Arvid Voormanns
Founder, Getaway Gift Card
Writing since 2025
Arvid is the founder of Getaway Gift Card. Working with hotels across more than 190 countries and watching how thousands of recipients pick where to go and what to book, he and the team have built a clear picture of what makes a getaway worth giving. On his blog Arvid shares those lessons — destination guides, gifting tips, and the practical details that make the difference between a gift card that sits in a drawer and one that becomes a great trip.
Recent articles
What Is the Getaway Gift Card and How Does It Work?
The Getaway Gift Card is a hotel gift card that isn't tied to a single brand, site or date — you decide the amount, and whoever receives it picks the hotel, the city and the dates themselves. It's…
The Accor Gift Card — and a More Flexible Hotel Gift
Ibis, Novotel, Mercure, Sofitel — Accor's ALL Gift Card is a real product covering plenty of familiar names, with a generous three-year window to use it. The snag is the map. It redeems only at…
A Bilderberg Gift Card Only Opens About a Dozen Doors
Think of the Bilderberg gift card as a beautiful key that opens about a dozen doors — and all of them are in the Netherlands. It's a genuinely lovely, well-run card (three years' validity, any amount…
Beyond the Van der Valk Gift Card: a Stay-Anywhere Gift
A Van der Valk gift card is a lovely thing to receive, right up until your recipient fancies a night somewhere that isn't a Van der Valk hotel. And there are only about a hundred of those, clustered…
The NH Hotels Gift Card and Its Borders — Plus a Card Without Them
Roughly 350 hotels in around 30 countries sounds generous until you remember the planet has rather more hotels than that. NH Hotels does sell a proper e-gift card, but it carries a passport problem:…
The Radisson Gift Card Is Gone — Here's the Replacement
There's a date that matters here: 1 May 2020, when Radisson stopped selling its official gift card for good, with the last surviving cards expiring two years later. So anyone hunting for one in 2026…