Holiday Gift Guide – Review and Giveaway: Flora2000.com

Gift Guide Category: Gifts For The Home, Gifts For Women

Let’s face it, when it comes to sending flowers – for the holidays or any other reason, we moms tend to be the ones doing the ordering. But there’s nothing that quite dresses up the table like a beautiful bouquet or basket, especially at Christmas dinner or on other special occasions. And there’s nothing quite like the pick-me-up feeling that you get when you receive flowers, no matter who from. 

I recently had the opportunity to send flowers using the service at Flora2000.com and am happy to be able to offer the same chance to a couple of you as well (see below)!

What they are:

Flora2000 is the only online floral service to provide same day international flower delivery to over 150 countries. And unlike other floral delivery services, Flora2000 only charges a customer’s credit card after delivery is received. If a mistake on an order is made, they offer a 100% refund plus free replacement delivery as well.

Flora2000 puts a premium on customer service. Delivery success rates are near 100% and Flora2000′s ‘Live Chat’ phone service allows customers to speak with a ‘live’ floral professional 24/7 to answer everything from the status of an order to how to select the right flower for any occasion.

Working with a network of the finest florists across the globe, Flora2000 sends the freshest, most premium flowers at the best prices to the U.S., Canada, U.K., Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, India, Australia, and more. Customers can view online catalogs designed for each of the 150 countries Flora2000 delivers to and then choose from more than 3,000 floral arrangements.

Once an order is placed at Flora2000.com, it is routed to a professional florist located nearest to the delivery designation, who creates and delivers your flowers, ensuring that special hometown touch with each order. Your recipient even gets a follow up call to make sure they were happy with the arrangement!

Here’s my take on them:

I had the opportunity to place an order for flowers right before Thanksgiving last month. Not needing to send any flowers internationally, I chose to send them to my Mother-in-Law, since we were going to be visiting there for Thanksgiving dinner and I could see for myself how the flowers looked. Besides, I thought they would make a lovely centerpiece for dinner as well.

I chose a very autumn-themed basket, called ‘Autumn Festivities. I liked the array of bright colors and the variety of blooms included and thought it would be very well received:This arrangement is described as: “highlighting the beauty of the season with fresh autumn flowers and foliage skillfully designed and coordinated in fabulous fall colors”.

I scheduled the delivery for the day before Thanksgiving and was happy to receive a call from my Mother-in-Law that day thanking me for the arrangement. And I was thrilled to see the basket on her table the next day when we went up to visit:

The brilliant colors were just truly gorgeous and I was happy to see that the basket was extremely close to what I had ordered. In fact, I think it was even prettier than the picture on the website.

My Mother-in-Law did mention that the delivery driver had to call to get specific directions – but they live out in the middle of nowhere (literally) and most delivery personnel have a hard time finding them. She was very happy with the service, and I was extremely happy with them as well. I’d received e-mails updating me on the progress of the delivery as well as making sure that I was satisfied afterward – it’s clear that they take customer service very seriously, which is wonderful to see.

The bottom line:

Flora2000.com offers beautiful floral arrangements to a wide variety of countries beyond the US. Ordering from the site was very easy and the arrangement arrived exactly when it was supposed to. Consider using Flora2000.com for all of your floral needs, both during the holidays and beyond.

Where can you find them?:

The site is located at http://www.flora2000.com. Prices for flower arrangements vary, but there is quite a good assortment for under $45. You can search the site by occasion or by price, and there are currently quite a few beautiful holiday arrangements available.

Would you like to try them?:

If you are interested in trying out the Flora2000.com service for yourself, I have two coupon codes, each good for a $50 order on the site, available for two lucky readers! If you’d like to either dress up your holiday table or use it for another occasion (the codes expire on Jan. 31st 2009, so don’t wait too long), here are the rules:

1. Enter by checking out Flora2000.com and leaving a comment here to tell me the what your favorite floral arrangement is (other than the one shown above). Please don’t just say ‘choose me’, or your entry will be discarded.
2. The contest will run until Monday, December 29th at 11:59 pm EST. The winners will be selected through random drawing, contacted by e-mail, listed on this post and also submitted to PRIZEY.Fetch. This giveaway is open to the US only.
3. Please leave a valid e-mail address or other way to contact you! If you don’t wish to leave your e-mail address, please make sure that you leave a unique name and check back with PRIZEYWinners to see if you won. If either of the winners haven’t responded within 3 days, an alternate winner will be chosen by random drawing.
4. If you’d like extra entries, you can:

• Subscribe to my RSS feed (click on the orange icon in the upper right sidebar) or subscribe via e-mail – leave me a separate comment to let me know.
• Mention this contest on your blog with a link back to this post, and leave a separate comment with the link to your post so I can find it.
• Put the button for my Holiday Gift Guide on your blog’s sidebar – the code for it is in the sidebar.
• Either Twitter about, ‘Stumble’, ‘Digg’ or ‘Kirtsy’ this post – leave me a separate comment with your username at whichever site you chose (one extra entry).

So that’s a total of 5 comments/entries if you do all of the extra entry options.

Good luck! 

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – the random number generator has chosen comments #214 and #72 as the winners:

Congratulations to:

• Becky Grayson (no blog) who said, “I am a daisy girl so I really love the Gerbera Daisies Bouquet. I have just started keeping a fresh flower bouquet on my dining table and it really brightens up the room and house. Thanks so much!“
• Darlene Alexander (no blog) who said, “I love the Winter Amaryllis because it’s refreshing to see something growing in Wisconsin in the winter.“!

I will be e-mailing both of you shortly to work out the details.