点评:Our family of ten took this tour in August 2023. If you are looking to get out on a bike for a few minutes of exercise, then I think you will enjoy this tour. If you are hoping to learn something about Chania or anything about the area, then you may be disappointed.
Our travel agent sold us this tour as a “bike tour with guide” to learn about historic Chania. Unfortunately, the guide doesn’t actually talk to you about any of the areas you stop to visit. You are given earphones connected to a device with a pre-recorded message about all of the stops on the tour.
Unfortunately, out of our group of ten only two of the devices worked. The first 15 minutes of the tour was the guide trying to get the other devices to work, and he couldn't, so we just proceeded on the route. Our thought was that since the pre-recorded information didn’t work, that our guide would tell us about the places we stopped. That didn’t happen. We would just ride up to a historic site, he would press “play” and then wait for 5 minutes. We would pass around the two devices that worked so different people could hear at different times of the tour, but that meant at every single stop 8 members of our family where just staring at a building with no context or information, and the guide made no effort to include everyone who couldn't hear about the buildings.
At one point we asked the “guide” a question about a site, and his response was “I don’t know, it happened before I was born”. Since most of this history was over 1,000 years old, I would think everything happened before he was born!
The guide also had a microphone to use to speak to our group, but the only person who could hear him was the bike right behind him. The signal strength wouldn’t let anyone in position 2 through 10 hear what he was saying, but the person who could hear him said that the only information he said over the microphone was “we are coming up to a stop sign” or something like that.
What upset me the most about this tour is that we were asked ahead of time if we would allow them to take photos or our group to use in their marketing, which I agreed to. They said that they would be sending a copy of the photos to us, which never happened. So every 2-3 minutes we were stopping at a location and just staring at a building – with no information from either the guide or the pre-recorded info – and then every few minutes after that the guide would pull over and ask us to line up our bikes so he could take a photo of us.
In then end, I think we would have preferred to just rent bikes somewhere and go out on our own, because the extra expense of the “guide” wasn’t worth it at all, and stopping every few minutes for a photo shoot got very annoying.
To end on a positive note, the bikes themselves were in good shape and comfortable to ride, I just wish we had learned something that day.
翻译:我们一家十口人于 2023 年 8 月参加了这次旅行。如果您想骑自行车出去锻炼几分钟,那么我想您会喜欢这次旅行。如果您希望了解干尼亚或该地区的任何信息,那么您可能会失望。
我们的旅行社向我们出售了这次旅行,作为“带导游的自行车之旅”,以了解历史悠久的哈尼亚。不幸的是,该指南实际上并没有与您谈论您停下来参观的任何区域。您将获得连接到设备的耳机,其中包含有关旅行中所有站点的预先录制的消息。
不幸的是,我们十人小组中只有两个设备可以工作。旅行的前 15 分钟,导游试图让其他设备正常工作,但他做不到,所以我们就继续按路线行驶。我们的想法是,既然预先记录的信息不起作用,我们的导游就会告诉我们我们停下来的地方。但那并没有发生。我们会骑车到一个历史古迹,他会按“播放”,然后等待 5 分钟。我们会传递两个设备,这两个设备可以让不同的人在旅行的不同时间听到声音,但这意味着在每一站,我们家庭的 8 名成员只是盯着一座没有背景或信息的建筑,导游没有做出任何反应。努力让所有听不到这些建筑的人都参与进来。
有一次,我们向“导游”询问了一个有关网站的问题,他的回答是“我不知道,这发生在我出生之前”。由于这段历史大部分已有1000多年的历史,我想一切都发生在他出生之前!
导游还有一个麦克风可以用来与我们的团队交谈,但唯一能听到他声音的人就是他身后的自行车。信号强度不会让位置 2 到位置 10 的任何人听到他在说什么,但能听到他说话的人说,他通过麦克风说的唯一信息是“我们即将到达停车标志”或类似内容那。
这次旅行最让我不安的是,我们被提前询问是否允许他们拍照或我们的团队用于他们的营销,我同意了。他们说他们会向我们发送照片的副本,但这从未发生过。因此,每隔 2-3 分钟,我们就会在一个地点停下来,只是盯着一座建筑物——导游或预先记录的信息都没有提供任何信息——然后每隔几分钟,导游就会靠边停车并要求我们排队骑上我们的自行车,这样他就可以给我们拍张照片。
最后,我想我们宁愿在某个地方租自行车然后自己出去,因为“导游”的额外费用根本不值得,而且每隔几分钟就停下来拍张照片,这太糟糕了。恼人的。
最后,从积极的方面来说,自行车本身状况良好,骑起来很舒适,我只是希望那天我们学到了一些东西。