点评:Another annual visit to Sandspit while staying on the Island — and as always, the services, staff, and facilities were all spot‑on. Solid 10 out of 10 on that front.
But the experience this year… definitely less. We’re getting down to the last few years where the kids still want to go before they outgrow this classic spot, and this visit hit different. My kid was heckled while shooting baskets — “you suck,” “air ball,” the usual nonsense — from spectators who clearly had nothing better to do. She ignored it, brushed it off, and still walked away with a huge prize, but it shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
Then I took my youngest on the go‑karts, and that’s where things really went downhill. A small group decided the track was their personal demolition derby — full‑speed bumping, ramming, ignoring staff warnings. It got so bad the staff had to cut the race short. I spent the whole time just waiting for it to end so I could get off and leave. That was officially my last go‑kart experience at Sandspit.
To be clear, the park was full of families from all cultures — love that. But the staff needs to be better prepared to deal with obvious unruly groups. This shouldn’t have been tolerated. Those kids should’ve been kicked off the track instead of everyone else suffering through it. They did offer my kid three free baskets at the basketball game to make up for the earlier rudeness, which I appreciated.
Overall, I still love the park — but unless staff are better equipped to handle this kind of behaviour, I hope I never have to return.
翻译:每年我们都会在岛上度假时顺道去一次桑德希普——一如既往地,那里的服务、工作人员以及设施都无可挑剔。在这方面绝对可以打满分10分。
不过今年的体验就大打折扣了。现在已临近最后几年了,孩子们还愿意去这个经典的游玩地,而这次的体验却有点异常。我家孩子投篮时遭到了围观人群的嘲讽——“打得真烂”、“一个都没进”,全是些无聊至极的废话——显然那些人闲得发慌才来捣乱的。她对此置若罔闻、毫不在意,最终还是赢得了大奖——不过这种事本就不该发生。
后来我带小儿子去玩卡丁车,情况才真正变得糟糕起来。一小群人把赛道当成了他们的私人撞车大赛:全速冲撞、顶撞,完全无视工作人员的警告。情况糟糕到工作人员不得不提前终止比赛。整个过程中,我只是在盼着比赛赶紧结束,好能离开。那次算是我在桑德希普公园的最后一次卡丁车体验了。
需要说明的是,公园里到处都是来自不同文化背景的家庭——这点真不错。不过工作人员需要做好更充分的准备来应对那些明显行为失范的群体。这种情况本不应被容忍。那些孩子理应被赶出赛道,而不该让其他所有人都跟着遭殃。后来他们为了弥补之前的失礼行为,还给我的孩子提供了三个免费的篮球游戏篮筐,对此我挺感激的。
总的来说……我依然喜欢那个公园——但除非工作人员能更好地应对这类行为,否则我希望再也不用回去了。