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Old 02-12-08, 05:33 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by HunterICX
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Originally Posted by nikimcbee
...and they need to dump the tour guide.
Indeed, in a Museum I like to walk my phase
and dont need a babbling tour guide who is rushing the tour around.

HunterICX
I did write the museum a note about this. My suggestion was to give people a hand-held audio tour (the USS Nautilus tour used to use this) so that people would hear the history, but could also hang out longer in a compartment if they wanted. However, I imagine their reasons for doing the guided tour were a.) in a cramped U-boat it's necessary to keep people moving, else it gets very crowded very quickly; and b.) money. The exhibit was free, but the tour was an extra $5. Worth it once, not worth it twice, especially when the tour guides didn't know much more about the U-boats than was in the script for the tour.

Oh, and Kapitan_Phillips, that's precisely what I said. :p
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