Most overrated destination you’ve visited?

[Hairbrush123]

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

Have been to Paris loads of times but most trips were quite a few years ago. Kept reading on here that it was grubby so was a bit wary when we went back a few years ago. I thought it was still fabulous. It's more impressive (to me) than London.

I was very underwhelmed by Oxford . Still wonder if we missed something.

Yes Paris and Rome for me too. Dirty places and not what I was expecting.
Essaouira too - strangest place ever - felt like I'd dropped onto a different planet!

San Francisco. So many people told me how wonderful it was and I was totally underwhelmed.

Dublin too, I’ve been a number of times on cheap 30 minute Ryanair flights with my kids, just for a day out on a plane, and a couple of times with friends for overnight stays for concerts and I just don’t see what there is to get excited about there.

Sharm El Sheikh- scuba diving was mediocre compared to anywhere I've dived, local town/markets only had men (we barely saw a local women the whole trip) and they were creepy. Despite wearing modest clothing, I felt stared at and uncomfortable as soon as I went outside the hotel.

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.

Paris. Dangerous, threatening shit hole.

@GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing

Naples. Definitely Naples.

No way. Just no way!

I was going to start a list of places that massively exceeded expectations just to say Naples!

Completely agree. I thought Naples was magical. Also loved Edinburgh and Paris, so what do I know

And Venice

Gibraltar. Very polluted, hideous food, nothing to do.

I agree with several of these.
Niagra definitely - like Blackpool but less tasteful.
New York left me fairly cold and the French Riviera was a bit disappointing too. (Admittedly I was ill on my holiday to Cannes though so I should maybe give it the benefit of the doubt and try again sometime.)

@Dinosauraddict

Naples. Definitely Naples.

Absolutely! Filthy dirty, and nasty vibe. Hated having to go out of the hotel, it felt so unsafe.

Yep, Paris for me too. I've been there a lot (though not for a while) and I don't agree it's a shithole, I just never loved it.

Agree with Cornwall, and Cancun - tacky

Love Edinburgh!

The great pyramids were a little anti-climatic

Reykjavik - Iceland
Alot of our trips got cancelled due to the weather. So we spent most of our 4 days wandering around the city and it got very boring.
The two trips we did do was a horse ride. My horse seem to hate me and despite it being aimed at beginners. One of the people on the tour kept asking to gallop so I spent most of the two hours clinging on to my horse for dear life.

The Blue Lagoon was a very hectic not at all relaxing experience. The changing rooms were so packed at one point a huge bottom ended up in my face. Then there was a power cut so I was freezing with wet hair trying to get dry.
I love holidays it's one of the few places I have wanted to leave.

Dubai must be one of the most morally and spiritually bankrupt places on earth.

The living epitome of the phrases ‘more money than sense’ and ‘just because you can it doesn’t mean you should’.

A monument to consumerism and greed built on modern slavery. Shameful.

@Hollyhead Bet you went to Menton or Cannes. Try the other end of the French Riviera. Busy, but with people swimming, boating, walking rather than 'nightlife'.

Brighton…

Shingle beach, run down buildings, people in crisis everywhere, highest rates of violence in the UK… depressing craphole!

Stonehenge

New York was rather underwhelming. I’m glad I went but I wouldn’t bother again

Acapulco.

Winter wonderland

Paris. Also Nando’s, it’s okay I just don’t get the hype! 🤣

Pisa

I loved Nice.

@OfstedOffred

South Africa. We found the people we met there unpleasant.

It's a pity as I work a lot with people in SA now & they are all lovely, so I guess we just got unlucky.

Gosh where in South Africa did you go? I received the most amazing service I have ever received in SA. I met the most lovely people. I even still chat to them on social media occasionally.

Mauritius and Venice.