There’s really no better gift than a Viator gift certificate, but let’s say that you just gave someone a travel gift certificate and can’t possibly regift that again. Then what should you buy for your favorite traveler this holiday season? Might I make a few unique and possibly frivolous suggestions? If nothing else, perhaps this will serve as inspiration for whoever draws my name in the Viator Secret Santa present swap.
- Plane Sheets: Let’s face it, seats on planes are boring, and sometimes, kinda
yucky. Who wouldn’t want a leopard print airplane seat cover? I’m not sure how practical this is, no one wants to be the annoying person holding up the boarding line because you want to get your plane sheet just so on the seat, but for an international flight, might be cool. - Virtual Laser Keyboard: If you have ambitions to seem like you’re a Jason Bourne-Mission Impossible kind of spy when you’re on the road, you need this keyboard. A great gift for business travel road warriors, it will make them seem much cooler than they really are.
- Sennheiser Noise Cancelling Headphones: Worth every penny I spent. The batteries last forever, and the comfort and noise reduction is top notch. I never leave home without them. A must have for any long haul traveler, you’ll feel much better when you get off the plane, studies show that all the engine noise can be physically tiring.
- iPod speakers: Any small, battery and plug in powered speaker system with an iPod dock is a great gift. Play it in a rental car on the road trip, or pimp out the hotel room with some tunes.
- Rimowa luggage: The main drawback of hard sided luggage is that you can’t
overstuff it with all the extra things you just had to buy and bring home. Which is why Rimowa’s luggage is genius. Constructed of some space age plastic (like I know what, I am so not an engineer) that is nigh on indestructible, yet still flexible enough to bulge out and take a reasonable amount of over stuffing. I have popped it back into shape after particularly perilous journeys where other luggage would have gotten ripped or dented. A bonus for being lightweight and cool looking (again, the whole spy factor here).
So there’s five suggestions, nay 6! Viator gift certificates count as one. Go forth to snazz up your carry on bag. Leave a comment if you’ve got other great travel gift suggestions, but I don’t want to see any boring power adapters on the list!
November 28th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Love the leopard skin plane sheets. Strange to think somebody had time to think of that.
Here’s another to add to the list — eye covers, silk, for those long-haul plane flights.
http://www.goodtobeyou.com/didrtrset.html