What popular places are overrated?

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Following on from another thread, what places do you consider overrated that are popular?

Hotel Chocolat = over priced, at best average tasting, would much rather Cadbury's at a fraction of the price.

Amorino = our local one gets packed, as in queue's outside the shop packed. Over priced, very average ice cream, that they seem to be able to charge a premium for because you can mix flavors and it's a cue little flower shape.

Dominoes, Pappa Johns, Pizza Hut = unless there is a deal on very expensive for what tastes very processed pizza.

If you actually read the thread I was replying to a poster who said people should go to these places at quieter times. The world is to big to be going back to places you dislike which is why i wrote or go to somewhere they actually like. So 🙄 back to you.

Ha, I love a good toilet recommendation.

I took it as a witty slap down to the pp making a boring, worthy, political point on a nice light-hearted thread. Plenty of immigration threads available.

I don't agree that everything is expensive in London. The fantastic museums and art galleries are free - ever been to a museum in other cities? Amsterdam and Stockholm are just 2 where the museums are ridiculously expensive.

Also a lot of the restaurants are reasonably priced. We can get a delicious veggie indian meal in Covent Garden for less than we pay for not that great indian food where we live in East Midlands

Epcot is THE best park of them all.
However, Magic Kingdom is overrated.

Simply… CENTER PARCS

I love them all - but for me.

1. MK
2. HS
3. Epcot
4. AK

A witty slapdown??

Totally with you on Amorino, op. I went to a shop near Chinatown that was so busy you couldn’t hear names being called out properly. Which they have to do as crafting the thing takes ages. I heard something like sounded like mine called repeatedly with no response so took it although it looked weedier than expected. Stood outside eating it and about ten minutes later heard my name called as a cone double the size appeared. Not that I wanted any more by that point because it was devoid of flavour.

I did feel bad about pinching someone else’s, but presumably they’d given up and left.

And not to mention expensive!

Isle of Man there’s literally nothing there.

I wrote a short sentence "London is over-rated" and you turned that into me not liking London because my kids don't?!?! 🤔

I merely said it was over-rated (as per the thread). e.g. nothing wrong with it, but there are better places to visit. We loved Kew Gardens. The science museum was crowded and difficult to get near anything. The natural history museum was even worse. Everywhere (shops, restaurants, transport) were just so crowded. The London dungeon was great! But the general crowdedness and queues everywhere made the day tiring and meh.

This summer we will visit other UK cities. Any suggestions welcome!

Ooh please share Covent Garden veggie Indian! I absolutely love a curry out but a bad one is so sad.

10 downing street

Apart from all the people who call it home

@OdiebayWhere please? I’m looking to go next year and there’s too much choice!

I agree with you. And what's that lump of lettuce all about??

Overtourism is damaging most of these scenic places and creating a terrible experience for visitors and for locals. Go off peak and see a better side.

I'm always fascinated by people who say they love Bristol. I live in Bristol, sure there are some nice bits, but a lot of it is a shithole. The centre is overrun with aggressive drug addicts and homeless people- there is a central shopping centre very near the coach station called Broadmead and I have great sympathy for any tourist who happens to wander into it. It is full of some of the most aggressive beggars in probably the entire country- you can't walk through it at any time of day without being harassed for money, and quite possibly screamed at by a drug addled lunatic if you don't hand some cash over. People get assaulted there all the time. The police do nothing- it's been like that for at least a decade.

The entire centre of the city is packed with student apartments, and full of braying former public school students who seem unaware that other people exist and take over entire pavements in packs.

Go a bit out of the centre and you've got the yobs in balaclavas riding mini motorbikes on the pavements and intimidating passers-by.

Clifton is quite nice, I guess, but if that's the kind of thing you're looking for, you're better off going to Bath, it's only 10 minutes on the train.

And breathe.

THIS (honourable mention to Stanton Drew)

It's not judgemental to express an opinion on a place you have visited.
People are expressing how the place made/makes them feel even if you don't agree with them.

This is the first time I’m realising that Brad Pitt’s name backwards is pretty much Pitta Bread.

We always go in April during the Flower Festival at Epcot which is fabulous.
So mine goes Epcot, HS, AK the MK.

Also the night time drone performance at HS is far better than the fireworks at MK!

Much preferred Parc Asterix just outside Paris

OMG that place is amazing! As a lifelong Asterix fan I spent an embarrassing amount of money in the gift shops!