点评:We visited on 30th November. The car park was a complete mud pit and we got told to park over a huge puddle next to the verge and we were rammed in with another car tightly packed behind us as soon as we stopped so we could not access our boot - for coats/walking aids etc easily. If you plan on going in the winter / autumn take welly boots.
We booked in to see Santa as soon as we arrived. We waited a long time which is fine as usually its worth it but the children only got a certificate to say they were on the nice list plus a very tiny sticker. There were zero gifts and I mean nothing but a gold envelope with a printed card saying your on the nice list plus a tiny sticker. Our youngest was gutted. I have emailed the castle twice, as soon as we got home and about a week later, I was wondering if there had been a mistake or something? Not being greedy but £24 for that is ridiculous and is not a gift in my eyes. I'm being ignored by powderham. Some communication is better than none so at this point they obviously charged £24 for printed paper and they are in it to take your money. If you value your children childhood, their memories and the magic of Christmas (and your hard-earned money) please take your children elsewhere to see Father Christmas.
Santa aside the lights were pretty, it was well spread out with plenty to see. I feel there should have been many more tables for families to sit after buying their food however, as there simply was not enough for everyone to sit and eat.
The staff on the whole where cheerful and helpful apart from the women in the entrance of the castle who ripped the drink from my 7 year old hand and threw it in the bin by her. It was a shock to see such aggression we left the castle shortly after this. She didn't want to ask if she had finished or if she wanted to finish it to wait in the foyer. Nope, just grabbed it from her hand and threw it in the bin beside her and barked no drinks taken inside (yeah okay, we can manage that that's absolutely fair, but we could have waited for her to finish the tiny drop she had left without the aggressive behaviour)
The animals were a surprise and the children enjoyed seeing lambs in Christmas jumpers.
In summary, if Powerham had retuned my email with an explanation as to why they didn't receive a Santa gift that we paid for I think we would have returned in the summer as my girls enjoyed the castle and the grounds. But due to the lack of customer service I think we will avoid and put it down as a bad experience. We wont be returning next Christmas.
This place is lacking. If you care about your kids don't bring them here to see Santa it will ruin it for them.
翻译:我们于 11 月 30 日参观了这里。停车场完全是泥坑,我们被告知要将车停在路边的一个大水坑上,我们一停下就被后面另一辆车紧紧地挤在一起,所以我们无法轻松取用行李箱 - 以便取放外套/助行器等。如果您打算在冬季/秋季前往,请带上雨靴。
我们一到达就预约了看圣诞老人。我们等了很长时间,这没关系,因为通常这是值得的,但孩子们只得到了一张证书,上面写着他们在好人名单上,外加一张非常小的贴纸。没有礼物,我的意思是除了一个金色信封外什么都没有,信封里有一张印有卡片的卡片,上面写着你在好人名单上,外加一张小贴纸。我们最小的孩子很伤心。我给城堡发了两次电子邮件,我们一到家就发了两次,大约一周后,我在想是不是出了什么问题?不是贪心,但 24 英镑太荒谬了,在我看来这不是一份礼物。我被 powderham 忽视了。有沟通总比没有沟通好,所以他们显然要收取 24 英镑的印刷纸费,他们就是想赚你的钱。如果你珍惜孩子的童年、他们的回忆和圣诞节的魔力(以及你辛苦赚来的钱),请带孩子去别的地方见圣诞老人。
除了圣诞老人,灯光也很漂亮,分布得很均匀,有很多东西可以看。我觉得应该有更多的桌子让家人在买完食物后坐下,因为根本没有足够的桌子让每个人都坐下来吃饭。
除了城堡入口处的女人从我 7 岁的孩子手中抢走饮料扔进她身边的垃圾桶外,工作人员总体上都很开朗,乐于助人。看到如此咄咄逼人的行为,我们很震惊,不久后我们就离开了城堡。她不想问她是否喝完了,或者是否想喝完,而是在门厅等着。没有,只是从她手里抢过饮料,扔到旁边的垃圾桶里,然后大叫“不要喝饮料”(是的,我们可以控制住,这绝对公平,但我们可以等她喝完剩下的那一小滴,这样就不会有攻击性行为了)
动物们是个惊喜,孩子们喜欢看到穿着圣诞毛衣的羊羔。
总之,如果 Powerham 给我发邮件解释为什么他们没有收到我们付钱买的圣诞礼物,我想我们会在夏天回来,因为我的女儿们很喜欢城堡和庭院。但由于缺乏客户服务,我想我们会避免来这里,并把它当作一次糟糕的经历。我们明年圣诞节不会再来了。
这个地方很差劲。如果你关心你的孩子,就不要带他们来这里看圣诞老人,这会毁了他们的好心情。