(Don't worry if you don't know what the Lanesborough or the Connaught are; you can't afford to stay in those hotels anyway.)So it's no surprise that this year's gift guide from Robb Report, a luxury publication that contains a lot of coverage of private jets, skews heavily toward the experiential. The list includes horseriding lessons from famed show jumper Jessica Springsteen, a trip to France to make your own Cognac blend, and a meal subscription service that provides truffles, caviar, suckling pigs, and live fish and shellfish—at $49,000 a year for quarterly deliveries meant to feed 15 to 20 people, it promises to be "less Blue Apron and more Marie Antoinette."Nothing is more piously time-consuming than an experience gift: something that you can do together, such as a transatlantic cruise on the Queen Mary 2 for a cherished friend who’s scared of flying, or a course with their favourite personal trainer at the Lanesborough. You might even, for a friend’s 50th birthday, give her 50 different experiences in the 50 days running up to the big day. And then, when your birthday came around, she would remember you once told her that, as a teenager, you really fancied a chef from Ready Steady Cook, then hire him for the night to rustle up a meal at the Connaught with six of your best friends.

