Which one is more expensive, self-guided tour or group tour?

I took a trip to the Three Gorges during May Day this year. Let me calculate the specific costs for self-guided tours and group tours.

1. Self-guided tour 1

Take myself as an example. As a poor student, I don’t have much money. At the same time, I lack travel experience, so I chose self-guided tour. I think mine cost very little. Our school is in Huangshi and the Three Gorges is in Yichang. In order to save time and money, my classmates and I chose to take the night train, and it was a train. It cost 69 yuan to ride from 11 pm to 6:30 am. The same way back we also took the night train. , and cost another 69 yuan. We went to two scenic spots, one is the Three Gorges Family, the entrance fee is 150 yuan, the boat ticket is 30 yuan, and buying a hat is 20 yuan. Because I brought my student ID, the total cost was 105 yuan, because the scenic spot is far from the city and I have to take a bus. The bus ride takes nearly an hour, and the round-trip fare is 30 yuan. The hotel is relatively cheap in the evening because it is the last day of the May Day holiday. Two people stay in a standard room for 89 yuan, and one person only spends 45 yuan. We can go there the next day. We visited another scenic spot, the Three Gorges Falls. The round-trip ticket cost about 14 yuan. We bought snacks for 8 yuan and attraction tickets for 127 yuan. We bought student tickets for 64 yuan per person. We did a few more tourist activities there and rented raincoats for 10 yuan for boating. It costs 15 yuan to buy small fish, 10 yuan to buy a fish net, 5 yuan to buy cherries, 14 yuan = 54 yuan. In addition, our meal cost about 5 22 10 9 8 = 44 yuan. After a total calculation, the total cost of the bus ticket plus entrance fee is 69 69 105 30 64 14 = 351 yuan. Including miscellaneous items, the total cost is 69 69 20 105 45 30 14 8 64 54 44 = 522 yuan. If it is not the student price, it will cost approximately 522 75 64 = 661 yuan.

2. Self-guided tour 2. This second self-guided tour is the way many families choose to travel - driving. According to the route we just took, it is about 412 kilometers from Huangshi to Yichang, plus about 40 kilometers from Yichang city to the Three Gorges Scenic Area, plus about 40 kilometers from driving to the Three Gorges Waterfall the next day, totaling *** It's almost 500 kilometers, plus the return journey, it's almost 1,000 kilometers. According to the calculation of a normal car, the fuel fee plus the highway fee will cost about 1,000 yuan. Coupled with the ticket prices for the two attractions, the total cost is at least 1000 180 127 = 1307 yuan. This is obviously incomparable to the kind of budget travel I did.

3. Group tour

Personally, group tour should be much cheaper than self-driving tour, but compared with a poor student like me, it is still more expensive. A little bit, if you don’t believe me, I’ll show it to you. According to the price checked online, a two-day trip from Huangshi to the Three Gorges attractions, the Three Gorges Dam, and Qu Yuan's hometown attractions will cost about 570 yuan, of course including all travel expenses. To be honest, this one is less fun than the one I took. The tourist attractions are richer. If I were not a student, this one would definitely be cheaper.

To sum up, excluding groups like poor students like us, for ordinary families, I think the cost of self-guided travel will be higher.