What famous places have disappointed you?

[mouldyhousemouldylife]

Or a landmark, artwork etc.

I guess mine is Plitvice Lakes in Croatia and Lake Bled in Slovenia. I've wanted to go for years as they both looked unbelievable and magical on photos, but going there just felt pretty ordinary. Very nice looking but I wasn't blown away.

Anyone else been to either? What did you think?

Australia was a bit meh. Ok country but not worth the cost and time to get there.

The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen. I suppose the clue is in the name. Much smaller than I thought she would be!

I wasn't massively keen on Florence/Siena and the Tuscany countryside doesn't do it for me, I much prefer northern Italy, eg the lakes.

As for Stonehenge, a very big fence is needed along the road to stop people causing traffic jams when they don't just slow down, but come to a complete stop, to look at it.

Australia was underwhelming overall, perfectly nice country but not worth the 24 hour flight

I would probably agree with this. We went via Singapore and Singapore was the highlight. That said, we spent a week in Perth which I think is overhyped, and the weather wasn't great (we were there in August to be fair) but we then spent a few days in Sydney where it was 21 degrees and blue skies every day and we enjoyed that a lot more. But I really liked Singapore, so interesting - just a pity that I can't cope with the climate for more than 2 days!

I wasn't that impressed by the Lake District. It was scenic but it was also small and thick with tourists. It didn't help that the weather was so grim we couldn't really walk anywhere and neither could anyone else.
It does depend on what you are comparing something to and l was used to the west coast of Scotland.
I currently live beside a lake so big it looks like a sea so the Lake District would seem even smaller now.

Certain parts of the Lake District can be horrendous during peak season. I love going there in September - the crowds have gone and we usually have a few nice, cool but clear weeks at the end of September. I really like the area around Glenridding, but I’d avoid Bowness.

It may have changed since I was there at aged 16 (47 now), but I thought Lake Bled was magical! I went with my best friend and her family, and we spent days just walking around the lake, rowing to the little island, buying amazing icecream which was half choc and half vanilla and a really good version of Mr Whippy ice cream.

we spent a week in Perth which I think is overhyped

We loved Perth! Mind you we had fantastic weather and did a lot of amazing stuff on some side trips.

Scotland or Australia?

I've just got back from niagara falls and I loved it. However my friend who is local to there took me to all the best places...nowhere near the Blackpooly tourist stuff.. It was ace!

I'm amazed that Pamukkale has got such a pasting. We loved it. Mind you we did avoid the water pools and spent the time exploring the ruins behind it. The Plutonium was fascinating.

If people are talking about Perth, WA, I too found it underwhelming. Just a big, uninteresting, sprawling town. I felt. I have the same about Brisbane but this was good a few years ago. It goes by Bisvegas now, no? Melbourne also didn't do much for me. In fact, now I'm on an Australian city roll, neither did Sydney, once you've seen to main sites, zapped about a bit on the harbour ferries and taken in the Blue Mountains.

Naples. Just seemed very dirty and run down, not at all how it appears in films and literature. I'm sure it was lovely in the 17th Century when all the poets went there all the time, but it was definitely romanticised in my mind before going.

Scotland or Australia?

WA. I can go to Perth, Scotland any day of the week.

London, the first time I visited England in 1972. It was filthy! Everywhere we went in England was filthy

Go back. If I judged NYC on what it was like in the 70s, even the 80s, I'd give it a wide berth. London is only crowded and a bit dirty if you stay on Oxford Street and the main touristy bit. The rest is much nicer.

Hollywood - dump
Niagra Falls - tacky
Sydney - far better Australian cities

Bondi Beach. Honestly, it's nothing special in comparison to other Australian beaches or Woolacombe

The coastal path between Bondi and Coogee, on the other hand, is spectacular but never mentioned as one of the top sites

The Bondi to Coogee walk is lovely. As is the Manly to Spit walk on the north shore. Australia is also really expensive now, compared with when I first went in the early 2000s.

The Greek isles disappointed me- so dry and barren.

And as for Canberra. The suburbs to me seemed entirely indistinguishable. It rather reminded me of Glenrothes. I once was with a friend and went to his mate's house, only it wasn't. We walked into a kitchen via the back door to a squawk of 'who are you!' We roamed around identical houses on an estate for ages. That, to me, with slightly better quality architecture, was Canberra.

I can't gainsay someone's experience of the Greek islands, but their relative barrenness/greeness does depend on time of year and which island group they belong to. The Sporades eg tend not to be barren.

I'm really disappointed to see so many people say Rome. We were planning to go for our 30ths, have wanted to go for years but might rethink that now.

Hollywood- thought it would be glitzy and glamorous when in fact it’s dingy and dirty

Drogosnextwife No you must go to Rome. Literally every street has something to see, it’s all 1,000’s of years old.
Just don’t go in busy periods. Jan and Feb are good quieter months. Not particularly cold or wet. August is a good month because as it’s boiling hot it’s not a popular for city breaks ( and Ita,Ian’s are all at the beach).

Agree with mont St Michel, looked beautiful from a distance but in reality it was packed full of tacky tourist shops all selling the same crap, very narrow steep roads and steep stone staircases making most of it inaccessible for anyone with pushchairs or wheelchairs.

Statue of Liberty for me too, I always thought it was as big as the sky!!!