College couple travel on their own, travel friends help, let’s see what I do

Use the Internet to plan in advance

For tired travelers, a quiet and comfortable accommodation and rest environment is very important. The accommodation conditions in star-rated hotels are naturally superior, but if you want to save money, you cannot blindly chase "stars", but should consider it from a practical perspective. On New Year's Day this year, "Wandering Immortal" Pan Pin and his husband backpacked to Wuyuan. Before traveling, she collected information on local family hotels recommended by netizens on relevant travel websites. When they arrived there, they stayed in a teacher's home, which had broadband, air conditioning, a private bathroom, and a color TV. Each room only cost 50 yuan a night. , much cheaper than a hotel, and the breakfast cooked by the teacher’s mother still makes them miss it.

If you are traveling abroad, it is best to know some English. In this way, you can book a room online through the booking website and get a considerable discount. Zhang Cong said that there are many small private travel agencies in Vietnam. They can also book local hotels, search their e-mails online, draft a text message, and copy them one by one. If you don’t know which hotels they have, they can recommend them. Just tell them your requirements in all aspects. In addition, the method she often uses is to directly ask the travel agency where she booked air tickets for hotels. Southeast Asia is now a hot spot for Chinese people to travel abroad, and it is common for domestic travel agencies to have some hotels in their hands.

Strive for group ticket discounts

If you are organizing a club team to go on a self-guided trip, then the tickets for the attractions will be very expensive. Gao Feng is the administrator of the Shanghai Netizens Association and often organizes some travel activities. His experience is to make full use of various resources of netizens. For example, borrowing a travel company's contact list and going to scenic spots to get ticket prices from the travel agency team. Xia Junmin also tried to get a travel agency's itinerary, so that tickets can be discounted according to the group, maybe 30 to 20% off. Sometimes the discounts negotiated in person are even more effective than the itinerary from a travel agency: For example, during the Spring Festival this year, he went to Xiangxi with a few friends. He negotiated discounts on tickets for most scenic spots by himself, and most of them were less than 50% off.

Avoid "foreign" and choose "local" guest houses

Before traveling, find out if there is a guest house recommended by an acquaintance or a unit guest house that you can stay in where you want to go. If there are, these guest houses with better conditions can be preferred. Most of these guest houses are cheap, hygienic and safe. Of course, when choosing, you should also consider whether its geographical location is convenient for travel.

If there is no suitable hotel, you can consider choosing a hotel with more convenient transportation but in a less prosperous area. Because the prices of these hotels are generally cheaper, and there may be discounts and discounts. If you are a tourist who has a "complex" about hotels, you might as well consider some hotels in many cities that are not well-known but of high quality, but are much cheaper because of their slightly remote location. In terms of "taxi" fare, they are also cheaper than similar famous hotels. Some hotels built in scenic spots can also be considered by tourists. This can not only save transportation costs to the scenic spots, but also stay in the scenery, and it is more likely to save dozens of yuan in ticket fees, because some scenic spots are Tour tickets are waived for hotel guests, such as the yurt hotel in Chengde Mountain Resort.

Ask the locals about restaurants

Tasting delicious food from various places is one of the enjoyments of traveling. Everywhere Wang Bingjun goes, he will ask the locals where to eat special snacks. He said that the locals must know the most traditional ones, and restaurants with a good reputation are generally not cheap. For example, Lao Sunjia Mutton Steamed Bun in Xi'an is famous for its American The president's price is a hundred times higher if he goes there. In fact, the taste of many small shops in Huimin Street there is not inferior at all. In addition, whether the diners are locals is also an important criterion for him to choose a restaurant.

"If you made some money today and wanted to take your family out to eat, where would you take them?" Zhang Cong would ask the tricycle driver directly when traveling in Southeast Asian countries. Drivers are often happy to answer a question. Then Zhang Cong asked him to point out the location on the map, negotiated the price of the car with him, and emphasized that if he was not satisfied there, he would need to take him to another one for free. Zhang Cong said that the honest locals will definitely make you satisfied. The places introduced are all popular local food stall restaurants. She has also been taken to riverside restaurants with first-class scenery in Thailand and Vietnam. The food in these places is authentic and not expensive, and you can avoid other tourist-filled restaurants and experience the life of the locals.

