Places you've been underwhelmed by

[HannaPintura]

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!

Lanzarote is the worst place I've ever been. So grubby and covered in graffiti.

Castle Howard. Waddesdon Manor. Copenhagen. NYC.

Berlin gets the thumbs down from me.

And San Francisco - all those sourdough bread things bobbing about in the ocean; yuck.

I went to LA for work but definitely wouldn't go back for fun. It felt like one giant motor way.

Paris for New Year's Eve.

No fireworks at the Eiffel Tower.

Came back to hotel and watched Londons on the news

Barcelona.

Absolute dump

Bangor in Wales.

It's just a regular town by the sea. There is a whole song selling it as a great day out. But it's not at all! We drove down to the pier and it was more like a small wooden jetty. Fiddler's Dram lied to me through song. I didn't have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor!

Another vote for LA here too. Seedy, dirty, and not at all glamorous. Venice beach was awful. Full of really scary gangs and didn’t feel at all safe.

Blackpool...yuk!

Loved SanFran - fab science centre, botanical gardens, port area and shopping. Never felt threatened - watched fireworks at New Year at the bay in massive crowd and had no trouble at all.

Niagara Falls - ok, but area not nice

Hollywood - tatty and too many druggies.

Scarborough - stinks of sea gull droppings. Eye watering stink.

Blackpool - vile and vulgar

I'm local ish to Stonehenge - about 30 miles. When I was little we used to stop for a picnic there on the way to the seaside (Dorset) in summer. You pulled up in a layby and hopped over a stile. There was a stone that was at a 45 degree angle, I remember being very annoyed that it was so rough and covered in lichen that you couldn't slide down it.

It's been an horrific tourist trap for donkeys years now.

Back in 2012, as part of the Art Olympic thingy, it was opened up for a Fire Garden Art Installation thing, for just one night, and in the dawn the Olympic Flame did a transfer there. Now that was utterly amazing and wonderful and moving, we only heard very last minute on local grapevine.

Knitted fairies Were you on the U.S. or Canadian side of Niagara Falls? (Just wondering).

For me, the Channel Island of Sark. The other channel islands are so beautiful, but Sark just left me with a strange feeling whenever I went there (although it is certainly beautiful too).

L.A

Sacré-Cœur, Paris left me cold.

Notre-Dame on the other hand was wonderful.

Las Vegas-boring quasi Disneyland for adults.
Venice-over-flowing litterbins, a really obnoxious tourist agency, signpost from hell and ridiculously over priced, the closer one got to St Marks Square.

Teh Eden Project. Went because DD1 loved it so much and she had been at death's door a few days before. XH paid for it, because I wasn't forking out that kind of cash! I almost passed out in the tropical section and had to sit down in the cool box for several minutes while DD2 crouched at my feet and looked at me worriedly (as did everyone else in there - was I a funny colour or something?) while DD1 bleated about being unable to do something or other and didn't notice I was dying. I couldn't get out of the tropical part fast enough and thought it overall intensely dull.

New York. Nothing made sense. It looked like a functional city on the surface but it may as well have been upside down. I got very very homesick for London by day 2.

Winchester and Bath. Both just very 'meh' places.

Another vote for Malta. I was expecting white houses - similar to Greece I thought - but no, it was brown and unexciting. Gozo was more what I had imagined Malta to be.

Versailles was heaving with rude Japanese tourists. I had been years ago but in the days before bl**dy selfie sticks were invented. They absolutely ruined the Hall of Mirrors as they were so ignorant and had no concern for anyone except taking photos every two seconds. (They didn't venture out into the gardens which were much, much more interesting than I remembered from a previous visit).

Chatsworth... went this summer. I can't help thinking the Churchill family are doing a bit too much try too hard to sell themselves as lovable eccentrics. They're not. Apart from The Great Man - and he had some odd foibles - they're a load of tossers.

Another one for San Fran, also felt very uncomfortable and there was a smell of cannabis everywhere

Paris! My husband described it as a “dirty sh@thole”

On the other hand I loved Barcelona. And Florence. Although I was lucky I was staying in a not-tourist district in both so got to eat evening meals in the sensibly priced local restaurants not the tourist trap central ones.

Amsterdam. Couldn't find anywhere nice to eat. Thought there might be more to it than weed and prostitutes. If there was, we couldn't find it.