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Hen dos · Bath

A hen do the city won't see coming.

Bath will pour you prosecco anywhere. Down here the drinks smoke, the room is candlelit stone, and there's a karaoke machine behind a velvet curtain with the bride's name on it.

The best hen dos in Bath tend to end up below street level. The vaults hold the evening the way they hold the cold: close, warm-lit and slightly conspiratorial. Start with a masterclass, disappear into the Secret Room, or close the door on the whole bar and keep the night to yourselves.

Peek inside first

Three ways to run the night

Start behind the bar

A cocktail masterclass to open the evening: one of our bartenders walks your party through drinks from the Opium menu, made by your own hands and drunk as you go. The second attempt is usually better than the first, and nobody minds.

The masterclass · by arrangement

Take the Secret Room

The private room behind the bar, with lower light, its own seating, your own bartender and karaoke if the mood turns. A heavy curtain stands between your song choices and everyone who would judge them.

The Secret Room · 2 to 16 guests

Or take everything

For the full crush, the whole vault: every candle, every velvet seat and the long brass bar, closed to everyone but your party. We can fold a masterclass and a menu written for your group into the night.

Whole venue · up to 80 standing, 40 seated

What maids of honour ask us

Because the room does half the work. A candlelit stone vault, velvet and taxidermy, drinks that smoke and change colour, and a door most of Bath walks straight past. It photographs like a film set and drinks like a proper bar.

The arrangements

Tell us about the bride.

Send the date, the size of the party and how the bride drinks, and we'll write back with the way we'd do it. Weekends book first down here.