What’s the most impressive scam you’ve seen while traveling? What are the ways to avoid pitfalls?

Travel is a trap. If you can avoid this trap, you can't avoid any trap. If you cheat you for a few hundred yuan, you are not a cheat. If you don't cheat you for $8,000, you are lucky.

Tell me about my experience of being deceived. I traveled to Zhangjiajie in July last year. When I signed the travel contract, I was afraid of being deceived. I read the contract terms repeatedly and asked the tour guide if transportation expenses were included. The tour guide said that it was included. , then I can sign with confidence.

Take a tour bus to Zhangjiajie in the afternoon. When we arrived in Zhangjiajie in the evening, the tour guide said that the transportation in the contract is for transportation outside the scenic area, excluding minor transportation fees within the scenic area. The Zhangjiajie scenic area is particularly large and has small transportation lines. It's quite long. Those who want to take the light traffic will pay 180 yuan per person. Those who don't want to take the light traffic can just follow the small traffic route. The scenery along the way is very beautiful.

You must take public transportation when traveling in a group, which is said to be voluntary but actually compulsory. If you don’t take public transportation, you can’t keep up with the tour group, so you have no choice but to pay 180 yuan per person. When I came back from traveling and chatted with my friends, I realized that there is no charge for small transportation in the Zhangjiajie scenic area, and it is included in the ticket. The tour guide deceived us and charged us an extra 180 yuan. There were more than 30 people in our tour group, and each person 180 is more than 5,000 yuan.

I stayed at a private hotel in Wulingyuan that night. At nine o'clock, someone knocked gently on the door twice, and after a while, I knocked twice again, which alerted me. I was traveling alone, and I was alone in the room. The tour guide would call me if something happened, but no one came to see me except the tour guide. I pretended not to hear and continued to watch TV. The next night, at about nine o'clock, the door was gently knocked twice, and I pretended it was nothing and continued to watch TV.

On the third day in the car leaving Wulingyuan, the tour guide kindly reminded the tourists to pay attention to safety in the accommodation. He said that he received a call from a tourist in the middle of the night last night. There was a dispute between the tourist and the massage girl, and he asked me to handle it. After mediation and negotiation, the problem was solved for 500 yuan.

It was then that I suddenly realized that the person who knocked on my door was the masseur. Fortunately, I didn’t open the door. When I opened the door, I was alone in the room. I must be the one being ripped off. I couldn’t afford to lose 500 yuan. What about that person?

Only the tour guide knows that I live in a private room. How did the masseuse know that I live in a private room? Otherwise, the tourism market is too sophisticated and there are traps at every step. They are all traps for you. Avoid this trap. I can't avoid a trap, and I'll kill you without any discussion.

I traveled to Yunnan on New Year's Day in 2013. On the day I arrived in Dali, we encountered a heavy snowfall that had not happened in ten years. The next day's trip was to Lijiang, and I couldn't start after eating breakfast.

After a while, the tour guide came out and said that heavy snow had closed the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain yesterday. Many tourists were tied up under the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and could not get out. The government took rescue measures overnight and the highway from Dali to Lijiang was closed. I don’t know when it will be opened. Lijiang The tour can only be cancelled. Dali is not bad. I will take you to spend two more days in Dali. Unfortunately, we encountered irresistible natural factors and the tourists were at the mercy of the tour guide.

The tour guide took us to visit shopping stores in Dali for two days. He tried every means to induce us to shop, but no one bought. The tour guide was so angry that he almost cursed us. We spent the money to go to Lijiang. It was unlucky enough not to go to Lijiang. I was tricked by a tour guide into a shopping store and almost forced to do shopping. You can tell me how shady this tour guide is and how little conscience he has.

Two days later we arrived in Xishuangbanna. During the tour, we accidentally asked the tourists who came from Lijiang and found out that the road was closed for less than an hour due to heavy snow that day, and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Cableway was stopped for an hour. This was not what the tour guide said at all. What's going on? The tour guide said the snow was so serious that he wouldn't let us go to Lijiang and stranded us in Dali to trick us into shopping. How evil is this tour guide? He was so wicked. He almost forced us to shop at knifepoint. .

