Locale & Transport:

There are two obvious BP hubs: New Orleans and Vegas.  They’re cliche, but they’re cliche because they’re excellent and provide a (near) fool-proof environ for bachelor party debauchery.  They have everything you need: girls, booze, food, lights, debauchery, and a pretty relaxed municipal police department.

If you choose not to travel to one of the Two Hubs, you should consider that the amount of time it takes for you to travel to your bachelor party is inversely proportional to the number of guys who will be able to make it, and proportional to the amount of fun/mischief/trouble there will be.  So, for example, heading one town over and staying at a Hyatt 40 minutes from the wives and girlfriends will most certainly rope in as many as 20 guys.  However, if you’re within driving distance of responsibility, nobody is going to truly let go of the reins and let the stallions just run where they may.  

It’s a delicate balance — one that every engaged man must grapple with eventually — and, frankly, an important rite of passage before committing to the sacred bond of marriage.  For visual learners, we have included a graph which plots the number of bachelor party attendees versus the number of miles away from home base that you are.  For reference, the circumference of the planet Earth is 40,070 kilometers.