5 years to use
Instant voucher delivery
Simple exchanges
14-day satisfaction guarantee
To exchange your experience, select a product, add it to cart and proceed to checkout.
Once there, enter your voucher number to exchange for a different experience.
Under $200 still buys a proper night out this Christmas: a degustation, a wine trail or an afternoon at a bathhouse, all handed over as a voucher. It suits the person who already has everything, and gets booked in January just as easily as it gets opened on Christmas Day.
Christmas Gifts Under $200 covers experience gifts that fit the cap without feeling capped: food and wine tastings, share plate dinners and a proper wellness reset, spread from wine country to the coast. Every option converts to a RedBalloon gift voucher, so whoever receives it books the date and picks the season themselves. Gift a story you can't wait to hear.
In the Barossa Valley, the Barossa Food and Wine Tasting Trail moves between three of the region's names across a self-drive day of tastings. At Sirromet Estate in Mount Cotton, the 3 Course Italian Inspired Dinner with Wine Flight pairs an Italian menu with a choice of white, red or mixed wine at the Tuscan Terrace Restaurant. In the Hunter Valley, the Hunter Valley Mini Degustation serves five matched dishes from the Hungerford Hill Cellar Door, alongside a glass of sparkling wine on arrival.
The American BBQ Family Platter seats four at a Red Hill restaurant that holds Australia's first B Corp certification, over a platter of ethically sourced meats. In Melbourne, Bottomless Drinks with Shared Platter pairs bottomless cocktails, wine, beer and spirits with a shared finger food platter at Father's Office Downtown on Flinders Lane, for groups of two or more.
At Hepburn Bathhouse and Spa, the Apothecary, Sanctuary Mineral Bathing Midweek Entry is a 90-minute session across the mineral pool, salt therapy pool and aroma steam room at Hepburn Springs, finished with a hands-on session blending a personal body scrub or bath salt to take home.
A 45-minute Guided Sunset Camel Ride Across Mindil Beach crosses the sand in Darwin as the sky turns over the Timor Sea, led by a cameleer who covers the history along the way. Off Broome, the Roebuck Bay Snubfin Dolphin Eco Cruise spends three and a half hours aboard the catamaran Orcaella, watching for snubfin dolphins, dugongs and turtles.
A degustation, a bathhouse afternoon or a plate of smoked BBQ solves the person on the list who already owns enough. It is a gift with a date attached rather than a shelf, and under $200 it still feels considered rather than cut-price. A RedBalloon gift voucher leaves the exact pick to them: which tasting, which city, which weekend. Wrapped under the tree on the day, redeemed whenever they are ready.
A dining or tasting experience is a popular choice at this price, with two popular options being the Red Hill meat platter for four and the Oyster Farm Tour & Tasting in Moreton Bay, which pairs a cruise across Moreton Bay with a visit to a working oyster farm. Both suit someone who would rather eat the gift than store it.
For something outside the usual dinner-and-wine gift, the sunset camel ride at Mindil Beach in Darwin and the snubfin dolphin eco cruise out of Broome both swap a restaurant booking for a proper outdoor afternoon, in two of the further-flung corners of the range.
Most food and wine vouchers under $200 bundle the tasting itself with a welcome drink and a take-home element. The Hunter Valley mini degustation includes a glass of sparkling wine on arrival, five matched dishes and five wines from the Hungerford Hill Cellar Door.
Yes, the family-sized BBQ platter at Red Hill feeds two adults and two children aged 12 and under in one sitting, with a play corner nearby so the grown-ups can eat before dessert turns into a negotiation.
Every Christmas price bracket runs from bathhouse afternoons to full day tours, just scaled differently. Christmas gifts by price breaks down what sits above and below the $200 mark, useful if this cap turns out a little tight or a little generous for the person being bought for.
No, a RedBalloon voucher for any of these experiences can be booked whenever the recipient is ready. The voucher itself is the Christmas gift, and the date gets chosen afterwards, so there is nothing to rush before December 25.
If $200 stretches further than food and wine, Christmas Gifts covers the full range across every price point. For someone who wants an active day out rather than a table booking, Days Out and Tours and Spa and Wellness both sit comfortably under the same cap.