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Magical Castle Christmas!
利兹城堡的点评
点评：We have stayed at Leeds Castle in their B&B accommodation a few times and it's always a wonderful experience.
This year we again timed this to coincide with their Christmas overlay and their night-time Illuminations, as this proved to be a good idea on a previous visit.
It is worth noting that the illuminations are charged separately and not included with daytime castle admission (and vice versa.) The extra price is competitive compared to other similar events though.
I'll break down the experience - which was almost entirely positive - into the relevant different component parts. Castle daytime, illuminations and B&B.
The Castle itself is always majestic, being a "proper" moated castle of the sort you imagine in childhood from storybooks. The current theming and displays play up the early 20th century history of the property but doesn't neglect its earlier legacy too. They are always brave in the comprehensive level to which their Christmas overlay is allowed to take over the rooms inside, to a degree I think the National Trust would shy away from. This is all for the good as there's so much lovely detail to explore in the way the rooms have been set up. (If you are coming for the first time AND your main interest is the property's internal contents, perhaps the Christmas season is not for you, but it was lovely from our perspective.) All Castle staff and guides were friendly and welcoming - even those stationed outside who must have been feeling the cold!
This year's theme was "Neverland" (and it was great to see that they were supporting/fundraising for Great Ormond Street Hospital alongside this, in keeping with the spirit of JM Barrie's original donation of the rights to "Peter Pan".) As in previous years there were actors inside the castle playing roles from the book. We met Captain Hook, Tinkerbell and Peter Pan himself. As an adult couple who were walking through the castle on our own, not with a group of children, we were pleased that the actors were allowed to ad lib appropriately around their characters, not being forced to stick to a script that might be rendered irrelevant with no children present. ("Hello girls and boys..." etc falls dead if it's just two grown-ups present.) They DID stay in character - and were witty and fun - but weren't needlessly childish. The castle's Christmas decorations were beautiful, with gorgeous trees in almost every room!
The grounds by daytime are always well worth exploring, even without the illuminations, and it was nice that the "festival" area (with the street food stalls and fairground rides) was open during the day too. The usual refreshment areas and restaurant were open too and were busy but not overrun. It was also our first visit since the pavilion was restored and reopened as a second-hand bookshop, which was nice to see and well worth visiting.
Since we were staying overnight, we didn't have to worry about booking separate car parking as we were parked onsite already. There was access from the accommodation/main castle into the illuminations at the halfway point ( we still had to show our tickets.) The lights and music were very well themed, with none of the sounds overlapping or clashing and lots of different effects including real fire and water fountain shows too - and even Father Christmas in person meeting and greeting by his cabin! A couple of areas got busy with people wanting photos with the light tunnels behind them - and who wouldn't want this, as this is one of the headline "selfie" images of all illumination events - but no area felt overcrowded and with a little patience everyone was able to get what they wanted.
The festival rides/food area was open at night, of course, and although busy was not overwhelming and, although expensive was also comparable in price to other equivalent events, so this seemed fair. It was also VERY nice to see not just one but a proper variety of gluten free options, with at least three of the different food stalls having something available, which gave my wife a nice choice instead of the usual "there's just this one thing" or worse. For reference, crumble and custard in a cup was £9, hog roast in a bap with a cup of roast potatoes was £13.50.
Marshmallows for toasting - a big trend and I suspect great profit generator - were £6 (down from £7 earlier in the season, perhaps after pushback in other, earlier reviews.) We avoided these as this - despite again being equivalent to the same thing elsewhere - just feels like poor value. (To be clear, it's poor value everywhere else too. It just strikes me as a really easy profit driver/cash-in that stands out as a recent bad trend at winter events.)
