Places you've been underwhelmed by

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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!

Niagara falls...basically Blackpool. The falls (Canadian side) are stunning but the surroundings are so so tacky.

Like many other ,San Fransisco. We went last October when the weather is at its best, and the piers were stunning,seeing the sea lions on Pier 39 etc, but I have never seen so many homeless and obviously very mentally unwell people begging on the streets... we stayed in at night. Gorgeous to walk in the day..we walked miles and miles and stayed in an Airbnb in a pretty residential area. But at night it felt very unsafe.

New York was ok by day, brilliant by night and surprisingly small! Accidentally wandered into the Jewish Quarter in Brooklyn and that was stunningly gorgeous.

Texas was hot, empty and boring but the people were lovely :)

Another for Marrakech. I was actually scared for a while after getting lost in the medina & finding nobody wanted to help except some lads who were looking to steal from us.

Plus another time we were served food we hadn't asked for & charged a fortune for it.

Def felt like mugs ripe for ripping off

Florence : nothing special. Old and dusty and depressing. Seeing it once was enough

ZOMG. I loved Florence. It's probably my favourite Italian city. I also loved Pisa.

Milan on the other hand ...

The Eden Project!

treaclesoda thanks for your posts - I was starting to think that I was being totally deluded in liking things about most places I have been to.
I am realistic in that it doesn’t come as a surprise to me that cities are crowded, noisy and dirty. I’m also lucky in that I visited LA & SF in the 1970s (though much prefer New York now to then).
I’ve been racking my brains to try to think of somewhere that underwhelmed me but have just remembered Bondi Beach - was expecting an amazing picturesque beach and due to its surroundings it’s really not - I much prefer Scarborough

Pyramids in Egypt

Statue of Liberty. It looks massive in the films when they swoop in filming from a helicopter....disappointed in the size of it!

Gibraltar, Malta and Gran Canaria. Grubby, polluted and over developed respectively. Prague would have been nice for a weekend but I was there for a week and it was too long.

Glasgow. I'm sick of being told (mainly by Glaswegians) that it's stylish and cosmopolitan and friendly. It's mostly a dirty, aggressive shit hole.

In Marrakech I definitely felt I was “lower” simply because I was a woman. And the hassle is unreal, although sometimes funny.

Oddly I love a lot of the places people didn’t like. Although NY was not for me (I agree, you couldn’t see the sky at all) and Monaco was rubbish, I loved Nice and Dublin and Eden and Cornwall and Portmeirion!

Am becoming mildly concerned about our 2018 holiday now... it’s venice

I’ve been to Malta a few times and adored it too.

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Stonehenge. It was included as part of a day tour from London and I hadn’t heard great things. It was a freezing cold January day which I think helped the atmosphere and you could stand around and take it all without being hassled. Conversely, Bath which I visited on the same tour and expected to love was a bit meh in comparison. Not sure what I expected but it just didn’t do it for me.

Florence and Venice are great in winter as well but Rome just seems to be heaving with tourists and people trying to sell you things or scam you any time of the year.

Koh Samui, Thailand. Grim. Lots of lovely islands in Thailand, just not Koh Samui.

Am becoming mildly concerned about our 2018 holiday now... it’s venice

Venice is lovely. Just don't expect to meet a lot of Venetians. :) It is a tourist city, but it also has many charms.

A side-trip to Padua to see the Scovegni Chapel is a 'must'.

www.cappelladegliscrovegni.it/index.php/en/

LA is so dull and ordinary. And dirty.

Machynlleth in Mid-Wales. It's talked about as a slightly quirky town full of alternative people, but it didn't feel like that. It's just a dull little town where the pubs close in the middle of the day, barely anything to do, and it didn't help that we stayed at a crappy little B&B that was damp and stank of smoke. I wasn't overly impressed with the Centre for Alternative Technology either. It seemed a bit amateur.

Whitstable in Kent. Nice for a day trip, but we were bored after three days. Once you've visited all the charity shops and walked along the beach, there isn't much there. There's numerous small art galleries there but they all seem to be the art gallery equivalent of vanity publishing (is there a proper word for that?) so hobbyists displaying their frankly not very good art in the windows. Nearly everyone we met there was an escaped ex-Londoner rather than having grown up there.

Disneyland Paris. Just lame. Paultons park way better. Even weirder as some people treat Disney as a quasi religious experince. Nope just a tatty theme park.

Cairo is a real shithole, pyramids been ruined. The museum is good. The sexual harrassment is horrific I went in my twenties with female friend we ended up confined to hotel room due to the foul abuse we got whenever we ventured out .

Loved Paris, LA, Bali and Lanzarote.

Waxonfeckoff my experience of Glasgow is wonderful. I found people extremely helpful and pleasant. I loved our little break there. Popped into the New Lanark cotton mill village too, it was lovely. I found women in Glasgow all had lovely skin. Must be the weather. People are lovely there. I'm not Scottish, by the way. No relation.

Paddy pants...Yeah Stonehenge. School trip years ago where we were able to get up close. Much smaller than we thought it would be. The age is impressive but according to Wikipedia it has apparently been rebuilt (rearranged?) in the early 1900's😮

Goa - Beaches were ok, food ok too many people pretending to be hippies

South Goa is much nice

I like SF but was a little disappointed with the bridge I thought it really had golden gates
Hollywood Boulevard is a dump LA it’s such a huge city some parts are lovely

New York.
Dirty with piles of bin bags everywhere.

People who don’t like Venice, get away from the main tourist drag. I’ve stayed near the Accademia bridge twice and it’s fab: clean and quiet and civilised.

Dunno. I am Scottish. There are nicer places to go to, much nicer. I do have lovely skin though... :o

It's not a city hating thing either. I love London and Manchester and aside from Edinburgh, my favourite of the "grittier" cities is Liverpool.

Pisa was soooo anticlimactic after Florence.it was just so... small!!!!!
Neither of them could compete with Sienna, I would have run away to live in Sienna