What I know about booking a hotel

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I am relatively slow in action, so I started using Pinduoduo very late. I basically don’t use Taobao, and I haven’t even set foot in Weidian and the like. The live broadcast of Dongfang Selection. As for Li Jiaqi and Wei Ya, they are both figures in the news.

But for booking a hotel, perhaps I can have a few words. In the annual family trip planned for the past few years, hotel booking is a very important part of it, but the hotel is quite a routine, and it is an eternal truth that middlemen earn the difference. For a poor family like me who still wants to travel, it is worth studying where to go to collect wool. Just thought of a few little stories to tell.

I found that most people don’t know that calling directly may be the easiest and most effective way. If you already know or have been to places in Beijing or around Beijing, if you already know or have been there, the best way is to call the front desk directly. Usually they will give you a very cost-effective price minus the platform fee. I think that’s pretty much their base price. When I find such a hotel, I will write it down, and when I go next time, I will call directly to book it. For example, Arcadia in Qinhuangdao is connected to the Golden Coast in Aranya, except that the rooms may be slightly older, with large gardens, large swimming pools and exclusive beaches. For families with children, it may be the first choice. After I added a staff member, I could almost book the lowest price in the same period, and it was still a sea view room.

The latest annoying thing is that this weekend, I got a very good price from Meituan Yawool to stay at Tianjin Polar Ocean Hotel, and I went to the Aquarium for two days by the way. There is a travel agent live broadcast on Meituan, a series of operations are very smooth, and it is hundreds of dollars cheaper than a certain journey. It seems that Meituan is subsidizing, but Dudu has been a little uncomfortable these two days. When I want to reschedule It’s very troublesome. The travel agency and the hotel communicate by email. I have to provide a hospital certificate to cancel it. It doesn’t make sense. I just called the reservations department of the hotel, and without saying a word, the rescheduling was done, and then they just informed the travel agency. It can also be seen that the status of travel agencies is sometimes very humble.

Another way is to have some teams specializing in travel hotels. They help many hotels to promote, and then get the hotel to offer lower prices and packages compared to the platform. Here I can recommend a WeChat public account “Discovery Travel”, which also uses a small program of the same name. The focus is on a small group of worry-free people. In recent years, I have been plucking wool on it. Every time I travel remotely, I will first go to see if they have local hotel packages. I will hardly suffer, and I don’t need to go to various platforms. Compared. There is also a worry-free travel team called “Unique Journey”. They have been doing international travel guides before, probably because of the market environment. Now they have done a lot of domestic projects. This year, I saw a Xining Star Desert Hotel and spent money on various platforms. They can’t make a decision, but they can negotiate, which is also very powerful, and they are the first choice of brainless private groups. ¹

The third type is Xianyu. It is no longer a second-hand trading platform. Many distributors now directly list products on Xianyu. One of the reasons is that if you open a store on Taobao, you need to pay a lot of deposits and other fees, while Xianyu is free. So Xianyu is a place to buy and sell second-hand, but it is definitely not a place to purely buy and sell second-hand. Hotel booking is also a good hand. It’s just that the channels are different, the gameplay is different, and the experience is also different. Just what I have met, there are those who drew me into the Siemens corporate WeChat group, and then directly negotiated prices to book five-star hotels; there are also similar pheasant travel agencies that can get the lowest price; Some various packages that I didn’t know before booking. But this is indeed a good place to see the world. If you have a hotel you want to go to, I recommend you to search it on Xianyu first. Even if you are not sure, it is worth experiencing.

In the end, it is naturally all kinds of official platforms, whether it is the official live broadcast room of a certain Cheng, a certain pig, or a certain sound, the matter of booking a hotel has become a process of fighting against big data. You can’t beat it, but it will surprise you occasionally. All in all, just by chance.

To add some more, such as high-end credit cards/hotel memberships can also get good prices, or it is simply a homestay opened by a friend. Living in a hotel is actually a very interesting thing. The design, display, layout, materials and care of the rooms, and the secrets hidden in every corner of a hotel.

In 2019, I went to Dali, Yunnan. It was a hotel opened by a friend of a friend. It faced the Erhai Lake and was suitable for a daze. The design is very strong, the facilities are great, and the service is very good. After staying for a few days, I feel relaxed and happy. Naturally, what I get is a price that others cannot get.

In 2018, I went to Suzhou and lived in a homestay built by crowdfunding. The owner is a top student in the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University. The goal is to build 100 crowdfunding homestays. I took my friend’s occupancy rights and went to experience it once. All the facilities They are all brand new, and they haven’t even officially opened yet. When you open the curtains, you can see the Taihu Lake through the floor-to-ceiling windows, which is very beautiful. A year later, I found out that it was already the No. 1 local B&B in Suzhou in Xiaohongshu.

In 2016, it was still in Yunnan and Lijiang, and I experienced a full set of tourist-style travel, living in and eating in the ancient city. The proprietress is a fellow villager, and she became lively when she opened the chatter box, and the lively town changed instantly.

In Beijing in 2014, my junior high school classmates and I walked from the North Fourth Ring Road to Beijing Railway Station, facing the bewilderment brought by the big city of Beijing. He had to leave by car the next day. We were extremely exhausted, and we were taken into a dilapidated small hotel by an aunt holding a sign, each room cost 200 yuan. The two of us locked the door, dared not take off our clothes, and waited for the dawn.

August 2023

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