Top ten disappointing tourist destinations

nice fish & chip shop in barney castle and a ruined castle ... gateway to teesdale

Ukraine

jaywick

who put the kooonts in sKOONThorpe

barcelona, tunisia ( too hot), london,

Leeds Castle, it's in fookin Kent.
Anywhere nice is disappointing when you see the crowds, I'm not a sociopath but I've enjoyed Italian cities in the winter months and know I would hate the same places in summer.
You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye.

Taunton

"you call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye"
A line from The Last Resort (great song) The Eagles

Went past Stonehenge a few years ago and couldn't believe how small it was.

Leeds Castle and grounds are beautiful. I am not surprised saddo found nothing for him there.

Leeds castle is on Folkestone racecourse

What?

Rome
Austria - been twice and the people were horrific on both occasions

London and Paris absolute ****s.

Barcelona .Hot and expensive. And that's before we get onto the amount of Spanish food

were did you think Barcelona was if it was too hot ?

All of the magnificent Gaudi architecture and you found it to be disappointing

San Marino

Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Dated.

Bondi Beach.

Madame Tussauds - what a waste of money

Loch Ness cruise. Never even got a glimpse of Nessie.

vegas, was all amusement arcades

The Moon - no atmosphere

there is some great architecture in london, buckingham palace is certainly not among it.

Drive past Stonehenge on route to Salisbury I always think how odd people must be to stop and have a walk around it.

Drive past Stonehenge on route to Salisbury I always think how odd people must be to stop and have a walk around it.

Drive past Stonehenge on route to Salisbury I always think how odd people must be to stop and have a walk around it.

Good morning whispering death

Your reaction made me check up on Leeds castle and to my surprise I find it’s in Maidstone,I can assure you every time I parked up on Folkestone racecourse there was a sign saying Leeds castle ,so I just presumed it was the little building there

I have on many occasions told people including my children that Leeds castle is on Folkestone racecourse

Thank you for putting me right [:s

I know, just a load of old rocks.

Meh.

Austria - been twice and the people were horrific on both occasions


They meant nothing to me either.

Los Angeles, absolute soulless what a waste.

Could you be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station

Fox

Not a problem, you’d thin’ it might be in Leeds! Now I have to look up why is is called Leeds Castle

Mona Lisa, not only is it such a boring picture but apparently tourists can't really see it as there's usually a crowd in front of them holding up camera phones, why would you go all that way to hold up a camera when there are trillions of other images online, surely seeing it with your own eyes would be better. Never been myself though.

This is admittedly a bit specific to forumites from Belfast: in the seventies an acquaintance of my parents - renowned, it must be said, for being a bit of a grump - upon returning from a trip to Venice, described it as being "like the Divis Flats with the Lagan running through them"

Amsterdam. Do not go there

Nofx

Not been for 30 years and was thinking of going again ,but after watching van der valk a couple of weeks ago I thought the place looked dull,I know you can’t go of a tv series ,so what didn’t you like about it ?

The tourists

Foxy, I jest but yeah it's just a tiny city. In summer very much at capacity. Half the centre's been bought by people who do not live there, most of it occupied by air bnb. The city not able and or unwilling to deal with the latter. The red-light bit is a plain travesty. Whole streets with people shoulder to shoulder as if in line for something they never arrive at. Like Disney World on a bad day, but with lots of beer

Im not bitter

If you do intend to go you're much better off out of season. Particularly if you'd like to visit any museum

Ponte Carlo

To be honest nofx there are now so many places to visit I’ll give it a miss,as I said earlier I did go in 89 ,I suppose I couldn’t back then have been that impressed or I would have gone back sooner.

So much to see out there you could spend a lifetime of just exploring new places. I would go to Porto or Barcelona again or stay there for a while but that's an atmosphere and culture and food and all that thing, not really about new sights

Fingers crossed there'll still be affordable plane tickets

Barcelona residents suffer from the same problem that Amsterdam residents suffer from, overtourism,

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2019/07/12/barcelona-is-ready-to-shut-out-tourists/#3a2ad2645546

also messages like this from locals "tourist, your luxury trip, my daily misery

"https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jun/25/tourists-go-home-refugees-welcome-why-barcelona-chose-migrants-over-visitors

David Brent - 'Alton Towers. Next question?'.

I stayed in Barcelona with a family member so got to eat and drink at the "local" cafes, bars & restaurants. It was so different to the usual tourist places you can find yourself being steered towards

Yes Ramblas Barcelona for one is about as bad as it gets. And all popular destinations suffer these problems. Hell even local places most of us never heard of or thought obscure enough get people brought in by the bus loads because they for instance happen to be listed at some Chinese travel agent

And, bar a pandemic or two, it's only going to get worse

Cleethorpes!

