The Spring Festival is approaching, and many people who are in the mood to go out to play before the New Year embark on a trip to Harbin, and find that compared with the previous Internet explosion stage, the passenger flow of "Erbin" is now increasing unabated.
Not only that, the tourism advantages of "low prices in the Northeast" seem to be gradually disappearing under the strong demand: roasted sweet potatoes for 38 yuan, chimney ice cream for 40 yuan, and accommodation for 2,000 yuan a night...... In addition, there are crowds of people, the "all-you-can-grab ticket" that cannot be grabbed in the ice and snow world, the "lunch" from 2 pm to 4 pm, and so on.
What has not changed is the enthusiasm of Harbin's service providers. "They really use 'clip sound' when they talk to us, and female tourists call them sister regardless of age!" Internet legend, "certified" by Ms. Yan, a Shanghai tourist who came to the "Northeast of Winter" for the first time.
There is a long queue for dinner, and the roasted sweet potatoes in the scenic spot are sold for 38 yuan
As soon as the plane landed, the first thing to think about was eating.
What impressed Ms. Yan's family was the "crowd of people" eating here. For example, there are long queues for restaurants near Central Street, as long as they are famous online or locally. "The first stop we came to eat after getting off the plane, and the restaurant we arrived at at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon was not yet a restaurant, but the queue was still a full two hours, and we didn't eat until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, which was equivalent to arranging lunch into dinner. ”
In terms of restaurant prices, a meal is about 100 yuan per person. "It's not very expensive, but it's not cheap either, and it feels similar to Shanghai. The restaurant near the attraction has become an Internet celebrity, and it should be more expensive than before. If it's a residential area that is not an attraction, I've heard that the price is still cheap. ”
There are also restaurants that were exposed by netizens as "stepping on thunder". At a restaurant in a resort area, the customer found that all the prices on the menu were covered with stickers and rewritten, apparently suspected of "collective price increase".
In terms of price, 128 yuan of pork stewed vermicelli is mostly fatty meat, a seaweed egg drop soup costs 38 yuan, and even white rice costs 20 yuan a piece, and it cannot be renewed. "I was very satisfied with my trip to Harbin a few days ago, and the hotels I met were also good and cheap. But this store, it doesn't matter if it's expensive, it's okay to have a little quality, but this is obviously stealing customers. ”
In terms of desserts and snacks, a chimney ice cream that looks like a Russian style, consisting of Oreo-flavored bread and vanilla ice cream, looks very large, but the price is also "spicy", and it costs 40 yuan for one piece.
And in the Ice and Snow World Scenic Area, guess how much a baked potato costs? 5 yuan, 15 yuan, the answer is: 38 yuan.
Some tourists said that although it is a scenic spot, it feels a little too expensive, which is more expensive than Shanghai's baked potato.
The ice and snow slide queue starts from 2.5 hours, and some of the skip-the-line "scalper tickets" increase by more than 1,000
When you go to Harbin at this time, the most popular attraction is the Ice and Snow World.
"As soon as I opened the door in the morning, I went in and lined up to take the ice and snow slide, but it was still two and a half hours in line!" "In Harbin today, even during the day, it is minus or 20 degrees, and queuing for two or three hours in such an outdoor area is too great a test of physical strength and perseverance, especially for parents with children.
Such feedback from the Internet has made many tourists decide to buy "all-you-can-enjoy tickets".
The ordinary adult ticket of Harbin Ice and Snow World is 328 yuan, which can be used as you buy, but the free ticket is different, not only 800 yuan a piece, you need to "grab". The difference from the regular ticket is that the all-you-can-enjoy ticket can skip the line once per person in four events: the Ferris wheel, the super slide, the Harbin Ice Show and the car ballet show.
Among them, the Ferris wheel and the super big slide are even the "reasons" for many tourists to come to Harbin.
Due to the limited distribution and too popular, the official sales of the next week's all-you-can-enjoy tickets at 9 o'clock every Sunday are currently on sale, and the scenic window does not sell all-you-can-enjoy tickets.
On the Internet, many tourists studied how to grab tickets before and after traveling, and some people complained: "The rules have changed back and forth, and in the end I still haven't grabbed them." There are also netizens who grabs it generously sharing their "strategies" and how to use skills to grab tickets.
Some people said that the release time of the free ticket was uncertain before, but it received a lot of opinions from tourists, and later, the free ticket release was reformed to clarify the release time, but it is still very difficult to grab.
Although the official asks everyone not to trust other ticket purchase channels to avoid unnecessary losses, for tourists who want to enjoy tickets but can't grab them, switching to "scalpers" has become the only option.
Ms. Yan bought an all-you-can-enjoy ticket from a scalper at a price of 1,000 yuan, "I think the price increase of 200 yuan per ticket is still acceptable." "For some friends who buy scalper tickets, if they are traveling in groups, even if they can grab one or two, it is still not enough, it is better to add some money to buy tickets.
But some "scalpers" are even more greedy. For example, the chat records leaked on the Internet show that some "scalpers" shouted 1,800 yuan for the free ticket, an increase of 1,000 yuan, and even said that it would rise after the 23rd.
The air ticket is more than 2,000 yuan per person each way, and the hotel is more than five times more expensive during the festival than after the festival
It is the New Year, and it is the children's summer vacation, and many Shanghainese can't resist the joy of "Erbin" tourism that has exploded on the Internet.
The first step in travel is to plan "machine + wine".
The reporter saw on Ctrip that in late January, the lowest direct ticket from Shanghai to Haierbin was more than 1,000 yuan without the cost of fuel engine construction, unlike the lowest ticket of 6 or 700 yuan in early January.
Taking the booking of next Monday's air ticket as an example, except for special circumstances such as red-eye flights and non-direct flights, most of the tickets departing in the morning period are around 2,000 yuan per person. A ticket of 1990 yuan, after adding the fuel engine construction fee, the total price is 2153 yuan.
In this case, if you want to book a "flight with better conditions", the price of a single round-trip ticket may reach more than 4,000 yuan. And if the conditions are "average", there is a high probability that one person will go back and forth for more than 3,000.
In other words, if the whole family travels with three or five people, the cost of the air ticket alone can reach 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan.
In terms of accommodation, hotels near Central Avenue have also seen a general increase, with the lowest price of many hotels within one kilometer also reaching one or two thousand yuan, and the price of some homestays has also reached seven or eight hundred yuan.
For example, the lowest price of the whole store today is 829 yuan, the lowest reservation price from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fourth day of the Lunar New Year is 1069 yuan, and in late February, there is a reservation price of 298 yuan.
The highest quality Puyan Hotel, which is also located on Central Street, has a minimum price of 1,998 yuan today, and the lowest pre-priced price of the whole store can reach 4,298 yuan on the second day of the Lunar New Year. In late February, the lowest price fell back to 788 yuan. Between high and low, the spread can reach more than five times in ten days. In another week, the price of more than 600 yuan also came out.