点评:We visited the 2025 Christmas Market as a festive date. Quite impressed with the range of independent stalls selling various things, and decent big wheel as well.
What we were less impressed with was the Christening tree maze. There was nobody manning the entrance and it wasn’t obvious there was an entry fee, so we walked in. The only trees lit up were around the front side of this attraction, which is then really dark at night once you got into it. We decided to come out again after 30 seconds or so, and go on the big wheel next to it.
However, after our ride on the big wheel was complete, when disembarking the gondola there were two market security guards there that took us to one side as they’d had a complaint from the individual running the tree maze that we hadn’t paid for admission, and that we should pay for the entry (£4 each for both of us, for 30 seconds in the maze) or be thrown out of the market altogether!!!
We reluctantly did this, as we’d travelled to Cambridge specifically for this attraction as a romantic date. What became clear later was that it wasn’t just the time we walked into the maze where nobody was at the entrance to it - he was also nowhere to be seen during a later pass of the maze entrance. This made us wonder if it is an intentional part of the business model for the maze!
So it was a decent enough attraction which was let down by some of the individuals running selected elements within it. We’ve laughed about it since, but to be charged £8 for 30 seconds in the maze was not especially funny, especially considering the price of other elements of the market.
翻译:我们趁着节日气氛去了2025圣诞市集。市集里有很多独立摊位,售卖各种各样的商品,摩天轮也很不错,给我们留下了深刻的印象。
不过,洗礼树迷宫却让我们不太满意。入口处没有人,也没有明确标明需要门票,所以我们就进去了。迷宫里只有前面一圈亮着灯的树,进去之后里面就非常黑了。我们待了大概30秒就出来了,然后去玩旁边的摩天轮。
然而,摩天轮结束后,我们下车的时候,发现有两个保安把我们带到一边。原来是迷宫的工作人员投诉我们没买票,说我们必须付钱(我们俩每人4英镑,只玩了30秒),否则就得被赶出市集!
我们很不情愿地去了,因为我们专程来剑桥就是为了体验这个景点,想来一次浪漫约会。后来我们发现,不仅仅是我们第一次走进迷宫时入口处空无一人——之后我们再去迷宫入口时,他也不见踪影。这让我们不禁怀疑,这难道是迷宫经营模式的有意安排吗?
所以,这个景点本身还不错,只是部分工作人员的失职拖了后腿。事后我们拿这件事开玩笑,但花8英镑在迷宫里待30秒实在让人笑不出来,尤其考虑到其他景点的价格。