M S.
1/5
German version:
Ich bin Englisch Muttersprachler, aber ich versuche meine Erfahrungen hier auf Deutsch zusammenzufassen.
Ich hatte hier leider eine sehr schlechte Erfahrung. Ich war in Zimmer 3 (Mehrbettzimmer) und eine Person hat unglaublich laut geschnarcht,
wahrscheinlich von obstruktive Schlafapnoe. Die Hälfte von uns in diesem Zimmer könnten überhaupt nicht schlafen, und haben deshalb bis zum 50% des Kurses / Seminars verpasst. Am ersten Tag wir haben sofort Bescheid zum Management geben, und Sie haben keine Lösung gefunden, außer zu sagen, dass ich auf dem Boden in einem offensichtlichen Raum schlafen könnte, wo alle jeder Zeit reinkommen könnten. Ich fand das sehr unprofessionell.
Bei zwei Punkte war ich auch sehr überrascht:
1. Sie haben bei 80% der Mahlzeiten Tierprodukte serviert. Ich dachte, wie ein normaler Vipassana Kurs, alles zu essen wäre ohne Tierprodukte. Das ist wirklich ein Widerspruch, meiner Meinung nach, wenn Sie sich als nachhaltig und mitleidig präsentieren wollen.
2. Es gab keine wirkliche Natur. Es gibt nur einen kurzen Pfad, (4 Minuten zum Fuß), der zu einem elektrischen Turm führt. Ansonsten ist die Gelände auf einem steiler Hügel, mit Stromleitungen im Hintergrund. Das Gelände ist gegenüber von einem lauten Straße, und jeder Zeit, dass ich draussen war, sogar von Meditationsraum selbst wenn die Fenster auf waren, könnte ich ab und zu Motorräder hören.
Ich habe viele nette Kursteilnehmer getroffen, und würde mich nächstes mal für einen Kurs irgendwo anders entscheiden.
English version:
I unfortunately had a really bad experience here. I was in room 3, which is a shared room, and one of the people in the room had a very loud
snoring problem, most likely due to sleep apnea. Even before the first evening I notified management about this, because the person was taking a nap as I arrived in the room and I knew it would probably cause a problem. The first evening, within 10 minutes of the person falling asleep, literally half us in the room had to get out of bed because there was no chance we would be able to fall asleep. This started the beginning of a major sleep disruption which caused us to have to leave half-way through the course. We notified the management team about the situation, and instead of finding another place for this person to sleep, which was the obvious solution, they told me that if I wanted to I could go to the public meditation room and sleep on the floor there (no bed), where at any someone may enter. I found this very unprofessional given how much they charge for accommodation.
Beyond this I was negatively surprised by two aspects of this facility:
1.) There served animal products at basically every meal. At most meditation centers (Vipassana probably the most well known), every meal is without question vegan, as this is the ethically and environmentally responsible thing to do. However, because this place tries to sell itself as such, I find this to be quite shocking, and had to go into the kitchen at every meal and ask the cooks what was safe to eat and what wasn't.
2.) I was expecting the facility to be located in nature. It was kind of the opposite. The facility is located on a hill next to a busy road where the noise carries down across the hill. I could hear loud motorbikes going by when I was outside, as well as from within the meditation room while the windows were open. There aren't any real trails for walking/hiking. The only trail is the result of tractor tire divots that were used to clear a path through the trees to install a power line, and this trail is about a 4 minute walk. The facility itself is located on a steep hill, and on the hill is a small amount of walkways with random installations of rocks and flowers, which is usually very crowded (someone walking past you every minute or so, hardly relaxing) and very steep. Looking down across the hill is a large power line.
On the positive side, I met nice people who were also in the course I was taking, but next time I would definitely stay somewhere else.
