点评:You can’t help juggling several thoughts when seeing this property. The house is amazing and quite over the top like all mansions are. It’s easy to resent the ruthless robber baron methods by which such a property comes to be and you do think about that as you are touring this beautiful property. But having been built, I do find myself admiring the family's effort to fully maintain the mansion. I would think it a travesty to build such a wonder and then let it deteriorate. I appreciate their finding a way to share the property with others with this tour.
The tour is expensive but I thought it was well organized, thoughtful and informational. The guided tour answered almost all the questions that I would have asked. They showed you everything you could have hoped to see.
It was decorated for the holidays which added to the feeling that this was someone’s home. They tried to present the family in the best possible light. However if you researched more, you found out that the family dealt with family drama and disappointment no less than everyone else, but clearly on a different scale.
The staff was wonderful and helpful at all times.
I did not care for the light show Lumiere and I would not recommend. It was a little too much self promotion for me. I think the intent was to showcase the history of the home, but I thought the house tour did that sufficiently.
翻译:看到这座豪宅时,脑海中会冒出诸多念头。这栋房子简直美得令人惊叹,也和所有豪宅一样气派非凡。很容易让人联想到建造这样一座豪宅所采用的那些冷酷无情的资本积累手段;在参观这座美丽庄园时,这些念头也会不自觉地浮现出来。不过,既然它已经建成,我也不禁钦佩这家人为精心维护这座豪宅所付出的努力。如果建造出如此杰作却任其荒废,那才真是一种遗憾啊。我很欣赏他们通过这次导览,找到了让他人也能参观这座宅邸的方法。
虽然导览费用不菲,但我觉得组织得相当出色,处处体现出周全的考量且信息丰富。导游解答了几乎所有我可能会提出的问题,也带我们参观了所有值得一看的地方。
当时宅邸正在进行节日装饰,这更让人感觉它的确是某人的家。他们努力以最好的方式展现这家人。不过,如果你做更多调查的话……你会发现,这个家庭也和其他人一样面临着家庭纷争与种种失望,只不过规模显然更为庞大罢了。
工作人员始终热情周到且乐于助人。
我不太喜欢“Lumiere”灯光秀,也不推荐大家去观看。对我来说,那种自我宣传的成分有点过多了。虽然初衷大概是想展示这座宅邸的历史,但我觉得普通的参观导览就已经很好地做到了这一点。