What popular places are overrated?

Especially for the opera in late summer. Watching Aida on a warm evening at 11pm with a glass of fizz or aperol.

Why? I know someome who goea a lot . What dis you find awful aboit it ? I'm genuinely curious.

Cotswold is too chocolate boxy. Full stop..Like a theme park for the new rich.

But true

Loved Bettys when i went.....20 years ago.... still love m and s but the food isnt as good as when i was a kid and my mum used to buy delicious treats from there....lets be honest. Nothings as good as it used to.be inless you pay a fortune

I go to the Betty's in Ilkley quite a bit when I am over that way visiting an elderly relative. I really like it, both the shop and the cafe. The Betty's at the RHS gardens at Harlow Carr (near Harrogate) is always busy.

Butlins (crappy, overpriced, not nice to stay somewhere where there’s needles shoved down the sides of beds and clear rat droppings)
Park dean (we were at one and someone go shot in the caravan next door)
Any shop that sells “naice” clothes like joules, M&S and boundary mills. It’s all horrifically overpriced gross blouses and mum jeans in my opinion. I hate how the clothes make everyone look like a clone, there’s no individuality.

Windermere - possibly the most rubbish part of the Lake District but perpetually rammed with tourists. You don't even get the kind of epic mountain views that you can from other lakes like Buttermere or Ullswater, and they're always quieter. Luckily there are vast areas of the Lakes that are so mind-bendingly beautiful, that it's easy just to ignore the tourist trap of Windermere and the immediate area.

I think you’ll find there’s a trout farm

Macdonalds , Costa, Starbucks

St Ives in Cornwall? One of my favourite holiday destinations! But definitely better not to go during peak summer season.

Scary to climb though....

Statue of Liberty.
I kind of forgot my family never emigrated to US back in the day and I'm not American so it didn't really mean anything to me 😂.

Scarborough
Went last year expecting nice touristy beach town with lots of interesting shops. Was an absolute dump.

Right?!

I agree with Dublin. It was unremittingly wet though, which didn’t help.

The Ivy is style over substance. The decor and the staff uniforms look good, but there it ends. We arrived 15 minutes early for a booking and, rather than suggesting a drink at the bar, we were told to go away and come back 15 minutes later.

I was with you until you said that Cadbury's is nicer! Cadbury's is horrid now, I don't buy it anymore

Santorini
Thailand
Legoland

I know.....

Christmas markets in the UK. Same stalls of overpriced tatt on repeat, ie wooden decorations, personalised leather goods, dream catchers, repeat
Cheshire Oaks
Starbucks - again overpriced.
Costa - see above
Our town has several Starbucks and Costas, would much rather support local cafes/businesses
Greg's. Has anyone tried their new chicken (sausage) roll? It looks 🤢 on the ads.

Lyme Regis is my pet hate. Too many tourists, awful parking and not really anything there. Bridport is much nicer with lots of interesting shops and not far from West Bay.
Bristol isn't that bad - I've never been accosted or assaulted by beggars or druggies and the students are not all public school nor do they bray though they may walk in groups along narrow pavements near the university. They're really nice!
Go to Avebury rather than Stonehenge. And there are plenty of lovely Cotswold villages and towns so you don't have to go to Bourton-on-the Water, which really isn't worth the trouble. I should imagine Jeremy Clarkson's farm shop is also overrated but I've never been there (is it even still going?). Don't know what his pub is like either.

It's Sagar in Catherine Street. Their masala dosa is so good.

A bit more expensive is Namaste Kitchen in Camden. Not totally veggie but they do have a lot of veggie items on their menu.

Brighton - so run down.
Centre parks - expensive, damp, grotty accommodation and activities that are all done and dusted by 10am, leaving a boring day of nothing to do. There are really only so many times you can go on a bike ride, and it’s no fun swimming in a pool that is rammed with people. I really can’t see the attraction of the place. Couldn’t wait to go home! Worst holiday I’ve ever had.
Cadburys chocolate - used to be amazing, now it’s horrible.
Christmas fairs/pantomimes/parties/hype/forced fun- basically I hate Christmas!

Rivers, whenever I go anywhere with my parents they want to take a ‘nice walk along the river’ - no mum, I haven’t travelled into central London from the rural Gloucestershire to walk along the side of the fucking Thames, why not go on a boat ride or a museum or the shops or something we don’t have at home in our tiny market town!

sorry, it’s good to get that off my chest!

I 100% agree with all 3

Dublin - too much forced "craic"

Madame Tussauds - well past its day

San Francisco - so expensive, run down with a big issue with homelessness