Is it better to play with the group or travel freely?

In fact, people who have a little self-help travel ability will not ask themselves whether they should join a group or travel freely. There are many strategies on the Internet, and you can find a method that suits you. Most of the people who ask these questions are office workers who lack self-help travel experience. But I can't explain tourism clearly. Tourism covers a wide range and is very personalized.

After reading the quotation, my friends usually take the trouble to ask me how to travel freely. I sometimes persuade them to join this group, but they don't listen to me. Honey, I'm showing you the bottom price of each company, okay? I didn't take kickbacks, okay? You are all members of other company groups, which has nothing to do with me. I'm totally thinking of you. Unless you have some judgment, the money for free travel is much more than that for travel agencies.

Generally, tourists only compare prices when choosing relevant travel agencies, which leads many travel agencies to fall into vicious customer grabbing when quoting. In order to reduce the price and improve the group formation rate, the group price is generally ridiculously low, and even the group tour fee is zero.

Tour guides may all spend money to buy groups (because I really haven't been a regular group, but I heard it through some grapevine, let's assume it here), just like betting on stones. On a per capita basis, he gives everyone money. We are not saints, of course, we post money to make money. You don't want him to make money, but don't let others lose money. Tourists want to take advantage and don't want to see the guide's face. There is only one choice. Pray that your group will give you some big money to supplement your money. Amen!

Then what should I do? Everyone wants to spend less money, and they don't want to see the guide's face. Welfare will be paid at the end of the year. I am here to teach you my "secret book".

I went to Phuket in 2009, studied with my colleagues for a long time, and finally decided to join the group. First of all, the free air ticket+hotel is nearly 5,000 yuan/person, excluding other transportation expenses for eating, drinking and having fun. But the price of the tour (all-inclusive-including air tickets, visas, accommodation and transportation) is 2450 yuan per person. Even fools choose to join the group, okay?

Why is it so cheap to join a group? Because first of all, this route is dedicated, chartered flight. Everyone knows what chartered flight means. Forget it if you don't know. So anyway, the plane is going to fly, and the empty seats are full of money, so it will be wasted if no one sits. Secondly, this group is going to shop. It stands to reason that as long as the tour guide driver pulls you to a store, whether you buy anything or not, the store will give the tour guide driver a head rebate and parking fee. Tour guides generally encourage guests to buy more things, and the more they buy, the more kickbacks they naturally get. Where will their income come from? The little tour fee you gave is not even enough for air tickets, and other people's tour guides are not charitable. They all need to earn money to support their families.

I chose the departure time on Singles' Day (if I want to travel on major festivals, I don't need to refer to the following), so the group rate is not too high. Here in Chengdu, the four of us were divided into a group, and then because I can speak English, they didn't send a complete escort with us. What do you want to do with all this? Y is just going to get a kickback)

When we arrived in Phuket, we were greeted by a local Thai who could speak Chinese. He is our tour guide. By the way, do you all feel like enemies when you join this cheap shopping group and meet the tour guide? In fact, if you always travel with caution, you might as well not join the group. Shall we join a tour group for the sake of cheapness? But everyone must know the truth that "cheap goods are not good", but how can we turn disadvantages into advantages?

I first looked up and down the tour guide and the driver, and then started a series of negotiations. I asked him, "Friend, how much can you charge from our group to make up the difference?" He said, "Each of you should spend at least 2000 yuan more." I said, "Then show me your list of recommended projects, and let's choose one around 2000 yuan, so that you can have a job."

He quickly took out a list of self-funded projects, pointing to the above projects such as "shemale performance", "fantasy" and "PP Island yacht", saying that these were not bad. "I said," yes, we believe your recommendation. "In view of my trust in him, he told me a lot of inside information in the next few days, and then he never recommended us to go to any miscellaneous places. I feel that he doesn't want to live up to our support and trust in his work.

I said that people would tip him from 200 yuan to tell him not to take us into the store, but he still said that it would be better not to buy anything in the store (I understand why, but I don't understand the above paragraph). Finally, we went to every store and stayed long enough to buy nothing. His attitude is still good.

Adding up all the expenses of the whole trip to Phuket, we only spent less than 5,000 yuan/person (only enough for free air tickets and hotel money). When we sent the plane, we gave the tour guide the remaining nearly 1000 baht as a tip.

Summary of deception: the money that should be spent is going to be spent anyway. The effect varies widely, because many people don't spend money on ideas. People need mutual understanding and trust. Everyone has his own good and evil side. Everyone should learn how to let others show you the good side.

Finally, whether you choose to travel alone or with a group, you must first find out why you want to travel, whether it is cheap or fun, or in order to have a good memory, in order to get what you want.

Ps: As for those so-called epiphany trips that want to experience all kinds of life. A man of God wrote a series of "Don't want XX if you are poor". Want to be free from vulgarity, lonely, looking for a sense of existence, pretending to be muddy. Keeping your mouth shut is "life is a journey". You must have watched too many travel channels during that time. No money, no time, wash and sleep quickly!

For those "rich second generation" who want to experience the hardships of hitchhiking, few drivers will be willing to drive you now, okay? Some poor people who have never given money to their hosts or invited them to dinner before have cut you off, okay?

And those who flaunt their love of traveling and say that they will travel around the world after XX years, and those who earn enough XX thousand to travel around the world, you can rest assured that you will never travel around the world in this life.