Taking gifts for the hosts

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We are a large family, flying long haul to stay with family for a week.

We're going to a place where the local wine is famous, so taking wine would be a bit of a faux pas.

We can take chocolates and flowers, of course.

Host family are very well off and don't want or need a contribution to the supermarket shop.

What do we take?

Take them out for dinner when you’re there?

That's a nice idea.

We have family visits like this but we aren’t a big family. My family don’t take a financial contribution either. It would be easier if they did! Some things we’ve done over the years:

We will do dinners and also a takeaways during our time with them. Other things we have done is buy a new BBQ to be delivered when we’ve left. Gone to the butchers and got vouchers and or left cash there. Gone to a winery that we know they like and have a couple of cases delivered. Filled the car with fuel. Left my SIL a voucher for a beauty salon she likes. We’ve also booked a night in a hotel for them. For us it’s about listening to conversations and trying to establish things they like and have mentioned for ideas.

While they say they don’t want anything, I simply can’t stay and not leave without doing something.