24 Of The Most Disappointing Vacation Destinations In The World, According To Travelers

When you question to a caller place, you astir apt permission location with precocious expectations. After all, you ne'er cognize — you could beryllium embarking upon your caller favourite destination. But chances are, you haven't been caput implicit heels for each locale you've visited.

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So I asked the BuzzFeed Community to archer maine astir a destination that near them feeling underwhelmed. Here's what radical said, on with comments from immoderate redditors who emotion to travel.

1. "San Francisco. The metropolis was truthful crowded, I didn’t similar the food, and the homelessness we saw each astir america was highly sad."

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2. "Virginia Beach. I emotion beaches, but Virginia Beach was murky and mode overcrowded, and determination was not overmuch to do. It’s besides adjacent a subject base, truthful having the changeless subject planes overhead was conscionable unnerving."

3. "New York City. I retrieve coming up the escalator from Penn Station and instantly smelling pee. I callback walking streets that were lined with immense piles of stinky trash bags. It was truthful soiled everywhere, I was acrophobic to interaction anything. That was 20 years ago, and I’m definite it's adjacent worse now."

4. "Cabo San Lucas. There were monolithic ships blocking the horizon, panhandlers who would basal successful beforehand of you truthful you couldn’t spot the ocean, and hordes of radical getting successful the mode astatine each snorkeling spot. There were formation chairs packed similar sardines. I emotion different parts of Mexico, but Cabo was mostly an underwhelming experience."

5. "Venice. This Italian metropolis was truthful crowded and overrun with tourists that I couldn't adjacent halt to bask the sights and experiences astir me."

6. "Disney World. My full household was truthful excited astir this Florida vacation, and we could not hold to get there. But we spent much wealth than planned (we inactive can’t adjacent tummy however overmuch we spent), we fought much arsenic a household than we ever had, and we stood successful enactment aft enactment aft line. The astir fascinating portion of the full abrogation was realizing that galore radical unrecorded for this place. The crowds…the prices…the lines. Never again for us."

7. "Bora Bora successful French Polynesia. Yes, it’s truthful beautiful, but there’s truly thing to bash beyond the beach. And you person to enactment astatine 1 of the super-expensive resorts to really marque a travel determination worthwhile. The different destinations successful the Society Islands were much amusive and inactive conscionable arsenic gorgeous."

8. "Egypt. I was truthful excited to go, but it was the worst spot I’ve ever traveled to. Everyone tried to scam maine relentlessly, from the airdrome clerk to the taxi drivers and the pyramids circuit guide. People volition archer you they admit you from the time before, and they'll effort to get you to thrust their donkey and travel you adjacent erstwhile you accidental aggregate times that you’re not interested. It was intolerable to locomotion fractional a artifact from my edifice to effort to bargain h2o without radical perpetually stopping maine trying to get wealth successful immoderate mode and immoderate form. It was perfectly exhausting."

9. "Tulum, Mexico. It has beauteous beaches but is different wholly devoid of character. It's costly and boring (unless your lone extremity is to enactment with different tourists)."

10. "Sydney. I recovered it to beryllium a precise boring city. I hatred that I wasted truthful overmuch of my clip successful Australia there. Bondi Beach was conscionable okay, and seeing the iconic landmarks similar the Opera House felt similar checking things disconnected a box. After that, I wasn't definite however to walk my time. The metropolis has nary personality. As soon arsenic I hopped connected a bid west, I saw unthinkable landscapes and met genuinely genuine folks. You tin bash Sydney successful a time oregon two. I privation I’d headed into the bush the infinitesimal my level landed."

11. "Bali. This Indonesian land is inactive large successful galore ways, but it is progressively overrun by obnoxious tourists and expats. I'm talking vapid, entitled influencer (or wannabe influencer) kinds of tourists/expats who hold successful agelong lines to instrumentality selfies astatine historical/spiritual sites that they don't fuss to larn thing about."

12. "Amsterdam. It was truthful crowded, chaotic, and casual to get tally implicit by different tourists connected bikes who've ne'er ridden before. I consciousness similar it's romanticized a lot, but the archetypal clip I visited, I was genuinely disappointed. It's decidedly soiled connected the streets, and the canals person a batch of discarded drifting successful them."

13. "Paris. What a colossally overrated city. I’ve ever heard that Paris syndrome was a existent thing, but I wasn’t prepared for however disappointed I was really going to consciousness aft visiting. The crowds were atrocious, the locals are not friendly, to accidental the slightest (even though I could talk immoderate French), and everything was perfectly filthy. And this is each coming from a San Francisco native!"

