点评:My wife and I visited Inverness Castle while on a short trip. Had we read the reviews on here first we wouldn’t have bothered and we’d have saved £40 instead.
Putting it bluntly, this is not a visit / tour of Inverness Castle.
This is a a series of multimedia experiences regarding the Highlands, narrated by so-called storytellers with a heavy dose of “spirits” (and not the wee dram sort either). A lot of it is multiple voices overlapping which makes it really surreal and very hard to listen to. It’s all style over substance!
There are some highlights: the views from the south tower are spectacular, and the gallery with the embroidery is worth a visit. I did find the topics on the clearances and the witch trials interesting, but they are so brief - blink and you will miss them.
The staff are all really friendly and helpful, and the bistro has a decent selection of food and beverages but it’s free and accessible from the castle grounds. The bistro does have a display about the castle itself and it’s quite interesting - but, again, you don’t need to pay to see it.
We absolutely wouldn’t come back and we absolutely cannot recommend it. Each to their own, of course, and this is just our perspective. From reading the other reviews on here it seems to be a case of you love it or you don’t. We fall strongly into the latter camp.
It’s a shame as the castle is an impressive building with a rich history, almost none of which is on display. There are nods in that direction - the advocates library, the courtroom, the door to a jail cell but they are hidden by the overpowering and overstimulating multimedia extravaganza. On the one hand I can understand the desire to avoid this being just a lot of static exhibits, but the use of multimedia and animation is just too much: it’s omnipresent, overpowering and confusing.
翻译:我和妻子在一次短途旅行中参观了因弗内斯城堡。如果我们事先看过这里的评论,就不会去了,还能省下40英镑。
坦白说,这根本不是参观因弗内斯城堡。
这是一系列关于苏格兰高地的多媒体体验,由所谓的“故事讲述者”解说,其中还掺杂了大量的“灵异”成分(而且不是那种小酌几口的)。很多内容都是多人声音交织在一起,听起来非常不真实,也很难听下去。完全是形式大于内容!
也有一些亮点:从南塔看到的景色非常壮观,刺绣画廊也值得一看。我对有关苏格兰高地驱逐和女巫审判的讲解很感兴趣,但内容太少了——一眨眼就错过了。
工作人员都很友好热情,小酒馆的食物和饮料种类也还不错,而且是免费的,就在城堡里。小酒馆里确实有一个关于城堡本身的展览,挺有意思的——不过,再说一遍,参观是免费的。
我们绝对不会再来,也绝对不推荐这里。当然,萝卜青菜各有所爱,这只是我们的看法。从其他评论来看,似乎大家对这里的评价要么是爱不释手,要么是嗤之以鼻。我们显然属于后者。
这很可惜,因为城堡本身是一座令人印象深刻的建筑,拥有丰富的历史,但几乎没有任何历史遗迹被展示出来。虽然有一些相关的元素——比如律师图书馆、法庭、牢房的门——但它们都被铺天盖地、令人眼花缭乱的多媒体展示所掩盖。一方面,我能理解他们想要避免这里只是一堆静态展品,但多媒体和动画的使用实在太多了:它们无处不在,令人眼花缭乱,而且让人感到困惑。