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The greatest treasure any child can get

Oprah Winfrey, the world-famous US talk host who gifted a trunkful of her favorite children’s books to Beyonce’s new baby, Blue Ivy. In this trunk are books that Oprah has loved all her life, and has encouraged her own children to read and pass on. She didn’t send the baby a gold necklace; she didn’t send her a set of expensive toys. She sent the baby what she knows is the very best treasure of all: stories!

A treasure beyond compare

Books are gifts that entertain and enlighten. They also guide our children to do the right thing when we’re no longer around to guide them. Most people love books; and those who don’t read books, love to hear stories from the ones who do. Even those people, who never learnt to read, eagerly watch theatrical depictions of their favorite stories. Knowledge finds a way to become known, one way or the other.

Gift your child the pleasure of reading

When your son’s or daughter’s birthday comes around this year, get a gift voucher from Flipkart.com, Oxford Book Store, Sapna Book Store or Landmark from Woohoo.in. Each one of these top stores has a wide collection of books covering a wide range of subjects. It’ll be the best gift for your growing or grown-up child. If your children are small yet, accompany them to the store and help them select the kind of books that will keep them busy for hours. Plus the shopping, will be surely be, a fun day-out for the parent and the child!!

Gifting Dining Experience in India

A fabulous dinner at a top restaurant that boasts great food, ambience and presentation; won’t that make a fine gift for someone? People are thinking in terms of gifting experiences to their loved ones, friends and business contacts these days. Gone are the days when a gift meant something for which you actually went to a store and shopped. Today it’s all about gift cards and the fabulous things you can gift through them. A fine dining experience is one of these unbeatable gifting options that people can really enjoy.

Why a Dining Experience makes for a unique Gift?

Are you someone who’s always busy at work and never have time to spend with your spouse? Consider buying a gift card from Woohoo.in for a fine dining restaurant that serves your spouse’s favorite cuisine. Attach your special message to it and have it delivered. You’ll be solving two issues with one move – making your spouse extraordinarily happy and creating the opportunity for a future fine dining experience!

Your gift card is valid for several months, which means you’ll have plenty of time to plan a special evening with your spouse. What’s more, some restaurants even offer regular patron privileges to gift card holders. Use the fine dining gift experience to explore multiple cuisines on special occasions and extend your foodie appreciation.

A Dining experience is nice & appropriate Gift

As with all experiences, a dining experience makes for a generic and therefore very appropriate gift for anyone. If you are a corporate manager, you can buy several gift cards in bulk, and offer them to your employees as part of your employee reward scheme. You can even gift them to your clients at the end of a successful transaction, as a token of your appreciation. You can buy dining experience gift cards for your family, friends – just about anyone. Your gift recipient chooses the actual venue, the date, time and the occasion. All you do is pay for the gift card. That makes it perfect, right?

You can choose from a wide range of Restaurants and Cuisines

If you know what kind of cuisine your gift recipient likes, go ahead and pick up a gift card or voucher from a restaurant that offers it. Think of Mainland China for fabulous Chinese and Indo-Chinese cuisine or BJN Group for authentic Indian cuisine. There’s a plethora of choices when it comes to fine dining options, something to suit everyone’s taste buds. Again, all that you have to do is just buy the gift card and have it delivered! The rest is done by the gift card company, while you smile with satisfaction.

How to Gift a Movie Experience?

As far as gifts go, people tend in terms of tangible items such as books, watches, music and so on. Gifting an experience is a unique gift option which is catching on nowadays. A gift experience can be anything – a meal, a trip, or a movie that’s covered by a gift voucher.

How the Woohoo.in Movie-Gift-Experience works?

Your gift recipient will receive a beautifully packaged PVR Cinemas gift card, along with a personal message from you. The message makes the gift ultra special – you can squeeze in all your sentiments into it. The stylish gift package will contain a gift card with a unique barcode and magnetic strip. The value you’ve purchased will have been loaded on the card – all that your recipient has to do is swipe the card at the theater.

