Never sign up for a tour!

Recently, the incident of cheating people in Xuexiang, Northeast China has been widely discussed. I strongly advise you not to sign up for the tour, because it is absolutely unpleasant to spend money on yourself. If you don't say it well, you will get angry and lose more than you gain.

I never sign up for a tour when I play in China, but I am free. I really can't figure out why many people sign up for tours when they are playing in China. If you go abroad because your foreign language is not good, you can understand because you are afraid of not being able to communicate in language. What is there to worry about at home? To say that a person is afraid of loneliness when playing, the people who sign up for the group are strangers; Afraid of inconvenient transportation? It is troublesome to change trains in some remote places, but it is not impossible. Especially for famous tourist attractions, there are shuttle buses in the peak season; Do you think it is very troublesome to do raiders and want to save trouble? But that's the fun of traveling. Anyway, I think it is the best way to go out and play freely. Rich, frugal and free, there is no need to worry about being cheated.

The only lesson cheated by the newspaper group is to go to Thailand to play. This is also my initiative to choose a group tour that was fooled. Because I have seen countless incidents of newspaper groups being pitted from the Internet, I also told myself never to sign up for a tour group when going out to play. But this is my first time to go abroad to play in Thailand. Because of my poor English, I have no idea what it's like to play abroad, and I'm really a little scared, so I thought I'd either sign up for a tour group and see how they are cheating. So, in the end, I reported a group to Zhongxin Tourism Beijing Financial Street Sales Department through Ctrip. I clearly remember that I carefully read the tour product introduction and itinerary on Ctrip, saying that there would be no self-funded items except the 4,000 yuan tour fee, and another line said that the above itinerary was temporary and the tour guide could change the itinerary according to traffic, time, weather and other reasons. At that time, I thought this explanation meant that the itinerary would change under objective conditions, but I didn't expect the biggest pit to be here.

Since doing business, it must be to make money. Where did the money come from? It must be that the less the cost, the better, and the more the buyer pays, the better, so as to maximize the profit. So I signed up for this group. The plane departing from Beijing is a red-eye flight, which takes off at 3 am. I think everyone should know that the ticket price of red-eye flight is definitely the cheapest. At that time, there was no Didi Travel, so it was impossible to book a taxi. Take the subway to Beijing Capital Airport at night 10, and then sit at the airport. It was winter in Beijing at that time, and the terminal was very big, but it was still quite cold.

Finally, at 3 o'clock, I found the assembled team and saw the tour guide giving lectures to the team members. He is dark and unsmiling, and he wants to hit him. We spend money to buy happiness, why should we look at your smelly face? Now it seems that this should be their usual trick, that is, to give you a fright first, to deter you, so that you can't resist in the later journey.

After the plane arrived in Bangkok, there was a bus waiting to pick us up by the roadside. A beautiful girl stood at the door with a wreath. Everyone should take a photo with her before getting on the bus. Last plastic photo, 20 yuan. I won't say the specific itinerary. The first meal to Bangkok is just like a domestic tour group. In a big car shop, there is a row of tourist buses parked outside, and the shop is full of tourists. The table is full of cabbage and steamed bread, which doesn't cost much and has no color. It should be nutritious. At first glance, it is a tourist pit. I hardly moved my chopsticks. Later, everyone reported that the food was a little better. It was originally a week's trip, but it ended in four days. Every day is really what everyone on the internet says, get on the bus and sleep, get off the bus and take pictures. I know where I went, but I don't know where this place is and what the surrounding scenery is like. On the fourth day, the tour guide began to lobby us in the car, saying that they could not earn the tour fee we paid, so they made some money on their own projects. If we don't pay, they will do it for nothing. Besides, I have been to all the places I should play. If I don't pay, I can only stay in a hotel in the future. Then we took a list of projects and quotations for us to choose from. The attitude is not as bad as some people encounter online, but the implication is obvious. Being in a foreign country, we are at a loss and know that it is impossible to compromise. So in the end, everyone chose the cheapest package, and each person paid 1500 RMB to continue the next trip. And this is the result of the tour guide's deliberate action. Because, any objective factors that affect the change of itinerary have not appeared. On the way to travel, the guide took us to several places where we sold things, and we had everything to wear and eat. I spent more than 90,000 baht in one of the shops, which was equivalent to RMB18,000 at that time to buy a blue gem ring. I regretted it on the way back after buying it, because it was obviously possessed by ghosts and made a big taboo not to buy things in tourist attractions. But it is impossible to return it. The tour guide has to get a commission and can't cooperate with you to refund. Later, I returned to Beijing and asked at the pawnshop. The pawnshop said it was true, but it was definitely not worth that much money, more than 5,000 yuan. I have no choice but to admit my bad luck and teach a lesson.

Of course, through this experience, I also know the difficulties of the newspaper group, which is also a personal adventure and a long experience. This is my first and last time to sign up for a tour group, and then I went to Nepal by myself. I didn't know my English was actually that bad until I went there. Anyway, I can even play gestures fluently, and even quarrel with people in English. Aren't there old people on the Internet? Their English is far worse than ours, and they have a good time abroad. Therefore, going out to play alone is not so terrible. Many times, we scare ourselves. The difficulties are all imagined by us. The last living person can suffocate his urine.

Therefore, everyone should learn a lesson in the future, never sign up for the group again, just play by yourself!