Land-based travel to appreciate the scenery

Wang Bingjun is a freelancer and has greater initiative in travel time, so he usually chooses trains as his main means of transportation. He said that if you have enough time to travel, and if you don’t have to fly to a distant place to grab time, you can choose to take a train or a car. In this way, firstly, the cost is much less, and secondly, you can enjoy the scenery along the way.

A group of people choose to charter a car

How to choose transportation when you arrive at a tourist destination? Xia Junmin and Feng Yili both talked about chartering a car. Xia said that if there are many people, chartering a bus is more cost-effective than taking a regular bus. Firstly, it can save a lot of time, secondly, it can save physical strength, and thirdly, it can save a lot of unnecessary trouble, of course, the exception is walking. For Pan Pin’s trip to Wuyuan, Jiangxi, he found a local driver, Xiao Hu. Before setting off, she contacted the local driver based on the recommendation of a netizen. Santana chartered a car for 550 yuan for three days. Pan Pin told reporters that the recommendations from netizens are generally correct and local drivers are familiar with the situation, so chartering a car is both economical and safe.

Plan early and book tickets in advance

Nowadays, some airlines have regulations that provide discounts for booking tickets in advance, and the longer the booking period, the greater the discount. In addition, there are also preferential policies for purchasing round-trip tickets. There are also discounts on booking train and bus tickets. When booking train tickets, various handling fees for temporary ticket purchases can be waived.

Based on her own personal experience, Zhang Cong shared with us how she booked airline tickets. She said that the price range of international air tickets is very large. If you decide to go somewhere, you must first check which airlines have this route. Then, call the offices of each airline in your city diligently to inquire about seat availability. The seat information of the airline itself is the most direct. Of course, you have to ask them for the price, but the price is usually higher. More expensive than travel agencies. Then call various travel agencies or ticketing agencies to inquire about the price. In order to guarantee a seat, you can make a reservation while asking about the price. You don’t have to worry about double booking. The system used by the travel agency cannot see the passenger’s name. It is best to ask the travel agency to fax you the positioning sheet. , you will find that the prices and flight plans (airlines, time, etc.) given by various travel agencies are different. The more questions you ask, the better. This is how you save money. If you have a lot of time and don’t mind connecting flights, then you will save more than just a small amount of money. After you finally settle on one, it’s best to call the others one by one to cancel your reservations. Firstly, it’s for the sake of credibility, and secondly, the airline is afraid that you won’t be serious when seeing the same name make multiple reservations, and they might cancel it for you.

Plan and consider the selection of scenic spots

Having fun is the main purpose of traveling, and it is necessary to save money on fun. First of all, you need to understand the scenic spots you are traveling to and choose the most unique places you must visit. Of course, some of the attractions must also be screened.

In addition, you should set aside some time when traveling to visit the streets, so that you don’t need to spend money on tickets and can see the local customs and customs in the scenic spots. Feng Yili always makes a plan before traveling and takes all aspects into consideration. Each trip will cover the main nearby attractions so that they will no longer overlap with future travel goals. This can avoid the situation of not visiting a certain attraction and having to visit it alone. . In addition, there are some scenic spots that travel agencies do not visit, and some are not yet developed. These places do not need to buy tickets, are not crowded, and the scenery must be no less than those of fixed scenic spots. She said that China is quite rich in tourism resources. There are many places that are “raised in the boudoir and no one knows about them”. There are magnificent terraced fields and sea of ??clouds, the unique mushroom houses of the Hani people and the long dragon feast (held during the twelfth lunar month). The Ailao Mountains in Yunnan is a neglected landscape. There is an extremely remote ethnic township in the mountains of Liuzhi Special Economic Zone in western Guizhou - Suojia. It is famous for preserving and continuing the cultural tradition of Changjiao Miao in a living form. Becoming the first eco-museum in Asia.