20 1 1 Spring Festival travel rush's strategy of saving money by buying food, clothing, housing and transportation.

During the Spring Festival, everyone is busy traveling, the prices of airlines, hotels and restaurants. It's all starting to rise. It's time to test our clever skills. In fact, no money is only the entry level of smart travel, and happy travel with money on the cutting edge is the more advanced of smart travel.

When traveling, people are strangers. Many people have the experience of wasting money, and many people even have the frustration of being slaughtered. The money spent is not necessarily in direct proportion to the quality. In fact, not spending money is only the entry level of smart travel, and the happy travel that spends money on the cutting edge is the higher level of smart travel. After the Spring Festival, everyone was busy going out, and the price of everything began to rise. It's time to test our clever skills.

Use public transport to save money.

The Spring Festival is coming, so it is also a good choice to plan an outbound tour. I believe Europe will be an ideal holiday destination for many people! If you want to save money in Europe, you must combine cheap air tickets, train tickets, European buses and hotels to achieve this effect, and it is best for several people to cooperate together, so that you can enjoy cheaper booking services.

Another secret is that there are many local travel agencies in Europe, and some small travel agencies are very cheap. For example, in London, there is a 199 double flight to Isham Island or Cote d 'Azur, including hotel breakfast. But just buying a plane ticket will cost you 100. Eating in Europe is a headache. Eating in a restaurant is too expensive, and it's too uncomfortable to deal with it by yourself every day. Therefore, you must pay attention to going out during the day. There are many small shops with their own characteristics on the streets of Europe, which are inexpensive and simple to decorate. You can only eat it out, but it's absolutely delicious.

Editor: It looks attractive, but it should be difficult to operate. First of all, it is impossible to make good use of cheap air tickets, trains and cars when going to a strange place, especially for many people who have no language to travel from one place to another. Secondly, it is a waste of time for tourists who don't have enough time. As for traveling in local small travel agencies, the price is cheap, which is easy to remind people of shopping spots and informality. How can the tour fare be cheaper than the road fare? The roadside food stalls, similarly, are hard to find without the introduction of acquaintances. Maybe these methods are suitable for people who are familiar with Europe.

Skillfully design the route and get the cheapest air ticket.

If the distance from the local area to the place you want to go is more than 300 kilometers, please book the air ticket immediately. People who take the so-called all-night train should not rush to think they are smart for two reasons: the roar of the train all night has ruined your sleep quality, and by the time you reach the finish line, people's passion has been dispelled by half. Even if excitement overwhelms sleepiness, it is the short-term effect of adrenaline. You will know why I said this in a few days. The second reason, which is more important, is to find a website on the Internet that can search the fares of various air ticket agents. Now many websites have such services. Just enter the place you want to go and you will find the lowest fare in a few seconds. I often get the so-called' cheapest price in the world' in this way. For example, it takes at least one day by train from Guangzhou to Shanghai, and the train ticket is more than 300 yuan, but the fastest flight time is 1 hour 45 minutes, plus the reserved airport waiting time, which adds up to a maximum of 5 hours. What about the cost? Always book a 20% discount ticket around 250 yuan. Good or bad, you can tell at a glance.

For people who like to try new things, it is quite unfashionable to travel to several places and then go back. Some people think that booking a round-trip ticket is much cheaper than booking an order, but it is not. It depends on how you design the route. For example, if you travel in Europe, you may fly from home to Paris or Vienna. Then you can buy a train pass and travel to several neighboring cities by train. If you go north to Paris, you can go to the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg first, and then return to China in Amsterdam or Frankfurt, Germany. If you take the southern route, you can go to Spain, Portugal, Italy and fly back from Rome. You can also go to the Aegean Sea to enjoy the sunny beach, relax yourself as the last stop of your trip to Europe, and then return home from Athens. As long as you book tickets in advance and book them on the same airline, you can buy a cheaper ticket than a round trip.

Editor's comment: Be prepared in advance before traveling, make overall consideration, and the itinerary can be controlled.

Choose a theme for play, so that you won't waste your holiday time.

No one will think that' string-burning tour' is an ideal way to travel during the Spring Festival, but I also oppose pure self-help tour, which is often revolutionary and romantic. The cleverest is the theme tour-around a theme, covering a certain number of places, taking buses between cities, but each passing place should be arranged freely and stay for a certain period of time.

Time and weather: For office workers, the smartest travel time is 10 to 15 days. No matter how short it is, it is not smart, no matter how long it is. The weather is also a clever factor, especially to match the theme. For example, if you want to spend the Spring Festival in the north, you can go to Harbin. If you want to enjoy the warm winter sun, you can go to Sanya instead of the local area, only to find that the climate is not what you want.

