点评:King’s Palace is an ornate room in Carlsbad Caverns, along with two smaller rooms, that can only be seen via a guided tour. There are only a few dozen tickets available per day and they sell out literally immediately upon release 30 days in advance. I was lucky to get one and to see the wonderful King’s Palace. But at 90 minutes, the tour was agonizingly long, and was mostly sitting in the rooms as the guide droned on endlessly. Some of the information was interesting, but I came to Carlsbad to see the caverns, not listen to lectures about the caverns while sitting in them. The Natural Entrance and Big Room self-guided tours constituted 90% of what I saw at Carlsbad and took me less than two hours to explore - while taking many photos and reading all the signs. The 10% that was the King’s Palace took about the same time considering the time to assemble and walk back and forth to it. This should be a 30-45 minute tour. And if it were shorter, the NPS could offer 2-3x as many tours so more people could see these rooms.
翻译:国王宫殿是卡尔斯巴德洞穴中一个华丽的房间,还有两个较小的房间,只能通过导游参观。每天只有几十张门票,提前 30 天发售后立即售罄。我很幸运地拿到了一张,看到了美丽的国王宫殿。但 90 分钟的游览时间太长了,大部分时间都是坐在房间里,导游没完没了地讲。有些信息很有趣,但我来卡尔斯巴德是为了看洞穴,而不是坐在里面听关于洞穴的讲座。自然入口和大房间自助游占了我在卡尔斯巴德看到的 90%,我花了不到两个小时的时间探索——同时拍了很多照片,阅读了所有的标志。考虑到集合和来回走动的时间,10% 的国王宫殿花费的时间也差不多。这应该是 30-45 分钟的游览。如果参观时间更短,NPS 可以提供 2 到 3 倍的参观次数,以便让更多的人能够参观这些房间。