Organising Stag Do + Birthday In Oxford - Help Please!!

[betti's_wingman]

Hi All,

Just a quick note.
I have an upcoming Stag Do and Birthday celebration weekend to attend at the end of March. We will be around Oxford for the weekend and having not been out there before, I ask for some help in planning where to go and where to avoid.

The party is made up of 18 people from ages 24-76 so it's not a stereotypical 'lads-on-tour' type stag-do.

I have been looking for a pub/bar with a bar billiards table in and have been recommended 'The Corner House Pub' in Headington.
Is this place ok?

We will also be going out into town on the sat eve, so again, if anyone knows of good bars and clubs, can you let me know.

Many thanks in advance,

Neil

[randomman]

I went to oxford for a stag do once... Unfortunately I can't remember much of it!

There is an Irish pub on one of the main strips that was quite good IIRC. Not the cheapest, but nice people run it.

[VxDuncan]

There's the Carling Academy on Cowley Road (formerly the zodiac). Plenty of bars near there too, though it's quite studenty (dirty!). Usually good music though, two rooms. In the town centre there's a few good bars at the end of high st. Can't remember any of the names though (another sign of a good night!).

As for the stag do itself - if it's a nice day getting a few bottles of champagne and going punting is a surprisingly good laugh. Though you might look a bit metro-sexual punting another bloke round who's quaffing champagne (forget the little umbrellas).

[raf_gti]

I was based near Oxford for a good few years and was never that impressed with it tbh. As a non student it just felt like any other UK town centre with the added bonus of feeling right out of place! I was expecting student nirvana but it just never happened