"Excellent Weekend! highly recommend"

We had a fantastic weekend. A few issues a few weeks beforehand which resulted in chasing up confirmations which made me a bit nervous. Change of venue 3 times for the recording studio experience (one on the actual day) but nothing too disastrous. The studio Manager who we had was excellent and made us all feel very at ease. All else went to plan on the actual weekend. Fabulous hotel in London, very central. The 3 course meal and bubbly at the Loop was great fun, although we were a bit disappointed that the "reserved seating area" was only reserved until 10, but that was quickly sorted by the venue itself who offered us an alternative area to gather in.
It was great to have the responsibility of paying up front taken away from me by using Maximise and Zoey was always very quick to come back to me answering any queries I had.
My only reason for not giving a five star is that I felt it would have been nice and an added extra if I'd been called during the weekend to check that everything was to our satisfaction. Think it would be a nice gesture.

"Recommended!"

Great customer service and communication. Very helpful and approachable.
Great weekend in London - Spice Girls Dance Experience was so much fun and definitely a Hen Weekend highlight!

"Great weekend provided by Maximise"

Professional and helpful as soon as the request for quotations were submitted. Quick to respond and always on hand to help with whatever questions or queries were present. Easy to use website to arrange group numbers, rooming, payments all very user friendly. Hotel and events organised were excellent and well worth the money to the point when I told others what we were paying they looked quizzical thinking it couldn't possibly be such good value. Will be recommending Maximise to anyone organising a stag or hen and will be straight to them if and when I arrange another.

"Really happy with professional service"

Great help with planning and changing things when needed to suit individual bookings, have used 3 times now for both hen, stag and 30th.
Would recommend :)

"Marbella Stag"

Where do I start.... From start to finish the whole process of booking with Maximise was stressfull write up until the day of our deparutre. How hard can it be to organise a Stag do in Marbella!!
After the final payment date our intinery was released!! Well where do I start - The Villa we paid for in Marbella was not in Marbella - we were given Estapona which is 35 miles difference! Numerous of Non returned phone calls / emails and no central to the advertised issues this was resolved. Finally was changed to Nikki beach apartments - still not central but close as we were going to get.
The activities - relaesed 4 weeks before travel to find out after all the trouble with the accomodation being in Estapona let and behold thats also where our "centralised" activities were shoved aswell. So paintballing with a Bbq, unlimited beer and sangrina what could go wrong. Firstly travelling exspenses of €200 to get the and from the activity from out apartments - paintballing was good enough lets face it 9 Lads were looking forward to food and drink. What a let down that was - the advertised unlimited beer was actualy 3 small bottles of local beer between 9 of us. That was a plastic cup of beer each!!! The food ?? What food, 1 sausage, few bits of chicken and a steak - not forgetting the uncut french bread.
Completely disappointed.
2nd scheduled activity - buggies!! Arranged to pick us up from central Marbella - well that didnt happen to begin with was told the company normaly used was not yet open for the season, so if I wanted buggying I would have to travel again to Estapona costing us another €200 at our cost. Was not willing to stand for this so many more un returned calls / messages left got me eventualy a call from the spanish rep refusing to accept liability for being unable to fulfil the booked and fully paid activity. Shorten that down the day before departure after a hefty call and complaint - the manager of maximise and the overseas rep agreed to accept liability and pay the travel expenses between them for the second activity.

Arrival at the airport - no driver was waiting I had to call and chase them up.
The apartments were nice , right near to Nikki beach (wanting €750 minimum spend for 1 night entry). After the stress of he activity arguments the buggying was actualy enjoyable.
After returning home I regret my decision to book via Maximise and it has taugh me a valueable lesson!! If you want something done do it yourself. Thier advertising for central is completely false, when something is in error they are not quick a responding. Happy to take the money and reluctant to help. I would not recommend neither would I use again.

"Prague trip - Outstanding"

Activities organised by Maximise were fantastic. Our guides were timely, organised and good fun. This was ideal for a bunch of lads on a stag do who just needed steering to where the fun and games were. Thanks to Louise for co-ordinating for a bargain price. Highly recommended

"Shocking"

Firstly I would like to say the booking process was faultless. Nice and simple.
Unfortunately the problems started when we are arrived at our apartment in Edinburgh.
We went to the reception to book in. We were told our rooms were not together. Not a problem.
When going to our room we climbing up the stairs we noticed that there was no carpet on a large amount of the stairs. Not exactly 4* star material if you ask me. We got to our room which seemed nice enough (liveable) but was exceptionally warm. The thermostat to turn down the heating just did work. We opened a window so again we could cope.
I also think it was apartments that people lived in as children were there? Im not sure maybe wrong.

We then made our way to the cocktail making at Revolution. This was fab. Really enjoyed this.
We went on to have a food upstairs. Before we had even been given our food we had been told to be quiet twice by staff, Why give us alcohol for 2 hours and then expect a group of excited hens to be quiet I will never know.
We had a group of stags on the table next to us who again were being told to be quiet and at one point were nearly asked to leave.
This venue was catered for couple wanting a quiet meal. Why we were put in that situation I will never know.
On our way back up to our room there were no lights in the stair well and looked like some thing out of a horror movie with the light outside our room constantly flickering.
Second night we went to a 'Dream Boys' night. I say it like that as it was a drag act with a couple of dances in-between. We arrived at the venue and the smell of vomit hit us like a wall. The toilets were absolutely disgusting with water all over the floor, half the doors not even on and blocked toilets and the soap did npt work (it was about 7:30pm) the club was not even open at this point!
We were allocated seats (there was a print out of our names of the chairs) and can I please stress we were some of the first people to sit down (not late as we have been accused of being)
We could not see anything. We were about 8 rows back and as most of the events happened on the floor in the small section that was surrounded by chairs we saw absolutely nothing. Well except the drag act.
We have made our issues known to Maximise who have simply sent a ridiculous email back. Not interested in the slightest now its paid for.

My friend deserved an amazing send off. If I had known the standards of which you provided I would of done the organising myself and done it better and save my money.

"Stuttgart Stag Weekend"

Just back from a stag weekend in Stuttgart and all the boys had an awsome time.
Thanks to Zoey for taking the stress out of the organising and to the guys on the ground in Stuttgart for making both nights totally hassle free.

"Poznan Tank Shooting"

One of the best experiences of our lives! We got to shoot the tank and, even better, we were driven around over hills, through ponds... all sat on top of the tank. It was very easy to organise through maximise - they arranged for a guide to pick us up from the hotel, transport to and from the site. All we had to do was have a good time! I would highly recommend Maximise and Zoey Whelan who sorted everything out for us.

"Perfect from start to finish"

Booking was made very easy and people could settle their own amounts. IT was very flexible and different people could take part in and pay for only the activities they would be there for. The method of building the stag through the web site was awesome. The interaction with Zoey was excellent and very responsive. The guide we had in Prague was unbelievable. She was with us the whole time we needed her and arranged dinner and the bars and entry and everything. Really could say enough positive things about her - to be able to deal with a group like ours, hats off! For example she took us to a Coyote Ugly bar and knew the people in there so for about £40 we had the stag up on the bar having drinks poured into his mouth with everyone cheering along.

The guys who ran the white water rafting we really good fun and were up for a laugh letting us pull each other in the water and setting up jumps etc.

The boat cruise was the only slight negative, it was as advertised so no complaints, but I think rather than an hour it would be good to have a two hour option.

I was really pleased with the service from start to finish and everyone on the stag had a great time.

I would highly recommend this service.