Being able to stay at the Castle remains for us one of the best value short breaks we've found. Once you factor in two days access to the castle and grounds (including the precious "out of hours" times when the public have gone home), the included breakfast, the forward parking right next to the castle (instead of walking from the other side of the grounds) AND the great room, it's amazing value. The rooms are lovely, well fitted out and (importantly at this time of year) so warm that my glasses misted up when we came in from outdoors! For the first time (perhaps due to the proximity of the Father Christmas visit room and/or the education room) we did find that our sleep was disturbed about 7am by particularly noisy housekeeping staff allowing doors downstairs/in the courtyard to slam and using vacuum cleaners at that early time as well. This has not happened before so might be a one-off or an emergency. You can't help the noise a hoover makes if someone's spilled something, but you can at least hold a door to make it close quietly if you know it slams loudly and people are sleeping nearby.
Breakfast was lovely too - and again it was good to have GF options available - and we were able to enjoy the grounds and castle for a second day before we left.
Leeds Castle is somewhere we often recommend to those looking for a day or two away as it's such a great experience.
This year we again timed this to coincide with their Christmas overlay and their night-time Illuminations, as this proved to be a good idea on a previous visit.
It is worth noting that the illuminations are charged separately and not included with daytime castle admission (and vice versa.) The extra price is competitive compared to other similar events though.
I'll break down the experience - which was almost entirely positive - into the relevant different component parts. Castle daytime, illuminations and B&B.
The Castle itself is always majestic, being a "proper" moated castle of the sort you imagine in childhood from storybooks. The current theming and displays play up the early 20th century history of the property but doesn't neglect its earlier legacy too. They are always brave in the comprehensive level to which their Christmas overlay is allowed to take over the rooms inside, to a degree I think the National Trust would shy away from. This is all for the good as there's so much lovely detail to explore in the way the rooms have been set up. (If you are coming for the first time AND your main interest is the property's internal contents, perhaps the Christmas season is not for you, but it was lovely from our perspective.) All Castle staff and guides were friendly and welcoming - even those stationed outside who must have been feeling the cold!
This year's theme was "Neverland" (and it was great to see that they were supporting/fundraising for Great Ormond Street Hospital alongside this, in keeping with the spirit of JM Barrie's original donation of the rights to "Peter Pan".) As in previous years there were actors inside the castle playing roles from the book. We met Captain Hook, Tinkerbell and Peter Pan himself. As an adult couple who were walking through the castle on our own, not with a group of children, we were pleased that the actors were allowed to ad lib appropriately around their characters, not being forced to stick to a script that might be rendered irrelevant with no children present. ("Hello girls and boys..." etc falls dead if it's just two grown-ups present.) They DID stay in character - and were witty and fun - but weren't needlessly childish. The castle's Christmas decorations were beautiful, with gorgeous trees in almost every room!
The grounds by daytime are always well worth exploring, even without the illuminations, and it was nice that the "festival" area (with the street food stalls and fairground rides) was open during the day too. The usual refreshment areas and restaurant were open too and were busy but not overrun. It was also our first visit since the pavilion was restored and reopened as a second-hand bookshop, which was nice to see and well worth visiting.
Since we were staying overnight, we didn't have to worry about booking separate car parking as we were parked onsite already. There was access from the accommodation/main castle into the illuminations at the halfway point ( we still had to show our tickets.) The lights and music were very well themed, with none of the sounds overlapping or clashing and lots of different effects including real fire and water fountain shows too - and even Father Christmas in person meeting and greeting by his cabin! A couple of areas got busy with people wanting photos with the light tunnels behind them - and who wouldn't want this, as this is one of the headline "selfie" images of all illumination events - but no area felt overcrowded and with a little patience everyone was able to get what they wanted.
The festival rides/food area was open at night, of course, and although busy was not overwhelming and, although expensive was also comparable in price to other equivalent events, so this seemed fair. It was also VERY nice to see not just one but a proper variety of gluten free options, with at least three of the different food stalls having something available, which gave my wife a nice choice instead of the usual "there's just this one thing" or worse. For reference, crumble and custard in a cup was £9, hog roast in a bap with a cup of roast potatoes was £13.50.
