Questions Your Mom and/or Business School Professor May Tell You To Ask

Why shouldn’t I plan this trip on my own?

Top Three Reasons:

  1. If you value your time at $5/hour or less, you should do it. And if you want to come work for us at half of minimum wage, we can probably find something for you to do at our company. You will blow through 10+ hours easily on hotel and flight bookings, never mind picking a location, figuring out restaurants, activities, and transportation.
  2. Guys suck at planning ahead. It's astounding the number of bachelor parties that get planned at the last minute when the wedding date has been known for a year. Is it that you are hoping your best friend realizes his fiancée is heinous? Or is it that you are too busy working towards becoming the youngest ever managing director at Silverman Stanley and slaying it on the weekends? Hopefully the latter.
  3. We add fun. Getting photoshopped pictures of the groom’s head on David Hasselhoff’s body in the weeks leading up to the trip = excitement. Recommending practical jokes like stuffing a whole pack of nudie playing cards in every crevice of the groom’s luggage and clothes on the way to the airport = the best send-off. With fun like this, sharing is caring.

Are y’all travel agents?

We are closer to Mr. Wolf from Pulp Fiction than your mother’s travel agent circa 1987. But if by “travel agent” you mean do we use telephones and computers to make travel reservations? Yes we do.

How does We Lost Doug make money?

Most of our income comes from our fees. Sometimes we get kickbacks from hotels, airlines, and other service providers. They would prefer that we call these payments commissions. Know that we will never arrange any trip to maximize our commissions at the expense of your enjoyment. Know that our travel partners will not lower their prices if you try to work with them directly. Our company brings them volume that you can’t match individually and group coordination that is otherwise their nightmare. We've got your back. Our #1 goal is happy endings, and #2 goal is repeat customers.

Can you recommend “nighttime entertainment”?

We are guessing you are not looking to watch “Sleepless in Seattle” and pig out on ice cream on Friday or Saturday night. We get the clever euphemism. We can make recommendations to legal gentleman’s establishments at any of our destinations where you can find a great time. We will not go beyond this. If you want something crazier, you should start taking penicillin now and find a different trip organizer.

How much say can I have in what we do?

Dude, you're in charge. Tell us what you want and we'll make it happen.

Who are we?

WeLostDoug was started by Ben and Ari in 2014. Ben is single and 29 years old. He lives a bicoastal lifestyle, stopping in flyover country only to go to Aspen. He sells vegetables at a roadside stand and makes his own wine. Ari is married with two kids and is 33. He loves his family dearly and yet for some reason, looks forward to his few remaining bachelor parties for months ahead of time. He wears a lot of Polo and drinks Wild Turkey.

Both had planned numerous bachelor parties in Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans, Punta Cana and other locales. In each instance, the planning was a crappy, painful process full of endless web searches and annoying phone calls to clueless travel agents. We knew it could be done better by a company that lived and breathed to plan bachelor parties.

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