Secret Escapes gift cards

Secret Escapes gives recipients access to hand-picked luxury hotels and holiday packages at members-only prices. Every offer is negotiated by travel experts and checked four times before it appears on the site, so the recipient is choosing from a curated set of stays and trips rather than a general booking engine. For a business, this makes the card a memorable reward or incentive, something closer to giving a holiday than a generic voucher.

GIFQ offers Secret Escapes in two markets: Austria and Germany. The Austrian card is a fixed EUR 50 voucher, and the German card is available as either EUR 50 or EUR 100. The cards are redeemed in euros on www.secretescapes.de, where the recipient needs a free Secret Escapes membership to apply the code. There is no stated expiry date on either card.

Each market is a separate card. A card bought for Austria cannot be redeemed against the German offer and vice versa, even though both are denominated in euros and both point to the same website. When you send a card, choose the market that matches where your recipient is based, because that determines which card they can use. For example, for a team member in Vienna, send the Austrian card; for one in Berlin, send the German card.

The German card suits a wider range of budgets with its two denominations, while the Austrian card is a single amount. Both work the same way for the recipient: they sign in or register on the Secret Escapes site, enter the code in the voucher section of their profile, and the value is added to their account. They can then spend it on any eligible hotel or package on the site, and several codes can be combined on one account.

Businesses use these cards through GIFQ to pay out earnings, bonuses or research incentives to people in Austria and Germany, or to recognise employees and customers with a travel treat. Cards can be sent in bulk from the dashboard, for example when rewarding a sales team across both countries, or issued one at a time through the API as part of an automated payout flow.