During the May Day holiday, my two aunts made a special trip to Zhengzhou from Handan to play. It's been a long time, and everyone is looking forward to this reunion, just in time to take the children to play during the holidays.
If you want to say that we are in Henan, there are really a lot of interesting attractions!
From the Qingming Shanghe Park and Wansui Mountain in Kaifeng, to the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, the ancient city of Luoyi, as well as the Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng and the night tour of Songshan, they are all popular tourist attractions.
👆 Photo provided by the author: My brother went to the ancient city of Luoyi, and there were too many people
But.... Based on our years of experience, there are a lot of people during the holidays!
Feel the rich (people) expensive (many) charming eyes of Kaifeng, Tokyo from the photos!
There is an exaggeration in Xiaohongshu that of a population of 1.4 billion, 100 million people came from Kaifeng and 100 million people came from Luoyang......
This "Qingming Riverside Picture" is still too conservative!
👆 Qingming Shanghe Garden, source: Xiaohongshu @momo
👆 Photo provided by the author: Henan Provincial Science and Technology Museum, crowded with people
👆 Photo courtesy of the author: Zhengzhou Museum, which is also crowded
Difficult to buy tickets: Tickets that cannot be bought
When Aunt Hao Hao decided to come, there were no high-speed rail tickets left. But at that time, there was still more than a week before the May Day holiday, and the difficulty of grabbing tickets was comparable to that of the Spring Festival!
👆 Source: Weibo @西Decision
I did a strategy on the Internet, and I found that this year, it is generally reflected that it is difficult to grab high-speed rail tickets.
Someone planned their travel route in March, but found that they couldn't buy a ticket when it came to May Day.
What to do?
It is impossible to buy a train ticket at close range, and some people simply use the "curve to save the country": waiting in front and behind the departure station.
All roads lead to Rome, there is no ticket for this station, there is always something to grab.
👆 Photo source: Xiaohongshu @ carp
Others simply signed up for a tour group, focusing on a seemingly outrageous but actually reasonable one. After some tossing, it is cheaper than a high-speed rail ticket.
👆 Photo source: Xiaohongshu @大兴憨憨牛
Aunt Hao Hao chose to come by car, anyway, the holiday highway is free, just travel by car! So I stepped into the second pit of the tow baby!
Difficult to travel: There are congestions everywhere
From Handan to Zhengzhou, it normally takes more than two hours to take the expressway, and on May Day, my aunt's family drove for more than six hours.
In order to avoid the rush hour, they deliberately went out early in the morning.
As a result, it didn't take long to get on the highway and it began to be blocked, and the navigation showed red sections from time to time. So get off the highway and detour, see that the road conditions are better and get on the highway again.
This was repeated several times, and the adults didn't know much, and the children were sitting in the back seat and had begun to scream, and the aunt who was driving said they had a headache.
👆 Photo courtesy of the author: High-speed traffic jams
Holiday travel is jammed, half of the people are jammed in the scenic spot, and half of the people are jammed in the highway.
👆 Source: Little Red Book
When we finally met up and arrived at our destination together, parking was also a big problem.
Some people say it takes an hour to queue for parking, and some people say it takes an hour to find a car in the parking lot.
If you want to park on the side of the road at will, someone will tell you from time to time: "The traffic police over there are sticking up ......"
👆 The parking lot outside the Shaolin Temple, source: video number @ Liu Kebai
Holiday self-driving trips, there is no most congestion, only more congestion.
If there are a few more dolls in the back seat, it will be so noisy that people doubt their lives.
Accommodation is difficult: B&B hotels with general price increases
When it comes to the holidays, the price of hotels and B&Bs on our side generally increases. Usually about 300, it can rise to 900+, and the price has more than tripled.
But what can we do as parents?
The trip is planned, the tickets are grabbed, the strategy is done, the baby is looking forward to it, and it has to be booked.
👆 Source: Xiaohongshu @ is called Lulu
It's a good idea to book in advance, but you can also break your contract.
Someone booked a homestay a month in advance, but when it came to the holiday, the landlord said that it would be repaired, and there was no room. The customer complains, gets compensation, and then watches the landlord rent out the house at a high price.
And the compensation received by the customer plus 1,000 yuan will not be able to book a suitable house. The long-awaited holiday is over.
👆 Source: Xiaohongshu @ clownfish gugu
Aunt Hao Hao came this time, and she originally planned to find a homestay, but the price generally rose a lot.
We discussed it for a long time, and finally decided to live in my house, all of them were our own families, squeezed in, laid the floor, and made do with it for a few days.
Save the money from the price increase, and eat a hot pot together, it's not fragrant~
It is difficult to grab tickets: grab tickets for attractions in advance
No matter how good the travel guide is, it's useless if you can't grab tickets!
The way to buy tickets and the time to release tickets for each attraction are different, so you must study clearly in advance to buy tickets online and grab tickets on the official account.
When Hao Hao was a child, when I took him to museums, there weren't so many people. In recent years, with the popularity of museums and study tours, various museums and science and technology museums have also become a "must fight" for people with babies.
In order to reserve tickets for the Provincial Science and Technology Museum, we made arrangements a few days in advance, registered an account, added ID card information, etc.
A WeChat account can only have about five people at most, so put three children + two adults together, and other adults put another number.
This arrangement is very necessary, and I can't imagine what kind of crying scene will be caused by the situation where two children have an appointment and one child can't make an appointment.
