点评:Disappointing for the price and not what was advertised
The host was very kind and pleasant, and I appreciate the time she spent with us. However, I left the experience quite disappointed, particularly given the €69/$80 price and what was advertised.
The experience is advertised as a 3-hour berry and mushroom foraging experience with expert knowledge of berries and mushrooms. In reality, the experience lasted approximately two hours at most, and we spent the majority of the time on an established/human-made path rather than actually going deeper into the forest to forage.
Most importantly, I specifically told the host beforehand that I had driven approximately three hours each way—a six-hour round trip—to attend this experience, and that I was particularly excited about learning about and searching for mushrooms. Unfortunately, we did not really spend any time actively looking for mushrooms. When I spotted mushrooms myself and asked what they were, the host was unable to identify them, and I ultimately had to use a mushroom-identification app on my phone to find out what I had found. For an experience that specifically advertises expert mushroom knowledge, this was particularly disappointing.
The berry portion was also underwhelming. We essentially gathered a small amount of wild blueberries, which are extremely easy to find independently on hiking trails and throughout Finland. In fact, I gathered considerably more berries by myself on a separate hike than I did during this experience.
There was also some confusion regarding the berries we foraged. At the end, I asked whether I could keep the berries I had personally gathered, and the host seemed surprised that I wanted to take them. I had assumed that the berries gathered by the guest would be theirs to take home. The host had also collected her own bucket of berries, which I initially assumed might be part of what the guest was able to take home, but she kept those as well. This wasn’t clearly communicated to me beforehand.
Ultimately, I feel that I paid €69 for an experience that amounted largely to picking a few wild blueberries—something visitors can very easily do on their own almost anywhere in Finland. For that price, and especially considering the travel time involved, I expected substantially more instruction, exploration, and actual foraging.
My advice to future guests: if your main interest is simply picking wild blueberries, you can easily do this yourself on a hike in Finland and save the money.
My advice to the host: if mushroom foraging is going to be a central part of the advertised experience, I would strongly encourage putting more emphasis on actively searching for mushrooms with guests and ensuring that you can confidently identify the mushrooms encountered. I would also recommend clearly explaining beforehand what guests can expect to take home from the foraging.
I genuinely wish I had left feeling that the experience was worth the price, but unfortunately, it did not meet the expectations created by the description.
翻译:就价格而言令人失望,也与宣传内容不符
host非常友善亲切,我很感激她花时间陪伴我们。不过,考虑到69欧元/80美元的费用以及宣传内容,这次体验还是让我颇感失望。
宣传中称此为一场时长3小时的浆果与蘑菇采集体验,还能获得相关领域的专业知识讲解。而实际上,整个体验最多也就持续了两个小时左右。我们大部分时间都走在现成的、人工修建的小径上,而并没有真正深入森林里去采蘑菇。
最重要的是,我事先特意告诉主办方,我往返各开了约三个小时的车——总共六个小时的路程——才来参加这次体验活动,而且我非常期待能学习如何寻找蘑菇。可惜的是,我们实际上根本没有花时间主动去寻找蘑菇。当我亲自发现蘑菇并询问它们是什么时,向导却认不出这些蘑菇的种类,最后我只好用手机上的蘑菇识别应用程序来确定自己找到了什么。对于一个明明宣传拥有专业蘑菇知识体验的项目来说,这种结果实在令人失望。
采摘浆果的环节也同样乏善可陈。我们基本上只是采摘了少量野生蓝莓而已,而这些蓝莓在芬兰的徒步小径上其实很容易就能自行找到。事实上,在另一次远足中,我一个人采集到的浆果数量比这次活动中所采到的还要多。
对于我们采集到的浆果,也存在一些误会。活动结束时,我询问能否把我自己采到的浆果带走,主人似乎对我想要带走它们感到很惊讶。我原以为参与者自己采到的浆果都可以带回家。其实主人也采集了一桶她自己的浆果。起初我以为这些东西可能也是游客可以带回家的物品,但她把这些也留了下来。事先并没有有人跟我明确说明这一点。
说到底,我觉得自己花了69欧元所换来的体验,其实不过是采摘了一些野生蓝莓而已——而这种事情游客在芬兰的几乎任何地方都能轻易做到。以这个价格来说,尤其是考虑到往返所需的时间,我原本期望能获得更多的指导、更深入的探索环节以及真正的采野果体验。给未来客人的建议:如果您的主要目的只是采摘野生蓝莓,其实在芬兰徒步时完全可以自己完成这件事,这样还能省下费用。
给房东的建议:如果采蘑菇要成为所宣传体验环节中的重要部分,我强烈建议您多花些精力带领客人一起寻找蘑菇,并确保自己能够准确识别所发现的蘑菇种类。我还建议事先向宾客们清楚说明,他们能从这次采集活动中带回家些什么。
我真心希望离开时能觉得这次体验物有所值,但遗憾的是,它并未达到描述中所营造的预期效果。