They eat dog and drink rice wine.

You are in the wrong town. Try Saigon.

Lots of "Buck's" down there.

Thanks for your advice granteralus, but we've already booked all the tickets and hotels...we thought hanoi would be a good bet because one of the guys in the group has been there before and said it was a fun town. Unfortunately that was quite a long time ago. He mentioned something about the private booths at a place called New Century but I dont see it anywhere on this site.

Atomic, a buck's night is a party just with men for a guy just before he gets married. Normally it involves lots of drinking, partying, watching sexy dancers and innocent, but a little risky fun. In the US, there's a tradition of embarrassing the groom to be at the end of the night by tieing him up naked somewhere or putting him on train to some faraway destination, but I dont think we'll do that in Hanoi.

Please Hanoians, we need your help!

Is a buck's night like a English Stag Night ?

Like going round bars, getting pissed with a bit of fun with girly's ?

Atomic, its not gay at all, in fact its supposed to be an celebration of hetrosexuality and the fact that my buddy is going to be sleeping with the same woman for the rest of his life! Dont know where you are from but what do you do in your country when a guy is about to get married?

Natinnam, yup, you got it in one, bucks = stags night.

I dont see titanic on this website either?

Are we really coming to the wrong town people? Any Vietnamese people out there that can help us?

In my country we take the guy out, get him really wasted, watch sexy dancers, then take turns ramming him all night long. But we're not gay! We just want to make sure he has a good time before he sleeps with the same woman for the rest of his life.

I would consider changing to HCMC, iam working down here at the moment, and is more suited to stag nights.

If your stuck with Hanoi, then i have had 2 Stag nights out there. Basically both times we got wasted round the City, then ended up in a private room for Karaoke with some hostesses.

Proberly a bit gay by Atomics standards.

Try FUSION, Wael the oriental boss is specialized with belly dansers and top musik there...

Oh no buck_rogers, locals just eat dog meat with a terrible smell sauce 'shrimp sauce'! People often get drunk at midnight and roam around the city so it's not safe out there after 23:30. Hanoi at night is in a deadly quiet but dangerous.
There're also many civilian defenders patrol at night to find gays or foreigners who are having buck's party. They have electric clubs! Prostitutes or that kind of business are strictly treated here.
Atomic is from Muuk. Look at his avatar.
Yes, there was New Century but the owner has moved to New Hanoi Hilton and enjoy life. This place was fantastic! I was there 2 months ago.
I've been to Saigon. Whoa! Saigon is a wonderful place for young guys like you and your friends. They love young Americans!
Change your ticket now! Go go go!

Wrong town Buck, try Saigon. If you can get to Pattaya (Thailand) you will find what you are looking for. From what I heard is that the airport is open again in Bangkok. (Unofficial)

Well, there's no such thing as a "buck's night" here. You're in an South Eastern country, remember?
But nowadays, things have changed I guess. Before the wedding, guys often hang out and celebrate. Drinking is obvious, but I'm not sure if that "sexy dancers" thing is included. It depends on the person I guess. But still, I don't think people here consider it a "buck's night". Just a get together (with extra drinking?) no more.
Hanoi may not be the right place. People don't generally come here for such things.

Bend over and show me that sunshine.

Well written Shezza, I hope that buck_roger will understand us (or even just read what you wrote here).
Young Vietnamese-American crossed normannguyen, you do know something, don't you?

I wouldnt bother replying Buck Rogers, fall on deaf ears, a group within here just love each other and the stuff they spout, so what ever you write, you'll get "Meh" or "Fail" from them.

Understand the Stag "Buck" night thing totally, been on many myself. Hanoi proberly isn't the place, but with the crap you've got on here, would you want to come now ?

i seriously doubt this "buck" fellow is from the US. we say bachelor party, and i've never heard any thing different. tying folks to things naked or putting them on trains is ridiculous and sounds like lies people make up about crap they do in their fraternities. i think this fool is yanking all ya'lls chains. and if he isn't...

dear buck,

it's all about location, location, location. and that location is SAIGON, because we don't want your ignorant ass 'round here. anyway, there's nothing for you to do for a "buck" party in HaNoi thank the lawd)!

ps,

and when did HaNoi become dangerous?

Buck's parties are what they have in Australia.

New Hanoians let us practise a little tolerance for the rituals of other cultures please!

Good luck buck_rogers, I hope you find what you are looking for without harming yourselves (too much) or others.

