A hen weekend at The Firs: hire the whole Suffolk countryside retreat

For a hen weekend with total privacy and a lot of style, take over the whole of The Firs — a Suffolk countryside retreat where the entire site is yours and yours alone. Six lodges, sixteen of your favourite people, no strangers wandering through. At 2 hours from London and 45 minutes from Norwich, it's an easy gathering point for friends travelling from all over the UK.

Privacy is the whole point. Hire the site and there's no sharing — just your group, four acres of gardens, and the freedom to make the weekend exactly what the bride wants. Loud and lively or slow and spa-like, it flexes to suit.

The makings of a brilliant weekend are all here. Fire up the pizza oven and do a long evening of cooking on fire; open the horsebox bar; spill out into the party barn when the music goes on. By day, garden games on the lawn, the sauna and plunge bucket for the spa-minded, and a wood-fired hot tub at every lodge. You can even add spa treatments to the weekend for the full pampering.

Beautifully styled, endlessly photogenic. Every corner of the lodges and grounds photographs well — which a hen group will, of course, make full use of.

Want to get out? The coast is close, with Southwold and Aldeburgh under half an hour for a daytime beach trip or a fizz-fuelled lunch.

As Suffolk hideaways for a hen do go, this is one of the best-kept secrets in the county — a private, polished countryside stay made for celebrating.

Planning a hen weekend? Check availability and enquire here.