Christmas train; First in line, last to board with young kids. Seated the large groups first regardless of arrival time.
Waterloo Central Railway的点评
点评:Overall the Christmas train (Santa’s Candy Crossing night time train) was great and my kids (6 and 8) had a great time. But, we were not happy with how the experience began.
We arrived early at our car and were first in line to board with our family of four. It was super cold as well, so we were working hard to keep our kids distracted. More people began to arrive in line behind us and the workers were walking along gathering party numbers. The train pulled up and we were excited to board finally and they announced they were seating the large groups first because it was easier. So two groups of 11 boarded, followed by two groups of 8 and then a group of 7, all of who were at the end of the line. They then asked for the smaller groups to board and said hopefully there’s still seating together. We boarded and everything was full and my daughter was upset that we may have to sit separate. Staff did some rearranging and told some of the singles and doubles who were taking up seating together to group together, so we could sit together as a family, but it was still stressful to see the smaller groups not being sat together even though we all arrived first.
That being said, the workers and staff who were on the train did a great job and my kids enjoyed themselves once everything was sorted and our feet and hands defrosted.
翻译:总的来说,圣诞列车(圣诞老人的糖果十字路口夜间列车)很棒,我的孩子(6 岁和 8 岁)玩得很开心。但是,我们对这次体验的开始并不满意。
我们很早就到了车上,我们一家四口排在了最前面。天气也非常冷,所以我们努力分散孩子们的注意力。越来越多的人开始排在我们后面,工作人员沿着队伍走着,收集人数。火车停了下来,我们终于兴奋地登上了车,他们宣布他们先让大组人坐下,因为这样比较容易。于是两组 11 人登上了车,接着是两组 8 人,然后是一组 7 人,他们都排在队伍的最后。然后他们要求较小的组上车,并说希望还能坐在一起。我们上车后,车上都坐满了,我女儿很不高兴,因为我们可能不得不分开坐。工作人员重新安排了座位,并告诉一些占座的单人和双人一起坐,这样我们就可以像家人一样坐在一起,但看到小团体没有坐在一起,尽管我们都先到,还是感到很紧张。
话虽如此,火车上的工人和工作人员做得很好,一切都整理好后,我们的手脚也解冻了,我的孩子们玩得很开心。