点评:Not the most interesting of the National Trust’s former private houses. It’s not really a stately home, although there are a lot of old pictures in it, but otherwise the contents are not as historic as at some other locations, and not really very interesting. They use a timed ticket entry system. On actually getting in I asked whether it was a conducted tour, but I was told it was free-flow, so you're on your own. A brief introduction to the house’s history would have been helpful, and in truth after my visit I don’t know who the owner was or how they made their money.
A big negative was the combination of the timed entry and the chaotic refreshment room. On paying to get in you had to predict when you would actually enter the house. We had travelled some distance and wanted a snack lunch first, so we had to guess how long that would take. In the event the service in the refreshment room was the slowest ever – a queue of 22 people and extremely slow progress – and time was moving on. By the time we got to the front of the queue, we only had time for a sandwich between two, and crisps and coffee, to avoid missing our entry slot. You don’t get a plate, by the way. When this queuing situation arises, many people pre-emptively occupy a table while their companion queues, so that there were no free tables among the 16 or so outdoor ones. Most of them had a person on their own sitting their, glaring at everyone so as to say "Don't dare to ask if you can sit here."
Bright spots: parking was free, and for once we didn't the hard sell to become NT members.
翻译:不是国家信托前私人住宅中最有趣的。它并不是真正的豪宅,尽管里面有很多老照片,但除此之外,里面的内容并不像其他地方那样具有历史意义,而且真的不是很有趣。他们使用定时门票入场系统。在真正进去的时候,我问这是否是一次有导游带领的游览,但我被告知这是自由流动的,所以你得自己走。简要介绍一下房子的历史会很有帮助,说实话,在我参观之后,我不知道主人是谁,也不知道他们是如何赚钱的。
一个很大的缺点是定时入场和混乱的茶点室的结合。付钱进去的时候,你必须预测你什么时候才能真正进入房子。我们走了一段路,想先吃点小吃午餐,所以我们不得不猜测这需要多长时间。结果茶点室的服务是有史以来最慢的——排队 22 个人,进展非常缓慢——时间在流逝。当我们排到队伍最前面时,我们只来得及吃一个三明治、薯片和咖啡,以免错过入场时间。顺便说一句,你没有盘子。当出现这种排队情况时,许多人会抢先占一张桌子,而他们的同伴则排队,因此大约 16 张室外桌子中没有空桌子。他们中的大多数人独自坐在那里,怒视着每个人,好像在说“不敢问你是否可以坐在这里。”
亮点:停车是免费的,而且我们这次没有被强行推销成为 NT 会员。