Vacation spots your friends talked up but you hated

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My DH and I are perhaps the only people in the world who did NOT like Iceland.

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Cruise and Las Vegas
I cannot understand the appeal for either.

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Las Vegas
Savannah, Ga
Myrtle Beach
Bali-Is a tourist trap.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH and I are perhaps the only people in the world who did NOT like Iceland.

I think most people think it's overrated. Several friends had the same comment: "It's like vacationing in Ikea, except everything is crazy expensive."

Only the crunchy outdoorsy types seem to like it. If you are looking for a cool city to explore, you don't opt for Iceland...you continue on to another country.

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Anonymous wrote:Las Vegas
Savannah, Ga
Myrtle Beach
Bali-Is a tourist trap.

Oh no, Bali! That was on my bucket list...

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

Can you tell me what underwhelmed you about San Diego? So many friends have recommended I visit there, but when I look at pictures and videos, I just don't see what all the hype is about. Nice looking place but seems boring as hell for a vacation.

Do you like beer, great food, surfing, the ocean, one of the top 3 horse tracks in the US, great golf, the mountains, the beach, no bugs, I could go on but SD has it all. I'm of course speaking of the SD area including Coronado, La Jolla, Del Mar, Escondido, etc. Oh yeah, and the baseball stadium is pretty cool.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH and I are perhaps the only people in the world who did NOT like Iceland.

I didn't love Iceland. I'll be your friend.

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

Can you tell me what underwhelmed you about San Diego? So many friends have recommended I visit there, but when I look at pictures and videos, I just don't see what all the hype is about. Nice looking place but seems boring as hell for a vacation.

Do you like beer, great food, surfing, the ocean, one of the top 3 horse tracks in the US, great golf, the mountains, the beach, no bugs, I could go on but SD has it all. I'm of course speaking of the SD area including Coronado, La Jolla, Del Mar, Escondido, etc. Oh yeah, and the baseball stadium is pretty cool.

The city of San Diego is completely aesthetically unattractive as a city, but for the reasons you state (and others), totally worth visiting. Especially the beer and food and beaches.

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Bald Head Island. Full of loud, rude trust fund assholes.

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Anonymous wrote:Locally, I find Annapolis very overrated. I don't need to see it again.

Also, Tangier Island. The boat to it was fun, and I am glad I got to spend two hours riding around it on a golf cart before it is lost to rising water, but I don't understand why anyone would stay overnight for a few days.

The idiots on that island are trump supporters--let them drown in their stupidity.

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Anonymous wrote:Locally, I find Annapolis very overrated. I don't need to see it again.

Also, Tangier Island. The boat to it was fun, and I am glad I got to spend two hours riding around it on a golf cart before it is lost to rising water, but I don't understand why anyone would stay overnight for a few days.

The idiots on that island are trump supporters--let them drown in their stupidity.

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Anonymous wrote:Captiva Island, specifically South Seas resort. It was just OK and it was also ALL white, no diversity. All of Sanibel/Captiva was. Never again.

This is the weirdest vacation criteria ever. Nice weather - check, nice beaches - check, nice accommodations - check, good food - check, convenient to fly in/out - check, good value - check. Not enough diversity? Oh, then I guess we won't go there. I've been to beaches all over the world, and I've got news for you, it's ALWAYS mostly white people.

Aren't you privileged. It makes people uncomfortable to be the only minority in a vacation destination, as if we can't relaxed. Plus, you must lead a very sheltered life if you only vacation where it is only mostly white people.

I’m the South Seas PP who didn’t like it. Yes, this. I’m actually white but my DH and kids are not. People stared and were not overly friendly. The not-overly-friendly part isn’t a big deal, we live in the DC metro so we are used to that. But we literally saw ONE black family and one Asian family the whole week we were there. So while it’s not like people were overtly rude or racist, DH felt uncomfortable as as “only,” which I understand as I’ve been in reverse situations with him where I’m the only white person, so I get it.

Besides that, I think I’m just not a fan of the Gulf side of Florida. We went in the summer so the water was like bath water. The food on the island wasn’t very good. The accommodations were just OK, nothing special. It wasn’t like it was the worst vacation ever or anything, but we had never been and we had high hopes. YMMV.

I'm not singling you out specifically because I want people to do what they're comfortable with and go where they're comfortable. But there is a certain irony involved here. I'm white but I regularly travel to remote, out of way places in distant countries where I'm often the only white person around or one of very few white tourists and yes I can get stared and yes quite often people will attempt to fleece me because they think I'm a rich white tourist, at but I shrug at it. Being outside the comfort zone teaches one about dealing with the world and a range of people and you also soon learn the difference between being overly self-conscious and the actual reality of your context.

Many regions of the US are still heavily white and people of different color, especially non AA heritage, are still a novelty. But there's no point criticizing or judging people based on that. After all, even you admitted people weren't rude or racist. If you were self-conscious, it was your problem, not theirs.

Yeah as a white woman, let me tell you, you sound like a privileged asshole. It's easy to not feel bad or self-conscious when are a member of a racial group that is revered or highly regarded (yes, that was your experience). When you are not (and are disparaged or even reviled by the surrounding group because of your race on a societal level)--it's not just something you want to shrug off while on vacation.

Are you that clueless that you can't understand why a black person might feel uncomfortable being the "only"?

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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.

What a rube you must be.

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Anonymous wrote:Tulum. Fort Lauderdale for yoga people.

Sign me up--that sounds great

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

Jesus. I disagree heartily with most of your list.

Me too. I wonder what the PP does like for vacation.

+3 except for Nashville and Atlantis (blechhh) the rest of those places are amazing. OP is a philistine.