How to avoid being pitted when cruising on shore?

Cruise tourism has been particularly prosperous in recent years, and it is estimated that everyone does not know much about cruise ships. Cruise ship was originally a regular passenger ship on modern ocean. Originally the most common in the military, it later evolved into civilian use. Up to now, it is basically used by the tourism industry!

Cruise tourism is in the ascendant in recent years, and the world's major cruise giants put more and more cruise ships in China's home port. The number of cruise tourists in China has increased by leaps and bounds every year. At present, the main destination of cruise ships departing from the home ports of North China and East China is Japan, while cruise ships departing from the home ports of South China generally go to Vietnam, the Philippines and Okinawa, Japan. Generally speaking, the vast majority of China tourists who travel by cruise every year go to Japan.

With the increasingly fierce market competition and the prevalence of the unique travel agency charter mode in China market, there are more and more patterns for cruise ships to land. We know that in the past, passengers had to pay extra for cruise ships. In recent years, with the prevalence of the chartered flight model, many travel agencies have included cruise ships in their travel expenses and turned them into free cruise ships. Officially, this free shore trip is full of skills.

Take the shore tour in Japan as an example. This kind of free shore tour hardly goes to any paid scenic spots, only goes to 1-2 free street parks or shrines, and spends most of the rest of the time shopping. In the early years, shopping places were still in busy business centers. In case you are not interested in the so-called "duty-free shop" that the team entered, you can also go to other shops and supermarkets nearby. At present, most of the shopping places of the team choose remote industrial areas or warehouse areas, and there are no similar commercial facilities around them. Except for dozens of cruise tourists who got off the bus, the so-called shopping shops have no normal local customers.

The so-called "duty-free shops" have a wide variety of goods, covering almost all the categories that China tourists like, but the prices are much higher than those on the market. Most of the tour guides on the bus are China or Japanese studying in China. They will recommend some products that Japanese people may rarely hear about, such as natto essence, enzymes, water cups and so on. Without exception, these goods are very expensive, and a set of health care products costs several thousand yuan. Some middle-aged and elderly tourists who have no price comparison and discrimination ability often become buyers. And some young tourists who are familiar with the price of drug stores suffer from the lack of time to shop in other stores.

In order to avoid swimming ashore and being pitted, I think the following measures can be taken:

1) Try to go ashore freely in Japan. Some cruise companies (such as Star Cruises) encourage free travel. Some cruise ships registered through chartered flight Travel Agency may not be allowed to travel freely, or they must pay a "fine" to travel freely. (Free shore travel saves the cost of tour guides and buses, so why pay a fine? Because they can't get a commission on shopping. It is better to pay a fine of several hundred yuan than to be slaughtered in a duty-free shop. Or simply book a space in official website, a cruise company, which is also free, but the price of the space may be higher.

2) If you are not sure about going ashore freely, you have to choose to go ashore with the group. Please try not to travel freely. Choosing a paid tour group may be better for the scenic spots and have more opportunities to get close to the ordinary business districts in Japan.

3) If there are other supermarkets, department stores or drugstores around the duty-free shops that the team enters (through Baidu map or Google map), as long as it is not too far away, please resolutely give up the duty-free shops and go shopping in other shops frequented by ordinary Japanese. There are many drugstores or department stores in Japan, as long as there is "tax" at the door of the store.

The word "free" can be refunded (exempt from 8% consumption tax) if the amount of shopping in the same store reaches more than 5,000 yen on the same day.

Tell me about a netizen's personal experience. I landed in Japan on a cruise ship last August. The main purpose of our cruise is not landing, but feeling the cruise. Before coming to Japan, the so-called ground pick-up travel agency on board grouped thousands of tourists in advance and arranged to go to different small villages (cities in their mouths) and so-called duty-free shops after landing in Japan. After our group got off the boat at the dock and got on the bus, a female tour guide from Northeast China started fooling around. When we arrived at the so-called scenic spots, we found that they were street attractions in two small villages. This is actually a foil, and the main goal is "duty-free shops". Two of the three duty-free shops are located in the wild, and they are all waiters in the northeast. In fact, there are not many goods in big shops, and they are all very expensive. Later, duty-free shops were on the edge of a huge commercial market. A few of us who have been abroad left the group (passports are kept in a centralized way, and there is no actual visa) to visit the super-large supermarkets in Japan's daily life, and compare the so-called duty-free products, such as yeast, 250 grams of packaging, duty-free shops for 4,000 yen, Japanese shops 1500 yen, and so on. We didn't buy anything (I feel stupid to buy things abroad, not to dig at the people who bought them at buy buy). We are just talking about our experience, and we want to show that these so-called duty-free shops have little to do with the Japanese. One of the three duty-free shops is from Taiwan Province province, while the other two are from the northeast, and the clerks are basically from the northeast. How to avoid being fooled? Learn from us and buy nothing (but we seem to have bought a bag of sugar and a bag of food in a Japanese supermarket). I really don't know what fun people who enjoy shopping (that is, they don't buy necessities but buy relatively cheap ones) can feel. Why did China slaughter China people in foreign countries? In fact, it has nothing to do with cruise ships, and it has little to do with the Japanese. It is mainly the travel websites (travel agencies) that contract cruise ships in China, and they are the real initiators of the kidnapping.