点评:I knew we were coming to Richmond and researched walking tours online. I wrote to two providers and heard back only from one: Raymond of Richmond Tour Guides.
Since no public tours were scheduled for the season of our visit, we were offered a private tour. Although I am usually too cheap (frugal?) to say yes, I did. And I am glad I did.
Raymond was excellent about communication prior to our tour. He assigned Emily, a former social studies teacher and lifelong Richmonder, to guide us. She was wonderful.
We spent 2 1/2 hours seeing more sites than weever would have found on our own. We spent no time getting lost, which we would have done on our own. And learned more than we could have by reading online. Plus we could ask Emily questions.
This cost about the same as one night in a hotel so consider shortening your stay to take such a tour!
翻译:我知道我们要去里士满,于是在网上搜索了徒步旅行。我给两家供应商写信,但只收到了一家的回复:里士满导游雷蒙德。
由于我们去的这个季节没有安排公共旅游,所以我们被邀请参加私人旅游。虽然我通常太抠门(节俭?)不会答应,但我还是答应了。我很高兴我答应了。
雷蒙德在旅行前的沟通非常出色。他指派了前社会研究老师、终身里士满人艾米丽来给我们当导游。她很棒。
我们花了两个半小时参观了比我们自己能找到的更多的景点。我们没有花任何时间迷路,而我们自己会迷路。我们学到的东西比我们在网上阅读学到的还要多。此外,我们还可以向艾米丽提问。
这大约相当于在酒店住一晚的费用,所以考虑缩短您的住宿时间以参加这样的旅行!