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

[TheImportantFart]

Speaking of San Francisco, I went to Brighton for a work trip yesterday and I can see why it’s known as the San Francisco of England. The seafront’s lovely, but walk north from there a few minutes and you’ll find yourself in a tacky hellhole of decaying buildings, tramps, hipsters and arty farty types all stinking of weed. The roads even slope upwards in a similar manner to San Francisco, just without the trams (which is one of the only cool things about San Francisco these days).

 

[Chexxchunk]

Sounds like it's all going to shit. Sometimes I wish I'd been born 40 years earlier.

 

[Hell]

London and Paris are turds.

 

[Lackadaisy]

Who the fuck is overrating Cleveland as a vacation destination? People passing through or going to Cedar Point might stop off for a few hours for the Rock Hall, what else there is even known as a tourist thing?

Also obligatory
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM

 

[sasazuka]

London. Literally the only thing worth seeing their is the natural history museum, everything else is garbage and they're going to take every shekel you own all the while treating you like shit.

I dunno, I enjoyed aimless walks around the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. I also like the Victoria & Albert, the Tate, and the London Transport museums. And just visiting Heathrow to watch planes take off and land.

I liked the neon lights and other analogue advertising displays at Piccadilly Circus although today it's all just LED screens, which is a lot more mundane since it's essentially just the same technology as the laptop screen which I'm looking at right now except much bigger.

I haven't visited Britain since the first term of the Tony Blair era, though, and, if I had to live there, I'd rather live near a smaller population center like Exeter, but I'd probably visit London once or twice a month.

 

[King Mob]

I grew up in 'cottage country'. And it is definitely an over rated place to vacation at. Not only do all of the locals hate you and talk shit behind your back once they've taken you for all the money they can, but most people charge as much as they possibly can for the lake front cottage surrounded by them lovely woods; peak cottaging season is usually also during peak mosquito/horse fly/skunk etc. season, the cottages are typically clustered together here and there around the lake, so you're almost guaranteed neighbours who likely have noisy, obnoxious kids, and the adults will probably be noisy drunk and obnoxious.
It's rarely as quiet as you're expecting it to be, what with folk using sea-doos at all hours, hollering while swimming, boating, the aforementioned obnoxious kids and drunks, your neighbours and locals in their cars coming and going.
You may not actually have a toilet; near where I grew up, there as some of us who still had outhouses.
Etc. I'm sure you get what I'm bitching about by now.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

This is an ongoing list (maybe):

1.) Sydney, because of Sydney Opera House. The architecture is pretentiously odd.

2.) Anywhere where there are Southern or Northern Lights.

3.) London as a whole, apart from the possibly still slightly seedy places, like Soho. Same is to be said for New York City and Amsterdam.

4.) Paris. Rome is more romantic, and, as overrated as that place is, the bloody word COMES from Rome.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

This is an ongoing list (maybe):

1.) Sydney, because of Sydney Opera House. The architecture is pretentiously odd.

2.) Anywhere where there are Southern or Northern Lights.

3.) London as a whole, apart from the possibly still slightly seedy places, like Soho. Same is to be said for New York City and Amsterdam.

4.) Paris. Rome is more romantic, and, as overrated as that place is, the bloody word COMES from Rome.

5.) Tokyo: Bullet trains, uptight workaholic arseholes, over the top anime shite. Yeah, no thanks. I'd sooner go to Kyoto, or Hokkaido, or Yakushima. Or one of those places Ainu people live.

6.) Manchester: Media City is actually good fun, it's just that people won't shut the fuck up about dross like Oasis, or Coronation Street. That set is a tourist attraction in of itself. And I'm just now remembering Media City is in Salford. I still stick to my opinions on the other two points, however.

7.)... and 8.) Brussels, and Bruges: I really don't like Belgian architecture, and I don't like small riverside, canal streets that look virtually the same no matter where you are.

9.) Toronto: CN Tower.

10.) Dublin: Every dickhead who finds out they have Irish blood wants to go there, to achieve some sort of "cultured pilgrimage". Although...

...I don't know if there are any Irish Farmers here, but have you lot seen their telephone boxes? It's fascinating to me that they're just a GB telephone box, but painted Emerald Isle green.

And my dumbass didn't notice, until now, that no one's been on this forum since 2019. Eh... maybe it'll pick up traction again, and some others'll come along.