点评:% day - 4 night- Golden West trip around the tablelands behind Sydney, including a trip on the Hunter River postman boat. This trip - now run by Journeys Beyond - is in restored 1960s carriages. On our trip there were too many people for the lounge and dinning cars to seat as a group. This made for more crowding than on the Ghan or Indian Pacific. Staff were young and many seemed inexperienced, putting more pressure on those older and more experienced staff. The final day was a different set of off-train excursions and a different route to that advertised because of 'track work' closing the main line. The replacement tours were well handed,, but the lunch - called high tea - at the Hydro Hotel was poor, with one one finger sandwich per person and one scone per person plus a fancy cake. The tour visited 2 vineyards: one visit was excellent, the other less good. The single cabins are cramped when the bed is down with no room for the cat, let alone the space to swing it. Twice the table we were seated at had to wait a very long time to be served and no recognition from the staff of that fact.For those that like travel by train in a relaxing manner, this is a great experience, buy luxury it isn't. The price of the trip also tends to mean more older travelers many of whom on our trip had done either The Ghan or the Indian Pacific. The View was that this trip was not yet at the same standard as those journeys/
翻译:为期4天3夜的黄金西部之旅:沿着悉尼后方的台地地区游览,还包括乘坐亨特河邮船的体验。如今这项旅游服务由Journeys Beyond负责运营,所使用的车厢均为经过修复的20世纪60年代款式。在我们这次行程中,旅客人数过多,以至于休息室和餐车根本无法容纳所有人。因此车厢内的拥挤程度甚至超过了乘坐Ghan列车或Indian Pacific列车时的情况。工作人员大多很年轻,很多人似乎缺乏经验,这给那些年纪较大且经验丰富的员工带来了更大压力。最后一天的行程与宣传时有所不同:由于“线路施工”导致主线关闭,我们改走了另一条路线并参加了不同的下车游览项目。替代行程安排得不错,但在Hydro Hotel享用的午餐——号称“高级下午茶”——则相当糟糕:每人只有一个手指三明治、一个司康饼,外加一块华而不实的蛋糕。此趟游览还参观了两家葡萄园:其中一家体验极佳,另一家则差强人意。当床铺放下后,单人车厢变得极为拥挤,连一只猫都挤不下了。更别提还有挥动手臂的空间了。我们所在的桌子对面的那桌人等了非常久才得到服务,而工作人员对此却毫无察觉。对于喜欢以轻松的方式乘坐火车旅行的人来说,这是一次不错的体验,但称不上是奢华之旅。由于票价较高,乘坐这趟列车的多是年纪较大的旅客,我们这一趟的乘客中就有不少人曾经乘坐过“Ghan号”或“印度洋太平洋号”。大家普遍认为,这次旅行的品质尚未达到那些列车的水准。