Stag and hen parties' £430m bill

The biggest party going crowds flock to Spain

Party animal Britons will spend an estimated £430m in 2005 on travelling abroad on stag and hen bashes.

Spain is the most popular foreign destination for parties, followed by the Netherlands and France.

Londoners are the most likely to head overseas to party, followed by people from the north west and Wales.

Male partygoers are the most likely to get injured and lose personal items while overseas, the research from internet bank Egg found.

Accident prone

Men are the most accident prone with four times as many stags losing personal items as hens, and twice as many falling victim to theft.

Stags are also fourteen times more likely than hens to end up visiting the local hospital, usually nursing broken bones and bruises.

Egg also found that 17% of Londoners had attended a party overseas within the past five years, followed by 10% of people in the north west and 9% in Wales.

People from East Yorkshire and East Anglia preferred to stay at home, with just one in 20 partying it up overseas.

Egg interviewed more than 2,000 adults.