Vacation spots your friends talked up but you hated

[Anonymous]

Paris. I don't get it.

I thought the city was dirty, unfriendly, etc. I was nervous about pick-pocketing the whole time. The food was not good. And the sites were less impressive in person.

I loved the rest of France. But I would never go back to Paris.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Paris. I don't get it.

I thought the city was dirty, unfriendly, etc. I was nervous about pick-pocketing the whole time. The food was not good. And the sites were less impressive in person.

I loved the rest of France. But I would never go back to Paris.

I can get how a person who doesn't like the experience of just kind of strolling a city and seeing the activity and the people and the flow wouldn't like Paris. That, for me, is the best part of going there.

Re: food- there are definitely a lot of mediocre place in Paris, as the move towards pre-prepared and frozen foods takes over France generally. You have to search out the good places more than you would think- picking the random corner bistro may not go well. But there are so many good places once you search them out!

lefooding.com
parisbymouth.com

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Paris. I don't get it.

I thought the city was dirty, unfriendly, etc. I was nervous about pick-pocketing the whole time. The food was not good. And the sites were less impressive in person.

I loved the rest of France. But I would never go back to Paris.

Um you just did it wrong. Sorry to say. Try again?

[Anonymous]

Paris at night ahhhh so magical

[Anonymous]

What is with the anti-Asian crap a few posts back re: Hawaii as a destination?

Yes, there are many tourists from the west coast of the US and Canada, as well as Japan. It’s not the destination for everyone, but warning against a destination because many tourists (and residents, FFS) are Asian is just the worst.

[Anonymous]

I was underwhelmed by:
Nashville
Mystic, CT
Cape Cod
San Diego
Florence
Dublin (but loved the rest of Ireland)
Key West
Atlantis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Paris. I don't get it.

I thought the city was dirty, unfriendly, etc. I was nervous about pick-pocketing the whole time. The food was not good. And the sites were less impressive in person.

I loved the rest of France. But I would never go back to Paris.

Um you just did it wrong. Sorry to say. Try again?

+1

[Anonymous]

Siesta Key, Florida

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Paris. I don't get it.

I thought the city was dirty, unfriendly, etc. I was nervous about pick-pocketing the whole time. The food was not good. And the sites were less impressive in person.

I loved the rest of France. But I would never go back to Paris.

Um you just did it wrong. Sorry to say. Try again?

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Yes if you think the food wasn’t good then you went to bad restaurants. I assure you that there are good ones.

[Anonymous]

Clearwater Beach, FL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was underwhelmed by:
Nashville
Mystic, CT
Cape Cod
San Diego
Florence
Dublin (but loved the rest of Ireland)
Key West
Atlantis

I like Cape Cod a lot. To me it's similar to the Outer Banks- further out on the Cape you get the better it is. If my Cape Cod vacation found me in Yarmouth I may be underwhelmed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cayman Islands.

It's just all snorkeling and hiding assets, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Idaho and Montana in June. We were glad that we brought coats. We were also glad when we got back to my ex-husband's house in western Oklahoma where it was 100 degrees. We saw 12 western states in a week (one of our daughters wanted to take a road trip) and those two states were our least favorite.

These are Mid-July-August kind of places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clearwater Beach, FL

Agree!

[Anonymous]

Any beach in the mid atlantic. Omg just no. I was raised in California but still eww.

Also went i Valparaiso Chile which is a unesco herotage site and it was such a let down.