"Get on the bus to sleep, get off the bus to pee, and take photos at the scenic spots." Do you agree with this way of traveling?

I don’t agree with this way of traveling.

In the spring of 2014, my wife and I traveled to Sanya, Hainan for the first time with a group. Although we signed up for a pure play-quality tour, visiting 2 to 3 scenic spots a day, the real time left for you to visit a certain scenic spot is only 1 to 2 hours. Most of the time is spent sitting in the tour bus driving. I remember that we went to the Tropical Botanical Garden Scenic Area, entered the scenic area gate, were arranged on a sightseeing battery car, and finished our tour of the scenic spot after a lap. We are all tourists from the north, and most of them saw banana trees, dragon fruit and other tropical plants and fruit trees for the first time. These were all very novel to us, and we were not even given the opportunity to get out of the car and see them up close. Many tourists can only sit on the battery car and take a few photos. Our tour group is a non-compulsory shopping group, but it can only be "no compulsory". You must enter the shopping store and you must stay in the shopping store for a few hours. Some people stay in shopping malls longer than they can during free tours of scenic spots.

My wife and I took a group tour of Shaolin Temple in Henan, Luoyang Peony, Longmen Grottoes, and Yuntai Mountain in Jiaozuo for the second time, and our third group tour of five cities in South China including Nanjing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou. Follow us Just like the first group tour, I walked around all the scenic spots and took a quick glance at them. Just like what the questioner said, the situation is roughly the same as "getting on the bus to sleep, getting off the bus to pee, and going to the scenic spots to take pictures." It's just that it is more appropriate to add that you don't know anything when you go home.

At the end of May 2018, my daughter and son-in-law signed up for a group tour of four countries in Europe for my wife and me. This is the first time that my wife and I have set foot abroad, and it is also the first time to travel abroad.

To say whether the experience of traveling abroad is better than traveling domestically, let me say that it is worse than traveling in a domestic group. Four countries and more than ten scenic spots have to be visited in 15 days. To say that I have traveled to four countries, it is better to say that I have traveled to four countries on a tourist bus.

Because I was in such a hurry, after a day of revolving around, on the bus back to the hotel, the foreign driver and the tour guide argued loudly in English for a long time. Tourists who understand English said that the driver was dissatisfied with the long driving time of the day, which exceeded eight hours. In European countries, people generally have a strong awareness of obeying laws and regulations. It is stipulated that driving time cannot exceed 8 hours in a day, and they must abide by it.

The questioner said "get off the bus to pee", which is not bad. The bad thing is that tourists have "internal emergency" on the tour bus, and the bus can't be found on the highway. Take the exit from the highway. One day, there was a young daughter-in-law in our group who ate an ice cream while parking in the service area and felt a stomachache shortly after getting in the car. She told the driver to stop through the tour guide, but while driving on the highway, there was no exit and she could not stop. This "internally anxious" female tourist kept moaning loudly in her seat. She lay on the front seat with one hand covering her stomach and the other hand constantly wiping the cold sweat on her head. It was obvious that she was in real pain. It has reached an unbearable level. Fortunately, when we reached an exit, the driver got off the highway and drove to a small forest and stopped. The female tourist trotted out of the car, followed by several other female tourists. She didn't have time to run deeper into the woods, so she squatted down on the edge of the woods. The female tourists who went down together formed a fan shape to block the direction of the bus.

In November 2015, my daughter and son-in-law booked a house online in Sanya, Hainan. They brought me and my wife, my son-in-law’s parents, and my daughter and son-in-law. The six of us stayed in Sanya for nearly 20 days. . This house is located next to the old duty-free shop in Sanya City. It has three rooms, a large living room, and two bathrooms. The kitchen is equipped with natural gas, gas stove, refrigerator, and electric kettle. The living room is equipped with TV, sofa, and WIFI. You can reach the seaside beach within walking distance, and there is a supermarket next to the community, which is very convenient for shopping and entertainment.

We plan our own travel routes and visit one scenic spot or scenic spot in one day. Sometimes we also sign up for one-day tours. The bus comes to the gate of the community in the morning to wait for boarding, and then takes us back to the gate of the community in the evening, which is very convenient. When we are tired from playing, we will rest at home, buy groceries and cook whatever we want.

In the Nanshan Scenic Area, we met an elderly couple from Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. They said that the children were at work and did not have time to accompany them on the trip. In order not to delay the children's work, the two of them went out together. Every time I go to a place, I rent a house for 10 days and a half, buy and cook my own food, plan my own daily travel routes and scenic spots, and rest in the rented house when I am tired. This not only ensures the quality of travel, but also takes into account rest, avoiding the disadvantages of being exhausted from traveling with a group tour.

In September 2018, my wife and I went to visit our second daughter and grandson in Southern California, the United States. While living in the United States for nearly half a year, the children took us to visit Las Vegas, where we stayed for two nights and played for three days.

Here I played shooting with live ammunition for the first time, and went to the casino to "gamble" for 2 hours; when I went to San Diego, I saw sea lions lying lazily on the beach sunbathing up close for the first time, and visited a retired aircraft carrier. ; Visited major parks and scenic spots near Los Angeles, and watched horse racing betting at large racetracks.

