Three-day trip to Hainan, I hope it will be helpful for friends to visit Sanya

I went to Hainan with my fiancée (codename Shenniuzhi) for three days and took wedding photos. It felt very good. Considering that some friends said that their experience in Hainan was not good, I would like to briefly write down my travel notes and strategies here, as a souvenir for our couple, and I hope it will be helpful for friends to visit Sanya. The two of us spent a total of about 10,000 yuan, which I personally felt was lower than expected. Therefore, in addition to reviewing Sanya’s scenic spots and food, this article also focuses on how to save money. This article is divided into six parts: 1. Core strategy 2. Attraction selection 3. Accommodation and transportation 4. Food and drink 5. Wedding photos 6. Entertainment projects. Readers can focus on the parts they are interested in.

As Shenniozhi emphasized, when you go out to play, you must have someone who does your homework well. I am a Husky type and don’t worry about life at all, so I was completely arranged by my partner. She made very good preparations. Personally, I think the most important thing is to make more use of apps such as Meituan, Dianping, and Fliggy. On the one hand, you can reduce the chance of being scammed and you can shop around. On the other hand, there is platform support and security can be guaranteed. The latter Particularly important. When we eat and play, we refer to everyone’s reviews online. This is the fundamental guarantee for our happy trip to Hainan. The second thing is to ask more local people, and you will have a good understanding of many things. The locals in Hainan are quite hospitable and down-to-earth. At least I didn’t encounter any scams. I’ll talk about that in detail later. Also, be sure to pay attention to sun protection! !

Everyone’s travel time and budget are different, and the attractions are also very different. There are not many recommendations here, so please check them yourself. We went during the May Day period, and air tickets were more expensive. It is recommended to go during the off-season. You can also consider flying to Haikou and then taking the metro to Sanya. We went to Tianya Haijiao at noon on the first day. In the afternoon, the wedding photography location was Sanya Bay Coconut Dream Corridor. In the evening, we went to Dadonghai (Coast). In the morning of the second day, the wedding photography location was Yalong Bay. In the afternoon, we visited Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest. Park, went to the Commodity Street (near Hong Kong China Commercial Plaza) in the evening, and on the third day we went to Houhai Village, Haitang Bay, from where we went to Wuzhizhou Island. These places all feel very good, especially for wedding photography. I didn’t think the scenery was great at the time, but the results turned out very well.

We, as a couple, live in Dadonghai, and our chosen mode of travel is to rent an electric car. Cost saving is one of the reasons. The main reason is that I feel that riding an electric bike gives me more freedom and makes it easier to go to small streets and alleys to find food. And because the impact of traffic jams is minimal, the travel time is actually about the same. We rented a car from Meituan. The sister who rented the car to us (from Heilongjiang) was very honest and gave us a lot of suggestions.

Our accommodation was 280 per night, and we stayed in a high-rise sea view room in Jinmao Sea View Garden. One thing I want to complain about here is that the so-called sea view room is actually useless, because I leave early in the morning and come back very late at night, and I don’t have the energy or time to appreciate the sea view. Small trams are really convenient, but since many people traveling in Hainan ride electric bikes, I personally feel that riding trams is not very safe. Hainan's public transportation system is not very convenient. During the May Day period, if you add air tickets and accommodation, even if you play for 16 hours a day, the hourly fee will be 200. Don't save on taxi fares. It is better to travel as quickly and safely as possible.

4.1 Seafood

We had freshly processed seafood on the first night, seafood barbecue on the second night, and seafood set meal on the third day. Every meal feels good.

The first night was at the Chunyuan Seafood Food Stall. I bought fresh food directly from the seafood market and then processed it nearby. We bought a safflower crab (150 per catty, 80 yuan for 6 taels), a grouper (63 per catty, processing fee of 30 yuan per catty), more than one catty of emerald mussels (23 per catty, processing fee The fee is more than ten yuan), four abalones (7 yuan each, processing fee 3 yuan), a coconut jelly (10 yuan), and a peanut (10 yuan). It cost more than 300 yuan, and the food was really good. Red flower crab and grouper are quite famous. The original price of safflower crabs is 258 per catty. One of them was in a bad mood and it was eight or nine o'clock in the evening, so I bought it at a discount. The advice I give here is also the same. It is best to wait until later, and then go to the seafood market to buy large items that are not particularly good (large crabs, shrimps, fish). This kind of seafood is actually fresh enough. The pot is alive. Generally it is more affordable to get a discount. Some friends may think this is quite expensive, it depends on what you are eating. For fresh food, lobsters less than a kilogram only cost 98 yuan each, which is more than 150 yuan in restaurants in Beijing. Very large abalones are 7 yuan each, and abalone soup in Beijing is at least 38 yuan per abalone. The seafood sold in the seafood market here is not the same. It’s not too expensive, so it’s recommended to spend a little more to eat something you can’t usually eat. The safflower crab and grouper are delicious, the meat is tender and fragrant, not fishy at all, and the garlic abalone is also very good. All in all, the ingredients and workmanship are very good.

