Real or fake? Who goes to the station to queue up to buy tickets now?
I know you must have searched for "How to buy tickets at Changsha West Bus Station", and everything that appears is such a standardized process, exactly the same, as if written by a robot.
But I bet you fifty cents that you'll still mess up.
Why is this so? The reason is that these tutorials are too accurate. They are as accurate as instructions, just like operating manuals, but they are not like ordinary people. They never tell you the hidden details that could lead to a failure to purchase a ticket.
So, let’s put that “first click to pay” nonsense out of the way and let’s get real.
Are you sure you bought "Changsha West Bus Station"?
Almost all tutorials will say: enter "Changsha West Bus Station". Yes, but not entirely.
1. Search on WeChat and "Xiangjiang New District Comprehensive Hub" may pop up. 2. Don’t be confused, these two are the same place. 3. Its official name is Xiangjiang New District Comprehensive Hub Passenger Transport Station. 4. However, people in Changsha have called it West Bus Station for 20 years, and it is difficult to change its name.
There may be both names in the system.
Once you make the wrong choice, the ticket will most likely be bought to another station. Please don't laugh. A friend of mine successfully bought a ticket from the West Railway Station to the East Railway Station last time. This is a painful lesson filled with blood and tears.
Choose the time, the worst trap
After selecting the departure point and destination, a bunch of flights will pop up.
You'll definitely pick a time that's right, right?
Wait.
Have you clicked in to see "Stops"? No? Then you may be in for a tough time.
There are some buses that are "direct" and there are some buses that are "full". If the place you are going to is relatively close, there is a high probability that you will buy a passing car. So what exactly does a passing car mean? It means that it is traveling from somewhere else, and it will most likely be late by the time it arrives at West Station. Moreover, its seats are sold from the starting point, so the one you buy is most likely the one in the last row next to the toilet.
How to avoid it? Click to view details. If it shows that there are only the last few "remaining seats" and the model is that kind of bus, it is probably a passing bus. If it is a new type of intercity bus, like the recently popular one that costs 14.9 yuan to go to Miluo, it usually departs at fixed points, which is much better.
Add passengers, don’t make mistakes!
It’s time to fill in your identity information.
Don't shake your hands. If you get the wrong ID number, you'll be stamping your feet anxiously at the self-service ticket machine.
The current tickets are all real-name, and the person, ticket, and certificate must correspond to each other in order to enter the station. In addition, if you are buying tickets for family members, especially the elderly, do not use nicknames for the names. I once saw someone buying a ticket for his mother. The name on the ticket was "Zhang Meili", but the name on the ID card was "Zhang Sufen"...
The result is that people line up again at the window and watch the car drive away.
, yes, if you bring children, even children who are free of charge have to declare . In the past, you could carry it secretly, but now you can't. It will be printed on the ticket, and you have to check your ID when checking in. Didn't declare it? Then go and make up the ticket, it's half price.
Mobile phone number, whose name is it?
The last step is to fill in the ticket mobile phone number.
What's so hard about this? Just fill in your own.
etc.
If you purchased it for someone else, the ticket information will be sent to this phone. If you fill it out yourself, when your friend arrives at the station and doesn't know where to pick up the ticket and what the ticket gate number is, he will have to call you to ask. And if you are in a meeting or sleeping at that time, once the phone rings...
It is recommended that people taking the bus fill in their own mobile phone number. In this way, even if it cannot find the path, the order number and ticket collection voucher are still stored in the text message, and it can solve the problem by itself.
Don’t just focus on WeChat
Do you think you can only buy through the WeChat "Payment" entrance?
So naive.
That entrance is just one of the ways, and sometimes it's very stuck. Recommended spare tires:
<strong>Railway 12306 App : That’s right, it does refer to the one used to buy train tickets. It now also has the function of purchasing bus tickets, and its coverage covers 30 provinces and more than 2,000 stations. The data in the app is synchronized with station data and is trustworthy.
The "Longxiang Bus" for operation or the public account known as "Xiangyue Travel" is operated by the Longxiang Group, which is the most stable because it is its own channel. And the public account named "Xiangyue Travel" also supports digital renminbi. If you hold digital renminbi, you can use this to show off some special skills.
Qunar, Bus Manager, 114 Ticketing Network, these third-party platforms that occasionally have coupons can conduct price comparisons.
Don't hang yourself from a tree. WeChat Pay crashed, so I changed the app and bought it immediately.
Get a ticket? You don’t have to take it!
The older generation always feels that without that pink paper ticket, they feel uneasy.
Many flights now do support electronic tickets. After purchasing the ticket, you can directly scan the QR code generated to get on the bus, which is much faster than inserting your ID card to get the ticket.
If you need to make a reimbursement, you still have to go to the self-service machine to get a ticket, that's for sure. There is a row of machines like this at the entrance of the West Station waiting hall, so you have to arrive half an hour in advance. Even though the queue in front of you is not that long, if you meet someone in front who is not familiar with the operation, ten minutes will pass. That's the situation.
After writing so much, I actually just want to say one thing.
As far as buying tickets is concerned, 90% of people can complete it smoothly. However, there will always be the 10% of people who will encounter various inexplicable problems such as lost ID cards, misreading the time, buying at the wrong station, entering the wrong mobile phone number, and accidentally losing the ticket.
Those standard tutorials on the Internet are prepared for 90% of people.
And this article is written for the unlucky 10%.
Hope that's not the case for you. But if so, at least you know how to remedy it. Just like if your ticket is lost, you can get a free reissue by going to the service desk 20 minutes before departure with the original ID card you used when purchasing the ticket.
Okay, I wish you good luck with your ticket purchase. If you still buy the wrong thing...
Then you'd better go to the window and queue up. Maybe the staff there will be gentler to you.
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