Worst 'tourist' places you've visited

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A little inspired by the school trips thread but I have been thinking about the worst places I've visited in pursuit of leisure. Disclaimer-sorry if you live there/love it. These are not anything other than my experience on that day/time.

There was the time I took a group of patients for a nice country stroll, which turned out to be a lay-by off an A-Road.

Or going on holiday to a small town near Gainsborough and realising that there was nothing to do, at all. We were there for a week!

Las Vegas by night is brilliant. Bright, gaudy, and so much fun, the sights, the lights, and the atmosphere. By day it’s not so great, but we found trips out to lake mead, the hoover dam, Grand Canyon etc made up for it, or just lazing around the pool (stayed at the Mandalay which has its own man made beach, lazy river, and cocktail waitresses walking around..

Lignano, Italy. All the class of blackpool, but sunny and packed with teenagers

San Francisco was awful, we'd only been there 10 mims when a lady off her head (think om drugs by the look of her) tried putting a window through and shouting at everybody. Lots of homeless and very dirty.

Honolulu was another place I was slightly disappointed with, we had a fab honeymoon but again there were lots of homeless people and "tourist information" centres that just wanted you to pay for trips. Pearl Harbour was amazing though.

Love the Lake District, we go at least twice a year.

LA was pretty shit and just way too vast.
Vientiane, Laos - weird place.
Havana, Cuba - hated it. Was 6 months pregnant and desperate to go home. Thankfully live a 35 minute flight away.
Surfers Paradise - Faliraki of Australia

My favorite city is NYC and NZ was probably the most breathtakingly stunning countries I've ever been to.

The Maldives. We were there in the middle of a typhoon. Our first floor room flooded, suitcase started floating out of the door, which blew open in the wind.
There’s is absolutely nothing to do if the weather is that bad! Bored beyond belief for 5 of our 7 days.
The other two, I was then seriously ill and had to be taken off the island in the middle of the typhoon, by boat as helicopter couldn’t land. It was like being on a roller coaster boat ride, for the hour it took to get to Male, the islands capital island.
Never again!

A sailing holiday in the Maldives, the exact location where two weather fronts were literally butting each other. We couldn't dock in ports at night as it was too dangerous and couldn't dive in day. Spent a week in a 5m by 5m bit of boat with 5 others.
It was just bleak.

For those saying London, thanks for slagging off all 8 million of us. 

Disneyland Paris.

We only went there because it's only a 3 hour drive for us where we live and we thought that we had to do it for the children.
My cousin goes there twice (yes twice) a year with her children and they are obsessed with it. They will happily queue for over an hour to get a (very expensive) photo with a 'character' (a slapper with a ton of face paint on) and really get into the whole thing.

I still feel sick thinking of the grown men wandering around with Mickey Mouse gloves and headbands etc. Why, just why?

You would have to pay me to go to the main one on Florida.

For those saying London, thanks for slagging off all 8 million of us

What a bizarre way of looking at it!

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I tried to put a smiley face emoji next to my post but it didn't work @JacquesHammer

Tobee its utterly rubbish when that happens and MN change the tone of your post without warning!

Bath - everywhere you went you had to pay an entrance fee to the point I thought we had to pay to breath the air, loads of tacky ‘Jane Austen type’ attractions shame it’s a beautiful city

Centre Park in Nottinghamshire. Horrid iron beds, thin sheets, no decent bar, Horrid, horrid, horrid!

Prettyvase your description of US theme parks sounds like LEGOLAND to me, why oh why do the majority of people have to walk around eating, slurping and eating some more?!

Oxford, awful place

Brussels

My main impression of the shopping precinct in Great Yarmouth is I’ve never seen so many piercing and tattoo shops in one town, ever

Atalune Berlin smells of curry and chips? I have been loads of times and never had that experience. Which bit?

Munich. Seriously underwhelming. Reminded me of Croydon (not joking).

My husband proposed in Venice. We have been back there a few times and love it. Don’t go in high Summer and eat away from St Mark’s Square and you’ll get lovely, reasonably priced food. We got stuck there for five days because of the ash cloud and I broke my foot getting into the boat to go to the airport - I still love it there!

Paris. I hated it. It was grubby and I felt unsafe. So many better cities out there.

Thesageofonions we went to Munich a few weeks ago (before October fest). Like Croydon? That's not how we saw it.

For a moment I read that that you were saying Croydon was a tourist attraction TheSage!

London - cold rainy full of rude miserable looking people, too expensive.

To be fair, it’s not cold and rainy every day, the weather does change there believe it or not

This thread has made me feel so much better about the travelling I haven’t done in my life. I haven’t seen much of the world at all and feel bad about it. But I would absolutely hate all of these places described - the filth, the insects, the food poisoning, the sexual harassment - so now I’m feeling alright about the fact I haven’t left the country since 2010 on honeymoon