Personalised Christmas Gifts for Travellers
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The most personal travel gift is one trip, one place and one line of words they will recognise.
For a couple or a best friend, the Our Trip print puts the city and your own line on their wall from £19.99. For a family, Our Family Adventures gathers 4 or 6 trips onto one print, and the name water bottle at £24.99 is the one they take with them.
Our Trip: Rome, with a couple's names and the year.
Our Family Adventures: six places, six years, one family name.
The name water bottle with a favourite destination.
Most travellers already own the neck pillow and the plug adapter. What they rarely buy for themselves is something that remembers the trip: the city where they got engaged, the summers the family spent in Cornwall, the girls' week in Zante that still comes up in the group chat. That is where a personalised gift earns its place under the tree.
This guide sticks to personalised and keepsake gifts for Christmas. If you want gadgets, sleep kit and luggage, our travel gifts roundup covers those. Here you will find GO PAC's own personalised prints and bottle with their real prices and sizes, a few personalised ideas from Amazon, and some practical tips on getting the wording right and ordering in time.
How to make a personalised gift feel personal
A name on an object is nice. A name, a place and a date that mean something is a keepsake. Before you choose a product, settle three things.
- One trip, not travel in general. "Rome 2026" says more than a generic world map. Pick the honeymoon, the proposal, the first holiday with the baby or the trip they keep talking about.
- Who it is for. A couple's print goes on a shared wall. A family grid suits the parent or grandparent who keeps every holiday photo. A bottle with a name on it is for one person and goes in their bag.
- The exact wording. Personalised items are printed as you type them, so the spelling, the capitals and the date are on you. Ask a partner or sibling to check it before you pay.
Draft the words on your phone first and count them. Our Trip allows up to 32 characters, so "10TH ANNIVERSARY · ROME 2026" fits with room to spare, but a full sentence will not.
Our Trip print: the city where it happened
The Our Trip personalised print is built around one city and one line of your own. You choose from 48 cities, from Rome, Paris, New York and Tokyo to Benidorm, Zante, Whitby and the Isle of Skye. Each print is a black and white picture of the city with one detail picked out in colour, such as the scooter in flag colours on the Rome print. The city and country sit underneath in wide-spaced capitals, and your line goes below them.
Your line can be up to 32 characters and is set in capitals in the same lettering. Some lines that fit:
- TOM & SOPHIE · 2026 for a couple's first trip
- 10TH ANNIVERSARY · ROME 2026 for an anniversary
- THE GIRLS · ZANTE 2026 for a best friend
- JUST MARRIED · LISBON 2026 for newlyweds
Prices: A4 (21 x 29.7cm) unframed £19.99, A4 framed £45.99, A3 (29.7 x 42cm) unframed £24.99 and A3 framed £55.99. Frames are slim pine in black, white or oak with shatter-resistant plexiglass and no mount, and arrive ready to hang. Prints are made to order by PrintShrimp in the UK on archival matte paper. Every city also comes as a phone wallpaper for £4.99.
If you know their walls and taste, framed saves them a trip to the shops. If you don't, an unframed A4 at £19.99 fits a standard A4 frame and lets them choose. Black suits the black and white photography; oak warms it up.
Our Family Adventures: every holiday on one wall
For a parent or grandparent, the Our Family Adventures print gathers several trips onto one print. You pick 4 or 6 places from 51 cities, add the year of each trip, then your family name, up to 32 characters, for example THE WALTONS. The places sit in a clean grid of black and white pictures with the place and year under each, and your family name runs large beneath with OUR ADVENTURES under it.
The place list mixes UK favourites such as Cornwall, the Lake District, Edinburgh, York, Whitby and Snowdonia with trips abroad like Orlando, Paris, Dubrovnik and Bali, so a family that has only ever holidayed in Britain can fill a grid as easily as one that flies every summer. Years run from 1950 to this year, which means a grandparent's first seaside trip can sit next to last summer's.
Sizes and prices match Our Trip: A4 unframed £19.99, A4 framed £45.99, A3 unframed £24.99, A3 framed £55.99, framed in black, white or oak.