Visa problem: it is best to apply for a visa for smart travel yourself. In fact, for most white-collar workers with good deposit records and income certificates, don't worry too much. The visa office was set up only to let others go to this country. However, it is best to sign a permit (such as Schengen visa) in the places covered by the theme tour, or have a transit visa that can leave the country for 72- 100 hours in the route design.

Be a backpacker in Kantiki's time

Young people in the west have a game that can realize super-intelligent travel, and I have tried it again and again. I call it "Kantiki". The name itself is cool, a bit like Adidas in this year's World Cup. Contiki is a very popular game among young people in English-speaking countries. It is characterized by' gathering on the spot, accompanying on the spot and dissolving on the spot'. More is responsible for local hotels and buses between places. As for how to play there and who to play with, it's entirely up to you. Kontiki arranges hundreds of theme tours and accurate travel schedules in advance every year, and young people all over the world can match their favorite themes according to their own time. Why did you say''? Because the main Kantiki is gathered at the starting point of a specific tourist route, unlike our group departing from domestic airports, this leaves room for freedom and imagination for the places where flights enter. As long as the arrangement is clever enough, the transit point can also become a classic-often in a big city, you can stay in a hotel with dignity and then stay for two or three days for a deep tour.

Editor's comment: Theme tour and "local assembly, association and local dissolution" are both good tourism concepts, which are also highly operational in theory, but they are not yet a climate in China. I don't know whether people are too vigilant or leisure activities are too metaphysical. They always make an early morning appointment with a group of people or a few friends. Unknown beauty and random shrewdness are always rare. What everyone yearns for is a conceptual city, and the theme is not very clear.

Look for discounted air tickets online. Tickets for scenic spots are saved.

Generally speaking, booking train tickets is much cheaper than air tickets. It is more convenient to have EMUs and T-prefix express trains between many areas. However, if you look closely, you will find that after you grab the discount ticket, sometimes the ticket is cheaper than the train sleeper. Why not?

Many hotels and hotel tickets can be booked online, and many youth hostels are very suitable for young people. The price of characteristic double-standard rooms is around 200 yuan, but there are often free internet access, laundry and other services, and the rooms are not lost to star-rated hotels, which is worth recommending. In addition, if you go skiing in hot springs, you can look for discounts online. For example, for some big hot spring clubs, the fare is around 160 yuan, and you can often buy 100 yuan online. There are also tickets for ski resorts with more reasonable prices online. You can save a lot of money as long as you do your homework earlier.

Editor's comment: I don't deliberately pursue the saving of every penny, but pay attention to planning and designing the journey in advance to achieve the best and most affordable journey, which shows that I am smart.

During the Spring Festival, tourism prices generally rose, and how to save money for travel became a topic for hikers. The "money saver" realized a cheap Spring Festival tour in the rising prices. How did they do it?

On the third and fourth day of New Year's Eve, you can get the Spring Festival travel rush Fair Price Group if you start to travel at the wrong peak.

Most of them choose tour groups that leave on the third or even the fourth day, and some hikers deliberately avoid tickets that leave at both ends before and after the Spring Festival when booking tickets, and buy tickets at the wrong peak to find cheap tickets.

Short-term tour: It is more cost-effective to travel before the Golden Week.

It should be noted that Hong Kong and Macao tours in the province are contrary to long-distance tours, and it is cheaper to travel before the Golden Week. Because the short trip is short, people often have a family reunion dinner at home and rest for two days before leaving. Therefore, the third and fourth days are the travel peaks in the province and Hong Kong and Macao. Travel is the highest price at this time.

Therefore, short-term tours and Hong Kong and Macao tours are the lowest points a few days before the Golden Week.

Free travel: Avoid buying tickets at both ends and stagger the rush hour in Spring Festival travel rush.

For citizens who like to travel freely, there are also ways to book cheap air tickets during their stay in Spring Festival travel rush. The ticket price in Spring Festival travel rush is high at both ends and low in the middle. The ticket price is relatively high three days before the peak in Spring Festival travel rush, and the fifth and sixth days are the return peak, which is also a high ticket price.

As long as you stagger these times and choose the first, second, third and fourth days of departure, you can find cheaper air tickets.

Secondly, you can also choose non-air transportation to transfer to other cities, and the price is often more favorable. For example, if you travel to the northeast, you can take the high-speed train from Guangzhou to Changsha, and then fly from Changsha to Changchun, which can save more than 1000 yuan in transportation expenses.

Nowadays, more and more people like to go abroad for sightseeing and shopping. Credit card spending abroad can avoid the danger of carrying cash and the trouble of using foreign currency. Undoubtedly, it is the most convenient payment method. There is a trick to choose the correct way to swipe your card and save the exchange cost.