Marshmallows for toasting - a big trend and I suspect great profit generator - were £6 (down from £7 earlier in the season, perhaps after pushback in other, earlier reviews.) We avoided these as this - despite again being equivalent to the same thing elsewhere - just feels like poor value. (To be clear, it's poor value everywhere else too. It just strikes me as a really easy profit driver/cash-in that stands out as a recent bad trend at winter events.)
Being able to stay at the Castle remains for us one of the best value short breaks we've found. Once you factor in two days access to the castle and grounds (including the precious "out of hours" times when the public have gone home), the included breakfast, the forward parking right next to the castle (instead of walking from the other side of the grounds) AND the great room, it's amazing value. The rooms are lovely, well fitted out and (importantly at this time of year) so warm that my glasses misted up when we came in from outdoors! For the first time (perhaps due to the proximity of the Father Christmas visit room and/or the education room) we did find that our sleep was disturbed about 7am by particularly noisy housekeeping staff allowing doors downstairs/in the courtyard to slam and using vacuum cleaners at that early time as well. This has not happened before so might be a one-off or an emergency. You can't help the noise a hoover makes if someone's spilled something, but you can at least hold a door to make it close quietly if you know it slams loudly and people are sleeping nearby.
Breakfast was lovely too - and again it was good to have GF options available - and we were able to enjoy the grounds and castle for a second day before we left.
Leeds Castle is somewhere we often recommend to those looking for a day or two away as it's such a great experience.
翻译：我们曾多次入住利兹城堡的民宿，每次都是一次美妙的体验。
今年我们再次特意安排时间，赶上他们的圣诞主题装饰和夜间灯光秀，因为上次的体验证明这是个不错的选择。
需要注意的是，灯光秀是单独收费的，不包含在白天的城堡门票内（反之亦然）。不过，与其他类似活动相比，这个额外价格还是很有竞争力的。
我会将这次体验——几乎全程都是好评——分解成几个部分：城堡白天的游览、灯光秀和民宿住宿。
城堡本身总是雄伟壮丽，是一座名副其实的护城河城堡，就像你小时候在故事书里想象的那样。目前的装饰和展览突出了城堡20世纪初的历史，但也没有忽略它更早的遗迹。他们总是大胆地将圣诞主题装饰延伸到城堡内部的各个房间，其规模之大，我想英国国民信托基金会可能都会望而却步。这一切都非常棒，因为房间的布置处处都充满了值得探索的精美细节。（如果您是第一次来，而且主要兴趣在于城堡内部的装饰，那么圣诞季可能不太适合您，但从我们的角度来看，那真是太棒了。）城堡的所有工作人员和导游都非常友好热情——即使是那些在外面值班、肯定很冷的工作人员也一样！
今年的主题是“梦幻岛”（很高兴看到他们同时也在为大奥蒙德街儿童医院筹款，这与J·M·巴里最初捐赠《彼得·潘》版权的精神一脉相承）。和往年一样，城堡里有演员扮演书中的角色。我们遇到了胡克船长、小叮当和彼得·潘本人。作为一对独自参观城堡的成年夫妇，而不是带着一群孩子，我们很高兴演员们可以根据角色即兴发挥，而不是被迫拘泥于剧本，以免在没有孩子在场的情况下显得不合时宜。 （如果只有两个大人在场，“嗨，孩子们……”之类的打招呼就显得很冷清。）他们的确保持了角色扮演的状态——而且风趣幽默——但又不显得幼稚。城堡的圣诞装饰非常漂亮，几乎每个房间都有美丽的圣诞树！
即使没有灯光秀，白天的城堡也总是值得一逛。令人欣喜的是，“节日”区（有街头小吃摊和游乐设施）白天也开放。通常的茶点区和餐厅也都营业，虽然人很多，但并不拥挤。这也是我们自凉亭修复并重新开放为二手书店以来第一次来这里，很高兴看到它焕然一新，非常值得一去。
因为我们在这里过夜，所以不用担心单独预订停车位的问题，因为我们已经把车停在了城堡里。从住宿区/主城堡可以进入灯光秀的中途区域（我们仍然需要出示门票）。灯光和音乐的主题性很强，各种声音和谐交融，没有重叠或冲突，还有许多不同的特效，包括真正的火焰和喷泉表演——甚至圣诞老人还亲自在他的小屋旁与大家见面！一些区域人很多，大家都想以灯光隧道为背景拍照——谁不想呢，毕竟这是所有灯光秀活动中最受欢迎的“自拍”之一——但所有区域都不拥挤，只要有点耐心，每个人都能拍到自己想要的照片。
节日游乐设施/美食区当然在晚上也开放，虽然人很多，但并不拥挤，而且价格虽然贵，但与其他同类活动相比也算合理，所以感觉还算公道。更令人惊喜的是，这里不仅有一种，而是有多种无麸质食品可供选择，至少有三个不同的食品摊位提供无麸质食品，这让我妻子有了很好的选择，而不是像往常那样只有“这一种”甚至更糟糕的选择。作为参考，一杯酥皮点心配蛋奶沙司售价 9 英镑，烤乳猪面包配一杯烤土豆售价 13.50 英镑。
烤棉花糖——一种很流行的甜点，我怀疑是商家的摇钱树——售价 6 英镑（比季初的 7 英镑有所下降，可能是因为之前其他评论的批评）。我们没有点这些，因为尽管它们和其他地方的同类产品价格差不多，但感觉性价比不高。（需要说明的是，其他地方的棉花糖也不划算。我只是觉得这是一种很容易就能赚到钱的手段，也是最近冬季活动中一个比较突出的糟糕趋势。）
对我们来说，入住城堡仍然是我们找到的最划算的短途旅行之一。考虑到两天内可以自由参观城堡和花园（包括宝贵的“非开放时间”，即公众离开后的时间），以及包含的早餐，酒店前面的停车场就在城堡旁边（不用从庄园另一边走过来），而且房间宽敞，性价比超高。房间很漂亮，设施齐全，而且（在这个季节尤其重要）非常暖和，我们从外面进来的时候眼镜都起雾了！不过，我们第一次发现（可能是因为靠近圣诞老人见面室和/或教育室），早上7点左右，客房服务人员特别吵闹，楼下/庭院里的门砰砰地关上，而且还用吸尘器，吵得我们睡不好觉。这种情况以前从未发生过，所以可能是个例或者紧急情况。如果有人洒了东西，吸尘器发出噪音是无法避免的，但如果你知道门砰砰地关上，而且附近有人睡觉，至少可以轻轻地关上门。
早餐也很棒——而且再次感谢酒店提供无麸质食品——离开前，我们还能再享受一天的庄园和城堡。
利兹城堡是我们经常向那些想出去玩一两天的人推荐的地方，因为它能带来非常棒的体验。
今年我们再次特意安排时间，赶上他们的圣诞主题装饰和夜间灯光秀，因为上次的体验证明这是个不错的选择。
