BARS and hotels in Granada are starting to ban hen and stag parties and weekends on their premises in a city that was recently reported to be the most popular in Spain for pre-wedding celebrations.
The south-eastern city, world-famous for its spectacular UNESCO Moorish palace, the Alhambra (pictured), is also a regular short-break destination for other attractions such as its Arab-style souks in windy lanes that resemble the back streets of Marrakech, with stalls and tiny shops selling arts, crafts, textiles and jewellery, often with an Arab flair.
But revellers celebrating their last few days of singlehood along with their friends are spoiling it for everyone, local traders complain.
Hotels and bars are now beginning to put signs on their doors reading, 'we do not serve hen and stag party customers'.
“This is a bar, not a circus,” said one disgruntled proprietor.
“Groups of young women and men in silly costumes with megaphones and trumpets entering drunk are lowering the tone.
“We are not going to allow people to come into our bar in their underwear or decked out in 'erotic' decorations or any other unsuitable garb when we have families with children dining peacefully on the premises.
“And they cause loads of problems – they don't respect other customers, they leave without paying, and our neighbours have started to complain.”
Managers of the Granada Old Town Hostel say they had a group from Logroño (La Rioja) staying there a year and a half ago who 'destroyed the place'.
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