点评:I attended Hollybush Santa’s Grotto 30th Nov with my 8 month old, partner and parents. This was the first grotto experience for us, as this is my child’s first Christmas, and what an awful experience it was. We booked a slot for 3pm online which cost £34.95 for a baby and 4 adults, we joined what we thought was the ‘queue’ (no staff around to confirm) at 2:20pm and did not get to see Santa until 4:20pm. What is the point in booking a time slot if you have to queue for 2 hours?! Not only this, the majority of the queue (1hr 30 mins) was outside which was not indicated when booking, so I had to purchase extra hats/gloves for my little one as it was freezing. The garden centre closed at 4:15pm and there was still a huge queue of people waiting to see Santa - despite the fact many families had left due to upset/tired little ones and that they had other places to be. It was so poorly organised, hardly any staff around to ask what was happening, clearly they’d taken on way too many bookings for Sunday hours. Once we finally got into the grotto experience, you could tell the ‘elves’ were trying their best but it also felt rushed and not very magical probably because we’d spent so long waiting. Inside the grotto ‘Santa’ was very pleasant, as were his two assistants. I wouldn’t recommend other people attend this grotto, I have no idea if it has been better in previous years but after my experience I won’t be coming back.
翻译:11月30日,我带着8个月大的宝宝、伴侣和父母去了霍利布什的圣诞老人洞穴。这是我们第一次体验圣诞老人洞穴,因为这是我宝宝的第一个圣诞节,结果却是一次糟糕的经历。我们在网上预订了下午3点的时段,费用为34.95英镑,包含一个婴儿和4位成人。下午2点20分,我们加入了我们以为是“队伍”的地方(周围没有工作人员可以确认),结果直到下午4点20分才见到圣诞老人。如果还要排队2个小时,那预订时段还有什么意义?!不仅如此,大部分队伍(1小时30分钟)都在室外,而预订时并没有说明这一点,所以我不得不给宝宝额外买帽子和手套,因为外面很冷。花园中心下午4点15分就关门了,但仍然有很多人在排队等着见圣诞老人——尽管很多家庭因为孩子太累或不开心而离开了,而且他们还有其他地方要去。组织得非常糟糕,几乎看不到工作人员,根本没人问发生了什么,显然他们周日的预约太多了。好不容易进了圣诞老人洞穴,看得出来“精灵们”尽力了,但感觉很仓促,没什么魔幻感,可能是因为我们等了太久的缘故。洞穴里的“圣诞老人”很和蔼,他的两个助手也很好。我不推荐其他人去这个圣诞老人洞穴,我不知道往年情况如何,但就我这次的经历来说,我不会再来了。