Chapter 256 Airport Tax Rebate
The plane from Rome to Paris took off at 5:30 pm.
At 7:30 that night, the plane landed at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
After getting off the plane, the tour guide Ronaldo took the Golden Autumn Group to the airport's transit waiting hall very responsibly.
At this time, members of the Golden Autumn Group only appeared. The situation at Charles de Gaulle Airport was indeed as Ronaldo said when he was in Rome:
Inside the waiting hall, there are people everywhere inside and outside, and tourists from all over the world are everywhere!
Some arrived, some went out, and some were transferred!
Crowded and bustling!
If anyone wants to take a photo here, it will be really difficult!
"Okay, friends from the Golden Autumn Group, the planes returning to China take off at 22:35 in Paris time, that is, take off at 4:35 in the morning in Beijing time!
When you flew to Shanghai, it was about 1:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Now, there are three hours left before your scheming takes off. Here, I want to remind you three things."
Tour guide Xiao Luo took the Golden Autumn Group to a counter for check-in procedures for China flights and said sincerely:
“The first thing is that everyone will check baggage and check-in at this counter later;
The second thing is that after completing the check-in procedures, you can go to the tax refund counter there to go through the tax refund procedures. As long as you take out the receipts for purchasing goods from Western European countries, the tax refund counter will refund everyone in the corresponding proportion;
The third thing is that after everyone goes through security checks and enters the waiting hall, there is a duty-free shop inside. If any friend still wants to buy goods, you can also choose it inside!
Let me give you an example. For example, our Chinese-made "China Brand" cigarettes, it costs more than 700 yuan per domestic purchase? Should I buy them in the waiting hall? It only costs more than 40 euros, which is equivalent to "into" RMB, which is about 500 yuan. Of course, there are other domestic products that are much cheaper to buy at the counter in the waiting hall than in China!
OK, dear friends, now, I'm going to break up with you!
I really hope that in my future life, I will have the opportunity to meet you!
Here, please allow me to sincerely wish you all a happy journey, a successful career and a happy family!"
After finishing his speech, the tour guide Luo took two steps back and then bowed deeply to all the members of the Golden Autumn Group.
"Oh, Xiao Luo, you have been with us all the Western European countries around us these days, taking care of us and tour guides. Thank you so much! Please remember, after graduating from studying abroad, you are welcome to work in our company immediately! We are 'A gentleman's word is as good as a horse'!"
It was Mr. Liu, a great man from Shandong. Hearing that the tour guide was saying goodbye to the Jin Qiutuan, he rushed forward and held Luo Luo's hands tightly.
"Yes, Mr. Liu is right, Luo, we have been in Western Europe for seven days, thanks to you running around and taking care of you carefully. Welcome to contact us after returning home!"
"Yes, Ronaldo, we have established a deep relationship in these seven days! After returning to China, you must contact us!"
The other members of the Golden Autumn Group, like Mr. Liu, heard that Xiao Luo was about to part, so they all stepped forward to shake hands with her affectionately.
After the tour guide Xiao Luo left, the members of the Golden Autumn Group lined up in front of the check-in counter and completed the check-in and check-in procedures in turn.
Then, the members of the group went to the tax refund counter to go through the tax refund procedures.
Liping and Meng are like everyone else. After completing the check-in procedures, they both came to the airport’s tax refund counter.
Liping sorted out the receipts for the couple's purchase of goods during this trip and handed them to the counter staff.
The staff entered the computer one by one according to the information on the receipt, and then calculated automatically through the computer, and quickly returned more than 130 euros of consumption tax to them according to different tax returns for different commodities.
"Oh, Mengdu, you see in Western Europe, there is a tax refund if there is a tax refund, and there is also a refund! It seems that this Da country is a Da country!"
Liping returned with the tax refund and expressed her feelings to Mengduo with a deep touch.
"Yes, you have to know that airport tax refunds are so convenient, we should have bought more goods!"
