How to book a flight ticket for a trip, so that the hotel can return and change it without losing money?

Recently, people may be more concerned about the information about the epidemic. Many friends plan to go abroad to play during this time, but now they are faced with the problem of not being able to return and change their visas for free, especially cruise ships. The following small series will introduce you.

Find the resource party to book directly. For example.

So let's talk about crystals first.

Crystal's policy is that ships before March 3 1 can be rescheduled to any ship and any route before February 3 1.

Most of the shore tours of cruise ships, especially those of travel agencies, are negative tour fees. That is, your itinerary, duty-free shops give money to travel agencies, and you don't need to pay for it yourself. As a result, the whole cruise ship was cancelled because of the epidemic, and the travel agency charged you a landing fee, which was a bit excessive. This is to use the epidemic to make money from consumers. This behavior is shameful! Therefore, as far as possible in the official reservation, the official cherish the wings, you can also find someone to reason.

In fact, the refund and change policy of cruise ships should be worse among all tourism products, mainly because most cruise companies are foreign-funded and the process is long and slow. Moreover, the influence of cruise ships is great, and a ship may have thousands of people. At the same time, the operating cost of returning and signing is very high.

Therefore, on the cruise ship, the advantage of finding a resource reservation cannot be well highlighted.

But once you enter the field of air tickets and hotels, it is too important to book directly from the source rather than the third party.

Turning to the field of hotels, the following is Hyatt's announcement on the epidemic.

Booking through all official channels can be refunded free of charge as long as the check-in date is before February 29.

But the third-party channel, you have to contact a third party to change.

Other families are basically the same. Official channels are my call. Whoever buys from other places sells you, you go and find it. No problem.

Airlines are more direct. When you buy a ticket, you will find that the official channel refund and change policy is completely different from that of the third party.

The airline's consistent policy of returning and changing visas is to find a place to issue tickets. You can contact the official directly by phone if you buy through official channels, but you can only return and change your ticket from a third party, which adds a lot of trouble invisibly.

In fact, the best insurance method is to book in the official flagship store of OTA channel, so it is safest to find the official directly and let OTA help you get it.

For example, the Hyatt flagship store on Ctrip and the Air China flagship store on Flying Pig.

Booking a regular customer is basically a mileage ticket, a bonus room, plus the agreed price. These booking methods are not only cost-effective, but also have a good cancellation policy.

For example, my ticket from Tomb-Sweeping Day to Osaka this year was changed to ANA mileage. If I want to refund, I will deduct the 3000-mile air ticket and refund all other miles and taxes.

You can wait and see. If you don't believe that you will encounter an air change, you won't lose your change. If you don't change the air but it's inconvenient to travel, you will lose 3000 miles. 3,000 miles is almost free.

In most cases, the policy of returning and signing mileage tickets is better than tickets bought with money. It doesn't matter if you don't get a mileage ticket like Air China. It becomes an open ticket directly and is valid for one year. If you want to go, just call customer service and change the flight.

The cancellation policy of the hotel's bonus room is better, generally 24(48) hours before check-in. Take my cherry blossom season in Kyoto in April as an example. I used IHG points to book a room at Crowne Plaza All Nippon Airways in Kyoto. 30,000 a night is a good deal in Kyoto during the cherry blossom season.

Other lossless booking methods The case used here is My Tokyo Aman in June. I booked it with shrimp, and the price per night is cheaper than Ctrip, and it also includes breakfast, room upgrade and consumption of 100 USD (Ctrip is only a basic room).

Hotels like Oman will be much worse with each upgrade.

Of course, another advantage of the shrimp tour is that it can be cancelled free of charge for a limited time. For example, this accommodation on June 9 can be cancelled free of charge before 0: 00 on June 7.

I will hold some hotels that can be cancelled for free in advance. Anyway, I'll go with the right time and special ticket. If I hadn't canceled, I wouldn't have lost money.

In addition, Alipay's experience is similar, but the threshold will be lower, and Alipay platinum and diamond users can use it.

Supported appointments can basically be cancelled a few days in advance.

FHR is similar, but the threshold of FHR is too high (a centurion needs platinum and has to pay an annual fee), so I won't introduce it much.

Since last year, we have not retired to the peak of the hotel group. On the contrary, these booking methods are used more, and luxury hotels choose these cost-effective methods.

In fact, another point, which is also very important, is to buy travel insurance. Many insurances can help you deal with some emergencies. It is recommended to buy every trip and help at a critical moment.