Wish for an experience
Tickets, gift cards or an afternoon together — how to put the things you can’t buy in an online shop on your wishlist.
Not everything you want comes from an online shop. For tickets, gift cards and things you do together, there’s the experience kind of wish.
What counts as an experience
Anything that isn’t a product on a shelf:
- Tickets — concerts, theater, cinema, sport
- Gift cards — a restaurant, a spa, a shop
- Activities — an escape room, a cooking class, a skydive
- Time together — “a day at the zoo with you”
- Services — a massage, a haircut, a photo shoot
Adding one
- Open your wishlist
- Tap + Add
- Paste a link, or choose Enter it yourself. Whether it becomes a product or an experience is something we work out from the shop, and you can correct it in the next step under More options.
- Fill in the fields:
- Name, required — “Coldplay tickets”, say
- Description — the date, the place, what you’d prefer
- Price, optional — if you know it
- Link, optional — to the ticket or voucher page
- Image, optional — it makes the card stand out
- Save
Examples
Concert tickets
Name: Taylor Swift tickets Description: The Eras Tour in Munich, July 27 or 28. Standing would be amazing, seated is great too. Price: €150 Link: the ticket page
A restaurant gift card
Name: Gift card for Bella Italia Description: Our favorite Italian place in the old town. Dinner for two would be a dream. Price: €80
A spa day
Name: A day at the thermal baths Description: A slow day at the spa, sauna and a massage. Price: €100
Something to do together
Name: Escape room with friends Description: I’ve always wanted to try one. Horror theme, ideally. Price: €30 per person
Time instead of things
Name: A day with you Description: Let’s go hiking, cook something, or do nothing at all — I just want the time. Price: leave it empty
Writing a good experience wish
Be specific
The closer you describe it, the easier your guests have it:
Vague: “a gift card” Better: “a €30 gift card for Douglas”
Vague: “concert tickets” Better: “tickets for the band on March 15 in Hamburg, standing”
Offer alternatives
“Tickets for concert A or B — either one would be great.”
Name a rough price
Even a guess helps: “around €50” or “somewhere between €30 and €50”.
Add a link
If there’s a booking page, link it. It saves your guests a search.
Experience or group fund?
| What you want | Pick |
|---|---|
| One ticket or voucher, one person buys it | Experience |
| Several people chipping in | Group fund |
| “I’d like money toward a trip” | Group fund |
| A restaurant voucher from one guest | Experience |
Rule of thumb: if several people should chip in, use a group fund. If one guest should buy the thing, use an experience. The real lever, though, isn’t the kind of wish but the setting on it that says how guests may contribute — an experience takes money too, if you allow it there.
Common questions
Can I link to a ticket site?
Yes. Paste the link to the event. If the page refuses to be read automatically — common with ticket sellers, though it can happen anywhere — you type the name and price in yourself.
Do guests see who reserved the experience?
No. Guests only see whether a wish is free or taken. Who reserved it is visible to the organizer alone — and in surprise mode, not even to them.
Can I edit it later?
Yes, every field: name, description, price, link and image.
What about a gift card with no fixed value?
Give a rough figure, or leave the price empty and say in the description what you have in mind.