Children are tomorrow’s guests. It is therefore essential to create a strong connection from their arrival with welcome gifts. Making children happy means ensuring the satisfaction of an entire family. So how do you make children happy? Give them a quality welcome and throughout the stay, provide them with special attention that is both fun and personalized, so they remember you. These little details will help you make a difference and build loyalty with family clientele. Find all the ideas for goodies and welcome gifts for your hotel to delight the children of your guests!
Make Their Stay Fun
Near the Sea? Opt for Beach Games
Is your establishment near the beach? Consider offering a set of beach games. A summer essential, it’s a great way to enjoy the pleasures of the beach as a family!
Some game ideas for your beach kit: Frisbee, kite, paddles, bubble wands, sand molds, a shovel, an inflatable ring… With this kit, children can enjoy a variety of different toys throughout their stay! Plus, they can reuse it for their next seaside vacation.
Turn Your Common Areas into a Fun and Welcoming Space
Share a pleasant and fun family moment around a game. Reserve a corner of your establishment with open access to board games, puzzles, or books. This space will be a delight for children!
Let Them Express Their Creativity
Upon arrival, offer a welcome kit with a coloring book accompanied by a small box of colored pencils as a gift.
To keep children occupied during meals and the wait between courses, you can offer them a personalized placemat with games and coloring pages of your choice.
The Surprise Toy
Consider designing a special children’s menu in your dining service. For an extra touch, add a surprise toy inside. You’ll make children happy, and happy children mean satisfied parents!
Go for Originality
A Trip Down Memory Lane with Temporary Tattoos
You don’t often think of it, but temporary tattoos are an original way to promote your hotel. Customize the tattoos by adding your logo and name, mixing it with more playful elements related to your region, for example. Children love them — they feel like they’re doing what the grown-ups do!
In Line with Current Events
A Fun Face Mask Design
During this current COVID-19 health crisis period, consider a fabric protective mask designed for children with fun patterns. Effective and original, children will adopt it quickly! This welcome product will show family guests your commitment to respecting health rules. A fun gift that will delight children and a family that will feel reassured about staying at your hotel.
Add a Personal Touch
Create Memories with a Travel Journal
Offer them upon arrival a personalized travel journal to fill in throughout their stay with spaces for memories (photos, museum tickets…), writing about what they saw, learning fun facts about the city, coloring landmarks, completing a city map with stickers, and much more. A great way to combine entertainment and education! This is what WanderWorld offers, customizing the journal to your image (logo, colors…) and adapting to your communication goals.
This fun and useful gift will accompany the child and their whole family in discovering the city. With this special attention, your hotel offers a unique and original experience to an entire family. Moreover, they will tend to carefully keep this welcome product. Indeed, they will be happy to revisit the memories inside. It’s an opportunity to create a genuine bond between families and your establishment. The personalized travel journal is therefore an effective way for the family to remember your hotel.
Offer Them the Best Companion
What better than a stuffed animal to bring a moment of comfort and softness to a child! Timeless, it’s the ideal gift to delight young children. These soft, cuddly friends will accompany them through every night of their stay and beyond! Add a personal touch by including your logo, so that the child and the whole family keep a fond memory of your hotel.
Take It Everywhere
As another welcome gift for your hotel, consider a stainless steel water bottle! A way for the child to stay hydrated throughout the day. Practical and eco-friendly — goodbye plastic bottles! Show your guests that you care about their children’s well-being and your hotel’s ecological impact. All you have to do is customize it by mixing fun designs with your logo, and you’re set! This useful and durable gift is yet another way to attract and retain family clientele.
Make Their Stay Delicious
Surprise Egg
We know children love sweets, so surprise them with a surprise egg as a welcome gift! Combining the indulgence of chocolate to munch on with the excitement of discovering which toy is hidden inside. Make a child’s day with a warm and delicious welcome. The surprise egg is once again an excellent way to create a strong bond with the family from the moment they arrive.
