点评:I have been coming to Storyland since I was a little kid. I've been bringing my kids here since I've had them. That's over 36 years visiting this park. It used to be a great park for kids and families. This year, we bought our tickets online early when they were on sale. Parking was described on the website as free. However, on our recent visit (Aug. 20, '24), we encountered a problem before we even parked. There is now a fee of $10 to park in the regular parking lot. All the flyers and brochures that advertise StoryLand state that parking is FREE, as did the website when buying tickets. (They have now revised the website to clarify that you can still park for free across the street, if that lot is not full, but there is no signage upon arriving that says this.) What's worse is when you try to pay the $10 on the link they provide, it says there is a service fee of $1.50 to pay. So, it's really $11.50! The agent who checked us into the park semi-apologized for this by saying the parking fee was added only a month ago, and it's "a third-party" that charges it. Whatever that means.
As to the park itself: many of the rides are still operating as in the past. They even added a water-park-type section. But several rides are inexplicably closed. No more large swan boat. The pirate boat was closed when we went as well. The Los Bravos Mine Tour was, once again (like every year the past few years in August) "closed for the season." (See the photo.) Why? When we visited in August prior to 5 or so years ago, it was always open.
And the park itself was not only full of trash everywhere, but not one bathroom was reasonably clean. Some had doors that wouldn't lock. In the past, the bathrooms were cleaned throughout the day due to high volume of visitors. You can't expect a family amusement park to preserve clean bathrooms all day without staff to clean it!
So, there are enough reasons to avoid this park until (and IF) the new managers rectify these problems.
翻译:我从小就来 Storyland。自从我有了孩子,我就一直带他们来这里。我已经来这个公园 36 年了。它曾经是一个适合孩子和家庭的好公园。今年,我们在门票发售时提前在网上购买了门票。网站上说停车是免费的。然而,在我们最近的一次访问中(24 年 8 月 20 日),我们在停车前就遇到了一个问题。现在在普通停车场停车要收取 10 美元的费用。所有宣传 StoryLand 的传单和小册子都说停车是免费的,买票时的网站也是如此。(他们现在已经修改了网站,澄清说如果停车场没有满,你仍然可以在街对面免费停车,但到达时没有标牌说这一点。)更糟糕的是,当你试图在他们提供的链接上支付 10 美元时,它说要支付 1.50 美元的服务费。所以,实际上是 11.50 美元!为我们办理入住手续的工作人员对此表示了歉意,他说停车费是一个月前才增加的,是“第三方”收取的。不管那是什么意思。
至于公园本身:许多游乐设施仍像过去一样运营。他们甚至增加了一个水上乐园式区域。但几个游乐设施莫名其妙地关闭了。没有大天鹅船了。我们去的时候海盗船也关闭了。洛斯布拉沃斯矿山之旅再次(就像过去几年每年 8 月一样)“因季节原因关闭”。(见照片。)为什么?大约五年前,我们在 8 月参观时,它一直开放。
公园本身不仅到处都是垃圾,而且没有一间浴室是比较干净的。有些浴室的门锁不上。过去,由于游客数量众多,浴室全天都会打扫。你不能指望一个家庭游乐园在没有工作人员打扫的情况下全天保持浴室干净!
因此,有足够的理由避开这个公园,直到(并且如果)新管理人员纠正这些问题。