👆 Photo courtesy of the author: Communicate about "ticket grabbing" a few days in advance
On the day of the appointment, several adults were waiting for each other, and everyone set an alarm clock and reminded each other in the group a few minutes in advance.
In order to avoid network jamming, my mobile phone disconnected the wifi and used the traffic directly; Block out all external sounds and concentrate, that's called a stimulus.
Luckily, we got our hands on the tickets.
Returning to the page where I came in, the 12,000 tickets that had been hung out were gone. From the time the tickets are released to the time they are sold out, the whole process is only a few seconds.
👆 Photo courtesy of the author: Exciting moment of ticket grabbing
The rush for tickets to other popular attractions is much more intense than ours.
There are a lot of ticket grabbing strategies for major scenic spots in Beijing in a book, but many people still say that they can't grab it at all.
Some people squatted on tickets for several days in a row, but they couldn't grab tickets for the National Museum and Tsinghua University, so they had to change their itinerary.
👆 Source: Xiaohongshu @ Memories of Fish
It is necessary to make a few more travel plans, because if you don't get a ticket, half of the original plan may be invalid.
👆 Source: Xiaohongshu @ Taimei 08
There are also many people who are persuaded to quit by the ticket-grabbing system. No matter how long the trip has been planned, grabbing tickets will humiliate every phone equally.
Because they couldn't grab tickets for Beijing scenic spots, outsiders had to tearfully return the tickets that were easy to grab...
👆 Source: Xiaohongshu @ Evening Breeze Blowing
A similar ticket-grabbing system, which arose at some point, is the same across the country.
It's getting harder and harder to take a trip on the go.
Attractions will punish everyone who doesn't like to make reservations.
It is difficult to get many people: you must queue up when you enter the door, and you will crowd the shelves when you enter
If you all successfully grab the tickets, tickets, and book the hotel and B&B.... Congratulations, it's finally time to get into the queue.
On May Day of the same year, a new museum in Zhengzhou opened, and we rushed to get the tickets and went there, but we queued for 1 hour to enter...... Look at the size of this queue!
👆 Photo courtesy of the author: We had a long queue in front of the museum
If there is an open space on the left and right of the line, the children can at least briefly leave the line and run around and play.
Take a look at the queuing situation of the Yellow Crane Tower this year, queue for 1 hour to enter the scenic spot, and then queue for 1.5 hours to enter the building.
I can't even imagine what it would be like for me to take my son in the crowd......
👆 Source: Xiaohongshu @y-kly
There are too many people in popular scenic spots, so choose a relatively "unpopular" scenic spot to visit the head office, right?
My friend thought the same thing, she took the baby to the ancient city of Zhengding in February this year.
If it's not a May Day holiday, there are so many people-
👆 Zhengding Ancient City
There is an unpopular tunnel war site in the village near the ancient city of Zhengding, and she drove her baby to see it.
As a result, the car began to be blocked 10 kilometers away, and it was blocked for 2 hours, and there was news from the front, saying that the scenic spot was afraid of a stampede and was closed!
Three nearby villages temporarily put loudspeakers to tell people in line to turn around and not look at them.
She couldn't help but sigh: There are no unpopular scenic spots anymore!
After all, even the desert is starting to block camels......
👆 Source: Xiaohongshu @ Ruyi ~ Ma Ma
Various museums, science and technology museums, comparable to holiday trusteeship schools. We almost squeezed half a life out of it!
And there are long queues for all projects......
From the moment you enter the door, the brain is immersed in a noise of countless children's voices intertwined, buzzing, buzzing....
It is difficult for the baby to be noisy: people everywhere are in the crowd, and the children are noisy
We have done so much effort to make strategies, grab tickets, grab tickets, get stuck in traffic, queue up for the sake of traveling—are the children happy?
I don't know if they're happy in their hearts, I just know that along the way, the three babies are always taking turns to lose their temper.
Before I went out, my son was already getting angry: "Why did they all bring drinks and I didn't?" ”
Because there is not enough fruit tea, they mix hot water with drinks in their cups. But the son didn't listen, and only felt that he was at a loss.
waited for the baby to visit the exhibition together, and sued endlessly.
This one said, "They don't take me when they play," and the other said, "They don't pay attention to me."
When you are tired of shopping and buying something to eat, you will also fight:
Everyone wants to eat chocolate popsicles; Everyone thinks that the purple lollipops that are being eaten in other people's mouths are the best...... After coaxing this and that, the mothers are tired.
👆 Photo courtesy of the author: It's easy to get into the science and technology museum, but I just want to sit
There are too many people in the scenic area, and children are easily irritable and especially easy to get angry.
But the exhausted old mother couldn't hold back the fire!
There are people in front of and behind him, as if they can never squeeze out, and the children around them are still humming, asking for toy guns and ice cream, and the stalls don't know where they are...... Do you want to get angry?
Really, every time I travel with a baby, I go out happily and go home scolding.
👆 Qingming Shanghe Park, source: Xiaohongshu @ Yuanxing high-end travel customization
Five of us adults with three babies went on a three-day special forces-style trip.
After returning home, they each lay their bodies at home for the remaining two days, and swore that they would never do such a thing again!
Until, someone proposed in the group:
Isn't it time to plan a trip to the Dragon Boat Festival in advance?
Well...... I don't think I've been to a zoo, a botanical garden, or a beach this year, so why don't you try it again?
What if, what if, there aren't that many people......
Where did everyone go during the holidays? Was there anything memorable during the trip? Let's talk in the message area~
Editor丨Qu An
Title picture丨Courtesy of the author, screenshot of Xiaohongshu source
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