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Although it's a immense privilege to question the world, sometimes definite places don't conscionable our expectations. So erstwhile we asked the BuzzFeed Community: "What celebrated tourer destination does everyone love, but you really hate?" truthful galore radical shared their thoughts. Here's what they said below:
1. "Paris. Overpriced, crowded, rude people, and you're perpetually dodging pickpockets and different scammers."
2. "Vegas IS a dump. If you person astir $20k to blow, past you mightiness beryllium capable to person a decent clip there."
3. "Pisa, Italy. I went to a section edifice and sat astatine a array with everyone astir america being served. Left without eating. Then the nationalist bathrooms are controlled by rough-looking men, shaking tourists down for money. The Tower of Pisa is iconic, but the full acquisition felt artificial and tacky with each the ridiculous radical pretending to clasp up the operation successful pictures. Rubbish souvenirs and T-shirts. Please don’t discarded your time."
4. "Gatlinburg is tacky arsenic hell. I've lone been once, and it was erstwhile I was astir 15 with my family. I had a amusive time, but it was a weird place. Many of the shops and attractions would not beryllium retired of spot astatine a carnival."
5. "Myrtle Beach, SC. Back successful the '60s and '70s, it was a fantastic spot to go. Small household motels, the Pavilion, the boardwalk. Now, it’s a commercialized nightmare. Huge hotels, tons of condos, and tourer traps. It’s besides go afloat of pack unit that you wouldn’t person dreamed of successful the '60s and '70s. I volition ne'er acceptable ft determination again."
6. "Rome, Italy. Horribly overrun by tourists, endless traffic, dirty, and not adjacent pretty. I don’t similar cities astatine all, but this 1 is simply a hard ne'er again for me. I curse that metropolis is acold overrated. I’ve been astir the satellite and each 7 continents. There are decidedly places I won’t instrumentality to, but Rome is precocious connected that list."
7. "Costa Rica. I person been doubly and person nary tendency to return. The Guanacaste formation municipality we stayed successful had prices that were comparable to going to Hilton Head oregon different bully US formation destination. The radical were not peculiarly friendly, and the section shops each tried to complaint america successful US dollars by adding their ain self-determined 'exchange rate,' which was ever wildly unfavorable. We had an all-day backstage circuit to spot sloths and the rainforest, which outgo $1,000. We walked retired to the car successful the greeting with rainfall jackets, and our usher told america we didn't request them, truthful we near them. When we got to the rainforest, helium asked america if we wanted to bargain rainfall ponchos from a section vendor! Then, erstwhile it started raining, helium told america that we should person bought rainfall jackets."
8. "Ocean City, MD. Over-priced, busy, and gridlocked roads. Good luck enjoying the formation oregon the boardwalk, unless you similar being shoulder-to-shoulder. Not to notation the rude, entitled tourists who flock determination similar locusts."
9. "The Gilroy Garlic Festival. What a money-sucking, people-cramming scam. The directors of it should beryllium jailed."
10. "The Bahamas. I went determination arsenic portion of a cruise. Right disconnected the docks, it's each touristy, but get adjacent 3 blocks away, and you tin spot it's conscionable an land mentation of Mexico. If you unrecorded successful the US, prevention your wealth and conscionable sojourn your confederate neighbor..."
11. "Disney World! Overcrowded, spent truthful overmuch clip lasting successful lines for attractions contempt utilizing the FastPass. Too hot, and overall, it conscionable wasn’t my benignant of place. Once was enough."
12. "New Orleans' French Quarter. My woman and I went and stayed 1 nighttime connected Bourbon Street. The buildings and past are amazing. The stench of urine and overindulgence remains."
—Anonymous, 59, Male, Missouri
13. "Santorini. The Gatlinburg of The Aegean. Visited successful 2006 and 2009. Beautiful, nary spot similar it arsenic acold arsenic the earthy history, culture, and people. The occupation is mode excessively galore people. Visited successful 2023, and you could hardly move. You virtually can’t instrumentality 2 steps without moving to debar oregon bump into someone. Cruiseships litter the main port, and it’s an endless enactment of cars and buses aft that. As a result, it’s besides go dirty. Nothing similar it utilized to be. Very unfortunate."
14. "Pyramids of Egypt. Nothing but a GIANT ashtray successful the mediate of the desert. Dirty, gritty, gross. It conscionable gave the feeling that you were getting ripped disconnected astatine immoderate moment!"
—Anonymous, 45, M, U.S.
15. "Casablanca, the precise explanation of shithole. From the fake Rick’s Cafe tourer trap to the hundreds of taxi/tour hustlers to the horrifying thoroughfare market, the lone redeeming spot is the enormous, awesome mosque."
16. "Hawaii. It’s aged and dirty. Every representation you've seen has been colorized. Waikiki is the astir overrated place. I grew up successful Miami and cognize what a existent formation is. Save your wealth and spell to the Caribbean. Better beaches, prettier water, nicer locals, and mode amended sunsets."
—Anonymous, 53, female, Washington DC
17. "Tokyo. I don’t hatred it, but it's the buying promenade of Japan. Go to Kyoto oregon different places extracurricular Tokyo. Japan is beautiful, but you person to spell extracurricular Tokyo."
18. "We went to Universal Orlando astatine Christmas time. Too galore roller coasters. The hotels are costly and tacky. The parks are grossly expensive, and different than Harry Potter World, not worthy the effort. The lines are mode excessively long, and unless you wage the equivalent of an introduction summons for the accelerated pass, it's not worthy the wait."
—Anonymous, 76, female, Austin Texas
19. "Lisbon has a dark, shadier broadside that nary 1 seems to speech about. Graffiti-smeared buildings. Warnings astir pickpockets everywhere. Overpriced, underwhelming food. Menus complaint much for tourists than locals. Scammers everyplace are trying to hawk their wares. Locals swearing openly astatine tourists with shouts of ‘go backmost to your ain country’ portion astatine the aforesaid clip charging you other for everything they can. Assaults, which are under-reported, to support up the facade of a affable country. Overcrowded touristy areas with agelong lineups for immoderate attraction. Four to 5 hours hold clip astatine the airport. Portugal is not what it erstwhile was."
20. "Taj Mahal. 7-8 cardinal visitors annually! Long lines to get done the wage gate. Long lines to participate the monument. Then you get stuck successful a slow-moving crush of humanity, enarthrosis to enarthrosis successful stifling vigor and assemblage odor. The circuit guides are each yelling to beryllium heard. It was truthful atrocious that I rapidly exited successful disgust. One of the worst tourer experiences I person ever had."
—Anonymous, 69, male, Seattle
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