A little experience here is that we first found a restaurant that processed seafood, and then took the lady from the restaurant to buy the seafood. We looked around and chose the seafood store ourselves, so we weren’t too worried about the seafood processing lady colluding with the seafood store. We would constantly ask the young lady whether their prices are suitable, what products this store sells are more affordable, and ask her to help choose. Because she charges a processing fee, she still recommends better seafood.

The next night we had Yi Ge Seafood BBQ. This store has high reviews online. I thought fish might not be suitable for grilling, so I bought three grilled fish, which tasted a bit greasy. Their fish ball skewers were pretty good. However, this fish seems to be relatively average (not the more expensive and classic fish), the price is not low, and the service is not very enthusiastic, but the overall ingredients and taste are pretty good.

For lunch on the third day, we had the 160 seafood set meal from Inland Sea Flower Seafood in Dadonghai Scenic Area. It was really good, including a dozen scallops, half a dozen abalone, a large plate of prawns, a ruby ​​fish, stir-fried clams, stir-fried vegetables, and a crab. (The waiter said it was red stone crab, but it looked like blue and white crab.) The crab meat was of good quality and a little yellow, so it tasted good. The key is that the price/performance ratio is really high and both of us were very full.

4.2 Pasta

Hainan's shrimp cakes and various noodles are very good.

On the first day, we had Bao Luo Noodles from Liang Kee Hainan’s traditional famous food from Luxiang Noodle Shop. It felt good. On the second day, we had Hainan Noodles from Liang Kee Hainan’s famous food. Personally, we felt it was better than yesterday’s Bao Luo Noodles. . Hainanese noodles are finer and more flavorful, I like them very much.

4.3 Cold snacks and desserts

Hainan's Qingbu Liang is really good and full of ingredients. It usually has 8-15 kinds of ingredients and tastes very good. The coconut milk flavor is usually very authentic. It is really delicious in the hot weather. Stores we have eaten at: Tanglaopu’s traditional refreshing coconut milk tonic, Liang Ji Hainan’s famous coconut milk tonic, Grandma Zheng’s ice hockey tonic, Little Lucky’s deep-fried coconut milk tonic , all feel good. The next night I also ate chicken shit vine dessert, which I personally felt was particularly refreshing and refreshing. I had mango rice rolls for lunch the next day, which was also very good. As for what these three foods are, I won’t go into details. Let’s leave it in suspense. Curious friends can search on Baidu for themselves.

4.4 Fruit

Hainan is famous for its fruits. Mango, jackfruit, and pineapple are all delicious. Hainan jackfruit is very cost-effective, usually 10-12 yuan per box. 5-10 small pineapples cost 10 yuan. They are also delicious, mainly sweet and supplemented with acid. Hainan mangoes are amazing, with many varieties, and the local price ranges from 3 to 15 yuan. The fruits we brought back include custard apple, ruby ​​mango (7 yuan per catty) and Hainan Xiaoguifei mango (4 yuan per catty). Aomang is also highly recommended. Hainan mangoes are really delicious and have very few core filaments.

Here is a little experience. When we were wandering around, we first learned about the prices of fruits in the supermarket (Sanya Municipal Government Vegetable Basket Basic Vegetables Affordable Specialty Zone), and then asked the lady who rented an electric car about the approximate market price of some fruits. Then she It was recommended that we go to the Yulin Farmers Market, which was indeed very cost-effective.

Hahazheng has the final say on what to eat, especially seafood, which is Hahazheng’s specialty. There are so many crabs, and I know swimming crabs, haha~~~

Also, Hahazheng also bought a very small bottle of coconut wine, 52°, haha~~~mixed it with water 10 times and drank it.

5.1 Wedding dress preparation

Personally, I suggest you buy your own wedding dress and take it with you. The disadvantage of bringing your own wedding dress is that it is troublesome. There are several disadvantages to renting a wedding dress locally.

a: Unless you are very willing to spend money, you can usually rent relatively ordinary wedding dresses. What we brought was the big trailer, which had better visual effects but was not easy to rent. The wedding photos were taken the next morning. There were five couples in total including us, and the others were wearing very ordinary wedding dresses.

b: The wedding dresses you rent are actually not new.

c: expensive

d: Wedding dresses at the beach are easy to get stained by sand and sea water, which may cause some damage to the wedding dress. You may be asked to compensate or pay cleaning fees, which may easily cause disputes.

When buying a wedding dress, you can buy a new one, but it usually costs more than 2,000. You can also buy second-hand salted fish. Wedding dresses are worn once or twice, so it's okay to buy second-hand ones, as long as the bride and groom are not second-hand ones. When buying a second-hand wedding dress, it is not recommended to buy a personal one because it will generally look a little worse if you don’t know how to take care of it. It is recommended to buy a wedding dress store that rents wedding dresses. They will eliminate some slightly older wedding dresses from time to time. Generally, a wedding dress will be eliminated after renting it out for four or five times. If you buy it, it is very cost-effective.

We brought two wedding dresses, both of which we bought ourselves. One is a good-looking wedding dress with a long train and is planned to be used again during the wedding. The other is a floor-length wedding dress. I won’t use it later, so I won’t keep it. I hope it can continue to use its remaining heat. .