German Christmas Markets, Warm spicy wine and rip off food prices. They even charge you for entry, robbing

Can not believe someone said Vegas, best place on Earth, each to their own though.
Vegas
Ibiza
Deptford
Best 3 places on the planet.

Look out for the men in white coats Deptford,they will be coming for you very soon

Cairo

No charge Hamburg Cooperman. Hamburg good for a visit, better than Amsterdam(although slightly on the quite side nowadays compared to years gone by)

moon, is that for 1 or 2?

was me deptford re vegas, just a wind up. was there in october, can only handle small doses though, and us itas base to get to desert and national parks

Best thing about Deptford was Squeeze, even though they didn't actually come from Deptford.

morpeth, I was there in October, the first week, meant to be going this October but doubt happen now

aye, was there for couple of nights, had been to death valley.
usually go to states sept/oct, duffing it this year, think could be too much grief, will wait till settles down. also need to see flight prices, car hire,, hotels and insurance. will go year after ( somewhere in us or canada )

Pembroke Dock

...stayed at mates mums gaff, got pissed came home and put some Lard on toast, thought it was butter (who the fook still buys Lard)......lots of birds with tattoos and missing teeth in the pubs (since i was there i thought be rude not to interact with the natives)

Did you finish the toast

Didn't really like Benidorm, Sunny version of Blackpool. Culture clash gone wrong. Tacky hole.

Barcelona hot ?   it is 6c warmer than London year round , 10 v 16 winter & 23 v 29 summer and one of those places that rarely gets any extreme heat or cold ..it's a perfect climate

for sunshine it's similar  to how it's been here for the last 3-4 months , 700-800 hours MrApMy

'here' means southern or south eastern  England ,    not the grotty northern **** end of the UK that has similar weather to Norway 

I can't believe anyone thinks of Benidorm as any different to Blackpool tbf ....  it's THE stereotype of tacky resorts

or Brexit on sea as it's affectionately known these days

Luton no explanation needed

those 6 degrees make a massive difference.

not really darren ... Barcelona doesn't get  that hot  ... the hottest day there this year wont be as hot as Paris's   or even London's

isn't disappointing meant to mean some place where you have high hopes of it ?  Jaywick and Luton ? 

What and you had high hopes of Blackpool and Benidorm?

If you live in Burnley for example Bendidorm is still a lovely place to visit   ...all a matter of degree .


I can't imagine anyone from Cornwall for example thinking Benidorm or a dozen other resorts are nice .

that's why all the people  there on holiday are from the grim cities .

Barcelona is by the sea, you're not going to get as hot as inland areas or searing temps

But it's average temperature of 6 degrees warmer makes it a more reliable place to visit for good weather, in London in summer you tend to get more dramatic swings, well over 30°c one day, 19 degrees the next.

obviously the further south you travel towards the equator it will get hotter by the coast. Barcelona's location makes it a good year round climate.

obviously the further south you travel towards the equator it will get hotter by the coast
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generally speaking yes   ...but there are exceptions... Vigo,Santander and La Coruna in Spain will have cloudier cooler conditions in Summer than say Bournemouth  .

But yes, Barcelona will be a lot more reliable  than London    ....  it's just the sweeping generalisation amongst people that Spain is this hot country lol  .....  it  does get very hot in summer in the southern interior mind you

Barcelona is around 40N Latitude ..so very much a northerly location ...about the same as NYC  ...but i find the climate there is good  apart from the lack of rain ...something i'm starting to actually dislike about east anglia  ....   it hasn't rained for weeks  and weeks  and i'm missing the rain ,as are the gardens

Spain has the only desert in Europe, Coach, average temperature is important, though yes it can be very rainy in the north, remember when I was in South Spain in September time, a lot of Spanish people staying there, thought it was strange, til I realised they were bused down from the north.

yes averages do add up  of course ...  day averages (max for each day)   to give you an average idea  ...Barcelona is the  mid way point between Seville and London for day time warmth  ...

Khartoum   is 37c

Seville 25c
Barcelona  is  20c

Paris is 16c
London is 15.5c

yeah 4.6 is the average and not 6c   ... i was roughly guessing at the time .London is a bit warmer than i thought

London's is blanketed in smoke and smog, keeping warmth in. London like any big city is always warmer than it's surrounding countryside areas.

thats a myth lol ....   London no warmer than say Southampton

there may be some heat  trapped in overnight  ...but daytime highs  generally aren't a great deal different ..London is 0.5 warmer daytime than Cambridge in summer  ,so any difference is minimal .

but people who say London is 5 or 6c warmer than surrounding towns are talking nonsense lol

London isn't even 5 or 6 warmer than Inverness