Christmas is approaching, it's time to make Santa's list! Are you looking for gift ideas to give? Here is a selection of gift ideas made in Vendée Bocage for all tastes: local products, stay in Vendée box, tickets for Puy du Fou® park…
Find our gift ideas made in Vendée Bocage in local product and craft shops or on sale directly from producers.
Gifts made in Vendée Bocage
Where to buy your Made In Vendée Bocage Christmas tree?
A Christmas Tree Made In Vendée Bocage
Samuel, his family and friends welcome you to the farm from November 25, 2023 until Saturday December 23, 2023 to choose your Christmas tree. Located at a place called La Brosse, in Essarts-en-Bocage, Samuel grows Nordmann fir trees as well as spruce trees. All trees are certified by the “Organic Agriculture” label.
The schedules:
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 17 p.m. – 19 p.m.
- Wednesday: 10h - 18h
- Saturday 9 a.m. – 18 p.m.
- Closed on Sunday, except Sunday December 3, 2023
Vendée Bocage makes its list for Santa Claus
1- Tickets for the Puy du Fou®
The Tourist Offices sell tickets for the Puy du Fou® to offer at Christmas a stay in the best park in the world: tickets for the Park over several days combined with or without the Cinéscénie. Information on 02 44 40 20 16.
2- A gift box stay in Vendée
Gift ideas for Christmas to offer or treat yourself: the stay in Vendée box, 3 possibilities: the emotional gift voucher at €85, prestige at €185 or the freedom box. Offers selected by our experts to experience a concentrate of the Vendée. On sale in Vendée Bocage Tourist Offices.
3 - Concert tickets at the Poupet Festival
A gift idea, offer a concert at Doll Festival, an open-air festival in July in Saint Malo du Bois in Vendée. Tickets on sale at www.festival-poupet.com
4- Gift cards for tourist sites
Tépacap Vendee
A “perched” gift idea with a gift voucher or a season pass (10% reduction) from TEPACAP Vendee to please your loved ones (offer valid until December 24, 2023). Go to www.tepacapvendee.com with the promo code: TPVNOEL2023!
Vendée Railway
Have lunch aboard authentic restaurant cars of the Great European Express trains and enjoy the commented walk throughout the meal, meal or ride gift cards: https://www.vendeetrain.fr/reservation.html
5- Medieval gift ideas from the Château de Saint-Mesmin
Choose from medieval gifts in the e-shop of the Château de Saint Mesmin (“red” hypocras wine, knights of the Middle Ages chess game, wooden crossbow, etc.): https://www.chateau-saintmesmin.com/eboutique/
6 – Christmas treats Vendée Bocage
Chocolates
Chocolates, the essential Christmas treat, several creative artisans in the Vendée countryside: Albert chocolatier in Les Herbiers, Gelencser in Chantonnay…
Focus on the company Flavors and Nature, respectful of fair trade and organic production. Chocolates come in all possible and imaginable forms: bars, truffles, ballotins, neapolitans... With such gifts, you will surely please.
Flavors & Nature – ZA La Grande Chevasse – 44 Rue des Auberges – 85260 Montreverd (Saint-Sulpice-le-Verdon)
A sparkling wine from Domaine de la Barbinière
Discover “l'O'brut”, the traditional method of Domaine de la Barbiniere, the ideal product to add a sparkling note to your holiday meals. The ideal companion for your celebrations: wine! Wine in Vendée? Yes, Vendée Vallée has a few acres of vines on its land, and even an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée: the Fiefs Vendéens!
Domaine de la Barbiniere – Saint-Philbert-du-Pont-Charrault – 85110 Chantonnay
7- A Savonnerie des Collines box
La Savonnerie des collines specializes in the manufacture of donkey milk soap. A beauty gift that is sure to please! You will also be won over by the passion with which Nicolas talks about his profession... The shop and the soap history area are dressed in Christmas colors, there you will find Christmas kits to make your tree decorations. A Christmas evening is organized on Friday December 22 from 18:30 p.m.
