Mancations

[MisterCreosote]

Has anyone here ever taken one? They sound a little creepy, but it was suggested to me to help my transition to singlehood:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancation

The golf- or whiskey-themed packages sound awesome. The spiritual healing ones, not so much.

Thoughts? Recommendations?

 

[JackReacher]

Getting your boys together for a golf trip? Ain't nothing wrong with that. I think they're pretty common. I've thought about getting the group from my bachelor party back together for a return trip to Miami next summer.

I'd keep it to no more than 3 days, though. Any more than that and everyone starts to annoy each other.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I'd keep it to no more than 3 days, though. Any more than that and everyone starts to annoy each other.

My senior year of college, my best three friends and I went to Florida for spring break. By about day four or five, there was a fist fight (quickly broken up) that was preceded by a crying jag. I was neither a fighter or a cryer, for the record.

 

[JackReacher]

I'd keep it to no more than 3 days, though. Any more than that and everyone starts to annoy each other.

My senior year of college, my best three friends and I went to Florida for spring break. By about day four or five, there was a fist fight (quickly broken up) that was preceded by a crying jag. I was neither a fighter or a cryer, for the record.

Worst spring break ever. Ew.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

If you want to go somewhere with a bunch of guys, Ireland is the ticket. Golf, horse racing, scenery, drinking, fishing. The entire culture is geared towards men doing stuff in groups, which is very unhealthy, but could make for a good vacation.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

After college, I met up with friends once a year in Vegas.

Then people started getting married and the number dwindled every year. The last time I went was 2003.

 

[User 1019]

I took one with a buddy in summer 2007. We were both stationed near Seattle at the time. Drove around the Olympic Peninsula, then all the way down the Pacific coast to the Redwoods. Spent two days camping and hiking once we got there. Lots of drinking and eating and fun.

Had a blast.

I agree with Gee. If you have the money, Ireland is the ticket.

 

[JackReacher]

I'm seriously considering trying to put together a trip to St. Andrews for The Open in 2015. It is being held there in 2015, right?

 

[Shoeless Joe]

Isn't this the same thing as a road trip? Take 'em all the time.

One thing is for damn certain that I take away from the Wiki link, and that no way in hell am I going away with a bunch of guys for "sexual reawakening."

 

[Ace]

Ski trips make good mancations, too.

 

[93Devil]

My buddies and I have rented lake houses and taken trips to see different baseball parks.

And I have no problem with my wife taking scrapbooking weekends as well.

 

[cranberry]

My wife thinks I spend half of my life on mancations (I call it work) so it becomes difficult for me to get away for pure relaxation with the fellas.

 

[Dick Whitman]

My buddies and I have rented lake houses and taken trips to see different baseball parks.

And I have no problem with my wife taking scrapbooking weekends as well.

The whole "scrapbooking" phenomenon is something I've never understood.

I listen to radio commercials and watch television commercials where men take shot after shot after shot for golfing and watching football. If we ever decide to fight back, it begins with "scrapbooking." As soon as I find out exactly what it entails.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Certain trips get harder to justify when you're married and especially after you have kids

 

[JackReacher]

After college, I met up with friends once a year in Vegas.

Then people started getting married and the number dwindled every year. The last time I went was 2003.

Does going on one with married people make a difference? If I do it, it'll most likely be with five or six guys, and the majority of them are married.

Depends on where you go and the agendas of the people there. Obviously, single people have far different agendas than married people.

Golfing is the great equalizer. Vegas? Yeah. It could get awkward, especially if there's only one or two married guys in a large group.

 

[JackReacher]

The only problem you might have with Australia is the same problem I might have with St. Andrews. The cost. People is broke!!

 

[93Devil]

I would set a dollar fugure of about $500 to $600 for a mancation. Do a Friday morning to Sunday afternoon type of thing.

You start pushing a grand per person, you are going to start ruling out a lot of people.

You get five guys in a lake house with $3,000 to play around with, you can get a lot done.

 

[93Devil]

Cost isn't really an issue at the moment. Uncontested divorces in Virginia are insanely cheap.

When we went to Vegas for a three-day weekend, it cost about $450 each for airfare and hotel. In other words, our gambling losses cost us about four times as much. ;D

For you it is not.

But you want people to be able to go with you.

 

[Buck]

I don't like any of my friends.
I don't want to be around any of them for more than a fews hours at a time.

 

[Care Bear]

This has Carnival cruise written all over it.