1/5 Matthew H. 1 year ago on Google
Extremely
dull
gardens
and
underwhelming.
Central
Paris
has
many
gardens
that
are
better
kempt,
hold
more
interest
and
are
free.
It
appears
that
the
garden
are
free
during
the
autumn
and
winter,
but
charge
for
entry
during
the
spring
and
summer
(about
8
euro).
They
appear
to
justify
this
by
promising
'musical
gardens',
which
really
just
means
that
they
pump
classical
music
through
speakers
dotted
around
the
place...
There
is
no
live
performance.
The
printed
guidebook,
available
at
the
venue,
also
promises
that
water
features
will
dance
in
time
with
the
music
-
but
when
I
went,
only
one
water
feature
danced
with
music
while
another
was
simply
on
all
the
time
(no
music)
and
another
had
no
music...
Moreover,
the
majority
of
the
water
features
were
not
even
on
-
so
you
just
traipse
from
one
bowl
of
tepid
water
to
another...
Furthermore,
the
entire
upper
section
of
the
gardens
were
closed
off
as
a
stage
was
being
set
up
-
yet
we
still
paid
the
full
fare
for
entry!
The
gardens
themselves
were
extremely
dull.
I
know
this
is
not
the
fault
of
the
venue
itself
-
it
reflects
how
the
gardens
were
historically
-
but
the
repetitious
mathematical
planting
and
ceaseless
green
with
no
other
colour
is
tiresome.
No
texture,
no
interest,
very
little
water,
very
little
music...
Toilets
and
cafés
are
few
and
far
between.
Personally,
would
recommend
giving
this
one
a
miss.
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