点评:Arrived around 9:00am and we were asked if we wanted to take “the short tour or the long tour?”. We elected to take the short tour due to us having a senior with us with health issues. It was only us and one other family taking the tour that morning.
Once in the caverns, about halfway through the tour, our tour guide asked us if we wanted to take the short tour or the long tour. Strange, we had already been asked this by the girl who sold us the tickets, so why is the tour guide now asking us this again after the tour has already started?
Of course the other family that was with us stated they wanted to take the “long tour”, but as previously stated, we had already informed the girl who sold us the tickets that we had an older gentleman with us who has sciatica and could not handle the 70+ steps required on the longer tour. So, the older gentleman that was with us had to embarrassingly explain this again to the entire crowd.
The tour guide told us to wait right where we were as she was going to take the other family on the long tour and assured us that someone else would be along shortly who would finish taking us on the short tour. So, we stood there in the dark and waited for this other person to finish our tour. About five minutes later a man showed up and asked us if we wanted to see the place where you can spend the night in the caverns?
Personally, we came to the caverns to see the caverns, not to be hustled into spending a thousand dollars a night to sleep there. We had all seen photographs of the area where you can sleep in the caverns, so we declined and told the man who was now guiding us if we could skip the part with the underground sleeping area and asked him if he could just finish the rest of the cavern tour as we did not have a thousand dollars to spend on something like that.
The man guiding us became very upset after we told him that, stating very loudly “Yeah, but most people don’t realize that thousand dollars also includes your meals!” at which point he picked up a mop bucket that was next to him and started walking off. Assuming we were supposed to follow him, we walked down the path as he walked ahead of us. He walked straight to the elevator that takes you back to the surface. I guess this tour was now over since we had no interest in seeing his thousand-dollar-a-night cavern motel room.
I had taken this tour many years ago before they offered their underground sleeping option. The caverns themselves are very interesting. I just didn’t like the idea of trying to be hustled into something while we were on the tour and having the elderly gentleman in our group having to embarrass himself in front of everyone by explaining his medical condition and his reasons for not being able to climb 70+ stairs after our tour had already started. How unprofessional of the cavern staff!
翻译:大约上午 9:00 到达,我们被问到是想参加“短途旅行还是长途旅行?”。由于我们有一位健康问题的老年人,我们选择参加短途旅行。那天早上只有我们和另一个家庭参加了这次旅行。
进入洞穴后,大约在游览进行到一半时,我们的导游问我们是想参加短途旅行还是长途旅行。奇怪,卖票的妹子都问过这个问题了,为什么现在已经开始了,导游又问这个问题了?
当然,和我们一起的另一个家庭表示他们想参加“长途旅行”,但如前所述,我们已经通知卖票的女孩,我们有一位患有坐骨神经痛的年长先生和我们一起不能处理长途旅行所需的 70 多个步骤。所以,和我们在一起的那位年长的绅士不得不尴尬地再次向所有人解释这件事。
导游告诉我们在原地等候,因为她要带另一个家庭进行长途旅行,并向我们保证很快就会有人来完成短途旅行。所以,我们在黑暗中站在那里,等待另一个人完成我们的旅行。大约五分钟后,一个男人出现了,问我们是否想看看你们可以在洞穴里过夜的地方?
就个人而言,我们来到洞穴是为了看洞穴,而不是被催促花一千美元一晚睡在那里。我们都看过可以在洞穴中睡觉的区域的照片,所以我们拒绝了,并告诉现在正在指导我们的人我们是否可以跳过地下睡眠区的部分,并问他是否可以完成剩下的部分洞穴之旅,因为我们没有一千美元可以花在这样的事情上。
在我们告诉他之后,指导我们的那个人变得非常不高兴,大声说“是的,但大多数人没有意识到一千美元还包括你的饭菜!”这时他拿起身边的一个拖把桶,开始走开。假设我们应该跟着他,我们就沿着他走在我们前面的小路走。他径直走向电梯,将你带回地面。我想这次旅行现在已经结束了,因为我们没有兴趣参观他每晚 1000 美元的洞穴汽车旅馆房间。
很多年前,在他们提供地下睡眠选项之前,我就参加过这次旅行。洞穴本身非常有趣。我只是不喜欢这样的想法,即在我们巡回演出时试图被催促,让我们团队中的老先生不得不在所有人面前解释他的健康状况和他不能这样做的原因,从而让自己难堪在我们的旅行开始后爬上 70 多个楼梯。洞穴工作人员多么不专业!