It's so difficult to see cherry blossoms in Beijing, someone only got tickets in the early morning, scalpers are selling tickets at 10 times the price.

Spring has arrived, and the flowers in Beijing have blossomed. Although only a few attractions are open, people can't help but go to Yuyuan Garden to take pictures of the old masters and grandmothers of the elm trees, and many children also ran to Beihai Park to see the flowers. In April, it is naturally the best time to see cherry blossoms. Yuyuan's popularity soared immediately. In previous years, Yuyuan's Cherry Blossom Festival used to last for half a month, considered one of Beijing's three major flower events.

Yuyuan Park is very large, one of Beijing's largest parks with lakes and birds. It takes 2-3 hours to walk around. Yuyuan's cherry blossoms are like clouds and mist, not inferior to Japan. It's natural to be skeptical the first time you hear such a statement, but when you really step into Yuyuan, you'll see pale-white cherry blossoms in vast areas, like a cloud mist spread across the sky, so beautiful that you can't speak. Yuyuan Park has thousands of cherry trees, all imported from Japan, with a long flowering period that can last until the 20th or 21st of April. This year, everyone is wearing masks and being cautious when going out. The park canceled the cherry blossom viewing event. However, people can still go to view the blossoms, but the park is limiting the number of visitors and requires advance online ticketing.

Online ticketing is not difficult, Yuyuan Park and Beihai Park also require online ticketing, just one day in advance. However, the ticketing for Yuyuan was so intense, it was almost like the Spring Festival rush. Originally planning to go to Yuyuan to see cherry blossoms, opening the ticketing page, the tickets for the next week were all sold out! The reservation was not available until 7 days later. I've been to Yuyuan once before, but it was five or six years ago, back then, it was even more crowded than the flowers themselves. However, Yuyuan's flowers are truly beautiful, and now that people can't go out, the park is limiting the number of visitors, and it's still possible to take good pictures, but it's just that getting tickets is so difficult.

I was startled and went online to search for ( -), and I saw that some bloggers didn't sleep and waited until the website started releasing tickets at 4 a.m., successfully getting a ticket. It's really shocking! Yuyuan's tickets are so scarce, it's almost like the Spring Festival rush. Originally planning to go to Yuyuan to see cherry blossoms, opening the ticketing page, the tickets for the next week were all sold out! The reservation was not available until 7 days later. I've been to Yuyuan once before, but it was five or six years ago, back then, it was even more crowded than the flowers themselves. However, Yuyuan's flowers are truly beautiful, and now that people can't go out, the park is limiting the number of visitors, and it's still possible to take good pictures, but it's just that getting tickets is so difficult.

I thought about it, and turned to open a ( - second-hand website) to search for Yuyuan tickets, and I actually found someone selling them, and they were all swamped. But the price was shocking – 15 yuan, 30 yuan, 50 yuan! It reminded me that last autumn, I paid only 2 yuan for a ticket to Yuyuan to see the Ginkgo trees. When someone suddenly resold it, the price doubled.

I thought, maybe it's because of Qingming Festival, more people wanted to go out and stroll around. I turned to the travel platform and saw that they could help book tickets for me, and the service fee was only 5 yuan, thinking it was okay to pay the service fee, anyway, it was okay not to fight for tickets.

The result was that after placing an order for two days, I received a refund notification, and now there was no way to book it, and I couldn't get it. My friend complained: Yuyuan's tickets are so scarce, it's so difficult to see cherry blossoms. It's really hard to come by.

Fortunately, Yuyuan's cherry blossom flowering period is long, and there's still time to wait.