Everyone likes to travel, so you must choose a travel method that suits you.

Sleeping in the car, peeing in the car, and taking pictures at the scenic spots, this requires It depends on which area you travel to. I am from Wuxi. If you travel to the Jiangnan area of ??Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou, this is not the case. The scenic spots in this area are relatively concentrated. You can get there in half an hour from Wuxi to Suzhou or Changzhou, not to mention in the car. Go to sleep, even if your buttocks are not yet hot from sitting, the scenic spot has arrived. But last year when I traveled to Xinjiang, I was asked to get on the bus to sleep, get off the bus to pee, and take photos at the scenic spots. Because Xinjiang is a big place, the scenic spots are also big. Every time I go to a scenic spot, it takes 5 to 6 hours to get there. After entering the scenic area, you have to take a shuttle bus for half to an hour to get to the scenic spot. However, you can play in the scenic area for up to 2 to 3 hours before you have to go to the next hotel. I know that I have to leave at 6 o'clock in the morning every day and 9 in the evening. I went to the hotel for dinner and accommodation around 10:00, visited a scenic spot every day, and stayed in a different hotel every day. In 20 days, I lost 6 pounds, but I am still in good health. Friends who want to travel to Xinjiang should know that traveling in Xinjiang is hard, but the scenic spots are very beautiful. I remember flying to Urumqi with a group tour, and the tour bus officially departed for a 20-day tour of northern and southern Xinjiang.

I am very happy to answer your questions. I have encountered all the above problems. I remember that we went to Hong Kong for 7 days a few years ago. It was also my first time traveling with a group, and I met you. As the saying goes, "Get on the bus to sleep, get off the bus to pee, and take photos at the scenic spots." Most of the time I spent in the car or in the store. Before setting off, I was full of longing and expectations for Hong Kong, but the results were not satisfactory. . I think this has something to do with group tours. After all, cheap group tours are arranged in such a hurry. When we go out to travel, we originally want to relax and feel the beautiful scenery that nature brings us, but we are rushed to play in such a hurry. Personally don't like it. Personally, I think if you travel with a group, you must choose a high-quality group, or you can also travel by yourself

I don’t agree, because I basically don’t sleep when I get on the bus. If you take a long-distance bus. I feel that the scenery along the way is also quite beautiful. I will always slowly appreciate the beautiful scenery in front of me. If it is in the city, no matter what kind of car it is, the various architectural landmarks and features outside the car window will be my record goals. When I get off the car , if you have free time. I love walking every street. So I'm not a road nut either. Before I go to a place, I check the map of my destination several times. I can easily find the place where I check in on the map. After walking there once, I can remember the route based on my walking memory. So for me, the scenery along the way is also very interesting.

This is a matter of opinion, and different people will have different answers.

Personally, I don’t like this approach, which will put more restrictions on me. I may not have enough time to go to the places I want to go, and I may not even go to the places I don’t want to go. It takes quite a lot of time.

For example, I like to visit local markets, supermarkets, and markets, but these are almost impossible. And I like to experience the bus transportation in a place, which will cause me to want to go somewhere and need to go through it. For example, the Star Ferry in Hong Kong, the boats on the Mekong River, the city's subway, and tricycles are all very special experiences.

But my mother is the opposite. They are keen on group outings with their girlfriends. It may be more suitable for them to travel in a group with more than a dozen people. After paying the money, they don’t have to worry about eating, drinking and sleeping along the way, which saves time and effort. For them, traveling with friends is more important. , been to this place and seen this scenery.

So in the past, I might have thought that group tours were boring, but with the emergence of more and more freely configured group tours, I have a lot of perspective on the problem and can update it.

I personally do not agree with this way of traveling. But I think it depends on personal interests and hobbies. Some people like to travel with a group, and some like to travel by car. Of the two, I prefer the latter.

Because self-driving travel is not affected by external factors, you can experience it according to your own ideas. Just the day before yesterday, we went to the north bank of the Songhua River in Harbin on a self-driving tour. There are no restrictions at all. You can eat when you are hungry, sleep when you are sleepy, and rest when you are tired from playing. It is really free.

In fact, travel depends on where you go and how familiar you are with the destination. Self-driving in the wild is very dangerous if you are not familiar with the location and you will encounter many unimaginable things. I remember last year we were in Jiangjun Mountain in Acheng, Heilongjiang Province. Since I was not familiar with the place, I encountered various dangers. Therefore, there are advantages and disadvantages to both group tours and self-driving tours. The purpose of traveling is to be happy and happy. No matter how you can do this, that's fine.

I personally don’t like this way of traveling. Every time I travel, every time I take a car, I like to look at the scenery outside the window. I don’t want to sleep because I don’t want to miss any beautiful scenery, or I don’t want to miss every place. When I go to a scenic spot, I may take a few photos, but most of the time, I will go and watch it slowly, and the visual shock gives me a sense of shock.

If you just keep taking photos, you will only be able to look at the photos in the end, but there are exceptions. When I take the bus, I absolutely have to sleep because I get motion sickness, so I have to hypnotize myself to sleep quickly