Overrated places in the UK

[Fixitup2]

What are your over rated places in the U.K. that everyone else seems to love?

Mine is the Peak District which imo has mediocre scenery spoilt by too many roads and too many people. I hate it and only ever agree to go if there’s nowhere else and we need to stop somewhere that way.

I second St Ives. Its just a tourist nightmare.

People slagging all these lovely places, they're probably just jealous because they live somewhere boring

I loved Saint Ives!

What a sad and depressing thread.

Some people are just so negative. I am glad I am not as miserable as so many of you seem to be.

Of course there are grotty parts of the UK but to say you hate the whole of Cornwall, the whole of Yorkshire, the whole of London etc is really ignorant.

Sandbanks isn’t far from me but I rarely go, when it’s shown on tv it’s filmed when it’s quiet, it’s really busy in the summer and it’s hard to park, last time we went some kids chucked sand in my disabled daughters face, we tend to go to studland beach instead as it’s quieter (easy to find space). Sandbanks is over rated due to the price of houses there and the celebrities that live there.

The whole of the North West? Surely you cannot be including Tebay in this?

@lynsey91

What a sad and depressing thread.

Some people are just so negative. I am glad I am not as miserable as so many of you seem to be.

Of course there are grotty parts of the UK but to say you hate the whole of Cornwall, the whole of Yorkshire, the whole of London etc is really ignorant.

I agree. Moany old bastards

I like the iow mainly for all the reasons others don’t. It is old fashioned, a bit like stepping back to the 1950’s and quite run down in some places but it reminds me on my childhood holidays.
Cornwall is too busy. The scenery is ok but doesn’t live up to the hype. The roads are terrible and anything remotely touristy is way over priced.

I live not to far from Brighton in West Sussex and have watched it go downhill for years. It is hilly, full of HMO’s, overcrowded with people who think they are so alternative just because they wear odd socks. The drug use is right in your face and it is not unusually for any open spaces to stink of weed and be littered with needles.
Gay pride which used to be a great event for the gay community and the straight is now more a show of fetish and get your bits out.
The shopping centre is nothing special and expensive to park.
The arches have been left to pretty much decay and to top it all the so called green council have just destroyed a stretch of 150 year old green wall on Madeira drive which they now admit was a mistake but hey we can now put in another cycle path.

@Surfingsister

I loved Saint Ives!

Me too, only issue being the parking when it’s busy. Also love Padstow.

Notjustanymum it's 'pave paradise, put up a parking lot' sorry to be annoying. So it's any paradise that has been bulldozed and a parking lot added. This would be good in a thread about song lyrics. To add my own I thought the REM song was calling Jamaica, someone had to tell me it's calling to wake her! Maybe we should start a new thread about it.

Loads of places on here I love - Even Warwick Castle!

However, we don’t have kids and visited out of school holidays. 😀

I love the Isle of Wight. It has an other worldly atmosphere . It is also like going on a proper holiday, getting the ferry. 4 days is probably an optimum stay.

I was a community nurse in the Cotswolds for a few years. Those picture box houses are so dark inside, I found them depressing . Many of the houses are empty second homes and the villages are isolated and lacking amenities. I found myself longing to look at red brick!

@sadperson16

The whole of the North West? Surely you cannot be including Tebay in this?

They'd probably rock up to Tebay expecting a theme park and express disappointment that it's a service station!

(Btw: for fans of Tebay who travel up the M74 - they bought Cairn Lodge a couple of years ago, so that is now similarly good, although the food shop isn't as extensive.)

Whitby, I just don't get it. Felt very run-down to me, not the beautiful picturesque place I expected it to be.

It was a miserable rainy day when I went so maybe that didn't help.

Tip for Giants Causeway. Don’t go in the visitor centre or you will get stung to pay around £10. Just walk down to the stones (or hop on the bus, which a few years ago was a pound) and then it won’t be a NT rip off as mentioned by a PP.

I agree that this is the spiritual home of moaners. What do people actually want?

A while ago I stayed in a cottage in the remotest part of Wales. The views were spectacular, it was incredibly isolated, but there were castles and sea a short drive away. The visitors’ book! “boring place with nothing to do.” “Nothing to do with the kids.” “No attractions nearby.” Whaddayado?!

And I recall a thread like this one with someone banging on that there was “nothing to do” in Dublin. Dd (15) and I had just gone on a break and we had a fabulous time. When I said what we had enjoyed, the poster said all those things were “boring” but couldn’t actually say what they would have enjoyed.

That’s the problem, I think. People take themselves to a place and if they are dull and whiney then they see everything through their miserable grey spectacles.

All bar one beach in Devon is
'manky red sand'? I can't even think of one! I'm not going to list my top ten beaches in Devon though just in case any of you miserable bastards turn up.

Manchester, Liverpool, the whole northwest really
The biggest dumbass comment of the thread!
The whole of the North West?
The Ribble Valley?
The Trough of Bowland
The lake District ?
The Cheshire plains?
Lancaster?
Sedburgh?
Arnside and Silverdale?
And many more places to numerous to mention!!

A daft comment that makes the op sound rather stupid unfortunately.

Tebay is the gateway to a magical kingdom.Once you have eaten a giant scone served by a person with a weird,impenetrable accent who sounds slightly Scandi,you will never look back.

Haha, I have enjoyed most of the places named in this thread that I have been to.

Surely it is a matter if taste and research?

How can the Lake District be ‘over rated’ if what you want to do is climb big fells in the Spring or early autumn?

How can Norfolk be ‘over rated’ if you enjoy bird watching, or painting water colours under big skies, or vas natural beaches like Holkham / Brancastet / Thornham / Wells?

So many miserable moany people.

@lynsey91

What a sad and depressing thread.

Some people are just so negative. I am glad I am not as miserable as so many of you seem to be.

Of course there are grotty parts of the UK but to say you hate the whole of Cornwall, the whole of Yorkshire, the whole of London etc is really ignorant.

Agree. I can't believe some of the places people seem to hate with vitriol. Someone said Oxford!

That’s the problem, I think. People take themselves to a place and if they are dull and whiney then they see everything through their miserable grey spectacles.

And this is the truth of it!!

@GlutenFreeGingerCake

I did see someone say Worthing is the new Brighton the other day which could lead to some disappointment on a day out.

I read it was Margate

A bored person is a boring person!