This year’s BLOOM, Abbotsford Tulip Festival may be cancelled due to COVID-19 but organizers have found a safe and exciting way to ensure that at least a few people get to experience the popular springtime event. BLOOM organizers are offering the experience of a lifetime with a contest to give one lucky winner and members of their household a chance to enjoy millions of rainbow-coloured tulips completely to themselves!

Launching today is a social media contest on BLOOM’s Instagram page to win a prize package that includes up to three hours alone in the BLOOM tulip fields at anytime of the time of the winner’s choice, including the popular sunrise or sunset times. In addition, the winner will have the chance to fill their own bucket with as many tulips as they can pick during their visit to BLOOM!

To enter, “like” the contest post on BLOOM’s Instagram and follow @abbotsfordtulipfestival, plus tag one friend. Both receive entries. The winner will be chosen Friday April 24th and will be contacted by direct message. The winner can only attend the festival along with members within their own household. Prize must be redeemed by May 1st, 2020.

“We wanted to find a safe way to allow at least a few people from the same household onto the site to enjoy the tulips while still adhering to provincial COVID-19 guidelines. It will give us great joy to welcome the winner of this contest to BLOOM for this once in a lifetime experience.”

Alexis Szarek, founder of Bloom

Now in its fifth year, the annual festival has become one of the region’s most popular springtime events, attracting thousands of locals and international tulip lovers for a joyous celebration of natural splendour in a picture-perfect country setting. Unfortunately, this year the pandemic has forced the cancellation of the beloved festival but the tulips had already been planted and now through to early May, acres of fields are in full bloom creating a stunning display along HWY 1 near the Sumas exit in Abbotsford. The event remains closed to the public until the BLOOM 2021 season.

For further contest details visit www.abbotsfordfestival.ca. Select media interviews and site visits available upon request.

ABOUT BLOOM, THE ABBOTSFORD TULIP FESTIVAL
Located about an hour drive from Vancouver, BLOOM, The Abbotsford Tulip Festival is part the Fraser Valley’s Tulip Trail and was founded by Alexis Szarek (Warmerdam), a passionate third-generation Canadian tulip farmer. Now in its fifth year, BLOOM offers visitors a chance to witness a breathtaking techno-coloured display of over 2.5 million tulips in a beautiful country setting. BLOOM has attracted visitors from all over the world and is quickly becoming an annual must-see event. Alexis’ vision is to inspire appreciation for the splendor of the tulip season and give visitors a chance to get up close with over 40 varieties of tulips and enjoy some springtime fun in the country with their friends, family and colleagues. For more information visit, abbotsfordtulipfestival.ca.