Wedgwood Experience for Two
September 30, 2008 by charlotte · Leave a Comment
Patricia wrote in to tell us how happy she was with the Wedgwood Experience she got for her birthday.
Patricia and her husband had a great time looking around the factory and learning about the process of pot making and painting, they even got to have a go at making a pot themselves!
Big Buyagift Discounts on Driving Experience Days!
September 24, 2008 by charlotte · Leave a Comment
It’s September and and you’re starting to think about Christmas gift ideas for cousin Bob and great aunt Mildred, so we thought we’d lessen the wallet burn with these special offers on driving experience days, pitting supercar against single seater in the fight for gift supremacy.
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Go Karting Video
September 24, 2008 by charlotte · Leave a Comment
So you think you’ve driven? Well, you haven’t. Not until you’ve learned how to control drive a Kart on a Buyagift Go Karting day.
The plucky drivers in this neat little clip steer their karts around some serious curves and straights, at super speedy speeds. My goodness, that’s a hold-on-to-your-seat drive!
If you want to learn how to drift, race and steer your way around the track in a super-speedy go kart, you know what to do…
Go Ape Video
September 24, 2008 by charlotte · Leave a Comment
Swinging through the trees with the greatest of ease… Now that’s the kind of high wire forest adventure you can really Go Ape! over!
As you can see in the video, Go Ape! isn’t just about swinging through trees. Oh no, its about climbing through them, crossing them on rope bridges, zipping down them on zip wires and just generally apeing about having lots of aerial fun.
Go Ape! has won loads of impressive awards, including Best Tourist Attraction, and is incredibly popular, best selling even. Especially now Buyagift are offering a great range of Go Ape! special offers and discounts. So get yourself in gear for an adrenaline pumping, eco-friendly day out and go on down to your nearest Go Ape! centre.
You’d be a monkey to miss out!
Customer Review of Audi R8 and Aston Martin Thrill
September 24, 2008 by charlotte · Leave a Comment
When Sean’s girlfriend bought him an Audi R8 and Aston Martin thrill for Christmas she didn’t know she’d be introducing him to his true love.
Discounts on Ultimate Flying Experiences!
September 24, 2008 by charlotte · Leave a Comment
They must have got too much oxygen in their mixture over on the main Buyagift site because the prices on the Top Gun Flying Experiences just plummeted!
Skydiving Customer Review
September 24, 2008 by charlotte · Leave a Comment
Mark was flying high with excitement after his sky diving experience – you could say he was as high as a kite… although, actually you couldn’t because he fell from higher in the sky than your garden-variety kite can fly.
A leaving present for the adventurous?
September 24, 2008 by Annabella · Leave a Comment
Annabella is Buyagift’s own resident gift guru. Drawing on her own vast experience of giving and receiving presents she answers questions from readers on how to choose the perfect present for the right person, navigating the modern manners minefield that can make choosing gifts so difficult, and anything else under the sun.
Please send questions to annabella@buyagift.co.uk and indicate how you would like your letter to be signed, preferably including a location.
Dear Annabella
I have been given the task of finding a leaving present for a colleague at the office. He is an adventurous sort of person, and I thought he may enjoy some kind of gift experience like sphereing.
I’m looking to spend somewhere between £50-£100 (as near the lower end as possible, so we can get him a small something to unwrap as well) – do you have anything that may be suitable?
Love and kisses
Jacobina
xxx
Dear Jacobina,
I can’t remember the last time a congenial customer (let alone Mr Annabella…) bestowed upon me their love and kisses. Most customers take my gift advice and run, without a single enquiry after my tea strainer.
As you are such a polite person I have emailed you a £5 discount code to put towards your purchase. I feel that politeness should always be rewarded. That, and willingness to make me a cup of tea.
On to the offers: currently we have a special offer on Harness sphereing for two, which costs just under £50, your ideal spend.
There are several other adrenaline activities and driving days in your price range you might like to consider. Your colleague is sure to enjoy a diverting Single Seater Experience, now £75, or if you want to push the boat out a bit then I know that the Spy Academy is a big hit with the excitement-minded.
You mentioned wanting to get him a gift to keep for roughly the same amount, may I suggest a nice bottle of Hatton Brut Champagne? I find it slips down quite nicely of an afternoon while Mr Annabella potters around in his shed.
Do let me know how you get on.
Best,
Annabella
Gift experience gone wrong: who invented the skip?
September 16, 2008 by Annabella · Leave a Comment
Annabella is Buyagift’s own resident gift guru. Drawing on her own vast experience of giving and receiving presents she answers questions from readers on how to choose the perfect present for the right person, navigating the modern manners minefield that can make choosing gifts so difficult, and anything else under the sun.
Please send questions to annabella@buyagift.co.uk and indicate how you would like your letter to be signed, preferably including a location. All questions answered will receive some Buyagift goodies.
Annabella,
Could you tell me please who invented the skip?
The reason I ask is that on my way to a Buyagift driving experience recently I accidentally drove into one left by the road and wrote off my car.
I’d like to find out who is responsible for this ridiculous concept and then berate them rather fiercely.
Many thanks,
Nick
Colchester
Dear Nick,
When I first received your letter I was rather confused: skips are, generally speaking, extremely large, yellow, metal objects. As they are so big and so yellow I have always found them rather easy to spot and avoid. Perhaps, I thought to myself, your time would be better spent berating your local optician?
On the other hand, if it was a packet of Skips (the delicious prawn cocktail flavour crisps that my nephew seems so fond of) that caused your unfortunate prang then the inventor is United Biscuits. As luck would have it they have a special Skips helpline available at 0800 015 0561 and they may be responsive to your plight.
Perhaps you should skip the driving experiences and go for the relaxing Mens Treatments instead?
Factually yours,
Annabella
P.S. The modern skip you may have had trouble with was patented by Bennes Marrel in 1964 and was originally called the Marrel Bucket Unit. Or was it Bobby Moore?…
“Thanks for the brilliant customer service”…
September 16, 2008 by charlotte · Leave a Comment
Dear Buyagift,
This is just to say, thank you so much for the brilliant customer service when I made my two orders with you!
The most recent one a couple of days ago was a visit to Emirates for my two 18 year old nephews.
I had the gift box sent to me as it is not their birthdays till November, and when I opened the parcel I was so impressed with the presentation gift box!
I’m sure the boys will be thrilled with their present!
Elisabeth Bacon
