What unusual services are travelers willing to pay for?
In search of experiences, tourists are sometimes willing to pay for some strange things.
This year, airlines in some countries have a strange service – flights to nowhere. The plane takes off and after a short flight returns there. The idea arose when borders were closed due to a pandemic and planes were idle. Passengers were offered bonuses - beautiful views from the windows or food prepared by chefs from Michelin restaurants.
In Russia, the low-cost airline made the flight Moscow - Moscow on December 19. On board, tourists were offered an author’s tour over the cities of the Golden Ring from the pilot. Tickets for the first and second flights were purchased in a few minutes. The cost is almost 7.5 thousand rubles.
There are similar sea cruises - the ship goes to the open sea with passengers on board to return to port soon.
The unexpected result was a joke by two bloggers from the UK: they “opened” the worst “hotel” room and put it on a platform for renting a holiday home. The British laid his mattress with sheets and a pillow under a tree in the middle of a field. For "comfort" added bedside table with a lamp. And as refreshing drinks offered two glasses of water on the tray.
There are those who wish. In the first 24 hours, more than ten requests were received - real and joke. One potential guest wrote: "Is there air conditioning in the room?" I would be happy to sleep there if it didn’t rain.
One of the hostels in Amsterdam in the late 90s called himself the worst in the world and built an advertising campaign on it. Guests were promised a minimum of services and a lot of noise from aircraft. As a result, the demand increased sharply, and the number of complaints decreased: guests were warned.
The hotel has now moved away from this strategy.
The service is available in some cafes, including in Russia. "They'll send you here." The waiters swear and mock the guests, the bar in St. Petersburg promises on Instagram.
There is a restaurant chain in the United States that is known for its strange interior and impolite staff.
In some countries, restaurants with toilet themes are open, where instead of chairs, and sometimes plates, toilets, and dishes with drinks of the corresponding type.
Barcelona offers guests unusual tours with guides - homeless, who show where to sleep, wash, change clothes, how to look for work to survive - from 135 euros for an individual tour and 14.5 euros in a group.
In Bolivia, tourists are called to prison, and guides are prisoners.
But travel, in which vacationers are willing to pay to work, and engage in heavy physical labor, rather refer to conscious tourism. Farming offers are in demand: life in nature, a bonus - the opportunity to milk a goat, drink lambs from a nipple, harvest hay.
“Tourists are offered a job that does not require special skills and does not pose a threat to health,” explained on the website of the eco-farm in the Tver region. Outside the city, you can harvest, care for animals, cook cheese, butter and other products - find an occupation that is closer to you. The cost is from 500-800 rubles to several thousand per day.
You can go to rebuild Russian villages, help residents in the implementation of various projects.
A trip to Chukotka to help create the Open Air Marine Museum in the summer cost from 232 thousand rubles per adult without a flight. Three days in Gorodets in autumn and participation in the action to save unique caskets - 16 800 (no road).
Source: ria