The package will also contain information on how the card can be used, along with the card’s validity. Your PVR gift card can be used not just to pay for the movie, but also to make purchases at the movie café. So, make it as generous a gift as possible to enable your recipients to enjoy themselves fully.

A Movie Experience can be a Great Gift!

For example, if your parents’ silver jubilee wedding anniversary is coming up, wouldn’t it be wonderful to gift them a great movie experience? Your parents can visit the theater, select the movie or movies that they want to watch, and enjoy each other’s company to the fullest. They can also enjoy in-theatre luxuries such as being served tidbits from the café, and order for snacks while watching the movie. They will remember their movie experience fondly every time they think of your gift. For you, it’s just a matter of purchasing the gift card online at Woohoo.in.

A Movie Experience is appropriate for anyone!

This is a great gift option even for corporate organizations, when it comes to gifting specific employees as part of employee reward schemes. Since it’s the gift recipient who chooses which movie to watch, a movie experience is an appropriate gift even for clients. Think of this option also for your customers, friends, and family members.

A Movie Experience is special, even as a generic gift!

A movie experience makes for a memorable gift that people always remember for the emotions it generates. Still, it is a generic gift, because what you’re gifting is the actual experience itself, and there’s nothing personal about that. The special aspect comes from what the experience means to the couple or group of friends who enjoy the movie. People quickly forget who gifted them which book or CD, but they don’t easily forget experiences.

Gift a Wonderful Trip through Gift Cards

Can you imagine getting a gift card through courier one fine day for an actual trip? People plan their vacation breaks for ages and save up for trips they want to take with their families. The very idea of getting a trip experience as a gift that still allows you to choose and configure trip details is a luxury beyond comparison.

Why a Trip Experience is so Special?

Everyone dreams of taking a trip with someone they love. We all want a bit of escape from our daily routines. A trip signifies something new, something exciting, and something apart from the usual and therefore special and much anticipated. Take advantage of this feeling and use a trip experience to reward your employees and surprise your spouse, parents or children.

Ideal situations for a Trip Gift Experience

Assume your parents are retiring from their jobs and wondering what to do with their time. Isn’t that the perfect opportunity to gift them a trip, so that they can enjoy their newly found freedom from the daily dirge of work? You could buy them a new music system but it won’t have the same significance.
Then, consider a newly married couple as potential gift recipients. A newly married couple is always looking for opportunities to be alone to celebrate their togetherness. Let a trip experience be your gift to them.
A trip experience is a great idea for customers and clients too. It’s a generic enough gift and a nice gesture, when you consider that even your customers and clients need their vacation breaks. A trip experience certainly beats product discounts or a leather planner set as gifts!

How a Trip Experience works?

As the giver, all you have to do is purchase a Make My Trip gift card from Woohoo.in. Your recipient gets your gift card along with the terms of validity and your special message. Your gift recipient can book the entire trip through the travel site, including accommodation, tour packages, hotel to airport transfers, car rentals and so on. Your gift voucher covers the entire gamut of the travel experience, so there’s no need to separately arrange for any details.

Why a Trip Experience gift will be remembered ever after?

The beauty of this gift card is that your recipients can use it anytime within the validity period. There’s no rush. In the case of the wedded couple, they can complete their marriage formalities, get settled in and then cash in your trip experience gift card when they’re ready for honeymoon trip. Isn’t that fabulous? Your gift recipients will remember your gift long after they have forgotten who gave them the crystal vase or the steel container set.

Best Occasions for a Gift Card!!

What’s the best occasion for a gift card? Will any occasion do or does it have to be something special? We’ve explored a few common and special occasions here to give you an idea.

Birthdays

A birthday is always special, to the birthday boy or girl and to their friends and family. A beautifully packaged gift card with all the power of choice and the flexibility it brings is the ideal gift choice for a birthday.

