China-Singapore Jingwei, April 17 (Xiong Siyi) Grab the ticket! Grab the ticket!
Before the holiday, tickets for Beijing-Wuhan/Xi'an are in short supply
According to the 15-day pre-sale period of train tickets, train tickets for the "May Day" holiday can be purchased from April 17.
Currently, the start time of sales varies from station to station. Taking Beijing as an example, Beijing Fengtai and Beijing West Railway Station have the earliest sales time at 8 o'clock every day, Beijing Chaoyang and Beijing Railway Station are slightly later at 10 o'clock every day, Beijing North Railway Station is 12 o'clock and Beijing South Railway Station is 12:30 p.m., and Qinghe, Changping North and Beijing East Railway Station are the latest at 16 o'clock every day.
The starting time of stations in other cities can be checked through the 12306 APP. The steps are as follows: open the 12306 APP, click "My" on the home page, find the "Starting Time" in the "Travel Guide", enter the station and date you need to query, and complete the query. If you are afraid of being busy and forget to grab tickets, you can also "set a reminder" in the 12306 APP!
Judging from the pre-holiday booking, tickets to Wuhan, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Changsha and other directions departing from Beijing on April 30 are extremely tight. As of 16 o'clock on the 16th, tickets for the above directions were sold out in a large area, and only the remaining tickets for the train departing at 6 o'clock in the morning remained.
Screenshot of Railway 12306 APP
In case you can't buy a ticket in the first place, in addition to asking for help from the official "artifact" - the standby ticket purchase function of railway 12306, you can also try to change the way of travel!
The average price of domestic air tickets decreased slightly year-on-year
According to the "2024 May Day" Tourism Trend Insight Report released by Ctrip on the 16th, as of April 15, the price of air tickets such as Kunming-Chengdu, Shanghai-Kunming, Xiamen-Shanghai, Tianjin-Chengdu, and Beijing-Sanya has dropped significantly, by about 30% year-on-year, and popular routes such as Guangzhou-Beijing, Chengdu-Hangzhou, and Beijing-Chengdu have increased by about 10% year-on-year.
The report also said that although the overall average price of domestic air tickets decreased slightly year-on-year, it increased by about 40% compared with this year's Qingming holiday.
If you are a "veteran driver", you can also choose to travel by car.
According to the State Council document, tolls for small passenger cars with 7 seats and below are exempted during Labor Day. The free period starts at 00:00 on the first day of the holiday and ends at 24:00 on the last day of the holiday. Ordinary highways are subject to the time when vehicles pass through the toll lanes of toll stations, and highways are subject to the time when vehicles leave the exit toll lanes.
According to Ctrip's report, Urumqi, Yining, Chengdu, Sanya, Kashgar, Shanghai, Xining, Lanzhou, Kunming and Haikou are popular destinations for self-driving trips on May Day. Key self-driving routes such as northwest, southwest and Hainan are popular with tourists, and the No. 1 Scenic Road of Wuyi Mountain National Park was officially put into operation during the May Day holiday, driving the year-on-year increase of 60% in car rental and self-driving orders in surrounding cities in Fujian and Jiangxi. (Sino-Singapore Jingwei APP)
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