The year before last, I drove to Changbai Mountain, but the car was not allowed to go to the gate. I charged 38 yuan for a small transportation fee per person and sent it to the gate. After entering the scenic spot, I paid 80 yuan for a small transportation fee and drove to Tianchi. Unexpectedly, I arrived at the station halfway. Well, I asked how to get there so far away. The driver said there was a bus. After getting on the bus and driving for less than ten minutes, he started collecting money. It was 85 yuan per person. The tourist said he had already paid 80 yuan just now. Why should he pay again? The first half of the payment he just paid , we charged the second half, but had no choice but to pay another 85 yuan. I had to back up twice and three times and charge a small transportation fee of 203 yuan before arriving at Tianchi.

As high as the road is, as high as the devil, there are some pitfalls that you can avoid, and some pitfalls that you cannot avoid at all:

1. Small traffic is a pit that no one can avoid. .

In the past few years, tourist tickets have gone up every holiday. In recent years, when the price of tickets has stopped rising, they have made a big deal about small traffic. They artificially set up small traffic routes on the grounds of environmental protection and built parking lots to collect revenue. The small transportation fee creates conditions. The small transportation fee is the secondary ticket fee, which can range from dozens of yuan to hundreds of yuan. The small transportation fee in many scenic spots exceeds the entrance fee.

This small traffic system recognizes money but not people. The price is the same for adults and children. There are no discounts for disabled students and senior citizens over 60 years old. If you build a parking scene, the income will double. No wonder many scenic spots are in small areas. There is a big focus on transportation. Some have built the parking lot at the door a few kilometers away, and artificially set up circular routes to create conditions for collecting small transportation fees. Some scenic spots have set up two small transportation routes, which feels like selling tourists and causing a lot of trouble. The tourists are miserable. The short traffic ranges from a few kilometers to dozens of kilometers long. It is said that there are paths that can be walked on foot, but in fact there are no roads, forcing tourists to take the small traffic.

What is the difference between this and Roadhog? If you want to live forever, you will have to keep the money to buy the road. Nowadays, almost all scenic spots have light traffic. No one can avoid this pitfall. Everyone keeps money to pay for the road, no matter how hard you say it, this is a great invention of the scenic spot and can win the Nobel Prize.

2. You can save 1,000 yuan by signing up for a group tour at the destination.

Many people think that the price of a group tour is lower at the place of departure. They are totally wrong. The price of a group tour at the place of departure is the most expensive. For the same travel route, if the price of a group tour at the departure place is less than that at the destination, it will cost hundreds more. It can cost thousands of yuan. It is normal for the same tour group to have a price difference of thousands of yuan. It depends on whether you can apply for it and where to apply. It is cheapest to apply for a tour at the destination. Travel agencies sell tourists when you apply for a tour at the departure place. The price is high.

3. Low-price travel is a shopping trap.

Low-price tours are all shopping traps. Many people who are deceived come from low-price tours. Some low-price tours don’t even cost enough and are obviously a scam. Some people are greedy for small gains and suffer big losses. They can’t help but tour guides. There are many people who are deceived by the temptation of shopping guides, so don’t even think about low-price tours. If you don’t want to be fooled, don’t apply for low-price tours. At least it exceeds the cost price. Tour groups that spend about 300 yuan a day can safely apply for low-price tours. , don’t consider it if it’s 200 yuan or even 100 yuan.

4. The most difficult shopping pit to avoid.

There is only one way to do this, don’t buy it, don’t buy it, and definitely don’t buy it. It doesn't matter if you buy some small things, but you must not buy big things in shopping stores. Nowadays, online shopping is so convenient, with high quality and low price, there is no need to buy in tourist stores. Only by not buying can you avoid the shopping pit.