Grandparents Day Gift Guide · Sunday, September 13
The frame, the candle, the mug with the year on it: they have those. What they do not have is a reason to try the new place on the corner. Give a Experience Essex Card, good at over 30 independent businesses around Ivoryton. Then go with them.
Not money, and not another object for the shelf. A morning at the diner, a browse through the bookshop, coffee that turns into an hour.
over 30 independent businesses in Ivoryton. Their pick, not your guess.
What they spend goes to the Ivoryton businesses they already walk past, not to a national chain.
These Ivoryton businesses accept the Experience Essex Card. Let them decide which one.
The diner, the bakery counter, the coffee place around Ivoryton where nobody rushes you out.
Food & Dining
107 Main Street, Essex, Connecticut, 06442
Food & Dining
10 Westbook Rd, Centerbrook, Connecticut, 06409
Food & Dining
5 Main St, Centerbrook, Connecticut, 06409
Food & Dining
5 No. Main St, Essex, Connecticut, 06426
Food & Dining
6 Main St, Essex, Connecticut, 06426
Food & Dining
55 Main St, Essex, Connecticut, 06409
Bookshops, antique stores, garden centers. The kind of browse that fills an afternoon.
Retail
33 Main St, Centerbrook, Connecticut, 06409
Retail
47 Main St, Essex, Connecticut, 06426
Retail
23 Main St, Ste B, Essex, Connecticut, 06426
Shopping
104 Main Street, Ivoryton, Connecticut, 06442
Retail
1 N Main St, Essex, Connecticut, 06426
Retail
17 Main St, Essex, Connecticut, 06426
Museums, galleries, a show around Ivoryton. Better as a plan than as a package.
The barber, the salon, a wellness stop close to home. Time that is theirs.
Pick the delivery date during checkout and set it for Sunday, September 13, so a Experience Essex Card is waiting in their inbox that morning.
Pick the amount that feels right.
Say where you two should go.
Delivered by email, or print it to hand over. No shipping, no wrapping.
National Grandparents Day falls on the first Sunday after Labor Day, which makes it Sunday, September 13 in 2026. It has been a federal observance in the U.S. since 1978.
The Experience Essex Card is accepted at over 30 independent businesses in Ivoryton: restaurants, cafés, bakeries, shops, and salons. They pick where and when.
Then this is probably the wrong gift for them, and it is worth saying so plainly. The Experience Essex Card is redeemable only at local businesses in Ivoryton, so it suits someone who lives in or regularly visits the area. A grandparent who visits now and then can spend it on this trip. Unused balances can incur inactivity fees: a $3.00 fee will be deducted monthly starting on the 1st day after 12 consecutive months without card usage.
Choose an amount, add a note, and send it by email, or print it to hand over in person. Nothing ships.
Yes. Pick the delivery date during checkout and set it for Sunday, September 13.
Often that is exactly who buys it. It works the same way in that direction, as long as the grandchild is close enough to spend it at businesses in Ivoryton.
E-delivery fees vary by community, and some communities cover them. Whatever applies to your order is shown at checkout before you pay, alongside the card amount and your total.
A Experience Essex Card they can spend at over 30 independent Ivoryton businesses. Sent by email. Spent down the street.
Buy a Experience Essex Card
