Most overrated destination you’ve visited?

[Hairbrush123]

For me, it was Paris. Not an AIBU, I know

Dubai. It's Milton Keynes with sunny weather, beach and concrete building s with a massive modern slavery problem.

Dublin. Galway was so much better.

Paris

It’s shit. I don’t get the love for it.

Barcelona.

Cairo!

I must be easily pleased, I generally knock enjoyment out of everywhere I go

Goa full off grubby trustafarians who love to tell everyone how evil capitalism/the west is. The beaches are not great (unless you go south) Kerela is so much nicer

Melbourne It’s a nice city but having heard how amazing it was (never met people so proud of their city) I was underwhelmed. I preferred Sydney but it’s a nice place

I actually would like to return to Paris now with a different mindset and see if I could like it.
Perhaps at a quieter time of year than I have before.
I really want to like it!

@SunflowerSmith

Eden Project - an expensive way to walk around two greenhouses.

Scottish Highlands - miles and miles and miles of bleak nothingness with hardly anywhere to park up and walk the dog. Arisaig beach however is stunning.

The Scottish Highlands? They are my favourite place on Earth! They are stunningly beautiful all year around, but get some snow on them, well they are Heaven on Earth to me ❤ I just wish so many Scottish people didn't hate us English so much...

Carcassonne , Granada is lovely though .

I really liked Whitby .

Rome
Glasgow
Paris

@WeasilyPleased

The Grand Canyon. It's a big hole.

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Dubai. Awful, concrete jungle, superficial 🤮

@rookiemere I did too, we were lucky with the weather but i thought it was great

@RosesAndHellebores

It also depends how happy you are at the time.

I absolutely agree with this. I think mood can dictate everything.

Tunisia

''In Your Dreams You've Been To Tunisa''? Nopes. It's hot, it has beaches, but it has huge hotels with fridges and burned out cars on wastelands between them.

People saying harassed in Sharm el Sheik; you're not encouraged to wander round the 'town'. It's really not part of the deal. Sharm is a collection of big hotel complexes by the shore with the sinai desert behind it. You can only get there by plane. And yes women don't work at the resort at all so it'll only be men in the town. Your hotel and stretch of beach is meant to be your base for orgainised mountain excursions and short flights out of the airport to cairo/pyramids/nile trips ect.

I adored my trip to sharm :)

Cape Town.

Everyone raves about it but I found it dull, uninspiring, a nightmare to get around and generally nothing particularly interesting about the place.

@Hairbrush123 100% agree on Paris!! Some good shops and some nice food but we were constantly approached by people begging and the place smelt a bit like wee 🙈🤣 don’t even get me started on the metro stations 🤢

DH and I went in our mid 20s for 4 night with the intention of spending a few days in Paris and a couple at Disney - we spent 1 day in Paris then went to Disney for the rest 🤣 we even changed our hotel and went and stayed in Disney 🤣 highly recommended - it was fab 🤣

Anywhere that is a tourists spot. I think 30 years' ago, lots of these places would have been ok to visit. I tend to go destinations that are not on the map now and honestly think the UK has some of the best places to visit.

Centre parcs - a portacabin in a wood with burger chains.

Never again. Just book a cottage in a pretty rural area and go to the local pool, much calmer and cheaper.

Jamaica

When we got to our exclusive 5 star resort we were told it was unsafe to leave the hotel without a guard, or to talk 'to the locals'. So everyone felt too scared to anything that involved leaving the building. The worst part for me though was looking out of the window of my maid serviced, air conditioned, all round perfect suite and seeing people begging in the streets or when going on a day trip having people actually running along side the bus and putting their hands through the windows for money.

This was in the 90s and I was just 13 and just felt like a spoiled white princess my entire stay and deeply ashamed of myself for my family to be living in luxury in a country so obviously struggling with poverty. It was a real life lesson and not a pleasant one.

On our last day my parents walked outside of the gates of the hotel and gave a bunch of American dollers to everyone that walked past in an attempt to salve their guilt.

Paris, total shit hole (quite literally in places)

I just wish so many Scottish people didn't hate us English so much...

I agree, the Highlands are stunning ❤️ And there’s absolutely no hate here unless you refuse to accept my hard earned cash as tender 😉

I loved pisa but hated the leaning tower area
Loved Athens but hated visiting all the tourists monuments being barged out the way by selfie takers.
I didn't like Venice it felt it has no actual heart left just a disney place
New york agree was underwhelmed and I had such high expectations.
Dundee - for some reason I thought I would love it but was so underwhelmed.