Win an unforgettable mystery trip for two!
Win a Mystery Trip – We Don’t Know Where Yet, But We’re Going!
How to participate?
- Subscribe to the Valco newsletter by September 30, 2025 (and preferably stay subscribed afterward too).
- Wait for the draw, which will take place on October 1, 2025 (or the next day we’re sober).
- The winner will be notified by email – sent to the same address used to subscribe to the newsletter.
That’s it! No complicated forms, no tedious postage stamp licking. As easy as forgetting your passport at home.
How much is this prize worth?
Well, “up to thousands of euros”! The exact amount depends on how well our marketing team can negotiate the budget with the boss.
But we promise you this: The trip will be unforgettable – and you’ll have excellent slideshow material to bore your friends with for years to come.
Mandatory Disclaimer
The winner is fully responsible for their own insurance, crimes, and vaccinations.
We take no responsibility if you end up having to explain to a customs officer why your colon is full of Kinder Surprise egg shells.
Valco is organizing the ultimate mystery trip – because someone has to do it!
We sometimes find ourselves reading old men's magazines - because they don't make new ones. They were full of legendary reader trips – the kind of trips where you’d end up either in the Reeperbahn, in Pattaya, or occasionally even in Gambia. There was always a story to tell and a suspiciously large amount of sunscreen involved.
Then we stopped and thought: WHY don’t they organize these epic reader trips anymore? Where are the brave adventurers who set off into the unknown, equipped only with a poorly packed suitcase and highly questionable preconceptions about the destination?
We realized: If no one’s organizing reader trips anymore, we’ll have to do it ourselves.
For a moment, we dreamed about chartering a whole plane and throwing a week-long party somewhere chaotic. But then someone smarter reminded us that we can’t afford that. We’d probably end up with only two passengers (our company reps) and the company would be bankrupt before the first mojito was even ordered.
So, we came up with a compromise: we’re raffling off one trip!
Of course, we had to think about the destination. We wanted it to be fun (and not too bankruptcy-inducing). At first, we thought about traditional destinations, but then the question popped up:
"What if the winner is from Berlin, and the prize trip is to... Berlin?"
So, we decided that the destination will be a surprise – for us too!
Based on the winner’s home location, we’ll choose somewhere that’s at least 500 kilometers away and abroad. That way, every trip is a true adventure, and not just a local bus ride to the neighboring town.
The trip will also include a Valco representative who has never been to this destination and is thus completely useless as a tour guide. But that’s part of the charm of the adventure!
Are you ready for the adventure?
If you’re not yet, don’t worry – we’re not either. But that has never stopped us before! So, subscribe to the newsletter, win the trip, and join us on an adventure where absolutely no one knows anything about it beforehand. But isn’t that exactly the best part?
If you’re already a subscriber, you’re automatically entered into the draw!
Raffle rules
1. Organizer
The draw is organized by Valco Oy (hereinafter referred to as "the organizer").
2. Participation Period
You can enter the draw by subscribing to the Valco newsletter by September 30, 2025.
3. Participation
To participate, simply subscribe to the Valco newsletter during the participation period. That’s it! No need to fill out forms or answer deep existential questions like “What is your ultimate travel dream?” (Spoiler: It’s this trip.).
The draw is open to all natural persons aged 18 or over who reside within the European Union and hold citizenship of an EU country. Each participant may enter only once and can win only one prize.
Employees of Valco Oy and their family members are not eligible to win – even if they present very convincing arguments as to why they absolutely deserve to go on this trip.
4. Prize
Among all those who subscribe to the newsletter by September 30, 2025, one mystery trip for two will be raffled:
- The prize includes travel, accommodation, and meals (within reason – no daily lobster feasts).
- The destination will be determined based on the winner’s home location and must be at least 500 kilometers away in a foreign country.
- The winner may bring one travel companion of their choice (a friend, spouse, father-in-law – it’s up to you!).
- The trip will also include a Valco representative, who has probably never been to the destination and has highly questionable travel expertise.
The prize cannot be exchanged for cash or swapped for another destination.
So if you win, you’re going – whether you like it or not.
The organizer will cover any applicable lottery taxes, but all other costs (such as travel insurance and vaccinations) are the winner’s responsibility. Because let’s be honest – none of us want to be responsible if you end up in Siberia without winter clothes.
5. Draw, Winner Notification, and Prize Redemption
The draw will take place on October 1, 2025, and the winner will be personally notified by email – sent to the same address used to subscribe to the newsletter.
The winner must confirm receipt of the prize and provide the necessary details to the organizer so that travel arrangements can begin (and so we can verify that you actually exist).
If the winner does not respond within a reasonable time (7 days), the organizer reserves the right to draw a new winner.
6. Personal Data
The personal data of participants will be used exclusively for conducting the draw, notifying the winner, and making travel arrangements.
The data will be processed by Valco’s subcontractor on their encrypted servers located either in the EU or in the United States (a.k.a. "the cloud").
After the prize draw, all personal data provided for the trip will be deleted and will not be used for any other purposes without the explicit consent of the participant.
For more information, you can read our privacy policy on the Valco website.
7. Responsibilities
The winner of the prize releases Valco Oy from all liability that may arise, may not arise, or is claimed to have arisen from participating in the draw, claiming the prize, or using it.
In other words: If you get kidnapped and served as the main course at a cannibal wedding, or you accidentally become a local dictator’s sex toy, that’s not on us.
The organizer does not guarantee the following:
- That the mystery destination will be pleasant.
It could be a tropical paradise where you lounge in a sun chair – or it could also be Puolanka. - That the weather will be favorable or the place interesting.
- That the local food will be edible.
If the only things on the menu are snake meat and cholera-infested soup, we are not responsible. - That our tour guide (the Valco representative) will be in any way useful or pleasant.
Responsibilities (continued)
It is the traveler’s sole responsibility to ensure that they are prepared for everything possible – and also everything completely impossible.
That means, for example:
- That you have every possible and impossible vaccination and preventive medication. We take no responsibility if, after 10 days, you notice that a small, itchy bite on your leg has started speaking Russian to you.
- That you get travel insurance. This trip could take you to an exotic luxury destination – or the middle of the Sahara with no clear exit strategy. Travel insurance is especially handy if you somehow end up in a local soap opera as an unwilling supporting character or find yourself competing in a camel race with zero prior experience.
- That you bring a good attitude. Because this is (probably) not your average Tallinn booze cruise but an adventure where anything is possible – except the certainty that everything will go as planned.
Responsibilities (continued)
By entering the draw, you accept these rules and confirm that you are brave enough to embark on a surprise trip into the unknown, because no one – not even we – know where you’ll end up.
The organizer reserves the right to laugh in good spirits if your trip takes you somewhere you never expected to go.
The organizer also reserves the right to advertise this as an epic, life-threatening adventure – and then, out of pure laziness, just book you a caravan spot at the Puolanka camping site.
(But hey, if you’ve never been to Puolanka, isn’t that basically like traveling abroad?)
Or maybe we’ll actually send you somewhere really cool. It all depends on the gods of the marketing budget. The more people subscribe to the newsletter, the more money we’ll have to spend.
Going on this trip is entirely at your own risk.
We promise only one thing:
This will be a story you’ll still be telling in the nursing home – if you survive!