点评:I have often visited this garden centre over the years as a youngster with my dad fishing/strawberry picking to being an adult bringing my own children on the nature trail and visiting the garden centre cafe.
I work as a support worker and thought I would visit recently with the 88 year old lady I support. We decided to have a little walk around the grounds before going into the garden centre, it was about 10:30 so was very quiet we walked through the area that said discovery land, no one was at the counter so proceeded to walk through thinking you would only pay for the actual discovery walk etc but we just wanted to look at the lake/fish. A gentleman who works for priory farm came running up behind us and asked if we had booked? I said no we didn’t want to do trail we just wanted to see the lake/fish to which he replied we couldn’t without paying £6.95 each? I said not to worry then as was not prepared to spend that to walk to the lake and back which I feel did not warrant that price.
It’s such a shame this was such a disappointing experience for both of us, and not sure how that warrants paying nearly £14, I appreciate they have set charges but a little bit of discretion wouldn’t go a miss ‘maybe go down and have a little look but next time be aware you need to pay’? But no we left even though the place was empty and no one was around?
We did visit the garden centre for a cup of tea but this experience did leave a bitter taste to a generation garden centres are Predominantly know to attract.
I then fed this back to Priory Farm but received no response over 1 week on
翻译:多年来,我经常光顾这家园艺中心:小时候常和爸爸一起来钓鱼或采草莓;成年后则带着自己的孩子沿着自然小径漫步,还会去园艺中心的咖啡馆。
我是一名支援工作者,最近便带着我照顾的一位88岁的老太太前来参观。我们决定先绕着园区走走再进园艺中心。当时大约是10点半,园内十分安静。我们穿过了标有“探索乐园”的区域。收银台那里没人,于是我们就走了进去,原以为只需为参观行程付费即可,其实我们只是想看看湖和鱼罢了。这时,一位在Priory Farm工作的男士从后面跑过来,问我们是否提前预订了?我说没有,我们并不想参加游览路线,只是想看看湖和鱼而已。他则回复说,不付费6英镑的话是不可以进去的。每个95英镑?我当时说不用担心,因为我并不打算花那么多钱只是去湖边走走再回来,我觉得这个价格根本不值。
真可惜,这对我们俩来说都是一次极其失望的体验;我不明白为什么要为此支付近14英镑。我很感激他们设定了收费标准,不过如果能有一点酌情处理的空间就好了——比如“可以进去看看,但下次可要记得付费哦”?然而事实是,尽管店里空无一人、根本没人看守,我们还是被赶走了。
我们确实是去花园中心喝杯茶的,但这次经历却给我们留下了糟糕的印象;要知道,花园中心向来都是以能吸引大众而著称的啊。
随后我把这个情况反馈给了Priory Farm,可整整一周都没有得到任何回复。