Some places are just not worth the hype.
Bali. Everyone in Australia loves it but i feel like its been over-tourist-ed (?). And, midgets are so annoying! Theres always a cloud of them buzzing around your head.
The Plitvice Lakes in Croatia. Not because it isn’t beautiful – because it is – but because it’s filled to the brim with tourists from the moment it opens to the moment they close the park. There’s almost no space to walk along the wooden walkways over the water and every two meters there’s someone waving a selfie-stick around almost smacking you in the face. You almost can’t get from A to B because there’s people standing still in the way. You can cross the largest lake by boat, if you’re willing to wait with hundreds of others next to the little dock and wait a few hours before you can actually fit on the boat (you can also walk around the lake, thankfully). I don’t know, perhaps I was there on a bad day, the area itself is stunning, but it’s been so wildly advertised that it turns into a madhouse. Other parks such as Krka or Paklenica were (also) lovely and much less touristy.
Disneyland. Even at 10 years old I found it overcrowded and boring
KENSINGTON PALACE
£20 each for my wife and I. Most of the rooms seemed half empty as if someone had looted the place. The displays which were present weren’t even authentic items. Secured behind thick glass were plain white PAPER replicas of many of the famous gowns worn by royalty. Some of it was worth a look but for £40 we expected a lot more. The staff were really pleasant and helpful, so there is that.
3/10 would not recommend.
Any major city on the US East Coast. Go get your breath taken by the Grand Canyon, or the Badlands of the upper Midwest, or some off-beat little town of less than 20K people near a national park or such. And don’t tell anyone about that town, so we can protect it! 🙂
San Franciscan native here: ANY TOURIST area within SF. Over price, too people-ly and dirty. It’s sad really, because SF is really a pretty city.
I’ve been to the windmills in Holland. What a disapointment.
Niagara Falls! The waterfall itself is amazing and the parks surrounding it are beautiful but walk a block in any direction and it’s tourist traps! Overpriced, tacky, disappointing tourist traps.
Croatian coast. It is beautiful, but too crowded, too expensive, too easy to sell substandard services and accommodation and get away with it because they want to live all year on a couple of months of tourism. It’s basically a tourist trap.
Paris, France.
The entire city smells of p**s and cigarette smoke. The streets are overrun with tourists, and the Eiffel Tower has a bright red roller-coaster cart scaling it. The Louvre was interesting, but everyone had to stand outside in the rain for five hours to go inside for twenty minutes. None of the food I had was any good apart from the bread. It’s become too touristy, and I’d recommend London over it any day.
The big banana is not that big. (In Australia)
The grand canyon.
1. It’s got too many tourists
2. The rest stops on the hike down are always out of TP
3. People die there
4. There is mule c**p ALL OVER the trail
5. It’s just a large hole in the ground. It looks just like it does in pictures. It’s not worth 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Disneyland. I live 5 minutes from the Disneyland in Anaheim, California and it is such a tourist trap. The average family only gets to ride 4 rides in a day, and you will spend more time in a line for rides, the restroom, and for food. To pay that much money per person for entry to stand in line 75% of your visit is insane to me. I do think that every child should get to experience it at least one time, but each year the park and the area surrounding it get more and more crowded.
Stonehenge is such and anticlimax, London Eye is way to expensive for wasting half an hour of your life (plus queuing), Havana was such a dirty and run down city, wouldn’t go back ever. But we had the best every daiquiri with an amazing view from the roof top bar at IBEROSTAR Parque Central, this I can recommend wholeheartedly (no need to be staying at hotel as a guest)
Orlando
I’ve never been, but from what I’ve seen it is the most popular place ever, Universal, Disney, you name it
