点评:This is such a magical location of pure beauty and worth visiting for the breath-taking views alone. It is very sadly let down however, by the sheer exploitation and greed in terms of milking every possible penny out of tourists.
Everything here is massively marked-up. As others have said, the parking is ridiculous. It's £7.00 no matter when you arrive. OK it's only staffed between the working part of the day, so technically free after a certain point - but if you were to arrive say, one hour before that - you'll be paying the same £7.00 as someone who's been parked there since opening! Mad.
Even the mini arcade games are expensive. 50p a go for a crane grab? Anywhere else on the Island is 20p. The canteen looked great when we walked in - quickly realising hardly anyone was eating (it was lunchtime too) and quickly found out why. Those supermarket sausage rolls you get from Morrisons and the like? You can get a really crusty one of those which has been sat on the hotplate for hours, for around £4.50 I think - and a cup of tea £3.75 I believe. Really? For a cup of tea? It costs less at a motorway service station for goodness sake.
Finally there's the gift shop. The mark-ups here are insane. Here's a couple of examples - your Vampire Slayer chilli sauce from Garlin Farm across the island is £6.50 but here you'll pay £9.50 for the same thing. As is the Mermaid Gin which is pretty much £42 anywhere on the Island (and £37.50 if you can get a discount depending on the situation). Here? £55.00 a bottle!
The real tragedy is people are obviously paying these hugely overinflated prices. Until they stop, they'll continue to do it - and worse of all, force others to raise their prices too.
My advice is to avoid this place - or better still, go when the car park is unmanned at the very least.
翻译:这里风景如画,美得令人窒息,光是那令人叹为观止的景色就值得一游。然而,令人遗憾的是,这里被一种赤裸裸的剥削和贪婪所蒙蔽,他们想方设法从游客身上榨取每一分钱。
这里的一切都被抬价得离谱。正如其他人所说,停车费简直离谱。无论何时到达,停车费都是7英镑。好吧,停车只在工作时间有人值守,所以理论上来说,过了某个时间点之后是免费的——但如果你提前一个小时到达,你仍然要支付和那些从开门就停在那里的人一样的7英镑!简直疯了。
就连迷你街机游戏都很贵。抓娃娃机一次要50便士?岛上其他地方只要20便士。我们走进餐厅时,它看起来很不错——但很快发现几乎没人吃饭(当时还是午餐时间),我们很快就明白了原因。难道是那种在莫里森超市之类的超市里卖的普通香肠卷吗?你可以花大约 4.5 英镑买到一块在热板上烤了好几个小时、表面酥脆的饼干——一杯茶好像要 3.75 英镑。真的吗?一杯茶?天哪,高速公路服务站的茶都比这便宜。
最后说说礼品店。这里的加价简直离谱。举几个例子——岛上其他地方的 Garlin Farm 出品的“吸血鬼猎人”辣椒酱只要 6.5 英镑,这里却要 9.5 英镑。还有美人鱼金酒,岛上其他地方差不多 42 英镑(如果能拿到折扣,大概 37.5 英镑)。而这里呢?一瓶 55 英镑!
真正的悲剧是,人们显然在为这些虚高的价格买单。除非他们停止这种行为,否则这种现象会一直持续下去——更糟糕的是,还会迫使其他人也提高价格。
我的建议是避开这个地方——或者更好的是,至少在停车场无人值守的时候去。