HOTEL'S WINTER BLUNDER LAND

Family forked out £50 for short train ride and video

- ELEANOR OVENS

A MUM has slammed a luxury hotel’s winter wonderland as a “complete rip off” after paying £50 to “watch a YouTube video projected on to a wall”.

Danica Archibald has vowed never to return to Crieff Hydro, near Perth, after her whole family was left disappointed by their Christmas event.

The 23-year-old visited the hotel’s festive train experience with her mum, sister, and one-year-old daughter, Florence, on November 30.

It was described online as an interactive ride through a glittering winter wonderland, complete with an interactive lighting and audio experience, fairy light tunnels, Christmas trees and music. Customers were able to take home a keepsake bell.

But Danica, who made the twohour round-trip from her Fife home, was shocked to fine the interactive element was a two-minute video of winter animals projected on a screen.

The mum of one claims the winter wonderland consisted of four stalls and an ice rink, while the garden light path featured a snowflake projector and “some fairy lights”.

She vowed never to return to the venue after the “money-making” event lasted under 45 minutes.

She said: “It was described as a winter wonderland experience and we decided to go with the festive train. The website pictures looked amazing.