Are you suitable for traveling with a group or by yourself?

With the gradual slowdown of the epidemic, many people began to plan a trip, which has been boring for more than a year. Do you also want to arrange a trip? Whether traveling at home or abroad, figuring out whether you are suitable for group tour or self-help tour will help you arrange your trip more happily and smoothly.

Travel modes can be roughly divided into two types: group tour and self-help tour. Of course, the boundary between the two is not so absolute. There are many ways of semi-self-help, which are between the two, and you can choose according to your own preferences.

As the name implies, it is to travel with a group and follow the tour guide along the itinerary arranged by the travel agency. The advantage of this way is that you don't have to do your homework, food, shelter and transportation are taken care of, and the scenic spots will be explained. Of course, you can also worry about nothing, just whether you want to take part in your own trip and buy famous products.

However, due to the travel agency, what you want to see, eat and experience may not be arranged. Sometimes you may waste some time on unnecessary shopping websites, and your favorite attractions may not have time to stay for too long, or even some trips are cancelled. In addition, I am most afraid of meeting wonderful group members, which may affect the mood of the whole journey, which will test the skill of tour guides and team leaders.

Another biggest problem is personal living habits. Like my parents, they all go out to enjoy flowers, so as long as they come here, they will be happy. They travel to relax and don't want to burn their brains, so they are very suitable for joining the group. However, after joining the group once, they gave up the option of joining the group, mainly because of the inadaptability of living habits. Group outings usually require getting up early, while my parents are used to staying up late. That trip was awakened every morning and I was in a bad mood all day. In addition, my dad's defecation habit is that after waking up in the morning, getting up early affects defecation, which leads to the feeling that his stomach is not quite right in those days.

I have a friend who travels abroad with a group every year. The tour fare she is looking for is not cheap, because she doesn't like to waste time at shopping spots, and prefers the tour fare to be more expensive. She has been looking for the same travel agency for several years, and the window will give her good advice according to her needs and places she has been. She said that she is very good with the group and it doesn't matter if someone takes care of her. Some people will introduce her, and most of the group members are very good. Some of them even contact occasionally after they come back.

The advantages and disadvantages of self-help tour are just the opposite of group tour. The advantage is freedom. You can do anything you like and go anywhere you want. The disadvantage is that you have to do everything yourself.

First of all, self-help tours need to do their own homework. You need to find information and make good arrangements from the planning of your itinerary, where to live, what to eat and the choice of transportation. In self-help travel, traveling companions are relatively very important. You need * * * knowledge to avoid quarreling on the road every day. One of my colleagues envied our self-help tour and told his wife that they would go to Europe by themselves on their honeymoon. As a result, they didn't communicate well. What that colleague wants is to discuss the itinerary and solve all kinds of problems together. What a wife wants is to be taken care of. As a result, my colleagues were very tired and unhappy on that honeymoon.

Doing homework is very interesting. Our self-help tours are usually full of fun before departure. Look at other people's trips online. You can see how beautiful it is here and how interesting it is there. Read a book. There are private attractions here and must-see attractions there. Circle the scenic spots you want to go to on the map, and then go online, feeling that we have been wandering, making the journey more exciting.

It's also interesting to deal with emergencies during the trip. There are always many unexpected episodes, and you may panic on the spot, but when you come back, these have become unforgettable memories. On the first day in Switzerland, we didn't know we had to transfer by train, but we were taken in the opposite direction. When we found something was wrong, it was too late to get off the bus. The next stop is two hours away, and the train is heading for the last stop of our trip, so we decided to reverse the original trip. We were refused entry at the Slovak border, so we had to find a way to get a visa and finally entered the country two days later. We were in a seaside town in Croatia, and one of my sisters said that she was a little tired and wanted to stay one more day before moving, so she unanimously canceled our trip for the next three days and walked around the seaside town. These episodes make our journey unique and unforgettable.

If you want to travel by yourself, language is not a very important condition. I can't speak a word of German. In the countryside of Germany, we asked the owner of a German-speaking homestay and bargained with him. After renting a homestay, it is not enough to communicate with the quilt. It's all because of gestures and cute smiles.

In fact, there is another disadvantage of self-help tour, that is, the cost is higher. Fortunately, this can be reduced by staying in a host family or a youth hostel without having to eat a big meal every day. If you stay in a star-rated hotel for a big meal like a group tour, the cost will be much higher than that of a group tour.

However, a friend of mine said that self-help travel is boring. He doesn't do his homework, and he doesn't know what to do when he goes. He didn't dare to eat at roadside food stalls, and the restaurant went out to eat McDonald's and KFC for fear that he wouldn't order or it would be too expensive. Such a self-help tour is really boring.

In recent years, self-help tour has become popular, which is between group tour and self-help tour. If you match well, you will have the freedom of self-help and the convenience of joining the group. If you don't match well, you will have more disadvantages.

There are many ways of semi-self-help. For example, I found a local tour guide before I went to Nepal. At that time, there was no such thing as a semi-self-help tour. Afterwards, I thought it was a semi-self-help tour. Originally, I wanted to ask about mountaineering, because mountaineering in Nepal must be accompanied by a team leader before a mountaineering permit can be issued. The tour guide said that he has many friends and he can help us arrange any itinerary we want. So he and his friends arranged our accommodation in the capital, transportation from the capital to the elephant jungle and the entrance to the mountain, accommodation in the elephant jungle, mountain guides and porters. We just need to communicate the itinerary and price with the tour guide before we leave, and then we will follow stupidly when we arrive. Their arrangement is very interesting. A friend of the middle guide took us to the station, put us on a bus, and then the friend left. We don't know where to get off. When we got to the terminal, we got off after seeing everyone get off. After getting off the bus, a handsome guy, who said he was a friend of the tour guide, came to meet us, and we arrived at the next leg of our trip.

I have listened to a lot of semi-self-help in recent years, all of which are similar to this. Some people help to arrange some, especially transportation and accommodation, and there may be some scenic spots, and others arrange them themselves. The advantage of this is freedom, don't worry. The disadvantage is that the cost will be higher. If the matching is not good, the places you don't want to be restricted will be restricted, which is counterproductive.

Generally speaking, traveling with a group is suitable for people who don't want to do their homework, or have no adaptability, or want to eat and live well during the trip, or just want to punch in. If you are willing to do your homework, have a special hobby and like to experience local life, you'd better choose a self-help tour. As for semi-self-help, it depends on fate to find the one that suits you. Don't miss it. For example, if you like art galleries very much, you can communicate with people of the same kind. I know an aunt who participates in a semi-self-help tour organized by an art class every year. The itinerary they arranged was an art gallery package. They think it's a great trip, so I'm not interested in it.

In short, you should ask yourself what kind of trip you like, don't be lazy in your homework, and know what you care about most and what you don't care about, so you can give yourself a pleasant trip.