Good trip, wheelchair accessible although eat early!!
Big Pit National Coal Museum的点评
点评:Visited here as part of a community youth event (11 children & 5 adults)
Firstly, the tour was great! Wheelchair friendly& accessible, although I had to keep my head torch down so I could see the floor whilst underground, also wrap up warm as it’s VERY cold underground. All the children & adults found it very interesting.
We also visited the stimulation which some of the group found fun & interesting.
One BIG problem we encountered was the cafe. We were originally a group of 20, on the day down to 11 and the venue was fully aware we were visiting as we had booked AND informed them we would be buying food there, we were told that they could definitely cater for us. However after arriving at the cafe which is quite a walk uphill (especially pushing a teen in a wheelchair!) we found out there was hardly any food left at all including in the kitchen because the catering van hadn’t come in BUT after speaking to the staff there who made some phone calls, the two food venues had both been told by the manager a few days previously that they would be unable to cater for us which is completely unacceptable!! Especially as we had been told in advance that they could. We WOULD have been left with 16 hungry children & adults (some of which have additional needs/health problems which means they HAD to eat at regular intervals) but thank goodness for the lady who worked in the cafe WENDY, she literally saved the day! AND it was her day off, she had only come in that day as an extra. She used everything she could in the kitchen to make up some random filled sandwiches & rolls plus 4 jacket potatoes, making enough food to go around us all. She literally saved us as we had other things booked after this & wouldn’t have been able to leave the venue to get food anywhere else. So a MASSIVE thank you to Wendy & at the time we also made it very clear to Wendy how absolutely grateful we were to her so thank you.
翻译:作为社区青年活动的一部分参观了这里(11名儿童和5名成人)。
首先,这次参观很棒!轮椅无障碍,虽然我不得不把头灯放低才能看清地下的地面,而且由于地下非常冷,我还要穿暖和点。所有的孩子和成人都觉得非常有趣。
我们还参观了刺激项目,其中一些人觉得很有趣。
我们遇到的一个大问题是咖啡馆。我们原本是20人的团队,当天人数减少到11人,场地方完全知道我们会去,因为我们已经预订了,并且告知他们我们会在那里买食物,我们被告知他们肯定可以为我们提供服务。然而,到达咖啡馆后,我们发现那里几乎没什么食物了,包括厨房里的,因为餐饮车还没来。在与那里的工作人员交谈并打了几个电话后,我们发现这两家餐饮场所的经理几天前都告知他们无法为我们提供服务,这完全不可接受!!尤其是我们事先被告知他们可以。本来会剩下 16 个饥饿的孩子和成人(其中一些人有额外的需求/健康问题,这意味着他们不得不定期进食),但感谢在咖啡馆工作的女士 WENDY,她真的挽救了局面!而且那天是她的休息日,她只是来当临时工的。她利用厨房里所有能用的东西,随意做了一些夹心三明治和面包卷,外加 4 个烤土豆,足够我们所有人吃。她真的救了我们,因为之后我们还有其他安排,根本没法离开场地去其他地方吃饭。所以非常感谢Wendy,当时我们也明确地告诉Wendy我们对她有多么感激,非常感谢。