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How to Redeem a Hotel Gift Card, Step by Step
We looked into having a courier hand-deliver your booking confirmation on a silver tray, but the courier is stuck behind everyone else's optimism about check-in times. So instead, here is the practica
How to Buy a Hotel Gift Card Online, Step by Step
We looked into couriering an entire hotel to the recipient's door, but the concierge wouldn't fit through the letterbox and the mini-bar kept leaking. So here we are with the sensible option instead:
The Best Thank You Gift Ideas, Sized to the Favour
We did briefly consider posting the favour back to the person who did it, gift-wrapped, so they could enjoy the thing they'd rescued as much as you did. Sadly, a saved weekend, a covered deadline or a
The Best Gifts for Best Friend Occasions, Ranked by What Gets Remembered
Finding a present for the person who already knows all your passwords is its own special kind of torture. We briefly looked into shrinking a whole weekend away down to keyring size so you could wrap i
The Best Fathers Day Gift Ideas for the Dad Who Has Everything
We looked into gift-wrapping a working golf course and posting it flat-packed, but the greenkeepers objected and the box wouldn't fit through the letterbox. So we did the sensible thing instead: we pl
Retirement Gift Ideas That Get Used Instead of Dusted
We thought about distilling forty years of Monday mornings into a single decorative paperweight, but the chemistry department politely declined the brief.
Fiftieth Anniversary Gift Ideas: A Gold-Year Guide That Lands
Fifty years married is the sort of number that makes the rest of the family quietly recalculate their own life choices. Tradition calls it the gold anniversary, and you could take that literally — com