点评:Many years ago, growing up and visiting Blackpool, the Tower was always the highlight of the visit. You paid to enter, then just wandered around, played the amusements, had a drink and a dance in the ballroom, visited the aquarium, took the lift to the top of the tower. It was a free and easy place to be, you came and went freely, the kids played in Jungle Jims soft play.
Compare that to today. The Aquarium is gone, Jungle Jim's is gone, entry is at controlled times and via controlled and marshalled routes to get to the attraction you've paid for. Every attraction has a different price, a scheduled entry time, and flow control to make sure people enter and leave when they should. The staff are stressed, and at times some of them can be very curt.
Merlin entertainments who run the tower have managed to strip all of the joy and pleasure from what used to be a favourite attraction and turn it into a dull, joyless experience of queuing and being herded like sheep through what used to be a beautiful building, which visitors can no longer just enjoy, the lovely stairways and passage ways are largely blocked by security guards and treated just as a defined path to get customers through the building in the most controlled way.
The end of a wonderful attraction.
翻译:很多年前,我小时候在黑潭长大,每次去那里玩,塔楼总是我旅行的亮点。你买票进去,然后四处逛逛,玩玩各种游乐设施,在舞厅喝点东西,跳个舞,参观水族馆,然后乘电梯到塔顶。那是一个自由自在的地方,你可以自由进出,孩子们在丛林吉姆的软体游乐区玩耍。
相比之下,现在水族馆已经不存在了,丛林吉姆的软体游乐区也已经不存在了,游客只能在规定的时间内通过指定路线进入付费的景点。每个景点都有不同的价格、固定的入场时间和人流控制,以确保游客在规定时间内进出。工作人员压力很大,有时甚至会非常粗鲁。
运营这座塔的默林娱乐公司成功地剥夺了这座曾经备受欢迎的景点的所有乐趣和享受,将其变成了一种沉闷乏味的体验,游客们不得不排队,像羊群一样被赶着穿过这座曾经美丽的建筑。如今,游客们再也无法尽情享受了。原本漂亮的楼梯和通道大部分都被保安人员封锁,仅仅被当作一条固定的通道,以便游客以最受控制的方式穿过大楼。
一个精彩景点的终结。