Are you looking for a unique way to commemorate a family vacation or summer trip? Try some of these personalized family vacation gift ideas! You’ll be able to tell the tale of all your great family outings for years to come.
I’ve always believed that family vacations are about making new memories. The places we go and the experiences we share add up like pages in the book that is our life story.
To me, nothing is quite as important as spending time with my husband and children. Family vacations were always the perfect way to create new memories, and looking back on the times we’ve shared always makes me feel so happy.
With each trip we’ve taken together as a family, I’ve always had a certain fondness for reliving my favorite moments with personalized vacation ornaments. Every year, I make sure to include some of my favorite vacation ornaments when decorating my Christmas tree. Each one signifies a family vacation that I will never forget.
If you’re like me and want to commemorate all of your family trips in a unique way, try some of these personalized family vacation gift ideas.
Vacation Gift Ideas for Boyfriend or Girlfriend
Forming vacation memories in a fresh relationship is so important – and it’s even more important to celebrate them later so that you can build on your foundation time and time again. You might not be ready to start sharing a Christmas tree just yet, but even when winter is a little far off, gifting an item purely to remember the good times will be something he or she will hold onto until the time is right.
She may have had a lovely time tanning and enjoying tropical drinks, while he tried out wind surfing and swam with marine life. For an ornament together, personalize a unique vacation symbol with both of your names such as a sand bucket! When it comes time to bring these keepsakes into your family tradition, you’ll have memorialized the best times to cherish every year with each other.
Vacation Gifts for Parents
Mom and dad have put so much effort into planning your family trips, it’s about time you showed them you cherish those memories! You’ll either want an ornament that honors mom and dad or one that represents the whole family.
Finding the right keepsake to represents your parents is easier than you might think. This vacation could be special to them because it’s to celebrate their 25th anniversary. You can find adorable tourist couple ornaments as well to capture how your parents travel together. For the whole family, try our flip-flops ornament for four to personalize. While not all are beach themed, we can personalize keepsakes for families of nine or more!
Beach Vacation Gift Basket Ideas
Are you looking for ideas to create a beach themed gift basket? Whether this is ahead of an exciting vacation for your family, as a gift to a friend who is vacationing, or if you’re participating in a raffle and will provide the basket to a lucky winner, personalized ornaments work perfectly as toppers or items inside.
When putting together your gift basket, choose ornaments for the inside that are symbolic of the vacation. If your family or friend is traveling to a Maryland beach, for example, choose a crab ornament and personalize it with Ocean City Maryland. 
Or if they’re heading to Hawaii, consider a ukulele. If you’re not sure who your gift basket will go to, try ornaments with shells, fish and other ocean life.
On the other hand, if you’re just interested in one amazing ornament, you can use it as a topper. When you go to tie the clear wrapping paper around your basket or if your securing the final bow or string to the gift, hook in your personalized ornament with your friend’s name so that it acts as the greeting card. We’ve talked about this in the past when using ornaments as present toppers!
Gifts for Friends Going Travelling
Whether it’s a him or a her, everybody loves to travel this time of year. If your friend is an adventurer, find the locations they’ve visited in ornaments! We have monuments and landmarks from the Golden Gate Bride to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and lighthouses to pyramids.
Or if your friend travels for work, check out our travel suitcase ornaments. They will love the idea of collecting these for each business trip they go on. Our locations include Canada, Dubai, Florida, Egypt, France, Rome and so many more!
Be sure to check out our wide selection of personalized vacation and travel ornaments to help for more great gift ideas for your family vacation.