For the milestone end of that range, the details that decide whether the surprise works are mundane. Gate access first: Sun City and Sun City West neighborhoods, Westbrook Village, Ventana Lakes and Trilogy all use gatehouses or coded entries, and a gate code or a mobile number for a neighbor, an adult child or the party host converts a fifteen-minute standoff at a call box into a normal hand-off. Timing second: if you are surprising two people who live together, the only real trick is to have the delivery arrive when one of them is out, which in this corridor usually means a morning window while one half of the couple is at a rec-center class or a golf tee time. Vessel third, and this one is specific to the age-restricted map - if the anniversary is being marked in an assisted-living or memory-care community, glass is frequently prohibited outright and a low unbreakable container is a requirement rather than a preference. And if one spouse is in care and the other is at home, the kindest order is often two small arrangements rather than one large one, so there is something on both sides of that difficult arrangement.
The hotel side of an anniversary here runs on the Valley's geography rather than on Peoria's. Peoria's own lodging is mostly limited-service along Bell Road and around the Peoria Sports Complex and the P83 district on 83rd Avenue, and it books out in March when the Mariners and the Padres are in camp - if your anniversary falls in spring-training weeks, reserve early and expect the desk to be busy. For an anniversary night out, the couple is more often heading somewhere else in the metro, and the 60-mile radius reaches it: The Wigwam in Litchfield Park to the southwest, the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, The Phoenician in Scottsdale, Talking Stick Resort on the Salt River reservation, and the downtown Phoenix hotels near the ballpark and the arena. Hotel delivery has its own grammar, so put it on the order correctly: the reservation surname, the arrival date, and a mobile number. Never a room number - you will not have it and the hotel will not confirm it. Flowers are logged at the front desk or the bell stand and placed in the room by housekeeping when the room is ready, which means an in-room surprise needs a delivery earlier in the day than check-in, and that needs to be arranged as a request rather than assumed.
Restaurant delivery is the one anniversary request we talk people out of, and it is worth explaining why rather than just declining. Old Town Peoria, the P83 blocks by the Sports Complex, the Arrowhead cluster and Park West have plenty of places to take someone for an anniversary dinner, and a bouquet handed across a table at one of them looks wonderful in the imagination. In practice the restaurant has nowhere to store an arrangement, a host who has never heard of your reservation, and a driver arriving during a service rush; then the flowers ride home in a hot car. The versions that actually work: delivered to the house that afternoon so the couple leaves for dinner with the flowers already in a vase, or delivered to the hotel if they are staying over. Same for a Lake Pleasant boat day out of the marinas at the north end of the city, or a concert at State Farm Stadium or the Desert Diamond Arena over in Glendale - send to where they sleep, not to where they will be standing.