What Is the Lagos Gift Card?
The Lagos Gift Card is the city's first proper citywide gift card network. One digital card, accepted at over 200 participating restaurants, spas, hotels, beach clubs, boutiques and entertainment venues across Lagos. You buy it online, send it instantly by WhatsApp or email, and the recipient spends it wherever they want across the city.
This is not a voucher tied to one restaurant. It is not a loyalty points scheme. It is not a discount code. It is a proper citywide gift card — the kind that London, Manchester and New York have had for years, built for a city that has always deserved one more than anywhere.
Where Can You Spend It?
The short answer is: everywhere that matters in Lagos. The full network spans six categories across Victoria Island, Lekki, Ikoyi, and beyond.
Restaurants & Fine Dining covers the full spectrum — from rooftop dinners at Nok by Alara to vibrant lunch spots and upscale grill rooms. Spa & Wellness includes premium day spas, massage studios, float tanks and wellness centres. Hotels & Staycations covers everything from business hotels to boutique addresses perfect for a night away without leaving the city. Beach Clubs & Nightlife brings in Lagos's legendary beach culture — Landmark, Elegushi, Oniru and all the clubs that turn those beaches into parties after dark. Fashion & Retail supports Lagos's incredible local design scene, from established boutiques like Alara to emerging names. Entertainment includes everything from Terra Kulture and Freedom Park to the city's recreation venues and private clubs.
The common thread across all of it: the card works without friction. Walk in, show the QR code on your phone, confirm the spend, enjoy. Merchants settle daily. Recipients never need to download an app.
For the Diaspora: The Gift You've Been Waiting to Send
Buy in your currency. They receive it in Lagos. Spend at 200+ venues. No friction. No conversion maths. Just a gift that lands right.
Let's be honest about something. Sending money home is transactional. It says 'I thought about you' but it doesn't say 'I want you to have an experience.' The Lagos Gift Card changes that.
If you are in London, New York, Toronto, Dubai, or anywhere else in the world with someone you love in Lagos, you can now buy them a Lagos Gift Card in your local currency, and they receive it on their phone in seconds, ready to spend anywhere in the city.
For Detty December, this matters more than ever. The card is a way to be present in Lagos even when you can't be there yourself. Send your mum a spa day and a nice dinner. Send your friend the beach club night they've been talking about. Send your cousin enough for a proper Detty December experience. The card does what a money transfer can't — it gives the gift shape. It says: this is for an experience. This is for Lagos.
Detty December Just Got a Better Gift
We should talk about December. Not just because it is the obvious moment for this product — though it is — but because Detty December has become something genuinely remarkable in the global cultural calendar.
Millions of Nigerians in the diaspora fly home. Flights from London, Houston, Toronto and Dubai land in Lagos full of people who have been waiting all year for this. Corporate offices close or slow down. Families that have been scattered across time zones are suddenly in the same room, at the same table, on the same beach. Parties multiply. Restaurants are fully booked weeks in advance. The city hums at a frequency that is simply unlike any other time of year.
The Lagos Gift Card was built for this moment. Not just because gift-giving peaks in December — though it does — but because Lagos in December is the world's most electric city, and it deserves a gift that matches the energy.
Beach parties, headline concerts, exclusive pop-ups, fully-booked restaurants — the Detty December Card opens all of it.
Get the Detty December Card →For Companies: Replace the Hamper. Finally.
If you run a business in Lagos — or you manage people — you already know the annual December gift problem. The hamper logistics. The price negotiation with suppliers. The question of whether anyone actually wanted fruit cake and tinned tomatoes. The awkwardness of giving something expensive that nobody uses.
The Lagos Gift Card solves this completely. Buy in bulk, send digitally, let everyone choose their own experience. Your team member who loves food goes to dinner. The one who has been stressed all year books a spa day. The one who's been eyeing a new bag finally gets it. Same budget. Better outcomes. Zero logistics.
Corporate pricing starts at ₦10,000 per card with volume discounts available from 50 cards. Finance invoicing is supported. Custom branded messages are available for larger orders. The entire process — from order to delivery — happens in under 24 hours.
A Word on How It Actually Works
We want to be clear about the mechanics because they matter. The Lagos Gift Card is not a transfer. It is not a voucher tied to a single merchant. It is a proper citywide gift card network.
When a recipient wants to spend, they open their card on their phone and show the QR code at the merchant. The merchant's staff confirms the amount on a simple web portal — no new hardware, no integration required. The balance updates instantly. Settlement hits the merchant's bank account daily.
The card never expires. The balance rolls over indefinitely. It can be spent in full in one visit or split across dozens of merchants over months. There are no hidden fees. The face value of the card is exactly what the recipient gets to spend.
Lagos Deserves This
There is something that has always felt slightly off about the fact that a city this electric, this generous, this culturally rich — a city that has produced everything from Afrobeats to billion-dollar startups — has never had a proper gift card.
London has one. Manchester has one. Canterbury, Harrogate, Bath — places a fraction of the size and a fraction of the cultural weight — all have city gift cards that local businesses and residents are proud of. Lagos, the most exciting city on the continent, has had nothing.
The Lagos Gift Card changes that. It is the city's card, finally. For the people who live here, who come home for December, who want to give something that matches the scale and energy of the place. One card. Every experience Lagos has.