If you don’t speak, German, this isn’t the right tour for you.
Thurn und Taxis Palace的点评
点评:You have to pay for entrance to the Christmas market, and then go to the ticket office to purchase a tour for another fee. The tour is entirely in German. The only English spoken by the tour guide was for her to emphatically tell me “no pictures allowed.” I was the only person on the tour that needed an audio guide, and she simply handed it to me with no explanation on how to use it or when to start it. She just went off speaking in German, and I followed the group. By the third room, I figured it out myself. But the audio guide was definitely shorter than what she was saying and a lot of time was spent waiting around for her to finish what she was saying so we could move to the next room. Also, the guide talked about rooms that we just walked through and did not stop. Add to that, for an evening tour, it was very poorly lit, and the rooms were dark. It was difficult to see paintings and furnishings that were in the darker parts of the room. Also, the fact that she was speaking German nonstop, made it difficult to concentrate on what the audio guide was saying.
That said, this is one of the best Christmas markets I’ve been to. Knowing what I now know, I would just skip the tour and go to the market.
翻译:进入圣诞市场需要付费,之后还要去售票处购买导览服务,费用另计。导览全程使用德语。导游唯一一次说英语,就是郑重其事地告诉我“禁止拍照”。我是团里唯一需要语音导览的人,她只是把导览递给我,既没有解释如何使用,也没有告诉我何时启动。她就开始用德语讲解,我只能跟着队伍走。到了第三个房间,我才弄明白怎么用。但语音导览的内容明显比她讲的短,我们花了很多时间等她讲完才能去下一个房间。而且,导游讲解的房间我们只是匆匆走过,并没有停留。更糟糕的是,作为一场夜间导览,灯光昏暗,房间里很黑。很难看清房间深处的画作和家具。此外,她不停地用德语讲解,让人很难集中注意力听语音导览。
话虽如此,这仍然是我去过的最好的圣诞集市之一。如果早知道这些,我会直接跳过导览,直接去逛集市。