Since January 2024, 17 paid bookings were hens or bucks parties, going by the occasion on the request or a bachelor or hen party in the notes. Counting every note that mentions hens or bucks, there were 20, and 6 of those (30%) were on the Central Coast. Groups were usually 12, and half of them booked at least 89 days out, further than for any other occasion.
Cooks from Abbotsford, NSW
13 hens or bucks parties since 2022 (all areas)
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Cooks from Wyoming, NSW
6 hens or bucks parties since 2022 (all areas)
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Cooks from Sydney
2 hens or bucks parties since 2022 (all areas)
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The Central Coast had more hens and bucks bookings than any other part of the Sydney area: 6 of 20 since January 2024, while it had 10% of bookings overall. 2 of those groups mentioned a weekend, a rental, a house or a villa in the notes. Lemon Soul Private Chef is based on the Central Coast; with anyone else, settle travel when you book.
For hens and bucks, bookings since January 2024 came in at a median A$139 a head; the median party was 12. A table of 12 at that rate pays about A$1,668. Over the same months, every Sydney booking of seven to 12 guests came to a median A$149 a head (150 bookings).
Chefs have been booked there: 35 of the 355 paid bookings since January 2024 were on the Central Coast, 6 of them hens or bucks groups. Lemon Soul Private Chef is based there. Agree travel with the chef when you book.
Hens and bucks groups: half booked at least 89 days out, and one in four at least 107. That is about 13 weeks at the median.
Yes: 16 chefs between them offer 45 menus that seat 13 or more, and the largest band on any menu runs to 20. Look at the guest bands on the one you like first.