点评:Swanage Pier – bring your wallet, and apparently your patience
We paid £7 to park for three hours and, quite reasonably, presumed that parking near the pier might include access to the pier itself. Apparently not. Walking onto the pier is an additional £2.30 per person — and there were five of us. For what exactly? There’s very little on the pier, so we decided it really wasn’t worth another £11.50 on top of the already rather hefty parking charge.
Unfortunately, the experience was made considerably less pleasant by the older man and woman on the gate, who were unfriendly and unnecessarily disagreeable. Having decided not to pay to go onto the pier, we returned to the car a few times to drop things off. Each time, we were accosted and reminded that we had to pay to access the pier. We had understood the pricing perfectly well the first time!
We also witnessed them speaking to a family with a woman in a wheelchair. The family asked whether the charge was £2.30 per person. The woman on the gate replied that it was — but that “wheelchairs were free”. I’m still not entirely sure whether the implication was that the person in the wheelchair no longer counted as a person, or whether the chair itself was free. Either way, it was an unfortunate choice of words.
Perhaps the pier is worth visiting if you particularly want to walk along it, but for us, £7 to park plus £2.30 each to walk onto a fairly unremarkable pier was a hard pass.
Save yourself the extortionate parking charge, the additional admission fee and, frankly, the repeated accosting — park on the road instead.
翻译:斯沃尼奇码头——记得带上钱包,还有耐心哦
我们花了7英镑停放车辆3小时,原本理所当然地以为在码头附近停车就能自由进入码头区域。但事实并非如此。要步行上码头还需每人额外支付2.30英镑——而我们一共有五个人。到底为了什么呢?码头上其实没什么可看的,因此我们觉得,在已经不菲的停车费之外再花11.50英镑实在不值得。
可惜……那个年纪较大的男女售票员态度冷淡且故意刁难,使得我们的体验大打折扣。我们决定不花钱进入码头,于是几次返回车边取东西。每次我们都被他们拦下,并被提醒必须付费才能进入码头。其实我们第一次就已经完全理解了收费标准!
我们还看到他们对着一个坐着轮椅的女性及其家人说话。那家人询问收费是否是每人2.30英镑。门口的女工作人员回答说是的——不过“轮椅使用者可以免费”。我仍然不确定她的意思究竟是坐在轮椅上的人不再被算作“一个人”,还是说轮椅本身可以免费使用。不管怎样,这种措辞实在不妥。
如果你特别想沿着码头散步,或许值得一去;但对我们来说,7英镑的停车费再加上2英镑的费用……花30美元去走上一个平淡无奇的码头,实在不值得。
省下那高昂的停车费、额外的入场费,还有那些没完没了的搭讪吧——干脆把车停在路边好了。