'Experience' Days?

[nizlopi]

I've left it really really late buying my husband his Christmas gift, for several reasons. Mainly because its come really quickly after his birthday and I used up all my imaginative gift ideas then, plus the fact that we are moving house AND going on holiday over the Christmas week so I used my gift buying time to focus on our son and families.

I have a budget of about £100 to spend on him, which is what we agreed on, and I've seen a few of these 'experience days' online, but I'm unsure of what the deal is with them. Do any of you have any experience with these? I'm looking into ones sold by Virgin, but I'm pretty sure I've heard bad things about them, almost certainly I remember seeing a thing about it on BBC Watchdog.

Advice? Experience?

Where are you based? Near us in Surrey is Mercedes Benz world that does test driving their top model cars round a track for about that price.

Something like that? Or driving a steam train? Pilot lesson, tandem jump?

I'd be tempted to go to a place direct and book rather than use vouchers as the third party takes a cut so the original sellers can feel underpaid and cut corners.

My sister has had two-
The first was a driving day when she was 15, she loved it. She got to drive around a track in a mini cooper, I'm still jealous
The second was a day in a recording studio to make your ow 'album'- she never ended up going. DM was not amused.
They're a great idea, I'd recommend getting one, just make sure it's something he'll definitely use, other wise it's a fair amount of money to waste.

Dh did a skidpan day at silvrtstone and had a brilliant time, useful for driving in icy conditions as well. I booked that through airmiles.
There is also a bird of prey centre in biggleswade which do hawk flying days which you can book direct