点评:I am not sure if the struggles we had in visiting this place was worth it.
First they have a primitive reservation system, meaning you are booked by time according to language for a compulsory guided tours. If your language group is full you have to wait for the next scheduled tour in that language, likely over an hour or more.
Next is dealing with only two people at the ticket counter - with a line up around the corner waiting in the rain - using the old piece of paper with the time for the tour written in it. Got it so far?
Then, having countless private tour guides getting priority attention. Remember this is with a line up standing in the rain.
Then, when you go into the rotunda DO NOT leave the rotunda no matter what time is on your ticket, since the unpleasant ticket taker will not let you in again. We had a reservation for 11:00 but since the rain had let up and we had 30 minutes before our tour we left the rotunda to return 15 minutes later. Nope! Buy another ticket. After a heated debate we managed to get in without paying again.
The tour is short and basically, to be honest, boring. Do you really want to know all about the Porto Commercial Association and paintings of the Presidents of the Association over the years? The only highlight was the gilded Arabian Hall. If this building was the “highlight” of your visit to Porto as one review stated, then you sadly missed the many much more interesting places Porto has to offer.
At over E 10. a ticket this “palaces is too expensive for too little at too high a level of frustration.
翻译:我不知道我们参观这个地方时遇到的困难是否值得。
首先,他们有一个原始的预订系统,这意味着你是根据语言按时间预订强制性导游的。如果你的语言组已满,你必须等待下一个预定的以该语言进行的旅行,可能要等一个多小时。
接下来,在售票处只有两个人——在拐角处排着队,在雨中等待——使用写有旅游时间的旧纸。到目前为止明白了吗?
然后,无数私人导游得到优先关注。记住,这是在雨中排队。
然后,当你进入圆形大厅时,无论你的票上的时间是多少,都不要离开圆形大厅,因为令人不快的检票员不会再让你进去。我们预订了 11:00 的票,但因为雨已经停了,我们还有 30 分钟的时间去旅游,所以我们离开了圆形大厅,15 分钟后再回来。不行!再买一张票。经过激烈的争论,我们终于不用再付钱就进去了。
这次游览很短,说实话,基本上很无聊。你真的想了解波尔图商业协会以及多年来协会主席的画作吗?唯一的亮点是镀金的阿拉伯大厅。如果这座建筑是你访问波尔图的“亮点”,正如一篇评论所说,那么你很遗憾错过了波尔图提供的许多更有趣的地方。
一张超过 10 欧元的门票,这个“宫殿”太贵了,太少了,太令人沮丧了。