Anniversaries

An anniversary, especially a wedding anniversary is an occasion for two people to celebrate their oneness and happiness. A gift card gives both people the opportunity to jointly shop for the product that they both like. Plus, a gift card liberates the giver’s need to personally select a common gift for both or two separate gifts for the couple.

Festivals

Whether it’s one of the great festivals of India or a fun festival like Valentine’s Day, a gift card is the ideal option. Again, it’s about the recipient’s freedom of choice. It’s also about the opportunity to gift something expensive like jewelry for a festival. With a gift card, security is not a concern.

Life Achievements

Everyone has several special occasions, days on which specific achievements take place. Think of a job promotion, a graduation, a son or daughter’s first job and so on. Each occasion is perfect for a gift card, to let the recipient know how proud you are of their achievement.

Gift Cards as Business Gifts

Buying something for a business partner, client or loyal customer is always dicey. You want the gift to be impersonal, tasteful and yet professional. With a Woohoo gift card, you no longer have to worry about the appropriateness of your selection. You don’t have to worry about client satisfaction either! Your gift card gives them the freedom of choice, freeing you from all worries.

How does a Gift Card work?

We’ve all heard about using gift cards in lieu of gifts, but how do they work? What does one do to buy them and how are they redeemed? How smooth is the entire process?

The Sender buys the Gift Card

The gift sender logs on to the brand company’s site or the gift card site to purchase the card. He or she chooses a card denomination, provides the recipient’s address, a personal gift message and chooses whether to gift wrap the card or not.

The Gift Card company does most of the work

The gift card company issues a plastic gift card with a barcode at the back. The company loads the card with the denomination value paid for by the sender. The company then personalizes the gift package as specified by the sender, such as including a greeting card, a personal message, gift packing and so on. When all this is done, the gift card company couriers the gift card to the recipient’s address.

The Recipient receives the Gift Card

The recipient receives the card via courier, within 7 days of the date of purchase. All gift cards have specific terms of validity, which will be printed on the card. The recipient can redeem the card’s value on products, either from the brand’s online store or from the physical store.

There’s no limitation on the number of purchases the recipient can make on the card, as long as the purchases are within the card’s value. Some brands allow gift card recipients to recharge their cards with additional value and use them to buy more items and enjoy discounts and special offers.

Woohoo.in provides the most convenient online platform to send gift cards, vouchers and gift certificates across India.

How to use a Gift Card?

If you’re the lucky recipient of a gift card, how do you use it? A gift card can open the doors to a long and satisfying relationship with a brand. Be sure to check all your options.

Check the card validity and Terms of Use

Your card’s validity and terms of use will be printed on it, or in the attached document. Be sure to read the fine print and use the card before it expires.

Find out if you can Shop Online

Many brands are available online. You can save yourself a lot of trouble by finding out if there’s an online store, and shop from the comfort of your own home.

Explore the Stores close to your Home

If there are several stores that accept your gift card, check a few of them out. Do all of them stock the same variety of goods? Shop at the store that offers you the greatest return on your card.

Window Shop for the right product

Check out a few products and decide where you want to invest your gift money. If you buy something on impulse and then see something that you really want, you’ll regret your purchase.

One-time Purchase or Multiple visits?

Do you want to spend your card’s entire value in a single shopping trip? Or do you want to drag out the pleasure for multiple trips? Make this decision based on your card’s value and the price of the items you want.

Send a Thank You note to the Sender

Don’t forget to pen a sweet thank you note to the sender! Thank him or her for the gift card and the great shopping experience. Enjoy your gift card!

Woohoo.in provides the most convenient online platform to send gift cards, vouchers and gift certificates across India.

How to Buy a Gift Card?

If you haven’t considered buying a gift card in place of a gift yet, here’s how you go about buying a gift card for someone.

