Terms of use
Last updated October 2026
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Official rules · version 2026-10
The Dream Escape Giveaway
No purchase necessary. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning. Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, 18 or older. Void where prohibited. These rules govern the draw that closes at 12:00 ET on 26 November 2026; each monthly draw is a separate promotion with its own period.
1. Sponsor
Vacation Trip Deals (“Sponsor”), [registered business name and postal address — to be inserted before the draw]. Questions and mail-in entries: hello@davidtravel30.com.
2. Eligibility
Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 or older at the time of entry. Employees, officers, contractors and immediate family or household members of the Sponsor, its prize suppliers and their advertising agencies are not eligible. One entry per person per draw; additional entries are void except for bonus entries earned under section 4. Winner may be required to prove age and residency.
3. Promotion period
Entries open at 09:00 ET on 1 November 2026 and close at 12:00 ET on 26 November 2026. The drawing takes place at 12:00 ET on 26 November 2026, or as soon afterwards as is practicable. Entries received after the close are void. The Sponsor’s clock is the one that counts.
4. How to enter
(a) Online. Visit vacationtripdeals.com/giveaways, choose one of the trips shown, enter your email address, confirm that you are 18 or older, and submit. You will be sent a confirmation email; your entry counts only once you click the link in it. Entries that are not confirmed are not eligible.
(b) Referral bonus entries. After confirming, you receive a personal link. Each friend who enters through that link and confirms their own email earns you three (3) bonus entries, up to a maximum of ten (10) bonus entries per draw. Bonus entries are awarded only for confirmed entries and may be withheld if the Sponsor reasonably suspects fraud or automated signups.
(c) Free mail-in entry. See section 5. No referral, email address or purchase is required.
5. Free alternative method of entry (AMOE)
To enter without going online and receive the same ten (10) bonus entries: hand-print your name, postal address, email address (or the words “no email”) and the trip you would choose on a 4×6 inch card, and mail it in an envelope with sufficient postage to: Dream Escape Giveaway, the Sponsor’s postal address in section 1. One card per outer envelope. Cards must be postmarked by 20 November 2026 and received by 27 November 2026. Mechanically reproduced entries are void. The Sponsor is not responsible for late, lost, illegible or postage-due mail. Mail-in entries earn the same ten bonus entries as the maximum referral award and are entered in the same drawing.
6. Prize
One (1) prize per draw: $2,500 in travel credit. Approximate retail value (“ARV”): $2,500. The credit is redeemable toward a booking of any offer published on vacationtripdeals.com at the time of redemption, booked through the Sponsor’s operator links, subject to the operator’s availability, terms and conditions.
The credit expires twelve (12) months after it is awarded. It is not transferable, not redeemable for cash, and may not be substituted except by the Sponsor, which may substitute a prize of equal or greater value if the advertised prize becomes unavailable. Any amount above $2,500 — including taxes, fees, upgrades, transfers and a second traveller — is the winner’s responsibility and is paid directly to the operator. The credit is not a booking contract; the operator’s terms govern the booking.
7. Odds
Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. The Sponsor does not publish or imply odds, and no purchase or referral improves them beyond the bonus entries described in section 4.
8. Winner selection
The winner is selected in a random drawing from all eligible entries, weighted by each entrant’s total entries (one, plus any bonus entries). The eligible list is exported and hashed before the drawing so it cannot be altered afterwards. The drawing is performed with a verifiable random method — a third-party random draw or a recorded random number generator — and one (1) alternate is drawn at the same time. The Sponsor’s decisions are final.
9. Notification and claim
The potential winner is notified by email at the address used to enter within 48 hours of the drawing, with up to two attempts. They have five (5) business days to respond. If they do not respond, decline the prize, or are found ineligible, the prize is forfeited and the alternate is notified. Before the credit is released the winner must sign an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release and (where lawful) a Publicity Release within ten (10) days, and provide a completed IRS Form W-9.
10. Taxes
The winner is solely responsible for all federal, state and local taxes on the prize. The Sponsor will issue an IRS Form 1099 for any prize with an ARV of $600 or more, which is why a W-9 is required before the credit is released. The credit is not grossed up for taxes.
11. Publicity
Acceptance of the prize constitutes permission for the Sponsor to use the winner’s first name, last initial, city and state, likeness and the trip they booked in connection with this promotion, without additional compensation, where permitted by law. The winner may decline the photo and quote; the prize is not conditional on either.
12. Privacy
Information collected to administer the promotion is used for that purpose and, where you agreed, to send the deal email. It is handled as described in our privacy policy. Entry records are kept for 24 months after the draw; winner and tax records for seven years. You may ask us to delete an entry at any time; a deleted entry is removed from the drawing.
13. Limitation of liability
The Sponsor is not responsible for technical failures, interrupted connections, late, lost or misdirected mail, or for any act, omission, cancellation, delay or travel disruption caused by an operator, airline, hotel or cruise line. The prize is travel credit, not a booking, and does not create any contract of carriage. To the extent permitted by law, the Sponsor’s total liability is limited to the ARV of the prize.
14. Disputes
These rules are governed by the laws of the state in which the Sponsor is registered, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes are resolved individually; entrants waive any right to participate in a class action, to the extent permitted by law. Some states do not allow certain waivers, in which case the remainder of these rules still applies.
15. General
If fraud, technical failure or anything else compromises the integrity of the promotion, the Sponsor may cancel, suspend or modify it, and will say publicly why. These rules are governed by the laws stated above and are void where prohibited. This promotion is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Meta, Google, TikTok, X, or any cruise line, hotel or tour operator named on this site.
16. Winners list
Winners are published at vacationtripdeals.com/giveaways within 48 hours of each drawing, with the winner’s permission. You may also request the list by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Sponsor’s postal address in section 1 by 26 January 2027.
Version 2026-10. The prize is deliberately set at $2,500 — below the $5,000 threshold at which some states require registration and bonding. Any change to the prize or the entry mechanic requires these rules to be re-issued.