点评:We'd looked forward to doing two tours here and had booked well in advance. We booked the Cueva de El Castillo and the Cueva de Las Monedas.
The Tour Leaders could not have been more unwelcoming if they'd tried and were, in essence, deliberately rude, especially at Las Monedas.
At the first tour, El Castillo, there were seven participants, four Germans, two Portuguese and one Spaniard. The guide, who spoke fluent English, started the tour speaking Spanish, which only the Spaniard understood. When we pointed out that only one of us understood what was being said and requested that he gave the tour in English, (which everyone understood), he said that if we wanted him to speak in English we should have booked all seven tickets for the tour and that this was stipulated on the website. No-one of the seven of us had seen any such detail on the web, and when it was pointed out that there was no earthly point in giving an hour-long tour that was only understood by one person he gave the tour in English but with a bad grace.
In Monedas it was worse and though she could have spoken the essence of the tour in English, she refused point blank, not even making sure that the safety instructions were understood by all present. It was in any case a total waste of time, mostly showing the participants stalactites and stalagmites as far as we could make out. The one part of this tour that we understood was the part where she complained about tourists in general and Americans in particular. It was not a pleasant experience.
翻译:我们一直期待着在这里参加两次导览游,因此提前很久就预订了。我们预订了埃尔卡斯蒂略洞穴和拉斯莫内达斯洞穴的游览项目。
那些导游简直糟糕透顶,他们故意表现得极不友善,尤其是在拉斯莫内达斯洞穴那里。
第一次游览是埃尔卡斯蒂略洞穴,共有七名参与者:四名德国人、两名葡萄牙人和一名西班牙人。那位英语流利的导游一开始却用西班牙语讲解,结果只有那个西班牙人能听懂。当我们指出只有我们当中一个人能听懂讲解内容,并请求他用英语进行讲解(这样大家都能听懂)时,他回应称:如果我们希望他讲英语,就应该把七张参观票全部预订下来,而且网站上也有此规定。但我们七个人中根本没人看到过网站上有这样的说明。当有人指出,做一场只有一个人能听懂的、长达一小时的讲解毫无意义时,她还是不情不愿地用英语进行了讲解。
在莫内达斯展区情况更糟:虽然她本可以用英语简要介绍展点内容,但她断然拒绝了,甚至都没确保在场的所有人都能理解安全须知。不管怎么说,那完全是浪费时间。大体上,据我们所能辨认的,导游主要指给我们看的是钟乳石和石笋。这次游览中我们唯一能理解的部分,就是她抱怨普通游客,尤其是美国游客的环节。这绝非一次愉快的体验。