Overrated holiday destinations - Vacation spots that didn't live up to the hype

  • 🏰 The Fediverse is up. If you know, you know.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
TiggerNits said:
Paris is awful, doubly so when the season isn't mid Spring or late Autumn.

Cairo is a shithole of epic proportions and the best place to photograph the pyramids is on top of a fucking KFC facing them

Cape Town is the least terrible place in South Africa meaning it would at best be the 4th best place in some flyover state hell hole

Jamaica and most of the Caribbean islands in general are on par with Mexico and the rest of the bad parts of Latin America. Somehow smells worse than anywhere in Eastern Europe

Rio is gross

Everything from the Bay Area through to Vancouver needs to be nuked out of existence

Vegas is goddamed awful and if you want to waste money and get a tug job from a hooker with brown skin that barely understands English you're better off going to an Indian casino and going after the least chubby drunk Indian chick

Temecula is filled with people who make the stereotypical LA snob look like a fucking saint and anyone who can tie their shoes look like a Rhode
scholar

Toronto is just Taiwan with chubbier broads and shittier weather
Click to expand...


Dem wineries in Temecula are pretty nice, though. Murrieta was pretty bad, too.
 
I've never been West of Chicago (and even then, that was because I was moving from flight to flight) and I've never been outside the US. If I was to say an overrated place to go on vacation, I'd say anywhere with a ton of large hotels and a huge tourist crowd. There's usually a ton of riff-raff at those places. I remember my family and some friends went to one of these locations (Orange Beach, Alabama), and it ended up being enough of a disaster that our families never really talked after that, even though things didn't end bad. Sort of was more about our families realizing our incompatibilities, but the fact that a bunch of hicks didn't know to get out of the pool or off the beach when they heard thunder should be enough to convince me those places bring all sorts of less civilized folks. Some places like the 30A region in Florida are pretty nice, though. Sure, you're surrounded by a bunch of upper middle class soccer moms bitching about anything and everything because their marriage is failing, but at least people aren't casting fishing lines out on the beach right next to where the kids are playing in the ocean. Yes, that actually happened when my family went to a beach in North Carolina.

If you want a good place, though, I'd suggest Hilton Head or Harbor Island, South Carolina. Those places are great! Or Dauphin Island over near Mobile, Alabama. Though the last one might have you dealing with some riff-raff and you can see oil rigs in the distance, it's got a lot of cool stuff and is near Mobile without being near a ton of hotel resorts that plan out everything to the point where vacation isn't relaxing like it should be.
 
Cable 7 said:
Real shit.
Toronto is such a horribly boring city to be in. You can do a lot of the cool things within a day or two. I can't even imagine myself staying there for a week again.
Click to expand...

Originally rated this "agree," then thought to myself "wait a minute, what 'cool things' to do in Toronto is he referring to?"
 
I don't know who I hate more, Los Angelenos or the tourists. I dealt with both tending bar there. With that said, if you want to see some crazy shit, you will see it in that line of work in that city. They call it Hollyweird for a reason.

NYC is pretty miserable in the summer time.

On the flip side of things, Palm Springs can be pretty nice if you can stand the heat and just want to hang out and relax and Cooperstown NY is both relaxing and has stuff to do. Motorcycle tours from Colorado/Wyoming to Washington are pretty cool, too.
 
Cliched answer but it's true: cruises. It's a big boat yes, but at the end of the day you're still stuck on a boat. I'd say most travelers are by nature adventurous and will feel stifled by the experience. If you're an older traveler or into "society" stuff it might have more appeal. They do a good job of pairing you with different people at dinner and having different "ice breaker" events so there are plenty of social opportunities.
 
any beach for swimming and sunbathing. Fuck sand, fuck the ocean. The only proper way to enjoy the beach is under shade on a deck with a drink in hand and nobody else there. Or surf casting.
 
Bahamas, at least the cruise line I went on to get there was nice. Once we got off and landed on the island, it was wet everywhere. I barely understood what most of the locals said and the houses we saw all looked like they were in pretty bad shape. Also, New Orleans and St. Augustine are tied. Outside of the tourist attractions at the ghost towns, NOLA was painfully boring and overpriced and St. Augustine was a crowded mess.
 
The most fun and memorable trip I ever took was to the Wisconsin Dells. It's hands down the trashiest tourist trap in the country, and spending a few days people watching at the water parks and laughing at getting ripped off at the numerous carny attractions on the strip, I realized that I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

I hope to make a pilgrimage to Branson someday for the same reason.
 
Derp Potato said:
Disneyland.

Overpriced. Crowded. Stuck in Anaheim which is complete shit to begin with.

But there is a bomb af Italian place down the street called Mama Cozza's that serves meatball pizza.

Really, any SoCal spot. Gotta plan your day around rush hour traffic which, last time I was there, from about 2pm to 6pm.
Click to expand...
Disneyland is an overrated place. Even as a kid, I wasn't really big into it and the memories I can recall from it was long lines and a long drive at night when me and my family were heading home.

TiggerNits said:
Nah. San Diego and Monaco are both fucking amazing (assuming the PGA tourney or the F1 race aren't in town)
Click to expand...
Regardless of one's stance on San Diego, that city has a homeless problem if you ever went to down town. There was also a scare over hepatitis a few months back.
 
c-no said:
Regardless of one's stance on San Diego, that city has a homeless problem if you ever went to down town. There was also a scare over hepatitis a few months back.
Click to expand...

Oh god, Downtown SD and homeless is ubiquitous at this point. Nothing like trying to get in to a shitty bar/club and dodging homeless beds.

Hell, really everywhere all over the city is a major homeless problem or at least panhandling problem. There was a homeless lady that would walk up and down the Miramar area, always mumbling to herself. It was sad.

Can't forget the literal cesspool that SDSU is, either.
 
Derp Potato said:
Oh god, Downtown SD and homeless is ubiquitous at this point. Nothing like trying to get in to a shitty bar/club and dodging homeless beds.

Hell, really everywhere all over the city is a major homeless problem or at least panhandling problem. There was a homeless lady that would walk up and down the Miramar area, always mumbling to herself. It was sad.

Can't forget the literal cesspool that SDSU is, either.
Click to expand...
That's why you skip that and head to La Jolla or Mission Bay. Some of the most fun I've had in SD has been on a boat. I've yet to find a Chris-Craft or SeaLiner with a homeless problem.
 
Going to Niagara Falls soon. I’ll let you all know how much I hate it when i get back.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom