点评:They advertise this as a Tauck tour but in reality 7 of the 11 days were on the French ship, Le Laperouse by Ponant. The initial days in Edinburgh were largely a waste of time. Welcome dinner at 8:00 pm didn’t finish till 10:30. We were exhausted from jet lag. The next to days were spent killing time until we boarded the ship. Museaum on your own for example. Lunch and dinner on your own. We have sailed with Ponant before. This particular ship had a really weird layout. Rooms were small but comfortable. But the upper deck observation lounge had room for only 30 passengers. Ship’s capacity was 150. Almost impossible to get a seat. Swimming pool was the size of a parking space at the rear of deck 3. Food was average but all drinks are included. We encountered bad weather and had to spend an unscheduled night in Stornoway. Weather was not, of course, Tauck’s fault but they had no plans for the extra day in Stornoway. They said everything was booked because another large cruise ship was inbound and all buses and guides were booked. On cruise mapper, there were no other ships with 200 miles. So we were “on our own” again. We missed Skye because of the weather, once again, not Tauck’s fault. Our last day in Glasgow was another killing time day. Museum on your own, lunch on your own, cathedral on you own. Poor value for money
翻译:他们把这次旅行宣传为Tauck旅行社组织的旅游团,但实际上11天行程中有7天都是乘坐Ponant公司的法国船只“勒拉佩鲁兹号”。在爱丁堡的最初几天基本上算是浪费时间。晚上8点开始的欢迎晚宴直到10点半才结束,我们因为时差而疲惫不堪。接下来的两天我们也是无所事事地打发时间,直到登船。比如,只能自己去参观博物馆,午餐和晚餐也都得自己解决。我们以前也曾乘坐过Ponant的船只,但这艘船的布局实在很奇怪。房间虽小但很舒适。不过上层甲板上的观景休息室只能容纳30名乘客,而船只的总载客量为150人,因此几乎不可能抢到座位。3号甲板后方的游泳池大小仅相当于一个停车位。食物水平一般,但所有饮品均免费供应。我们遇到了恶劣天气,不得不在斯托诺韦额外停留一晚。当然,天气状况并非Tauck的过错,只是他们并没有为在斯托诺韦多待一天做好任何安排。他们说所有资源都已被预订一空,因为另一艘大型游轮即将抵达,所有的巴士和导游也都排满了。但在Cruise Mapper上,方圆200英里内并没有其他游轮。所以我们又只能“靠自己”了。由于天气原因,我们又一次没能去到斯凯岛,这并非Tauck的过错。我们在格拉斯哥的最后一天也完全是打发时间而已:自己参观博物馆、自己吃午饭、自己去大教堂。性价比实在太低了。