Microsoft Is Giving Away Some Very Pretty Adventure Holidays
Microsoft wants to know why you're anything but ordinary.
To promote the recently released Surface Pro 6 and Surface Laptop 2, Microsoft is running a competition to give away “anything but ordinary” trips to some very attractive but inherently inhospitable areas in Australia and New Zealand (Avril Lavigne soundtrack not included).
The first is a trip for two to New Zealand’s 13km Fox Glacier, AKA Te Moeka o Tuawe, between November 30 and December 4. The adventure includes a helicopter ride, an ice climb, an overnight stay at Chancellor’s Hut, and a cooked meal once you arrive at said hut, which I imagine would be equally as exciting as everything else after the trek there.
The second trip is a stay for two at the Wolfe Creek Meteor Crater in Western Australia, known as Kandimalal to Indigenous people, from December 6 to 11. At 880m across, it is a 200m walk to the top to peer into one of the largest craters in the world. Wolfe Creek also the setting of 2005 Australian horror film Wolf Creek, so pop that on to check out what you might be in for.
If beautiful mountains of ice or serial killers aren’t your thing, the third trip is to Lake Gairdner, a 160km-long salt lake in South Australia. The fourth largest salt lake in Australia, the salt can reportedly get to 1.2m thick in some places. I haven’t been able to find out if you’re allowed to lick it.
Though the terms and conditions of the competition currently make no mention of Lake Gairdner, we’ve been told that this is because exact dates are still being confirmed. The trip will take place some time in February or March next year, and the terms and conditions will be updated once the dates are solidified.
Microsoft selected these atypical destinations under the reasoning that both they and Microsoft’s Surface products “give guests an unexpected and stunning experience that stands out from the crowd,” according to Karen Paterson from Microsoft.
To win one of these experiences, Microsoft would rather you be anything but ordinary, please. Head to the Surface Australia Facebook page and tell them in 25 words or less what makes you anything but ordinary. The competition closes this Sunday on November 25, so get on it fast!