需要注意的是，灯光秀是单独收费的，不包含在白天的城堡门票内（反之亦然）。不过，与其他类似活动相比，这个额外价格还是很有竞争力的。
我会将这次体验——几乎全程都是好评——分解成几个部分：城堡白天的游览、灯光秀和民宿住宿。
城堡本身总是雄伟壮丽，是一座名副其实的护城河城堡，就像你小时候在故事书里想象的那样。目前的装饰和展览突出了城堡20世纪初的历史，但也没有忽略它更早的遗迹。他们总是大胆地将圣诞主题装饰延伸到城堡内部的各个房间，其规模之大，我想英国国民信托基金会可能都会望而却步。这一切都非常棒，因为房间的布置处处都充满了值得探索的精美细节。（如果您是第一次来，而且主要兴趣在于城堡内部的装饰，那么圣诞季可能不太适合您，但从我们的角度来看，那真是太棒了。）城堡的所有工作人员和导游都非常友好热情——即使是那些在外面值班、肯定很冷的工作人员也一样！
今年的主题是“梦幻岛”（很高兴看到他们同时也在为大奥蒙德街儿童医院筹款，这与J·M·巴里最初捐赠《彼得·潘》版权的精神一脉相承）。和往年一样，城堡里有演员扮演书中的角色。我们遇到了胡克船长、小叮当和彼得·潘本人。作为一对独自参观城堡的成年夫妇，而不是带着一群孩子，我们很高兴演员们可以根据角色即兴发挥，而不是被迫拘泥于剧本，以免在没有孩子在场的情况下显得不合时宜。 （如果只有两个大人在场，“嗨，孩子们……”之类的打招呼就显得很冷清。）他们的确保持了角色扮演的状态——而且风趣幽默——但又不显得幼稚。城堡的圣诞装饰非常漂亮，几乎每个房间都有美丽的圣诞树！
即使没有灯光秀，白天的城堡也总是值得一逛。令人欣喜的是，“节日”区（有街头小吃摊和游乐设施）白天也开放。通常的茶点区和餐厅也都营业，虽然人很多，但并不拥挤。这也是我们自凉亭修复并重新开放为二手书店以来第一次来这里，很高兴看到它焕然一新，非常值得一去。
因为我们在这里过夜，所以不用担心单独预订停车位的问题，因为我们已经把车停在了城堡里。从住宿区/主城堡可以进入灯光秀的中途区域（我们仍然需要出示门票）。灯光和音乐的主题性很强，各种声音和谐交融，没有重叠或冲突，还有许多不同的特效，包括真正的火焰和喷泉表演——甚至圣诞老人还亲自在他的小屋旁与大家见面！一些区域人很多，大家都想以灯光隧道为背景拍照——谁不想呢，毕竟这是所有灯光秀活动中最受欢迎的“自拍”之一——但所有区域都不拥挤，只要有点耐心，每个人都能拍到自己想要的照片。
节日游乐设施/美食区当然在晚上也开放，虽然人很多，但并不拥挤，而且价格虽然贵，但与其他同类活动相比也算合理，所以感觉还算公道。更令人惊喜的是，这里不仅有一种，而是有多种无麸质食品可供选择，至少有三个不同的食品摊位提供无麸质食品，这让我妻子有了很好的选择，而不是像往常那样只有“这一种”甚至更糟糕的选择。作为参考，一杯酥皮点心配蛋奶沙司售价 9 英镑，烤乳猪面包配一杯烤土豆售价 13.50 英镑。
烤棉花糖——一种很流行的甜点，我怀疑是商家的摇钱树——售价 6 英镑（比季初的 7 英镑有所下降，可能是因为之前其他评论的批评）。我们没有点这些，因为尽管它们和其他地方的同类产品价格差不多，但感觉性价比不高。（需要说明的是，其他地方的棉花糖也不划算。我只是觉得这是一种很容易就能赚到钱的手段，也是最近冬季活动中一个比较突出的糟糕趋势。）
对我们来说，入住城堡仍然是我们找到的最划算的短途旅行之一。考虑到两天内可以自由参观城堡和花园（包括宝贵的“非开放时间”，即公众离开后的时间），以及包含的早餐，酒店前面的停车场就在城堡旁边（不用从庄园另一边走过来），而且房间宽敞，性价比超高。房间很漂亮，设施齐全，而且（在这个季节尤其重要）非常暖和，我们从外面进来的时候眼镜都起雾了！不过，我们第一次发现（可能是因为靠近圣诞老人见面室和/或教育室），早上7点左右，客房服务人员特别吵闹，楼下/庭院里的门砰砰地关上，而且还用吸尘器，吵得我们睡不好觉。这种情况以前从未发生过，所以可能是个例或者紧急情况。如果有人洒了东西，吸尘器发出噪音是无法避免的，但如果你知道门砰砰地关上，而且附近有人睡觉，至少可以轻轻地关上门。
早餐也很棒——而且再次感谢酒店提供无麸质食品——离开前，我们还能再享受一天的庄园和城堡。
利兹城堡是我们经常向那些想出去玩一两天的人推荐的地方，因为它能带来非常棒的体验。
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