Arranged in no particular order – more being added everyday! – All local, independant businesses!
Be adventurous and book a session with Bristol Clay Shooting. Where events are tailored to your requirements. They have plenty of options from all day, half-day or even just a few hours of shooting and they supply everything needed.
Your day will start with a safety talk and briefing from their professional CPSA qualified coach. You will learn how to safely handle a shotgun and everything you need to know about cartridges, shooting and target types. Then you will split into smaller groups, each with your own instructor who will show you how to shoot the clays. Bristol Clay Shooting also provides Archery and Air rifles to make your day even more interesting.
Prices start from £35 per person, contact them via their Website for a tailor-made package.
Have a bit of sassy fun with a 2-hour pole dancing class at 360 Pole Dancing Bristol. Classes are held at a glamorous dedicated, mirrored dance studio in Bedminster Bristol. Learn some of the sexiest moves and poses including “The Wrap Around”, “The Fireman”, “The Back Slide” and “Body Wave”. Learn how to make a big entrance.
Don’t worry if you don’t have any experience everyone will be able to learn something. Feather Boas props are available to use on the day.
Make sure you take your camera and high heels for those sexy photo opportunities. Enjoy a bottle of pink bubbly, a special gift for the bride and sweeties to keep your energy up.
Hen Parties on Saturday’s start from 11 am, 1.30 pm or 4 pm. Visit the Website for more information.
Why not try the newest attraction in Bristol? Enjoy a 2 hour session with a lesson at the amazing 180 metres long surfing lake.
Everything needed is provided, including wetsuits, boots and boards. The venue will be at a beautiful site in Easter Compton and will not only have a wave pool, but it will also have a natural swimming lake, barefoot trails, a rope and tunnels course, foraging areas and gardens of various types, a clubhouse serving delicious food and surf shop. If not all of the group fancies surfing, spectators are welcome for a small fee, to just sit relax and watch all the action.
This is a very popular venue, booking well in advance is essential. Visit the Website for more information. Open every day of the year, except Christmas day.
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Bounce Studios have been running dance events in every town and city across the UK for nearly 15 years, with all the giggles and professionalism their clients expect.
Choose choreographed dance classes from Beyonce to Bollywood and Dirty Dancing to Disney or create your own bespoke routine for your VIP at no extra cost.
Classes are run by fully trained and insured dance instructors. There’s plenty of fun photo and video opportunities and your special VIP also receives a complimentary bottle of bubbly.
Prices start from £18 per person – pop them an email with your requirements info@bouncestudios.co.uk
With an “eat as much as you like” policy, this has to be the most heavenly Hen Party activity you can imagine. The Chocolate Tart offers a wide variety of workshops to cater for everyone. Classes last from 1 – 3 hours depending on your choice.
Enjoy a 3-hour workshop learning the art of hand-rolled fresh cream truffles, moulding your own homemade flavoured cream fondant, inside the chocolate shells you’ve made. Work with transfer sheets which embellish edible coloured patterns onto the bottom of your chocolate floretines to give your chocolates the professional look before packaging your chocolates into boxes, ballotins and sachets and decorating with stickers and ribbons.
Class prices start from £35 per person. Bespoke packages are available. Visit the Website for more information.
Pamper Party Angels are a team of highly-skilled, fully insured and qualified, Mobile Massage and Beauty Therapists.
Specialising in providing pamper parties in the comfort of your Hen Party Accommodation. They are able to provide all your guests with 30-minute Massage or Beauty treatments including Facials, Pedicures, Manicures and Back, Neck and Shoulder Massages.
See their list of treatments HERE
BLING UP YOUR SHOES – Arriving with plain shoes and taking home a crystal pair, which you’ve designed yourself is a unique hen party activity idea from Rock My Shoes. Taught by an experienced shoe designer, spend 2.5 hours customising your shoes for the big day.
Learn how to design with unlimited amounts of crystals and pearls. Add to any style of shoes, flats, high heels or trainers. If you’re not a shoe person, that’s not a problem you can still add some sparkle to your bag or a purse.
This is the perfect opportunity to bling up your favourite comfy shoes for the big day, its free for the bride to be and she will also receive a surprise crystal gift.
Check out the Website for more information.
DELICIOUS BUFFET DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR
Vanilla Blue Catering offers superb buffets delivered to your accommodation. Put together with Love and attention on every plate. Sit back, relax and enjoy this very delicious tasty food with the best service from a local provider.
On offer is a range of options from sandwich platters, canapes, sharing platters, finger buffets, fork buffets and more as well as some delicious desserts. Finger buffet prices range from £6.25 to £10.75 per person.
For more information visit the Website
Booze Cruise anyone?
Bristol Ferry boats offer a variety of options to see the City from a different viewpoint.
Take a trip around the harbour on one of their, fully licensed, iconic Blue and Yellow Ferry Boats. Packages include – trips along the dockside pubs and bars – where you have the opportunity to hop on and off of the boat or you can organise Vintage Tea Parties, Bubbly Breakfast or you can create your own bespoke party with them. Daily
Cruises are also on offer and can be booked in advance, trips last from 2 to 3 ½ hours. Trips range from Sundown Sailing, Brunel’s Tour, Avon Gorge Trip, Friday trips with to venue with live music and Sunday Riverside Roast trips.
More details HERE
Vintage Birdcage Cakery is a really beautifully decorated café and is very popular for Afternoon Tea. Afternoon Tea consists of a variety of freshly made sandwiches, wraps and mini quiches, coleslaw and crisps together with a selection of homemade cakes, mini scones, clotted cream and jam. Prices start from £14.00 per person.
This very popular café is a little gem with a unique personality. They pay great attention to detail the staff are really friendly and everybody talks about their amazing food which caters for all dietary needs. Take a look at their Menu.
Open every day until 4.30 pm apart from Sunday when it closes at 3 pm. The café situated right next to the lovely Kingsgate Park, if you fancy having a stroll and burning off some calories afterwards
Cocktail Classes
A Fabulous Bar and Restaurant right on the harbourside, with an electric atmosphere, tasteful funky Cuban inspired decor and live music during the weekends. This is one of the biggest bars in Bristol and is spread over two floors.
Book your Classic Cocktail making Masterclasses, or you can combine the Cocktail Classes with food, such as tapas or deliciously indulgent 2-course meals.
There are a few different options. How fab is that, a great Hen Party Weekend starter. Book a Cocktail Masterclass