Holiday Gift Guide: 11 Unique ‘Experiences’
Offered by Truly Experiences
$625,000
Let a loved reach the sky’s limit aboard a Bloon, a luxurious balloon that takes passengers 22 miles into the earth’s atmosphere and nearly out of its stratosphere. At the highest point of the flight, they’ll be able to see Paris and Rome from the same window. They’ll never forget this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Truly Experiences
Offered by Mosner Family Brands
$299 to $2,500
Not only do students learn basic butchery skills, but they also expand their culinary knowledge and become more informed and responsible meat eaters. Participants can choose from introductory and advanced classes or create their own. Your loved one will come away with a memorable experience that will last longer than a steak-of-the-month subscription.
Mosner
Offered by IfOnly
$2,500
Got a best friend with a huge celebrity crush on Chris Hemsworth, the star of Thor? Make them swoon with a 30-second, personalized video from the heartthrob himself. The feel-good bonus: Proceeds go to the Australian Children’s Foundation.
IfOnly
Offered by Scratch DJ Academy
$125 to $1,500
Give the music lovers in your life the opportunity to learn how to mix, blend and scratch. The classes for beginner, intermediate, advanced and performance spinners are offered in six major cities. Your loved one could come away with their own personal tracks and become an artist in their own right. And who knows? It could be the start of a newfound passion or career.
Scratch DJ Academy
Offered by Escape the Room
$28 per ticket
Test your loved one’s puzzle-solving skills with a ticket to Escape The Room in New York. The intense game will force them to find clues and solve puzzles to flee the room. The game takes one hour. Participants can choose escape the office, agency or home.
Tripadvisor
Offered by Tinggly
$119
The perfect present for that hard-to-gift someone. Let them choose from hundreds of various experiences all over the world. There’s a wine-tasting in Paris, a boat safari in the Fiji Islands, a canyon jump in Mexico and a home cooking class in Hong Kong among many, many others.
Tinggly
Offered by Mario Andretti Racing Experience
$129.99 to $3,034.99
Give speed demons in your family a taste of the Indianapolis 500 by purchasing a gift card from the Mario Andretti Racing Experience. They can choose to either drive or ride in an Indy-style race car on the speedway.
Mario Andretti Racing Experience
Offered by Tijon Fragrance Lab & Boutique
$95 to $150
Give the gift of smell. Let your friend or relative create their own signature scent like a celebrity rather than endlessly testing perfumes in stores. Classes are ideal for beginners to amateur fragrance makers. Participants take home a bottle of their very own perfume, handcrafted to their exact specifications.
Tijon
Offered by Rail Europe
$25 to $500
Augment a friend or family’s European vacation. Or, encourage a loved one to leave their comfort zone and journey abroad with a gift card that can book rail passes, train tickets and other activities from Rail Europe.
Rail Europe
Offered by Hollywood Stunts
$3200 to $600
Have any loved ones that dream of being movie stars? Treat them to intense and rigorous classes where they can learn to be a Hollywood stuntman or stuntwoman. Some of the classes offered include training in martial arts, car hits, armed combat, fire gag, bull dogging, hill falls and window penetration. Classes range from three-weeks to three-days.
Offered by Exit Glacier Guides
$130
For your adventurous family members, challenge them with a helicopter fly-in glacier tour in Seward, AK. After the helicopter drops them off right at the glacier, they’ll spend about two hours touring moulins (glacier mills), crevasses, huge waterfalls and rivers of melt water. On the return helicopter ride, they can choose to fly through icebergs in a glacial lagoon, soar over on of North America’s largest icefields or explore the mountainous topography surrounding Seward.
Exit Glacier Guides