What are some tips for saving money when booking travel tickets?

Everyone knows that when traveling, the bulk of the total expenditure is basically travel expenses. Of course, if you have the money, you can directly fly and take the high-speed train, but for many ordinary workers and student parties, this is a bit too luxurious. Below I will share some of the ways I save money on booking train tickets and air tickets when traveling.

1. First, let me share a little tip. When ordering high-speed train tickets on major ticketing platforms, there is usually a money-saving task. They are all similar. Next, we will take the Ctrip app money-saving task as an example. introduce. When purchasing a high-speed rail ticket, check the money-saving task, and then you can successfully receive the corresponding money-saving task. The task is to book a hotel or B&B within 15 days after placing the order. Because you are traveling, no matter how much you save, you will never be able to sleep on the street. Well, so accommodation is definitely available, so this task is easy to complete. After completing the hotel reservation and purchasing the bus ticket, you can get an immediate discount of 8 yuan. Although the saving is not much, mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are. I often travel by bus. You can definitely use this little trick more often and save a lot of money on meals. The picture below is a screenshot of the money-saving task on Ctrip and Qunar platforms.

2. The second tip to save money when buying tickets, everyone has 12306. If not, quickly download one. After downloading and logging in, click on Railway Membership at the bottom of the homepage, and then activate the login, here You can check your points. Don’t underestimate these points, they can be used directly as money. (The above steps are as shown below)

So how can you get points? Friends who often take the bus and need to buy tickets, please note that the points here are five points for every 1 yuan you spend in the past. 1,000 yuan is 5,000. If you accumulate 5,000 points, you can directly deduct 50 points when you buy a ticket next time. Yuan, and the points can be accumulated within a year. You can use it at any time during this year, but be sure to remember that if you don’t use it for a year, it will expire. It makes me sad to talk about this. I remember that I didn’t know this technique before, so I wasted tens of thousands of points. It’s such a pity that the money I gave you wasted. So how can I use the points now? First, find the appropriate train number. Pay attention. You can use points as long as the train shows the word "redeeming". After selecting the train number, click to add the points transferee, select the seat, submit the order, select points payment, and enter the password. Now you can get free tickets, which saves a lot of travel expenses for people who often travel by train and high-speed rail. (The above steps are shown in the picture below)

3. After talking about buying tickets, let’s talk about air tickets. I will share a few tips for buying low-cost air tickets when traveling. I hope they can help everyone. Before preparing to travel, you can enable the notification service on the ticket purchase website, add the desired route to the tracking list, and the system will automatically notify you when the price drops. You can also follow the airline's official account, they often launch special discounts during festivals or events. (You can refer to the picture at the end of the article) It is very important to use the iXing app to compare ticket prices online from different airlines, at different times, and at different airports. After all, the price difference may be huge! (Zhixing app is recommended in another answer on my homepage and has a detailed introduction. Friends who are interested can check it out.) When browsing the ticket purchase website, turn on the incognito browsing mode to avoid the price being affected by your frequent browsing. Documenting the impact (a recently learned skill). Nowadays, many travel websites will increase the price of air tickets based on your browsing behavior, so clearing your browser cache or viewing air tickets on different devices can also get you a better price, because the price of air tickets is different from that of trains, and is basically determined by the airline. To control, extremely unstable. You need to seize the best time to buy tickets. Official data shows that weekends are the most expensive time period. In addition, booking tickets in advance is usually more cost-effective than buying tickets at short notice (the homepage also has a dedicated analysis of ticket purchase time). If you like to travel, you can always follow the updates of some travel public accounts, websites, and travel social accounts. Sometimes there will be information about air ticket discounts to share.

(It is highly recommended to pay attention to the Travel Radar app, which is very suitable for travel.) If you often need to travel for business, you can consider joining the airline's mileage plan, so that you can enjoy some mileage deduction benefits when purchasing tickets. Try to avoid peak tourist seasons, as seasonal demand can cause prices to skyrocket. And if you can arrange your itinerary flexibly, you may also save money by choosing a flight with a connecting flight. (For transfer tips, see another answer on the homepage. Since this technique requires sufficient planning, it is not suitable for some quick trips. I won’t introduce it in detail here. Interested friends can check out my other answer. (Bar)

Special promotion period of each airline company

The above are all my tips on saving money when booking travel tickets. I hope it can help everyone.