Boutique open Tuesday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 14:30 p.m. to 19 p.m.
8 – Offer an escape game
Escape if you can offers you a Gift Box which contains: a gift certificate for 3, 4, 5 or 6 people, an Échappe Toi Si Tu Peux sticker, a key allowing you to try to open the Échappe Toi Si Tu Peux treasure chest. Le Moulin de la rivière – L’Oie – 85140 ESSARTS-EN-BOCAGE – To order your gift box: https://www.echappetoisitupeux.com/
keep it secret at Les Herbiers, 4 adventures including 2 accessible to children aged 7 and over. Immersive welcome.
Escape yourself in Montaigu, the escape game in the heart of the town of Montaigu: 3 rooms for a family outing or chills.
Un escape at Logis de la Chabotterie, in Saint Sulpice le Verdon – Montreverd. On the theme Charette and the last hunt. General Charette and his last faithful try to escape the Republican troops. Reinforcements are arriving at the Logis... Will you experience this latest hunt live? Be careful, time is running out!
9- A dinner show at the Cabaret La Belle Entrée
For Christmas, offer gift tickets for the 2023/2024 season (valid until the end of June 2024) at Cabaret la Belle Entrance, at Saint André Goule d'Oie, with their new show Parfum. Tickets available by telephone on 02 51 31 10 12 or on www.labelleentree.com. Offer unforgettable exceptional moments!
10- Pottery
Are you looking for an original and customizable gift idea? Our potters will be able to advise you on the ideal gift to offer to your loved ones for the holidays! The workshops are open exceptionally for the holidays and offer exhibitions and the sale of very attractive stoneware and porcelain pieces.
Le Four Lutton specializes in the artisanal manufacture ofpots : irrigation pottery, to bury or place near the plants.
- Hélène and Julie pottery, – 7 rue du Vieux Château – 85640 Mouchamps
- Adelaide Pottery – 4 rue Georges Clémenceau – 85510 Le Boupère
- The Ollas of the Lutton Pottery – 85140 La Merlatière
Where to buy local products?
Where to find gift ideas?
- IN POUZAUGES : ThePays de Pouzauges Tourist Office offers a shop of local products to make original gifts based on local products : honey, wine, pasta and artisanal products: soaps, pottery...Baskets of local products with products dressed in the colors of Pouzauges. 30, Place de l’Eglise – 85700 Pouzauges (open Tuesday to Saturday morning)
- AT ESSARTS : Push the door of the store “the Fine Essartaise” in the city center of Les Essarts, to make your gift boxes, teas, coffees, chocolates… La Fine Essartaise – 2 rue G. Clemenceau – 85140 Les Essarts – Opening hours and news on Facebook
- IN MONTAIGU-VENDÉE : The Counter of the Dike in the town center of Montaigu offers a delicatessen shop: tea, chocolate, coffee, cheese, spirits, and organizes tasting workshops, cooking... Gift idea: to offer a gourmet gift voucher a cooking class!Open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 19 p.m. - https://lecomptoirdeladigue.com/ or even Le Potato Potato in Boufféré, to stock up on decoration gift ideas, delicatessen, bulk coffee... Open Monday to Saturday, ZA Bellevue in Boufféré.
- THE HERBIERS : Market Square, take a moment to push open the door of the tea room The Dessert Counter to taste the sweet pastries of the dessert Fabrik and a delicatessen shop, where you can find gift ideas for the end-of-year celebrations. Open from Wednesday to Sunday morning.
- CHANTONNAY : L'Instant Thé is a tea room with tastings of homemade pastries, a delicatessen shop with coffees, teas, local products, etc. located in a pretty, very well renovated town house. For the end of year celebrations, stock up on gift ideas. Open from Tuesday to Saturday, follow their Topicality
- MORAGNE-SUR-SEVRE : Les Mots Chocolat, a beautiful delicatessen shop in the town center of Mortagne sur Sèvre: coffees, teas, Christmas treats and of course chocolates! Open Tuesday to Saturday.
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