Finding the Right occasion for a Gift Card

Almost all occasions are perfect for a gift card, except those occasions that only call for small tokens. If you’re investing a considerable denomination, consider an occasion that’s very important to your recipients. It could be their wedding anniversary, or the housewarming function of their first home. The bigger the occasion, the more benefit your recipient can glean from your gift card.

Understanding your gift recipient’s likes and dislikes

Is there any point in gifting a Landmark gift card to someone who has no interest in books or music? Check with your common friends and even go back to your previous conversations with the recipient. You will hit upon the right gift idea.

Choosing the Right Brand

Choose a brand that has an excellent reputation, a good range of quality items and great customer service. Remember, you’re choosing a gift card because you’re also gifting the shopping experience. So pick a brand whose stores offer a great shopping experience for your gift recipient.

Choosing the Right Denomination

Find out the cost of the least expensive item at your chosen brand and multiply that value by 3. This forms a decent denomination for your gift card, and allows your recipient to shop several times.

Adding the Right Personal Message

Include a personal message that conveys your intent or feeling. Keep your message respectful and impersonal for clients and partners, loving and sweet for friends, sentimental for family and so on. Your message is part of your gift.

Woohoo.in provides the most convenient online platform to send gift cards, vouchers and gift certificates across India.

A gift of space travel

News has it that Katy Perry, well known American singer, actress and songwriter has unique and unheard-of-before birthday gift ideas. For her husband British comedian Russell Brand’s 35th birthday, Katy Perry eschewed all the usual gift ideas for men, and gifted him a space trip worth $200,000 instead.

It’s Outer Space Or Nothing Else!

For her, it’s all about making a magnificent gesture, something that her husband will remember for a lifetime, even after all his cologne bottles are over. Apparently Russell Brand will have to undergo a few days of intense training to be fit to get into a space shuttle. Then he’s off on his Virgin Galactic mission, straight up to a height of 365,000ft into the pitchy black of outer space.

Russell Brand To Defy Gravity And Float In Space

John F Kennedy remarked that stepping on the moon was a “Small step for man but a great step for mankind”. We wonder what he would have said for this magnificent gift of a space trip if he were still alive! Russell Brand will be one of the lucky ones to view the earth from a distance of 800 miles via the 17-inch diameter windows, What’s more, Mr. Brand will also be allowed to float weightlessly and defy gravity for all of 5 minutes up there.

Gift Someone You Love The Chance To Fly Free

How can you beat this gift of space travel? Why, by gifting your own version of it, of course! Go to Woohoo.in and buy a gift card from MakeMyTrip.com for someone who loves to travel. Help him or her to achieve their dream of flying free, traveling to distant locations and staying in places they’ve only seen in pictures before!

Want a new way to express your love? Bag it!

So rapper Jay Z bought wife and pop music superstar Beyonce a whole lot of designer bags to express his love. News has it that he spent a goodly sum of $350,000 over these bags and purses. True love, indeed! Jay Z, millionaire several times over, didn’t invest on just any old bag for his lady love. He bought a set of the world-famous, exclusive collector item Birkin bags from Hermes, which cost about $150,000 each.

Why So Much Generosity?

Well, it’s kind of understandable – apparently, Beyonce spent about $2 million on a gift for Jay Z on his 41st birthday. Her choice for him was the fastest road car in the world, the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. So the $350,000 that Jay Z blew on Birkin bags was definitely due, considering that he has been the recipient of such generosity. Totally understandable, one could say.

How Would You Go About It?

So if your wife or girlfriend were to gift you something amazing and totally expensive, what would you do? We have a better idea. Go to Woohoo.in and pick up gift cards from Hidesign and Holii bags. They may not be the same as Birkin but these are world-class bags made to superior design, aesthetically appealing. What’s more, these bags are available in all possible colors, which is a first for India.

Splurge all you want on your gift card, enough for her to buy several Hidesign and Holii bags. You can do this anytime, and not just in response to her gift! Experience the true pleasure of gift giving via Woohoo.in.