Most disappointing destination/holiday

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For me, it was the Norwegian fjords. Not because they weren’t beautiful (what we saw of them, they were!) but because it was cold, rainy and foggy when we went. One town known for being very pretty was ridiculously busy and there was a cruise ship blocking the view from the restaurant we booked. We knew the prices were going to be high, but expected good quality… when you pay over £100 for a train ticket, you expect there to be toilet roll and soap in the toilets!

where have you been that was disappointing?

My experiences have been entirely different. A simply beautiful region, hope you enjoy!

Agree, went there quite a few years ago now but I felt really unsafe there, accommodation was awful as well

I enjoyed the rabbit stew I had. And the savoury pastries and the broad bean dip.

I don't remember much else particularly about the food but I'm not that bothered about food as a part of a holiday. There was plenty of pasta options everywhere.

As somewhere with tons of places to visit covering 1000s of years of history and really easy to get around Malta is hard to beat. I hardly ever want to revisit places but we are going again this year to see more of it.

@MyMilchick even lying on concrete slabs on piers for sunbathing! ( sorrento ) Most bizzare .

Venice in the summer. Unbearably hot and crowded. Been twice, many years apart and both times could not wait to leave.
Its probably lovely at other times of the year but I won’t be racing back

Thanks so much! I’m not sure where to check for reliable weather results! Someone else in the group I’m going with said it’s going to be 29 degrees on Sunday but weather I’m seeing is 15 degrees!!

Taj Mahal. Just an enormous crowd of people pulling silly poses and wanting to have their photo taken. If you want an unobstructed picture of the building, you have to pay and then queue up for you chance to jump about in front of the camera. Not really sure why, as you won't really see much of the building anyway if you're blocking the view?! But nobody else seemed very interested in the actual building. Once you finally get inside, you're not allowed to take photos. So everyone just rushes through without stopping. I would have liked to spend some time appreciating the exquisite interior, but you're in a long line and it doesn't feel like you're really supposed to stop moving. Then you're out the other side, and can't get back in. Really disappointing. Rest of India is amazing though, which made up for it.

Egypt has the most stunning sights, and incredible food, but the culture is very unpleasant. They way they treat women and animals is just revolting.

Florence I just found a bit 'meh', and was unimpressed with them forcing sad-looking horses to stand in the baking sun all day. I really wish the world would get together and ban tourist carriage rides.

Kefalonia is amazing with car hire!! I would go back for that reason.

See I absolutely loved Venice but hated Milan. As soon as you left the hotel it was boiling. I've walked around a lot of hot countries including other parts of Italy but Milan was really something else. The only place I've been that I've got no good memories of.

Mykonos - went looking for Shirley Valentine and found Gemma Collins!

I love these threads as often disagree with so many or think I guessed it would be like that anyway. Finally, visited one place last year that I found underwhelming. I know there's more to see and a day is a snapshot etc but, I don't think I'd rush back to Lake Garda. Well, Sirmione. Just too busy (should have realised). My partner had been before and warned me it was probably not the best of the Italian lakes.

We booked a very cheap last minute holiday to Fuerteventura. Too windy to enjoy sitting out, and our accommodation was fine but not very attractive. What saved the holiday was hiring a car and bikes for a few days. Got to go to some lovely restaurants and managed to find some slightly more sheltered beaches. I wouldn’t go back though.

Osaka. As a lone female traveller I was completely unsafe.

Yep. Us too. Laung prebang was awesome. I loved the night markets. And here was a lovely waterfall about an hour's drive out of there? We ended up getting stranded at the waterfall when we got pissed and took too much dodgy valium. Haha.
No regrets for visiting Laos as a whole as it was quite wild and underdeveloped back then.

Vienna - I felt unsafe (and I’ve travelled the world) and it was overrated.

Paris and New York. Both just busy and unfriendly

Vienna - I felt unsafe (and I’ve travelled the world) and it was overrated.

Paris and New York. Both just busy and unfriendly

Honestly the food was awful and yes, a sort of curried rabbit dish is the star of the show. Otherwise it's a lot of deep fried stuff and very little fruit, veg, cheeses. Exploring different cuisines and food markets is part of my holiday - not on Malta! We were booked to stay a fortnight but we caught the ferry to Sicily after a week to get the hell out of there. But Malta does seem to be like marmite - you either love it or hate it. For me it was the latter.

Me too. Went in about 2011. Me and my friend barely left the hotel because each time we did we just felt so unsafe. We went on a trip to the markets (through Thomas cook) and wa grabbed and shoved into each stall and demanded that we spent money.
The beach was beautiful but we felt all eyes on us and a lovely local actually came over and told us we should watch our stuff because we were being targeted to get robbed! He walked with us back up the beach and helped us get back to the hotel unbothered.

I'm sure it's not all like this but our experience wasn't a nice one.

Was there for 2 weeks and couldn't wait to come home. Many people at our hotel actually got earlier flights home.

El Djem is incredible!

I worked in Tunisia for 3 months in a tourist resort and thought the locals were some of the kindest most welcoming people ever.

Agree. Drying streaks of dog piss on every pavement

I loved El Djem too. Incredible that it's less well known than so many other Roman sites, but so perfectly preserved.

Oh no, poor you. I went there with a group of people who had been to many places on holiday and we nicknamed it Agadire. Awful place. I generally disliked Morocco as a whole but Agadir was the worst place we went to.

My choice too. Massively over rated

@lifesalive now I love Stockholm - but I know it really really well as we used to go a lot when we lived in Copenhagen - thing is with Copenhagen and Stockholm lots of things are actually quite cheap but eating out and drinking out isn’t - which is I guess is what tourists mainly see - they are also better paid than uk- I think these places are actually better to live than visit and rely on UK money

Agree with this. Maldives was the most bored I have ever been on holiday.