Select the appropriate transaction line.

At present, the international acceptance network of UnionPay cards has spread all over five continents, and overseas popular tourist countries and regions such as Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and the United States, which we often visit, have opened UnionPay card acceptance business. In consumption abroad, try to choose merchants who accept UnionPay cards to save the handling fee for currency conversion. ATM machines in some countries and regions have also realized the cash withdrawal function of UnionPay cards, which can solve the urgent needs. In addition, China UnionPay also provides outlets and duty-free shops in major tourist countries to cooperative travel agencies from time to time, and tourists can get certain discounts with these coupons.

Be sure to remind merchants to choose the correct transaction route when swiping the card. For example, Japan and other places are used to using their own credit card channels. Therefore, if it is in Japan, Europe and other non-US dollar countries, it is necessary to choose another suitable channel to avoid the exchange rate crossing caused by using US dollar settlement instead of UnionPay settlement, which will increase the transaction cost invisibly.

In addition, unlike other international card organizations, China UnionPay does not charge cu.

However, although UnionPay cards have advantages in exchange rate and cost saving, it is more convenient to use international cards such as VISA and MASTERCARD in some countries and regions than domestic UnionPay cards. First of all, the bank business hall card can use VISA and MASTERCARD cards in more than 80% countries and regions around the world. Secondly, the number of ATMs, POS machines and special merchants of international card organizations abroad far exceeds that of UnionPay; Finally, although the wild card charges are relatively high, the services such as emergency assistance, merchant discounts and online help are relatively perfect.

It is more cost-effective to repay in RMB.

The customer service staff of China Merchants Bank's credit card told the reporter that after the overseas shopping card is swiped, the system will account for it in the form of US dollar arrears. After receiving the bill for returning home consumption, users need to call the business hall of the bank to open the foreign exchange purchase function, and then directly convert it into RMB for repayment according to the exchange rate on the repayment date. According to the current exchange rate trend, it is more cost-effective to repay in RMB than in US dollars.

However, when RMB is used to repay US dollars or other currencies, different banks may have different regulations on the date of receipt. Therefore, you need to know the payment date of the issuing bank, and try not to repay on the last day to avoid unnecessary late fees.

Secondly, US dollars and RMB in dual-currency credit cards cannot simply repay each other. For example, Cary has more than 40,000 RMB and spent 3,000 US dollars abroad, but this US dollar consumption will not be automatically deducted from more than 40,000 RMB. Therefore, if you need to convert RMB into US dollars for repayment, you need to purchase foreign exchange through the counter of the issuing bank, telephone or online banking. Otherwise, the late payment fee will generate a lot of late payment fees.

In addition, the time difference will also cause repayment differences. According to the regulations of international organizations, the currency exchange rate in consumption abroad is calculated according to the settlement date of special merchants and international organizations' acquiring banks, not according to the exchange rate on the day of consumption or the exchange rate on the day of bill delivery, so there will be different exchange rates.

Pay attention to the trap of merchants when leaving the country.

Experts suggest that overseas credit cards should be properly kept with the transaction slip. On the one hand, compare the transaction receipt with the statement in detail, and contact the issuing bank in time with the transaction receipt in case of repeated deduction; On the other hand, don't throw away the transaction documents printed by POS machines and ATM machines, because the credit card number, expiration date, withdrawal amount and other information are clearly recorded on the documents, which are very important and cannot be thrown away at will.

People in the bank remind tourists to beware of consumption traps when using cards, especially when the cashier asks to check whether your credit card is genuine. Don't let him take your card in case it is changed into a fake one. In addition, it should be noted that if the cashier has printed out the bill and said that it is unclear and needs to be typed again, it must be torn up in person.

In addition, experts also pointed out that it is also important to be careful not to forget the tax refund when spending by credit card abroad.

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General skills of overseas credit card swiping

1. Targeted selection of dual-currency cards

This can save a replacement cost, and consumers can handle it according to their own needs. For example, Japanese yen credit cards can save exchange costs for customers who often go to Japan.

More deposits should be used to repay foreign exchange.

Since the RMB exchange rate fluctuates at any time, if you calculate the amount of foreign exchange purchased too accurately, there may be a phenomenon that the RMB credited to your account is not enough to repay the foreign currency, resulting in the situation that the balance of foreign currency arrears of several cents has not been paid off, which will also affect your credit record. Therefore, when purchasing foreign exchange for repayment, we should leave more chances of winning.

3. Credit card refund must be an international credit card.

Overseas shopping is generally divided into three ways of tax refund. The first is cash refund (abroad or back home), the second is cheque refund (mailed back home), and the third is credit card refund. If credit card tax refund is selected, the credit card submitted must be an international credit card, such as VISA and MASTERCARD.