National Day trip ticket-grabbing strategy! How to snatch train tickets for the return trip on National Day?
In addition to the Spring Festival and the Mid Autumn Festival, the national day should be ranked the top three travel peak every year. According to the relevant departments, this year's national day trips may break through a record high of 800 million people. National Day trip ticket-grabbing strategy! How to snatch train tickets for the return trip on National Day?
This year's Golden Week tickets were snatched early. Did you get all your tickets? Starting today, the return train tickets on October 6 will be officially sold. Keep these notes in mind to help you grab tickets smoothly!
Return train tickets for National Day
This year's Golden Week holiday is scheduled from October 1 to October 7. According to the 30-day booking period of Internet and telephone tickets, the train tickets on October 1st were officially sold on September 2nd, and the return tickets on October 6th and 7th were issued on September 7th and 8th respectively.
According to passenger travel conventions, from the afternoon of September 30 to the day of October 1 will be the peak time for outgoing passenger flow, so the train tickets of September 30 and October 1 are also the most popular.
On the 2nd, as soon as tickets for the first day of the National Day holiday were on sale, many popular line tickets appeared "second light".
Reporters visited 12306 website in the evening of the 6th, and found that many popular trains on October 1st were hard to get a ticket. For example, all of the high-speed rail and EMU train tickets to the HQ, HSI, HSI, HSI and so on are almost sold out.
Oct. 6 and 7 will be the traditional return peak, so passengers need to be prepared to buy tickets in advance according to the schedule.
Don't neglect these points for attention!
"Eleventh" Golden Week is comparable to the Spring Festival, so passengers with travel plans need to pay attention to the following points, do a good job of ticket strategy.
National Day trip ticket-grabbing strategy: [Pay attention to train time change]
Passengers need to pay attention to railway announcements. On July 10 this year, new train charts began to be implemented on national railways, with some train times changing.
During the "Eleventh" Golden Week, railway departments or temporary dispatch of passengers and other resources according to passenger flow to meet popular lines. Frequently pay attention to 12306 website can see this kind of information in time.
Ticket-snatching strategy for National Day trip: [Pay attention to ticket-issuing time]
12306 website and telephone tickets are open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., so passengers need to pay attention to the ticket opening time, the first time to grab tickets, the possibility of buying will be greater.
It should be noted that due to the pre-sale period of 28 days at the railway station ticket window and the agent's outlet, the time of ticket purchase at the window should be postponed by 2 days in turn.
National Day trip ticket-grabbing strategy: [Prepare for payment]
Online ticket purchase must be completed within 30 minutes. If the ticket is not paid for more than 30 minutes, the ticket will be cancelled automatically. Therefore, passengers need to be prepared to pay online in advance before they rush for tickets.
National Day trip ticket-grabbing strategy: [Make good use of the standby ticket-buying function]
Don't worry if you don't get tickets at the first time. Railway departments have launched the "Standby Ticket" function on China Railway 12306 website and APP. Everyone can reserve four tickets for two periods to buy the standby tickets. No need to stare at the mobile phone. As long as someone refunds the tickets or releases the spare tickets, the system will automatically purchase them in line with the order of queuing.
National Day trip ticket-grabbing strategy: [seize the "leak-picking" time point]
According to past years'experience, 15 days before driving is the peak period of refund, followed by 1 to 2 days before driving. At this time, some passengers will refund tickets due to changes in travel, especially between 10:00 and 11:00 p.m., which is the peak period of refund.
In addition, before driving, the ticketing system often releases some of the remaining tickets, and passengers can pay attention to them at any time.
National Day trip ticket-grabbing strategy: [You can choose to buy long or short]
If you can't buy the station you want to reach, you can buy some larger stations, or you can buy them from the first one or two stops in the starting city, then get on the bus at this station, avoid the hot stations, and get a higher probability of getting tickets.
National Day trip ticket-grabbing strategy: [not through third-party buying website tickets]
Railway department reminds us not to buy tickets through third-party purchasing website and mobile phone client, so as to avoid refund and renewal of tickets on the Internet caused by the purchaser's fraudulent use of other people's information, which will affect travel.
Do not provide personal information to third-party websites and mobile clients, so as to avoid the risk of personal information disclosure.