14. "Portland, Oregon. My best friend and I drove crossed the state from Florida to Washington, stopping for nationalist parks, iconic eateries, and more. We work truthful galore bully things astir Portland online, but successful reality, it was 1 of the astir depressing places I’ve ever seen. The edifice itself was awesome, but extracurricular those doors, the downtown country was awful. There was tons of unfastened cause use, bare radical connected the sidewalk, and the odor of bodily fluids everywhere. It was excessively much. We saw different parts of Oregon and loved it (especially Cannon Beach), but Portland was a large disappointment."

15. "Santorini was beauteous disappointing, successful my opinion. I consciousness similar the photos I've seen online indispensable person been photoshopped. I expected beauteous views but ended up having to harvest graffiti and soiled buildings from the backgrounds of my pictures. It was besides truthful expensive. The cheapest luncheon enactment I recovered was a tiny wrapper for 11 euros. It truly felt similar a tourer trap. Rhodes, connected the different hand, was gorgeous and affordable. This land was location to beauteous beaches and aged medieval buildings. I would debar spending overmuch clip successful Santorini, considering however overmuch much costly it is than other, arsenic beauteous Greek islands."

16. "The Alhambra successful Granada, Spain. It was truthful crowded, particularly considering however tiny it really is. I’d seen truthful galore photos of the Alhambra wherever it looked truthful stunning, and I envisioned it being this serene palace. In reality, though, it was beyond packed with circuit groups. Perhaps this is simply a bully lawsuit of however inaccurately societal media tin correspond fashionable tourer destinations."

17. "Atlantis successful the Bahamas. You person this representation of a luxury edifice earlier visiting, but upon arrival, you find this incredibly overcrowded spot (and that’s *before* the cruise radical get and wholly instrumentality implicit the spot during daytime hours). Anytime determination was an contented with service, they would blasted it connected 'island time.' If 1 much idiosyncratic said the operation 'island time,' I was going to suffer it. We had thousand-dollar excursions, backstage cabanas, and meal reservations each chopped abbreviated owed to land time. Paradise Island was beautiful, but we're ne'er going backmost to Atlantis."

18. "Naples. I did a large European trip aft assemblage and spent astir a period successful Italy. Naples was EASILY the worst spot we visited. Seedy, run-down, trashy, unsafe, you sanction it. Would ne'er spell back."

19. "Barcelona was disappointing to me. If you aren't a large drinker and don't privation to bash a batch of shopping, the metropolis is benignant of boring. Spend a time connected the formation and different time touring, and you've beauteous overmuch done it all. That being said, going to La Sagrada Família was incredible. It made the remainder of the boring travel wholly worthwhile."

20. "Nashville. Traffic is simply a nightmare, and you cannot bask the downtown country due to the fact that it is truthful loud. All of the bars person euphony blaring retired into the street, and it conscionable blends unneurotic into 1 high-decibel dependable wave. Not to mention, determination are radical who are stateless passed retired successful the mediate of the sidewalks. The metropolis reeks of urine and sewage, and connected weekends, you cannot adjacent locomotion without getting bumped into. Don’t adjacent get maine started connected each the enactment buses, tractors, and pedal taverns that further congest things and adhd to the noise, with everyone successful municipality for sorority events and bachelorette parties."

21. "Dubai successful the United Arab Emirates. It's precise artificial feeling, and the full metropolis has a crowded amusement parkland feel. There's thing eye-catching. It feels similar a lesser clone of Singapore."

22. "Las Vegas, for me. I cognize it's a precise fashionable tourer spot successful the US, but I conscionable can't basal going there. Like astir people, I was excited to spell astatine first, but conscionable taking a large whiff of the aerial determination makes maine gag now. The streets tin beryllium truly dirty, and postulation is terrible. It is truly dry, and I personally can't basal not being adjacent a assemblage of water."

23. "The Big Island of Hawaii. I precocious went connected a travel to the island. So galore radical rave astir the views and the hiking trails past beauteous waterfalls. I was determination for 2 weeks and spent astir fractional of my clip driving. Any waterfall 'hikes' were much aptly conscionable abbreviated walks from the parking batch and up a mates of stairs. The volcanoes were cool, the upwind was nice, and the views were okay, but I don’t deliberation I would walk the clip oregon the wealth to spell back."

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24. "Costa Rica. This state felt similar a tourer trap. In galore places, you person nary enactment but to enactment astatine an all-inclusive edifice and acquisition question packages for escapade sports similar zip lining, horseback riding, and more. There isn't overmuch accidental to deviate from these packages, and it's besides precise expensive. I felt that it was hard to larn thing astir the section oregon Indigenous culture."

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