Ever visited somewhere for the day and been really disappointed?

[Summerhouse2013]

We travelled to Yeovil in Somerset yesterday for the day, wow, we were so disappointed.

It was like a ghost town. Most of the shops were shut, only a handful were open. And towards the bottom area of the town most of the shops were completely closed down.

I'd always got the impression there was a lot more to Yeovil.

We left after an hour as there was nothing to do.

Controversial one here - the pyramids.
Hassled the whole time by scammers, McDonalds next door and guards moving you on constantly.

Not worth the 6 hour drive each way.

Aww, I love Hebden Bridge - what was it you didn't like?

😂

Oh god isn't it just, we went with friends they adore it , me and he were bored rigid and isn't it £40 to get in 😲

Sealife Centre Birmingham, was so underwhelmed!

Tredegar House, National trust. Nr Newport, Wales.
Couldn’t wait to get out. Gave me the creeps. Don’t know why. Never ever had that feeling before about anywhere on Gods earth.

Its just the blackpool of the south

Oh we camped there years ago and liked it .

My DM is a volunteer tour guide in Brighton. They are called 'greeters'. You can book one through the tourist information centre. She has taken me on one of her Greets and there are so many fascinating hidden bits and so much great history. She does the tours based on what people ask for, so she has done tours for photographers looking for interesting pictures, or film buffs looking for film locations. Her best ones are the history ones, though.

That sort of thing would give you a better feel than the pier and the overcrowded Lanes.

Aberystwyth and Dublin.
Also, looking further afield, Barbados.

I have heard this from other people, so you are not alone

Chippenham, Newport (Wales) and Chichester

The Eden project.

The Anthony Gormley sculptures in Liverpool. Very underwhelming.

Birmingham sea life centre. It was fine but the kids weren't as excited as I'd hoped by it and we didn't stay long. The clincher was that I received a bailiff letter a year later as I'd driven through the clean air zone and a bus lane to get there, I didn't even realise there was a zone and honestly I've no idea about the bus lane. So it cost me an extra £700 to briefly look at some fish. That was nice.

I'm only going to Birmingham by train in future as my eyes clearly don't work there.

Bondi Beach
Surfers Paradise

Totally agree, I was very disappointed.

Edinburgh. Dull, grey, miserable.
Full of scary loud drunks, vomit on the pavement.
When we arrived at our hotel my husband warned me to avoid broken glass across the pavement and it was still there when we left.

I thought it was meant to be a sort of hippyish chilled place but I was racially abused twice in 4 hours! Then we went back to the car and someone had keyed it on 3 panels. A cafe we parked adjacent to had CCTV and they said they "couldn't get involved" and refused to review the footage. The public toilets has needles all over the floor and the cafes etc were all really expensive - £8.50 for a cheese toastie! It was a really unpleasant day tbh! I fully appreciate that others will have a wonderful time but I do not recommend it to people on a low income or non white families!

Oh, I loved them -- you mean the ones on Crosby beach? We were hungover after DH's work Christmas party and the fact that the hotel babysitter gave up when she couldn't get our three year old to sleep upstairs by midnight, so we were all a bit raw, and it was freezing, and I think we got lost on the way out from where we were staying, but I thought they were unexpectedly touching with all that bleak, industrial stuff on the horizon.

Land's End can drop off into the sea as far as I'm concerned. Tacky and boring.

I'm amused by the idea of a day trip to Yeovil though . Neighbouring Sherborne is a lovely little place but also dead as a doornail on Sundays. Maybe it's some local by-law?

Yes to the pyramids, the graffiti got me, awful.

OP. I was in Yeovil yesterday with my daughter as its the nearest M&S to us.
I checked that all the main shops were open yesterday, all the ones we needed were. However, its a pretty grim place, I sympathise with you having devoted a day to it. I only ever go if I have to.

Brighton. Stony beach which is fine but other than that it felt very "try hard". As if it was actively trying to be alternative

Paris.I don’t understand why it gets such high regard