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?

Anywhere with more than 6 tourists is a turn off for me. My world is getting smaller😁

I am old enough and lucky enough to have been to some fabulous places before the hoards descended, but it is getting harder and harder these days.

And I am anti social.

Very underwhelmed by Berlin also but I appreciate I'm in a minority of one here as everyone else seems to adore the place. All the main tourist attractions I found entirely un-awe inspiring.

I agree!

Byron Bay, in Australia, it's a beach town, and?

I was so over Australia by that point!

@mouldyhousemouldylife I'm going to both as part of my honeymoon this summer - I hope they're not too disappointing!

The grand canyon - we had come from Yosemite which blew it out of the water!

Lisbon. Dog shit everywhere alongside bags of rubbish dumped on the streets, drug pushers on every corner. Didn't like it at all!

We've stayed in a hotel overlooking Lake Bled in winter and it was frozen over and we walked across it. It actually was magical. I've also spent two Christmas Days in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, it was snowing heavily and practically empty, it was wonderful.

@DirtyDennis, you're description of Machu Pichu made me laugh out loud (sorry!), everything you said has been my excuse about not wanting to go. Just read it out to my husband and said see, it's true!

Pisa - just too many tourists, crap peddlers and scammers, and I got pick-pocketed. Tower we couldn't go up (nowhere until we got to the front of the queue did we find out that dd1 was too young). Cathedral was quite good.

Sistine chapel - just waaaay too crowded.

Edinburgh castle (and I've lived in Ed). Expensive and half the buildings are shops. Stirling is much better.

Mont St Michel. It's a bloody awful tourist trap. Tiny narrow paths with people pushing to get past each other, tacky shops, over-priced food, no shelter from the elements. Honestly it's much better from a distance.

Barbados, seems to a celebrity haunt for some unfathomable reason. We failed to see the attraction and thought it was awful.

The Mona Lisa has been under glass since at least 1977, when I first saw it.

Sorrento. Congested with traffic, hard to reach the tiny beaches, which you had to pay to use...it was ok but nowhere near as nice as I expected it to be.

Table mountain in South Africa- we had walked Lions head the day before and it was so much better and better views IMO! But no one ever talks about it!

Florence - lovely from a distance but filthy & covered in graffiti when you get there 😖

I've also spent two Christmas Days in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, it was snowing heavily and practically empty, it was wonderful.

The blue lagoon is tourist pap. There are some truly beautiful hot water springs in Iceland, this isn’t one of them! The floors mostly plastic for a start 🙈

Another vote for Plitvice Lakes, OP. Beautiful, sure, but on a broiling August day trudging in a long line of people, a bit hard work. Would love to return one day in autumn or winter, as I bet it’s spectacular then, but it’s a big world and I’d like to see more of it.

Plymouth Rock, where the pilgrims landed in the US. It’s a medium sized boulder that has been broken in two then concreted back together. Laughably unimpressive.

Bruges. Quite boring and we got eaten by mosquitoes. Hollywood is a dump as others have said. Loved the Pyramids!

Mount Rushmore

The blue lagoon is tourist pap. There are some truly beautiful hot water springs in Iceland, this isn’t one of them! The floors mostly plastic for a start

I imagine it is more so nowadays. A long time since I was there, it was very basic compared to what it is today.

Definitely agree about Bondi.
Paris - preferred Montmartre to Notre Dame, but I remember walking up steps covered in dog poo.
New York, especially Time Square, was a big disappointment.

Gibraltar. The view from the top of the rock is ok if you're looking out to sea, but if you look down it looks like a council estate.

Venice - hot, smelly and it all looked the same. I much preferred Rome.

I quite like lots of these but one place I was disappointed in was Dublin. I’m from a big Irish family so I’d been looking forward to it.

TBF, we went on a very rainy day and were feeling quite fed up about it, but we seemed to wander round for hours and there was nothing there. And then we tried to go in a shop to have a look round and get out of the rain, but the owner tried to charge us a Euro just to go in.

I know we probably just went to the wrong area/didn’t do enough research but I just hated it.

Another one for Hollywood walk of fame and San Francisco. San Fran just smelt of weed everywhere we walked, though we didn't get to Alcatraz so will go back to do that