The big tail is very nice~~~

5.2 Make an appointment with the photographer

Personally, I suggest you make an appointment with a solo photographer (rather than a team) with a high online rating. You can get to know and appoint an experienced individual. Our photographer was particularly responsible and guided us constantly.

In addition, I can talk about the unique trick of Shenniu Zhizhi. The studio we chose costs 3,000 yuan for four hours of photography (generally, the photographer charges 200 per hour, and the director charges between 350 and 600. Wedding photos may all be taken by the director, and the price is above 500, which can be discussed in detail) , it was very tiring and hot, so I could only take pictures in one bay. Going to another bay would be more time-consuming, and it would be more troublesome to carry wedding dresses and the like. Shenniu Zhi made two appointments, each time lasting 2 hours for couple photos. But for couple photos, it doesn’t explicitly say that you can’t wear a wedding dress. We took couple photos directly in wedding dresses, which were actually wedding photos, and we paid an extra service fee in the end. But the overall cost-effectiveness is still much higher than taking wedding photos by appointment. However, it is very likely that we will not be able to reach an agreement, so it is only for reference.

The taxi driver said that an ordinary wedding photography shop in Sanya has a turnover of nearly 400 million yuan a year. Those wedding photography shops that provide round-trip air tickets are really expensive. We made an appointment with a photographer, and the price was relatively high. It's also very low. Taking wedding photos here is very streamlined. When we took photos in Yalong Bay the next day, there were several companies setting up venues, and the settings of several companies were very consistent. When we went to the forest park in the afternoon, we even queued up to take photos at fixed spots. Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest Park was the filming location of "If You Are the One 2", and the stills from the movie were the template for everyone's wedding photos.

The wedding photos we took were very hard on the photographer, and also very hard on Haha Zheng. The big tail that I wore the next day was Haha Zheng who kept arranging the tail of the wedding dress. It was also hard work.

We DIY wedding photos like this. If you want to reproduce them, you must find a good photographer. The photographer this time is very good. If you want, you can message me privately and I will recommend it. Otherwise, we really can’t expect too much.

On our first day of filming, we forgot to bring Haha Zheng’s leather shoes...

We finished taking wedding photos and found the right bow...

The next day, there was no one to help me drag my tail, so I carried it back and forth by myself, which was very tiring.

If the big tail gets wet by the waves and is dragged into the sea by the waves, it may drown the bride. This probability should be very small.

I put on my own makeup, put on my helmet, and spent more than an hour in the sun before arriving at the shooting location. The makeup was all spent~~~

There is no one to help you with your styling, and there is no time to do it on site.

The veil I bought is too small and doesn’t look good. I should buy a 3-meter-long one.

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We were very pressed for time, so we only went surfing in Houhai, and we had a lot of fun. Shenniuzhi checked several places and finally found that Houhai surfing is the most cost-effective, probably because the degree of development and commercialization is relatively low. We made an appointment at the Langlang Surfing Club, which costs 135 per person and allows us to play for 2 hours. The instructor teaches very seriously, and there is no extra charge for taking photos and videos, which is very practical.

Pay special attention to sun protection when playing in the water, and it is best to wear special clothes. Both of us were severely sunburned, and our whole bodies were in pain for several days.

You must not be afraid to play sea sports. For things like baby surfing, you must be bold and not afraid. You must be able to stand up and rush to the beach.

Houhai is very suitable for baby surfing. Meituan reservations usually cost 200 per person. I found a club and the coach recommended it, so I made a reservation. At that time, I felt that it was only 135. Is there anything wrong? I consulted online to ensure that there was no hidden consumption.

When I was doing my homework, I looked for surfing clubs from Meituan, Fliggy, etc., and chose online consultation. Online consultation is very interesting. I didn’t reply. I only left a WeChat message. I added WeChat messages to each club to ask about the situation, but the results were all false reports. The prices are all retail prices (1 pair of 4, 260-400, doubled)... There are so many surf shops in Houhai, and the online prices are very transparent, but they all ask you to contact customer service. Once you contact customer service, you will get the retail price. I didn’t understand it very much at the time. I felt like there were so many surf shops, why did every surf shop like to trick people so much? I called the customer service of Dadonghai Accommodation and proactively recommended the platform to purchase. They proactively told me how to save money and book a room. When I arrived at Surfing... Really wealthy consumers would not add WeChat consultation in advance like us, and directly I went surfing at the surf shop that the hotel cooperates with. Before you go there, it feels like a rip-off. Before you experience it, it feels bad.

Later I went to Houhai, which really wasn’t well developed. It was a mixed bag, with some being opened by people from Hainan and some being opened by people from Heilongjiang. Anyway, everything was available.

Both of us thought our trip to Sanya was very good. Domestic travel is indeed not as magical and exciting as traveling to the United States or Europe. Personally, in terms of beautiful scenery, Sanya is not as good as Yunnan. However, Sanya's clear water and blue sky make people feel happy and open-minded, and they can enjoy all kinds of delicious food. The water sports are also quite rich and interesting, so it is still a good holiday destination.