Mengdu nodded in agreement with a deep feeling.
After completing the tax refund procedures, the members of the Golden Autumn Group lined up to pass the security check according to the display on the navigation sign and entered the waiting hall one by one.
Because I remembered the previous introduction of the tour guide Xiao Luo, when I entered the waiting hall, some of the members of the Golden Autumn Group entered the duty-free shop in the waiting hall and went there to see the prices of various products.
Sure enough, the price of goods in the tax refund store is much cheaper than that in the outside store!
For example, the market price of "Gillian" chocolate made in Belgium is 13.5 euros per box outside the airport, while only 12.5 euros are needed here!
Of course, what surprised the members of the Golden Autumn Group the most was the price of Chinese tobacco and alcohol that the tour guide Xiao Luo mentioned:
A "China" brand soft-pack cigarette is indeed only sold for 42 euros, which is equivalent to RMB only more than 500;
A bottle of Feitian "Moutai" wine is only sold for fifty-three euros, which is equivalent to RMB only more than 640 yuan!
If it is in the country, a soft "China" costs at least 720 yuan;
A bottle of Feitian "Moutai" costs at least 1,200 yuan!
The members of the Golden Autumn Group immediately rushed to buy them in the duty-free store:
Someone bought five "Chinese" cigarettes;
Some people also buy five bottles of "Moutai" national wine.
Some people buy clothing, chocolate and other products.
The one who surprised the most was Mr. Liu, the big man from Shandong, and his two fellow villagers.
After they entered the duty-free store, each of them bought ten "Chinese" cigarettes and ten bottles of "Moutai" national wine!
I kept saying regrets:
"It's a pity that I can't take it anymore, it's a pity that I can't take it anymore!"
It's like the goods in their hands are worthless.
Following the members of the Jinqiu Group, after soliciting Mengdu's opinions, Liping bought fifteen boxes of Belgian "Gilli Lian" chocolates at the duty-free shop using the tax refund. She also bought two "China" brand soft-packaged cigarettes - which Liping was planning to give to her father Zhang Xueru.
After Liping bought the goods at the duty-free shop, Mengdu took out her cell phone and made a call home.
It was Mengdu’s mother who answered the phone.
Dreams told my mother on her phone:
"Mom, I'm now at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. In half an hour, Liping and I will get on the plane. Our plane will arrive in Shanghai at around 1:30 tomorrow afternoon; you ask Uncle Hao to arrange a car to pick us up at Shanghai Pudong Airport, okay?"
After receiving the call from his son, the mayor's wife seemed very happy!
She told her son with a hoarse voice:
"Son, don't worry! Yesterday afternoon, Hao Min's father had arranged a car, which was the 'Land Rover' off-road vehicle driven by Xiao Jiang, the General Office of the Municipal Government! Last night, Xiao Jiang had already driven to Shanghai!"
The mayor's wife told her son:
"Tomorrow, after you get off the plane, you can call the driver Xiaojiang. He will wait for you at the airport exit. Oh, by the way, Mengdu, do you have Xiaojiang's phone number? Oh, your phone has been stored long ago? Well, okay, okay! Son, are you happy on this trip to Western Europe? And Liping, is Liping in good health, right?"
When talking to his son, the mayor's wife couldn't stop talking, as if her son was not going back.
"Mengdu, please say less to mom. It should be four o'clock in the morning in Beijing time now!"
Liping, who was sitting next to Mengdu, heard her husband and mother-in-law talking about the phone calls, and was worried that it would disturb her mother-in-law and father-in-law's rest, so she gently reminded Mengdu.
Mengdu then remembered that the time difference between Paris and Beijing was more than six hours. Isn’t it at around 4 a.m. at this time, domestic time?
Perhaps he was worried that it would affect his parents' rest, so he said to his cell phone:
"Mom, we will be home tomorrow. If you have any questions, let's talk about it tomorrow."
Chapter completed!