The tree is up, the presents are stacking underneath it, and the best one you've bought this year is an email. A spa day, a pantomime, a night away: booked, paid for, and impossible to wrap.
How do you gift an experience for Christmas?
Give them something to open on the morning. Put the experience on a keepsake ticket with their name, what you've booked, the date and a few words from you, then wrap it like any other present. The booking stays safely with you. The ticket is what they unwrap, and what they keep once the day has been.
Most experiences arrive as a code or a QR code on your phone. That's fine for getting in on the day, but it says nothing on Christmas morning. A keepsake ticket fills the gap. It doesn't replace the booking and it doesn't get them in anywhere: it's the part of the present they can hold.
Experience tickets for Christmas morning
How do you wrap an experience for Christmas?
Like any small, flat present. A printed ticket comes with its own envelope, so it can go in a stocking, behind a Christmas card or under the tree with a bow on it. For a bit of theatre, put the envelope inside a box far too big for it.
Want to give them a clue? Wrap it with something that hints at the day: a bath oil for a spa day, driving gloves for a track day, a bar of chocolate for the interval at the theatre. They'll have a guess before they've read a word.
How do you present tickets as a Christmas gift?
Save them until last. Once everything else is open, hand over one envelope. A keepsake ticket with the show or the match, the date and their name tells them what's coming in the time it takes to read it. If you're going together, the Duo Set is a matching pair, one each, so you both have something to open.
Keep the real tickets on your phone until the day. There are more ideas for the moment itself in how to present an experience gift.
What if you haven't booked a date yet?
Give it as an I owe you. Write "valid until" on the ticket instead of a date, and let them choose the day. It suits anything that has to fit around someone else's diary, like a spa day in February, when spas are quieter after the Christmas rush.
What should you write on it?
A line about the day, not the present. Say what you're doing, or why you chose it, and keep it to two or three lines. On our printed tickets your message goes on the back, so it's the last thing they read.
- "Merry Christmas. This one wouldn't fit under the tree."
- "One day in the new year, just the two of us. You pick the date."
- "I owe you a day out. Sorry it's taken me this long."
How late can you order for Christmas?
Printed tickets are made in the UK and delivered within 3 to 5 working days, and the post slows down in the week before Christmas. So order printed tickets by Tuesday 15 December. Left it later than that? Print at Home arrives by email within minutes, ready to print on Christmas Eve.
Which keepsake ticket should I choose?
The Premium Edition for a stocking or under the tree, the Duo Set for two people going together, and Print at Home for Christmas Eve, when it's too late for the post.
Choose how it arrives
Premium Edition £6.49
One 5 x 7 inch ticket on 324gsm recycled card, with an envelope and your message on the back.
Printed in the UK, delivered within 3 to 5 working days
Duo Set £5.99
A matching pair of tickets, one each, with your message on the back.
Printed in the UK, delivered within 3 to 5 working days
Print at Home £2.99
Your ticket as a PDF, to print at home.
By email within minutes
An email can't sit under the tree. An envelope with their name on it can.
Personalised gift tickets for any experience
Choose the experience you've booked, add their name, the place and the date, and watch the ticket fill in as you type. We print it in the UK on thick card and post it sealed, with a kraft envelope to give it in. Print at Home from £2.99, printed tickets from £5.99.
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