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Escape Monthly
Cost: $49.95/month (Full Size). $24.95/month (Escape Mini)
Ships To: United States and its territories.
Coupon Code: Use the coupon code “MYESCAPE” to score 20% off not only your first box, but all full-size boxes for the life of your subscription.
Yay! My October 2014 Escape Monthly Box is here! I was been anxiously awaiting this one since I saw the destination last month and was excited when it was out for delivery today.
If you aren’t familiar with them, Escape Monthly, which is $49.95/month, is a monthly vacation in a box. Each month you will discover products from a different location. Products consist off local and destination-inspired foods, relaxation and beauty essentials, and the highest quality products that bring the life of the destination right to you. They also offer an “Escape Mini” ($24.95/month) which contains 4 to 5 luxury, locally-made products and a travel brochure.
Escape Monthly ships via USPS Priority Mail. They are suppose to ship on the 20th of the month and since they ship via Priority Mail, they should arrive 2-3 days after that. I got my tracking notification for this one on the 20th, but I didn’t start seeing any movement on it until the 23rd.
Somehow I had yet to see any spoilers on this box. I looked yesterday and saw some on the Escape Mini, but none for the full-sized one.
The October 2014 Escape Monthly destination was “London” and included the following items:
~Rick Steves London Travel Guide ($8.21): I have never been to London, but it’s for sure on my list of places to go. They have a few different types of travel guides and I like these Rick Steves ones the best so far.
~Soapsmith 3-Piece London Soap Sampler ($8): This sampler includes 3 soap slices. They smell good, but are in the small side, so they will end up in a soap sack.
~Westminster Caddy of English Breakfast Tea ($8): I am not a fan of tea, but I expected that this box to include tea, so it’s not a huge surprise. I’ll give this to B or to my cousin to enjoy. I love the little tin it’s in though!
~Hill Custard Creams ($3): These are delicious! We all tried them today and love them. WB couldn’t get enough!
~Rush Hour Vibrant Dry Body Oil ($6.74): Luckily these both arrived sealed in individual zip lock bags because one of mine leaked. That would have been quite the mess! I’ve never tried this brand before so I am excited to try it and I will e-mail Escape Monthly and see if they will replace my leaky one.
~Walkers Nonsuch English Creamy Toffees ($4.50): These are also very good. I always like when they give us smaller individual pieces of candy so you don’t feel like you have to eat them all at once or they go to waste.
~London Diecast Taxi ($8): If I didn’t have kids I probably wouldn’t be as excited about this as I am. WB claimed it immediately and hasn’t let it out of his site yet. I believe some subscribers received a red double decker bus instead of the taxi and I am going to try and trade for that one too.
~Bonus: Corkers Natural British Crunch ($3): I think Sausage and Mustard chips sound pretty gross, but B doesn’t so these are all his! And watch, I will probably be surprised and love them.
All totaled I came up with a value of $49.45 for the October 2014 Escape Monthly box. I used current online prices for my values while Escape Monthly probably used retail prices in their calculation. I get the 20% discount and pay about $40/month so it was over the cost I paid for the box, however, I am not overly thrilled with this month. I feel like they could have done so much with London (and didn’t) and would have loved to see that full-size Organic Hand Lotion from Orico that was advertised as a bonus for new subscribers in my box!
What do you think of Escape Monthly this month? If you are interested in subscribing or just want to learn more, click here. You can use the code “MYESCAPE” to score 20% off not only your first box, but all your other boxes for the life of your subscription. That gets you a discount of $10/month on the regular box which is awesome (it doesn’t look like the code works on the Escape Mini)! The November destination is “Hawaii” which I am hoping I like more than these last few months boxes or I will probably end up switching to the “Mini” box and see how I like that one for a bit!
