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Places you've been underwhelmed by

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HannaPintura · 20/01/2018 20:59

I just love going away and have really loved most places. One place in particular really Underwhelmed me...Gibraltar...just like Britain in the sun! I'm sure it has so much to offer, but I couldn't wait to cross the border back to Spain!

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ineedamoreadultieradult · 20/01/2018 22:23

Edinburgh, I just don't get it at all.

IDismyname · 20/01/2018 22:23

Love Bath. My fave city.

Wasn't sure about Venice until I went walkabout and discovered some beautiful areas.

Loved Perth in W Australia, but really struggled to find anything in Sydney to like.

Not sure about Cornwall. Too bloody wet. Prefer Norfolk - bigger skies, and statistically less rainfall. And slightly bigger roads!

Bearbehind · 20/01/2018 22:24

Ignore me- I missed the north bit!

Just a bit surprised at someone who writes off a whole quarter of the countrynthey've never even been to.

Thistlebelle · 20/01/2018 22:24

I’ve travelled all over Japan and it was awesome.

treaclesoda · 20/01/2018 22:24

I'm generally a bit of a grumpy sort, not that easily impressed or anything. But I don't think I've ever really visited anywhere and thought 'well this is a bit crap, isn't it?'. I love loads of the places that have been mentioned here a few times, particularly Paris.

I've really liked almost everywhere in the UK that I have visited. The only place that people had told me was nice but I found very depressing and grim was Scarborough. And even at that, I think that maybe we had driven round the 'wrong' bit of it and there was actually a nicer bit somewhere.

londonrach · 20/01/2018 22:24

Agree re Gloucester and pil live nearby. Only place in uk ive visited that makes the hair on th back of my neck stand up. Dont visit in the afternoon on a saturday.

Msharry..you never get me to agree re dublin. Dh would love to visit but my horrible time (pre him) makes it my huge no no. Was so fed up of fish and chips and being cold and wet. We even did a red bus tour to try and get some understanding of the city.

Jassmells · 20/01/2018 22:24

Dubai.

I now know it's completely not but in my head I imagined it on the scale of New York. It's not it's tiny and boring.

Originalfoogirl · 20/01/2018 22:24

Vancouver. Full of homeless people, uninspiring architecture, quite run down. Apparently good for shopping but not much else to do.

Little mermaid in Copenhagen. The city itself is beautiful, the mermaid is tiny and dull.

Liverpool. So many say it’s a great place but I thought it was awful.

I love Paris and NY though.

Scotland - wet, grey and full of midges. What, all of it? Not many midges at all where I am.

Edinburgh
I work there. I can’t understand the attraction for tourists.

ginswinger · 20/01/2018 22:25

Lake Baikal in Siberia, indeed all of Siberia. I'd come overland from Beijing via Mongolia and all I found was an effing big lake. I think I was a little overtired and over expectant given it's meant to be the journey of a life time.

n0ne · 20/01/2018 22:25

Milan is pointless (unless you're into fashion, maybe) - nothing going on
Toronto is nothing to write home about and the food sucks

honeyroar · 20/01/2018 22:25

I love Rome, it's my fave city. I spent a year in Paris, one of the best of my life.

And who couldn't like the Christ statue in Rio?? It's where it is, I'm not religious, but to build that up there and the views certainly amazed me.

TalkinPeace · 20/01/2018 22:25

Malta : I liked bits of it but the bird killing will stop me ever going back

Seattle : too many homeless (more in that one city than the whole of England)

Zanzibar : I get the history is horrific - caused by the Arabs for 1000 years and by white people for 200 years - but it was just not a nice place.

NoMudNoLotus · 20/01/2018 22:25

Cant stand :

Norfolk

LA

New York

Barcelona

ElliePhillips · 20/01/2018 22:26

I lived in Tokyo for a few years and loved it but I can see how it is not for everyone.

I found the people wonderful. But again, not everyone would have that experience of course.

NewYearNiki · 20/01/2018 22:26

Edinburgh, I just don't get it at all.

I liked Edinburgh but was taken aback by the Royal Mile that people had raved about. It was nothing but identical trashy tourist shops from one end to the other.

Sarahh2014 · 20/01/2018 22:26

The Pyramids

Inthedeepdarkwinter · 20/01/2018 22:27

Venice- been twice, love walking around the little streets, stayed one time by the Grand Canal in a super-cheap but faded grandeur hotel. Going out on the boat to the island with the beach, then the view coming back in. Absolutely love it, would go again like a shot.

Whereas...Florence, too hot, too dusty, lots of statues and art but that's not my thing (after the first few anyway).

Love London, the hustle and bustle, the sights, the whole pace of the place, surprising stuff when you wander about. So many great buildings to look at if you walk down the Thames. Wouldn't hang out in the shopping centres (Oxford Street) if you paid me money. Loved living all over and working in the centre.

Agreed Versailles was not impressive, but this was 20 years ago.

Cornwall, there are some nice bits, but much of it is meh. And no trees, which doesn't enhance a place in my mind.

Salisbury, Canterbury, all these 'bury' towns are boring. Nice cathedrals but everything else dull.

LaurieMarlow · 20/01/2018 22:27

Gobsmacked at Japan. Tokyo is the most amazing place I've been in my life.

10thingsIhateAboutTheDailyMail · 20/01/2018 22:27

Roobie, I'd love to go to Japan!

There are very few places that underwhelmed me, but never loved Paris (grey, dank, all waiters ripping you off, lying, not giving you change, saying they cannot understand your stupid accent etc etc, I felt stressed there, and I felt hated by the French for being foreign...never felt like that anywhere else!)

NewYearNiki · 20/01/2018 22:27

Oh yes Liverpool.

Apocalyptic.

Originalfoogirl · 20/01/2018 22:28

Balmoral. It was disappointingly small, the surrounding scenery was very monotonous

Monotonous? What were you expecting from scenery? In any area, given it is geographically formed over millions of years, there’s hardly going to be a vast variety to look at.

Devonishome1 · 20/01/2018 22:29

Blackpool

ElliePhillips · 20/01/2018 22:29

Tokyo is the most amazing place I've been in my life.

Agree. For me Tokyo is magical.

VinoISVeritas · 20/01/2018 22:30

Hugely underwhelmed by Bath. Georgian council estate.
Also by all of Australia that I saw: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns & Darwin. The only thing I associate with Aus is the prevalence of casual racism against Indigenous Australians, which was just disgusting.

IamPickleRick · 20/01/2018 22:30

Japan sounds amazing, I really want to go!