点评:Visited this reserve on 27th June 2024, my opinion is that it is a lovely reserve but really quite badly organised in terms of first time visitors and a very poor show from Yorkshire water in this respect, despite my best efforts [and with know one around to ask] I could not get the entry ticket machine to respond either with cards or cash, it eventually kept some of the money, a £2 coin, and rejected the rest but i was still without a day ticket, also there are some paths to the reserve that are not on the maps or not signed and the whole place suffers from inadequate signage making it even more frustrating trying to navigate my way round for the first time, if it hadn't have been for the only people on the reserve, a lady and a couple who kindly helped me out here it would have been extremely easy to have been totally lost, also, some of the maps mounted on the information boards are actually orientated the wrong way round which made it worse and also according to the literature I was under the impression it was open until 6.00pm only to be told while there, no, its actually 5.30pm so to be sure I had to virtually run back before the gates were locked, rather annoyingly when i arrived back at my car a 'warden' had left a note telling me off for not displaying my ticket!!!, don't they ever check to see if the ticket machine is actually working!! they are obviously not bothered about the lose of revenue here. Great place you could easily spend a good day or more at but very poorly organised for first time visitors unfamiliar with the layout.
Also why restrict visitors to a 5.30/6.00pm time limit in the summer and with no access to one of the hides, I think most people would be happy to pay more for entry initially and not have these quite mean restrictions after having travelled quite a way off the main drag to get here.
翻译:我于 2024 年 6 月 27 日参观了这个保护区,我认为这是一个可爱的保护区,但对于首次游客来说,组织得确实很糟糕,约克郡水在这方面的表现也很差,尽管我尽了最大努力 [并且知道有人可以问],但我无法让入场售票机对卡或现金做出反应,它最终保留了部分钱,一枚 2 英镑的硬币,并拒绝了其余的钱,但我仍然没有一日票,而且有一些通往保护区的路径不在地图上或没有标记,整个地方的标志不足,这让我第一次试图找到路时更加沮丧,如果不是保护区里仅有的两位客人,一位女士和一对夫妇在这里好心地帮助了我,我很容易就迷路了,此外,信息板上安装的一些地图实际上是反方向的,这让情况变得更糟,而且根据文献,我以为它开放到下午 6 点,只是在那里时才被告知,不,实际上是下午 5:30,所以为确保万无一失,我不得不在大门锁上之前跑回去,但当我回到车上时,一位“管理员”留下一张纸条,责备我没出示门票!!!他们难道从来不检查售票机是否正常工作!!他们显然不担心这里的收入损失。这是一个很棒的地方,你可以轻松地在这里度过一天或更长时间,但对于不熟悉布局的初次来访者来说,这里的组织非常糟糕。
此外,为什么在夏季将游客限制在 5:30/6:00pm 的时间限制内,并且不能进入其中一个隐藏区,我想大多数人最初都会很乐意支付更多入场费,而不是在从主干道走了很长一段路才到这里之后受到这些相当苛刻的限制。