点评:We visited Welford Park on my wife’s 60th birthday to see the renowned snowdrop display. We’d visited last year - Feb 2023 - and it had been pretty decent, so she’d been looking forward to the date, though had been a little concerned that 23/2 would be ‘late’ in the season. So we waited until 22/2 to book tickets for 5 of us to have a wander - delighted to be able to book the day before and assumed all would be well,
So it was to a lot of dismay that, on arrival, we were advised that the snowdrops were ‘finished’. And they certainly were - never seen so much green and so little white flower.
The diabolical bit; this was sold (at the cost of £56 for 5 of us) as a snowdrop visit. So certainly it’s fallen foul of the trades descriptions act. The gate refused to refund us (don’t worry - letter of official complaint will be forthcoming, with refund requested), but what on earth gives Welford Park the idea that they can still charge the public (and there were lots arriving this morning alongside us) to see their snowdrops when their snowdrops have finished? If I book to watch the cricket at Lords but it rains, I get a refund. How they think they can get away with charging to see non-existent snowdrops is baffling. They’ve finished earlier than Welford may have liked, but that’s just tough. Bandits & robbers. Buyers beware.
They are selling tickets up to 3/3/24 - so there’s over a week more of them robbing customers at this stage!!
翻译:在我妻子 60 岁生日那天,我们参观了韦尔福德公园,观看著名的雪花莲展示。我们去年 - 2023 年 2 月 - 去过那里,情况相当不错,所以她一直期待着这个日期,尽管有点担心 23/2 会在季节中“迟到”。所以我们等到22/2才订了我们5个人的票去逛逛——很高兴能够在前一天订到,并以为一切都会好起来的,
因此,令我们非常沮丧的是,我们到达后被告知雪花莲已经“完成”了。他们确实是——从来没有见过这么多绿色的花和这么少的白花。
恶魔般的一点;这是作为雪花莲之旅出售的(我们 5 个人售价 56 英镑)。所以它肯定违反了商品说明法。大门拒绝给我们退款(别担心 - 官方投诉信很快就会到来,要求退款),但是到底是什么让韦尔福德公园认为他们仍然可以向公众收费(今天早上有很多人到达了我们)等他们的雪花莲完成后去看他们的雪花莲?如果我预订在上议院观看板球比赛,但下雨了,我会得到退款。他们如何认为自己可以通过充电看到不存在的雪花莲,这令人费解。他们的完成时间比韦尔福德希望的要早,但这很难。土匪与强盗。买家要小心。
他们的门票销售截止日期为 24 年 3 月 3 日 - 因此,在这个阶段,他们抢劫顾客的时间已经超过一周了!