"It's Just A Tourist Trap Now": People Are Sharing Their Most Underwhelming Travel Experiences They've Ever Had

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Woman enjoying medieval thoroughfare of Italy, Scanno, Abruzzo

Traveling tin beryllium an astonishing experience, but sometimes a travel conscionable doesn't unrecorded up to your expectations. We precocious asked the BuzzFeed Community to stock their astir underwhelming question experiences, and whew, you each did not clasp back. Here's what radical had to say:

Note: Some of the pursuing responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity. Friendly reminder that I, Kelly Martinez, bash not needfully hold with these opinions!

2. "Kelingking Beach connected Nusa Penida disconnected Bali. Yes, the cliffs are staggering, but the land does not person the infrastructure to cater to the thousands of time trippers who travel simply for an Instagram photo. It takes hours with bumper-to-bumper postulation to get to the parking batch for a unsafe locomotion amongst hundreds of tourists."

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3. "I perfectly hold with hating Paris. [It's] the lone metropolis worldwide that I volition ne'er instrumentality to. It was dirty, radical were rude, and fume seemed to beryllium everywhere. Way overpriced."

4. "The Empire State Building is NOT worthy the clip oregon money. [It's] amended to spell to different gangly gathering and look astatine it than beryllium successful it."

5. "Our travel to the Galápagos Islands was benignant of underwhelming. I thought it would stroke my caput with unique, once-in-a-lifetime, peculiar coolness. It was, astatine best, okay. If wealth is immoderate consideration, determination are places wherever you person mode less radical and overmuch amended bang for buck."

6. "Casablanca, [Morocco] is highly overrated. Just a large metropolis with thing to see."

7. "Venice Beach, California, utilized to beryllium truthful chill with the creation and eccentric people. It's conscionable a tourer trap now, and it's truthful disappointing."

8. "Waikiki Beach [in Honolulu] is fundamentally [only] for tourists with each the hotels close there. Locals don't spell determination due to the fact that it's crowded, expensive, and parking is terrible. We similar the different beaches astir the island."

9. "Chichén Itza was truly amusive erstwhile I went determination 15 years ago. I went backmost 2 years ago, and it was wholly unbearable. Instead of being a beautiful, inspiring, and enlightening experience, it was a wholly depressing scene. There are a ton of vendors trying to merchantability you thing that they can. The ENTIRE parkland is lined with radical yelling to bargain their refrigerator magnets."

10. "Venice feels odd, due to the fact that fewer radical unrecorded there. It feels similar it exists for tourists. We near aboriginal and took a broadside travel to Innsbruck, [Austria]."

11. "Bath, [England] is brainsick touristy. It’s worse than London, due to the fact that London is truthful immense [that] it’s casual to get distant from the touristy areas — adjacent successful the tallness of summer, you tin locomotion a fewer roads implicit from, say, Oxford Street, and find yourself unsocial connected a random broadside street. But successful Bath, it’s intolerable to get distant from the tourer crowds."

12. "The metropolis [of Niagara Falls] itself is simply a tourer trap, and has turned into an amusement park. Also, everyplace you go, they effort to get you to instrumentality a representation successful a tube successful beforehand of simulated Falls."

13. "The Stratosfare Restaurant successful Queenstown, New Zealand, is simply a existent tourer trap — precise expensive, crowded, and the nutrient was acold and old. [It was] the worst nutrient I person ever had."

14. And lastly: "The Mona Lisa: tiny painting, crowded room."

15. Are determination immoderate places you traveled to that didn't conscionable your expectations? Tell america wherever and wherefore successful the comments oregon successful the anonymous signifier below.