Looking for a fun stocking stuffer or Secret Santa gift for a travel lover? This gift guide is filled with the best gifts you can buy for less than $20 so you can look like a gifting rock star without blowing your budget!
Gifts for Women Under $20
1. Travel Journal For Women
This is the perfect gift for Type A travel personalities and those who need to keep all of their thoughts in one place or they will lose them. With this Travel Journal, she can create a bucket list, plan and record flight, hotel and transportation details and record her memories from the trip.
2. “You Make the World a Better Place” Cuff Bracelet
Do you want her to know that she’s your world? This stainless steel cuff bracelet is the perfect gift. With the message on the inside, your words can stay close to her throughout her day.
Gift him something useful and fashionable with these fun Travel Series Casual Socks. Choose from a variety of different destination themes, and remind him of all the fun you’ve had together.
Don’t let his shave cream ruin the inside of his suitcase ever again by gifting him this Vintage Leather Travel Toiletry Bag. It’s sturdy and ready for many travels to come.
Yes, you could buy a travel journal for the man in your life to fill out himself, but perhaps it would be more meaningful to write in this fill-in-the-blank journal yourself and let him take it with him on his next trip. The prompts are super easy and don’t take much time at all to fill out. The book sells for less than $10 and doesn’t take a lot of time to read either. It will be a keepsake that will keep you with him no matter how far he travels!
Learn more about the states and pass the time while traveling by asking each other up to 10 questions to guess the state on the Game Card. This fun (and educational) game is great for any age and can be played with 2-6 players.
This electronic game is fun for the whole family but simple enough for little ones. Just start the music and pass the potato, but don’t get caught holding the spud when the music stops!
Kids can travel their imaginations with this Lego City Holiday Camper Van. It has everything they need to create a memorable family vacation, including a mini kitchenette inside the camper and mini food to play with.
Kids ask a million questions. We love this awesome book because it has 1,111 answers! Pack it for that long road trip and let your older kids teach the family something new!
The kids will love having this book of Awesome Factsthat they can bring along on their next road trip or travel adventure. The book contains 5,000 facts!
We think it’s so important to empower girls to believe in themselves. This is a great coloring bookwith positive messages on every page that will keep girls occupied on long road trips. It’s aimed at younger girls, but we know plenty of tween and teen girls who could benefit from its message too!
Encourage your young travelers to follow their dreams with this beautiful Explorer Bracelet! It comes with a drawstring cord for easy sizing and a poem card that’s perfect for gifting!
Gift kids a present they can enjoy now and keep with them as a memory forever with this Interactive Travel Diary and Journal. It includes prompted pages to get your kids writing and drawing about their adventures, as well as stickers, places to keep photos and postcards to send.
This would pair well with that tea sampler set. The plug-in warming base and cute Mickey Mouse mug would come in handy at the office, at home, in a hotel – you name it.
Disney Mickey Mouse Mug Warmer. Photo courtesy of Amazon.
16. Mickey Mouse Hardcover Journal with Lined Pages
Know someone with big ideas like Walt Disney himself? This Mickey Mouse Hardcover Journal makes a perfect gift for anyone who wants to keep their thoughts or “next big idea” in one meaningful place.
Kim Orlando, founder of SheBuysTravel, is a lifelong traveler, an entrepreneur and a sought-after social media and marketing consultant. She has made hundreds of appearances on TV and in digital and print media, sharing advice and tips built on decades of travel experiences.
Hailing from the hills of Kentucky and taking her story to New York, Los Angeles, and beyond, Kim built an online platform, the original TravelingMom, that has reached millions of moms and empowered them to explore the world with their families. Today, TravelingMom has evolved into SheBuysTravel.
Kim has been featured on “News Nation,” “Today,” “Good Morning America” and on numerous satellite media tours. She has contributed travel guidance to outlets including The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and more. (Read more about Kim’s media appearances here)
Her travel mantra is simple: All travel counts.
“You don’t have to go far. Leaving your home is travel,” Kim says. “Wherever you go, even just to the next town over, you can learn something new, see someone and something you haven’t seen before.
“It’s good for the brain and good for the soul.”
An epiphany in early parenthood started Kim on the journey that led to SheBuysTravel. She’d been a fan of a newsletter for women travelers, and she saw an opportunity. “I thought something like that for moms could be extraordinarily helpful,” she said. “I was traveling for work, traveling for fun, and I was looking for support.”
That seed grew into the award-winning website TravelingMom, created as a resource for traveling families of all stripes. Today, TravelingMom has evolved into SheBuysTravel, with an expanded mission to serve women travelers at any stage of life.
Millions of readers have visited the site for trip planning help, travel secrets, destination information and gear recommendations. What sets SheBuysTravel’s content apart, Kim says, is its foundation in real-world experience.
“Our writers and editors have actually gone out there and done this stuff,” she says. “They’ve booked the flights, tried the tour, tested travel clothing, visited that new hot spot to see if it’s worth the hype. It’s all real.”
Memorable Adventures
A 2022 tour Kim guided to Bhutan was a particularly standout experience. “Bhutan sounds so exotic, of course,” she said. “But the part where my heart just glows and warms is thinking of the people we met – amazing women doing amazing things in Bhutan.” Their ranks included a former police officer whose ventures into food science helped mitigate food insecurity for residents of Bhutan’s highlands.
Top Tips
Planning for travel can be daunting, Kim acknowledges. “I always say: Go anyway. No trip is going to be perfect. There’s always going to be something you didn’t expect, something that doesn’t go the way you pictured or planned it. And that something is what’s going to make it a great trip.”
And on a practical note: “Go early! Getting to the airport or hitting the road just an hour earlier relieves so much stress.”
Kim’s Background
Kim, a graduate of the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, holds degrees in finance and entrepreneurship and has deep experience in developing and running businesses. Her previous work includes developing and running communications workshops and overseeing document management for corporations.
SheBuysTravel hits a sweet spot where Kim’s two loves of travel and entrepreneurship meet. “The longer I work in this field, I only want to do more,” she says. “I find the travel world so exciting – not just the trips, but the whole online world of travel. There are still so many opportunities.”
The World Awaits
“The ‘best trip ever’ probably won’t be the same for an empty-nester or mom of three versus a single woman celebrating a bachelorette party with her friends,” Kim says. “We want to keep it real for traveling women, no matter what their age, life stage, where they came from or where they’re going.
“We want to inspire women to travel in any shape or form.”
In her free time, Kim enjoys visiting her adult kids, creating trips and traveling with her BFFs to explore the world. Her most recent adventures can be found on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
