it's not just a girls' website). The last party I planned, I made up an olive green shirt with a pink fighter jet on the front.

2. We had challenges for the groom to do for drinks. The first one was that he had to ask 5 women at the bar for directions to the strip club. Except that the fly on his pants was down and the front of his button down shirt was pulled out to look like a penis. We also recruited the biggest dude in the bar to arm wrestle our groom.

Basically, think of challenges that will appropriately embarrass your friend, but not so much so that he won't want to play along anymore. The green shirt with glittery pink lettering on it was enough to embarrass our groom because he's a homophobic Army guy. He's super shy too, so talking to women with his pants unzipped was embarrassing, but not enough to make him shut down and want to go home.

Oh, we also did a community pot for money. Everyone threw in $50 and that covered the rental van for transportation, all the drinks at the bar, and cover charge for the strip club. Obviously, someone will have to stay sober enough to carry an envelope full of money all night.

Kyougu

If you're looking for a goofy, fun time, check out Bounce U. Building with a bunch of bounce houses/obstacle courses, etc.

John Matrix

chknsandwich wrote: »

Bars:
1. Barcadia - A bar with vintage videogames (http://barcadiadallas.com)


Fountain park where you can have him run around and get wet - http://www.fountainplace.com/

Barcadia is pretty good, lots of old school video games around two walls.

Fountain Place is the building where the FBI recently set up and busted a would-be car bomber. I wouldn't go jumping in their fountains anytime soon. Although I would say that I've often thought about it, that place is cool.

chknsandwich

John Matrix wrote: »

chknsandwich wrote: »

Bars:
1. Barcadia - A bar with vintage videogames (http://barcadiadallas.com)


Fountain park where you can have him run around and get wet - http://www.fountainplace.com/

Barcadia is pretty good, lots of old school video games around two walls.

Fountain Place is the building where the FBI recently set up and busted a would-be car bomber. I wouldn't go jumping in their fountains anytime soon. Although I would say that I've often thought about it, that place is cool.

Last time i was there, before the incident, they had 172 "dancing fountains" that you could freely walk through.
http://www.dallasarchitecture.info/fountpl-3.jpg
Things may be different now :?

John Matrix

Huh, I never knew they were there. I always went through the side/stepped entrances, that's probably on the North side.

Well I'll be damned, google maps shows a big area with fountains out the back. Yeah, you should totally do that. I might even do that after a my saturday lunch alumni meeting uptown (aka drinking heavily at noon).

noir_blood

John Matrix wrote: »

chknsandwich wrote: »

Bars:
1. Barcadia - A bar with vintage videogames (http://barcadiadallas.com)


Fountain park where you can have him run around and get wet - http://www.fountainplace.com/

Barcadia is pretty good, lots of old school video games around two walls.

Did they finally add a change machine? I remember going there and staying only like an hour because they didn't have one.

John Matrix

noir_blood wrote: »

John Matrix wrote: »

chknsandwich wrote: »

Bars:
1. Barcadia - A bar with vintage videogames (http://barcadiadallas.com)


Fountain park where you can have him run around and get wet - http://www.fountainplace.com/

Barcadia is pretty good, lots of old school video games around two walls.

Did they finally add a change machine? I remember going there and staying only like an hour because they didn't have one.

No idea, been about a year since I went. Plan ahead and get a roll of quarters, I suppose, if it's a destination for the party.

CowShark

I was at Barcadia a couple weeks ago. They've got a change machine right next to the ATM. So that's ready to go.

John Matrix

I'm sensing there should be a Dallas PAX/Meetup.

This is a strong sense that I have.

Kyougu

Someone that's not as lazy as me should organize it.

Alternate plan: We all crash iamthepieman's party.