Missing flights home, getting arrested and ending up with unwanted tattoos are just some of the calamities to have befallen stag night and hen party revellers, it was revealed.

Other mishaps of pre-wedding partygoers abroad include getting injured while drunk, losing passports, being a robbery victim and being assaulted, a survey by Direct Line Travel Insurance found.

As many as 10 per cent of those attending overseas stag or hen parties in the last two years have lost expensive items or money.

Even more (12 per cent) got lost in a foreign country, while three per cent were arrested.

Tom Bishop, head of travel insurance at Direct Line, said: “Every year, stag and hen parties get into trouble abroad.

“While many are left with just a headache after too much alcohol, others wake up to a far more unpleasant reminder of wild celebrations – finding tattoos, piercings or injuries that they often can’t recall getting.

“People lose their inhibitions abroad and can put themselves at risk of injury by getting drunk or even risking arrest by failing to respect local laws and customs.”