24 Travel Destinations People Visited And Left Thinking, "People Really Hype This Up Too Much"

We each person that 1 celebrated travel destination that didn't unrecorded up to the hype. Maybe it was overcrowded, overpriced, excessively commercial, oregon conscionable plain not worthy the expectations. Needless to say, the responses came successful accelerated erstwhile u/optimalbrain90 asked the r/SmartTravelHacks community, "Have you ever planned a travel to a celebrated spot successful North America that everyone online seemed obsessed with, lone to get determination and consciousness wholly underwhelmed?"

As they enactment it, "Travel experiences are truthful personal. A spot 1 idiosyncratic loves tin wholly disappoint idiosyncratic else." So, present are the 24 destinations travelers kept naming:

1. "Myrtle Beach. I cannot statesman to archer however often I had heard astir it anterior to america going there, and I cannot statesman to picture however perfectly disgusting it was — successful each imaginable way."

2. "Las Vegas. Horrendous, phony, overhyped town."

3. "As a autochthonal Miamian, I'd accidental that it's a amended tourer destination than it is simply a spot to live. It's inactive overpriced and overhyped, though."

4. "The Hamptons. Beaches are beautiful, but hotels are not that nice, and they outgo a ton of money. People are rich, pretentious, and boring. Pass."

5. "Nashville. Just not absorbing astatine all. I'm definite it's a good city, and I tin spot wherefore radical unrecorded determination — it's conscionable not entertaining to maine arsenic a tourist."

6. "Gatlinburg is similar 1 of those movies that are truthful atrocious it becomes comedic. I tin respect an older idiosyncratic going to a nationalist park, but herds of motorized wheelchairs cruising betwixt the meal shows and Trump apparel stands is simply a unusual happening to spot successful a gateway municipality to a bully nationalist park."

7. "Disney parks. People usage their beingness savings to question determination from astir the world. It's mind-blowing however overmuch radical walk to go. Source: Long-time Orlando resident. I've been for escaped a fewer times connected person passes and was inactive underwhelmed."

8. "Niagara Falls. The country astir it has conscionable made it awful. Extremely overrated acquisition now."

9. "Times Square. I could not judge radical were clamoring to get to this spot. It is each suburban edifice and covering store you tin find successful immoderate promenade successful the US, but bigger and much obnoxious."

10. "Plymouth Rock. Those big-hatted dudes should person picked determination to onshore wherever the rocks were astatine slightest pretty."

11. "Hollywood is simply a dump. An older man asked if helium could basal adjacent to maine portion connected the Walk of Fame. He said helium was section and had been beaten up and robbed doubly precocious by bums, and that helium felt safer being adjacent to someone. I was blessed to help."

12. "The Smokies generally. They are beautiful, but I don't recognize wherefore they are 1 of the nation's astir visited nationalist parks. There are plentifulness of beauteous authorities parks up and down the Appalachian Mountains that are bully alternatives for avoiding crowds. It indispensable beryllium the easiness of accessibility to aggregate ample cities."

13. "Branson. It's got attractions but insufficient postulation capacity, and everyone drives there."

14. "Daytona Beach. There's not truly each that overmuch there. Most of the clubs are gone, and it's present $32 to thrust onto the formation unless you unrecorded successful the county. Once you permission the touristy country and transverse backmost implicit the Intracoastal Waterway to downtown Daytona, it becomes a rundown sh— hole. Even outpouring interruption and Bike Week aren't anyplace adjacent arsenic large arsenic they were 15 to 20 years ago."

15. "Denver. It's a plains metropolis that radical often don't recognize is inactive 1 to 2 hours from the astir frequented places successful the mountains nearby."

16. "Austin, Texas. I mean, it's a bully metropolis that seems to person everything I'd expect successful a city, but it didn't springiness maine the 'wow, that's cool' feeling everyone erstwhile hyped it up to. The bats are cool, I guess."

17. "The Space Needle successful Seattle. I conscionable deliberation it's a waste. You spell up erstwhile and ne'er again. It's a large summation to the metropolis skyline, but it's not life-altering successful immoderate way."

18. "Mount Rushmore. Enough said."

19. "Key West, Florida. Ever been to immoderate assemblage municipality that has a thoroughfare with a ton of bars? You've been to Key West."

20. "Cannery Row successful Monterey, California. The Steinbeck charm is long, agelong gone. It's fundamentally a tourer trap now, isolated from the aquarium, which is worthy visiting."

23. "The Grand Canyon South Rim. It seemed to commercialize Native populations portion exploiting them astatine the aforesaid time."

24. "Bourbon Street, New Orleans. Vomit, radical passed out, a weed haven — excessively overmuch for my gentle soul."

Did immoderate of these destinations marque your ain "never again" list? Or did you sojourn 1 of these spots and really emotion it? Whether you person your ain overhyped question communicative to stock oregon privation to support a spot connected this list, stock your thoughts successful the comments oregon the anonymous signifier below!

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.