Thank You Card or Gift?

I just wanted to Thank you for your advice very kind of you all. I decided to send a card with a note inside and posted it this afternoon. I will send flowers on their return as they are travelling and I'm not sure where they will be? I do think the voucher is a great idea and will be sure to check their local tea room and resturant out before they return? Many thanks!

Agree with jaylucy

Yes, definitely a thank you card, and some flowers when they return.

Maybe you could do flowers the FTD way and have them sent to their away home.

I often host for my work colleagues, sometimes dinner or afternoon tea etc. Some barely thank me but one lovely lady always sends, by post, a beautiful card expressing her thanks and delight for the occasion and it means the world to me so I agree a handwritten note is ideal.

Find out what their local restaurant is (where they will be staying until March) and buy a voucher for this restaurant. It's easy to do as there are lots of restaurant sites out there and all you have to do is contact the restaurant. They can then 'have a drink' on you when they go there.

I would send a thank-you letter or card and say that you are not sending flowers now, as you saw how many they had, but there will be some to welcome them home when they come back.

Make a note in your calendar when to send them.

Sending something to their home abroad is probably prohibitively expensive.

Send a Thank you card with a little note inside with an invite for a meal when they return .

I had a friend to stay a month or so ago and on her return home she sent a thank you card to say how much she had enjoyed it. I was so pleased to receive it and still have it standing on my chest of drawers in the living room. A few well chosen words of thanks and good wishes are worth more than any gift.

I think a thank you letter is better than a card or a gift. I am sure they will treasure it.

Do both !
Howabout you send a lovely thank you letter now and when you know that they have returned from overseas, send them flowers ?

Sounds lovely ! I would send a proper , hand written letter of thanks - they sound like they have plenty of everything and you took a gift , so just a few heart felt words would be perfect.

I'd send the thank you now and in a few days when they have gone, send a token gift (flowers, chocolate, wine or similar) to their home abroad. That would be such an unexpected treat, and so much more possible these days even in fairly remote places. You should be able to do this online. I have done this - and once I found a local restaurant with good reviews and just called them! They did everything else.

So glad you had a lovely time!

Yes I do agree with you Teatime thankyou. I do love a letter, I can remember when my Grandfather wrote to my parents every week even when we went a way for a week's holiday in Wales. The letter would be sitting on the breakfast table in the guest house! Loll Finding it very hard to buy nice writing paper these days though? My parents were very strict on manners and made us all sit at the table and write thank you letters! I get texts now off my Grandchildren and nieces and Online Christmas cards last year seemed very popular, but its not quite the same is it? No a Voucher and a letter will be a very good idea! Thank you both.

Oh what a good idea Marydoll thank you! I'm glad I asked now? lol I never gave that a thought and they have a famous tea room near by, they could have afternoon tea! what a splendid idea.

I think a thank you letter would be lovely we get so little 'real' post these days.

Welcome to the forum, Goodasgold12, I'm sure you will get lots of sound advice here.
What lovely people to host the get-together.
Would it be possible to buy vouchers for a local restaurant, that they could use when they return?
In our family, we often do this and it is greatly appreciated.