The years are the part people get wrong. Check old photo dates on a shared phone album, or ask a sibling, before you build the grid. Choose 6 places if the family has a long list; 4 leaves more room for each picture.
The personalised name water bottle
If you want something they will use on the trip rather than hang after it, the personalised name water bottle is £24.99. Their name is printed in a black script, and underneath you choose either a small GO PAC logo or a favourite destination in bold capitals under the words TAKE ME BACK TO... so a bottle for someone still dreaming about Bali can say exactly that.
- 500ml, stainless steel, double-walled and leak-proof
- Suitable for hot and cold drinks
- 26cm tall by 7cm wide
- Not dishwasher or microwave safe, so it is a hand-wash bottle
It is made to order in the UK: 3 to 5 working days to make, then 2 to 5 days in the post, tracked, with free UK delivery. The name is printed exactly as typed, so check the capitals in the preview.
Destination prints and phone wallpapers
Not every gift needs a name on it to be personal. If you know the one place someone loves, our destination prints do the job without any wording to agonise over. The range includes Edinburgh Castle at Dusk, Lake District Rowing Boat, Cornwall St Ives Harbour, Rome Scooter and Colosseum, Bali Temple Gate, Bangkok Tuk Tuk at Night, Thailand Longtail Boat, Costa Rica Toucan and Sloth, and Factor 50 Still a Lobster for anyone who comes home from every holiday pink. Sizes and frames are the same as the personalised prints, from £19.99 for A4 unframed.
For a last-minute gift or a stocking filler, the phone wallpapers are £4.99 each and the download link is emailed after you buy, so there is no postage to worry about. Every destination print comes as a phone and desktop wallpaper, and every Our Trip city comes as a phone wallpaper at 1290 x 2796 pixels. That is the same resolution Apple lists for the iPhone 15 Pro Max screen; other phones will scale or crop it slightly to fit.
Wallpapers are for personal use. To give one, buy it, then send the image with a short message on Christmas morning, or write a small card with the city name and "check your phone" inside.
More personalised ideas from Amazon
If you want to pair a print with something small, or need an idea for a different kind of traveller, these personalised and keepsake searches are worth a look. Prices and makers vary, so read the personalisation limits on each listing.
- Personalised leather luggage tag: initials or a name on a tag that helps them spot their case on the carousel.
- Personalised passport cover: a name or initials on the cover; check it still lets the photo page open flat at passport control.
- Scratch-off world map: a shared record of where they have been, good alongside an Our Trip print of the place that started it.
- Travel journal: for the friend who writes everything down, and a natural partner to a wallpaper of the next trip.
For more gift routes by budget and person, see the personalised travel accessories list, or our Secret Santa gifts for travellers under £15 if you are buying for the office.
Ordering in time for Christmas
Every personalised item here is made after you order, so it cannot be pulled off a shelf on 23 December.
- Prints: printed to order in the UK and posted separately from the rest of the GO PAC range, so allow time and order early in December rather than late.
- Name bottle: 3 to 5 working days to make, then 2 to 5 days in the post, so allow up to two working weeks.
- Wallpapers: emailed after you buy, so they work right up to Christmas Eve.
Our shipping page notes that processing and delivery can take a little longer at peak times such as Christmas, so build in a buffer. If you are buying for a family that is travelling over the holidays, our family holiday packing guide is a useful read to send along with the gift.
FAQs
Something tied to a real trip works better than general travel decor. A city print with their names and the year, a print of the places their family has been, or a bottle with their name and favourite destination all point to memories they already have.
A4 unframed is £19.99, A4 framed £45.99, A3 unframed £24.99 and A3 framed £55.99. Frames come in black, white or oak. Each city is also available as a phone wallpaper for £4.99.
Both the Our Trip line and the Our Family Adventures family name allow up to 32 characters, set in capitals. Each place on the family print also has a four-digit year.
Prints are printed to order in the UK, so allow time and order early in December. The name bottle takes 3 to 5 working days to make and 2 to 5 days in the post. Phone wallpapers are emailed after purchase, so they work as a last-minute gift.
No. It is a 500ml double-walled stainless steel bottle for hot and cold drinks, but it is not dishwasher or microwave safe, so wash it by hand.