On second thoughts, don’t go to Australia – you’ll not notice the difference from your state.
Come to Ha Noi and between your “bucking” check out some cultural differences.
First be aware that this is not Tijuana with a girl in every doorway with dope and sex for the pretty young gringos. - Prostitution is illegal in Vietnam and you get death for selling drugs.
Have a look around at the infrastructure of Ha Noi and Hi Phong – not much to be seen. Your Nixon cleared most of it away Christmas 1972. It takes a poor, war-ravaged country a long time to recover from that type of wanton destruction.
While you are in Ha Noi why don’t you visit the AO hospices where 40 years later they keep the children who are still born deformed and poisoned thanks to American ingenuity.
Travel south to the DNZ and see the acres of unexploded ordinances left behind by your fleeing army which are still killing and maiming innocent civilian farming families.
Visit Hue and see the rebuild ruins of the Imperial Citadel that your brave General Westmoreland leveled in 1968 to kill less than 100 Vietnamese soldiers who had vanquished and humiliated him and his entire Marine Corps in Central Vietnam.
Travel on down to Si Gon and see the remaining social decay created by the Great American Brothel fashioned by twenty years of your corrupt occupation. Don’t miss the American Embassy where your people pushed their loyal lackeys out of the way to run away in blind panic as the People’s Army took back the South.
And if you have the time come back to Ha Noi and visit the last resting place of Uncle Ho, the man who defeated, the Japanese, the French, the Chinese and yours.
Be aware, that no matter who is the President America will always make war on some small defenseless country because Exxon, GM, Boeing, McDonalds, Coke, et al, know its good for business and because they bought the White House, Congress and the Senate, fair and square, fifty years ago.
Also be aware, that unless your Daddy bought a Congressman (like Dubya) or you run away (like Clinton) you could be the next sucker in a fox hole.
So enjoy your “bucking” while you can. Please just do it somewhere else.

Hell of a Buck's party Pinto's plan would be!
Linking buck_roger's plan in having a buck's party in Hanoi to the mistakes of the US government in the past are ludicrous.
Call me short sighted but the guy just wants to know where to go for a bachelor's party, stag night, buck's night whatever you wish to call it, in Hanoi. Which they have ended up having to go to given the unfortunate events in Bangkok. Assuming their presence here will turn the place into the sex trade melting pot of Asia is a little far fetched and as far as i can tell they would like to be respectful of the culture here, i.e by not engaging prostitutes* and trying to find out what Vietnamese do for such an occasion.

I've been to a quasi Vietnamese Buck's party, but it's not exactly a tradition here, i'm fairly sure it doesn't really exist. In fact i had to invite the guy out for a drink whilst his wife to be was having the equivalent female version of a buck's night. Our night just involved drinking and chatting over grilled chicken followed by karaoke of the singing variety, not the singing and extra female attention variety, of which i'm pretty sure exists at a lot of karoake joints.
I'd suggest perhaps a trip out to the snake village (see here) where you can force your buck to eat the beating heart of a snake. Doing so however probably means breaking any moral obligation to the fair treatment and trade of animals, i'm fairly sure some of these snakes shouldn't be in restaurants, but if you thought about all these types of issues continuously, it would be hard to get out of bed everyday. And we're talking about a buck's night here, moral obligations tend to be a little more flexible if you can live with it.
Hope you manage to sort out some sort of decent buck's night (there is beer here after all). Perhaps post buck's party you could check out some of Pinto's suggestions for a different perspective.
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* which are prominent here, not as in your face as say parts of Thailand, but it's not as if Hanoi is this squeeky clean innocent genteel society which will be shattered by the presence of buck and co.

poor pinto sounds as though he needs to go to a bucks party - in need of a little fun!

a young guy posting for some advice on a pre-wedding night out for the boys and copping such rubbish is ridiculous! Bucks nights are commonplace and most of the guys aare just regular guys enjoying a night out - nice guys who don't suddenly morph into drug traffickers and pimps, destroying the age old culture of the town they're in!

excellent post longan

Why would you spend time, effort, and money, to go to a foreign country and do something that you can do in your own country, like bucking? Why don't you just use your fare money to rent a hotel suite, a limousine, and some good old-fashioned buck's (sic) fun. Unless, of course, you plan to do something illegal overseas, like buggery.

... and it's not true that it's all about eating dogs. Nobody has eaten me yet...maybe I should join your buck's (sic) party.

Good to see that there are still some intelligent and compassionate people left in the world who regard thirty years of wholesale carnage as merely “the mistakes of the US government in the past”.
Makes me wonder how they perceive the trivial and slightly unpleasant matters of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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