Tourism
Silk Beverage Company is Giving Away a $5,000 Luxury Trip to Thailand
Too broke to take a summer vacation this year? How about a free trip to Phuket, Thailand?
Plant-based beverage brand Silk is giving away a luxury, all-expenses-paid trip for two to Thailand, where the company sources the coconuts used in it’s drinks.
The trip, worth $5,000, according to the company, includes airfare for two, five nights in a suite at luxury resort The Village on Coconut Island (a five-minute water taxi or long boat from Phuket) and $1,000 cash for spending money.
Coconut Island, just off the eastern coast of Phuket, has approximately 500 locals and is mainly a fishing and farming island, according to Phuket.com. It has rain forests and beautiful beaches.
The resort has a spa, a private beach, three restaurants, tennis courts, bikes and water sports like kayaking and sailing. Among several suggested activities, the winners can take cooking classes and get coconut-based spa treatments (like a coconut body scrub).
Through Sunday, June 16, aspiring travelers have a chance to convince the team over at Silk — the country’s biggest plant-based beverage brand — why they have deserve to win an all expenses paid getaway to the Southern Asian hotspot. 
Silk sources the coconuts for its Coconut milk from Thailand, giving the country a special meaning for the company.
Personally, Thailand has been one of the locations on my bucket list for a long time, which is why I was stoked when I found out that Silk will be supplying free airfare, a free hotel stay in Phuket, and a stipend for travel expenses for one individual and a guest.
The giveaway, called the ‘Silk Coconut Milk Voyage Giveaway’, includes flights, accommodations, daily activities and a travel stipend of up to $1000 for one lucky winner and is open between now and June 16.
If this sounds like the summer vacation of your dreams, here’s how to enter Silk’s Thailand trip giveaway to get in on this bucket list experience without spending a dime.
All you have to do is send an email to SilkCoconutmilkVoyage@gmail.com and explain why you deserve to win the trip in 150 words or less. Entries need to be sent by midnight on Sunday, June 16, 2019 and a winner will be announced on Friday, June 21.
One of South East Asia’s most popular travel destinations amongst US travelers, Thailand saw a record breaking 38.27 million tourists in 2018, a figure that’s expected to rise to 41.4 million foreign tourists in 2019 according to the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Sports.
