Christmas Travel Host Gift Ideas
Best Luxury Travel Present Picks for the Winter Holiday Season
Nov 11, 2007
The winter holiday season is one of the biggest vacation periods of the year. Be it a family vacation, leisure travel, or otherwise (hopefully not business travel), many hard-working people anticipate Christmas travel as much as children look forward to opening gifts on Christmas day. And what goes best with luxury vacations? Why, luxury travel gifts, of course! Family vacations at the home of a host are a wonderful way to celebrate the season, and dictates more than a bottle of wine or flowers as a gift. Here is Luxury Travel's annual round-up of the best travel host gift ideas for upscale family travel with children, and travel hosts. These are gifts for the travel host's home, to express gratitude in a classy, thoughtful way.
Luxury Travel's Picks: Best Luxury Travel Host Gift Ideas for Christmas and the Winter Holiday
- Williams-Sonoma has a fun gift idea for travel hosts who enjoy their potato frites abroad. This French Fry Cutter is easy to use (and Luxury Travel isn't especially muscle-bound): With one quick push down, it cuts a whole potato into thick or not-so-thick sticks. It should also be easy to clean, since it's dishwasher-safe.
- Supplement the French Fry Cutter with this amusing french fry and condiment server, also from Williams-Sonoma. Faux French print on the porcelain, made to look like a newspaper, may remind a travel host of midday snacks along the Seine. The condiment server is just as cute, made to look like a paper ramekin. After all, not every meal can remind us of dining in a top Paris restaurant!
- Steuben employs the best glass artists to create handmade, usually clear, solid glass objets d'art. With a wide range of collectibles, there are plenty of travel-related pieces from which to choose. A gift for travel hosts who have been on Alaska cruises might include one or more of the Steuben penguins, and travel hosts who have been on a recent safari in Africa would appreciate the thoughtfulness of an "Under the African Sky" lion, gazelle, or elephant and flamingo gift.
- Novica is National Geographic's online gift shop, in a way, and all of Novica's products are handmade and unique. One great gift for a travel lover is Ricardo Hinojosa's leather travel bag. He makes each "Weekender travel valise" leather travel bag by hand, using products from his home country of Mexico - and these are both durable and beautiful.
- Also from Novica, the "Blue Vortex Diamond" is a beaded rattan basket hand-made by Wayan Sukerni, an artist in the Gianyar region of Bali and Java. While Luxury Travel admires the contrasting blues of this handmade basket, the baskets are also made in more vibrant rainbow colors. The intricate beadwork that the artist carefully places on each basket add to their special, unique quality. Anyone who has traveled to Bali and Java would appreciate this gift - assuming they didn't already get one when they were there!
- Planet Ocean is, truly, one of the most astonishing photo books ever to sit on a coffee table. It has perfect photographs of the underwater world (and people working an the water's surface), along with text describing both the marine habitats and the myriad dangers posed to them. Luxury Travel loves this book. It's visually stunning; as a gift, it's sure to fascinate a travel host or any recipient. Perfect for a luxury travel host who cruises, sails, yachts, or in any way enjoys the ocean during vacations.
Luxury gifts for travel hosts show appreciation for their opening up of their homes to family and friends. Good manners practically dictate that a Christmas or winter holiday vacation at a hosted home means bringing a thoughtful gift. Any of these picks should be well received, and remembered.
