Where did you absolutely hate?

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Anonymous wrote:San Francisco.

Absolutely disgusting. Drugged out homeless everywhere.

Love SF all day every day

Me too. One of my favorite cities in the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Germany

I have seen Germany mentioned a couple times. What is bad about it. I’ve been there once for work. I was kind of on an industrial area and it was fine. Since my trip was short, I didn’t get a full taste of the country. We are going to Munich and German Alps this summer.

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I have seen Germany mentioned a couple times. What is bad about it? I’ve been there once for work. It was kind of on an industrial area and was fine. Since my trip was short, I didn’t get a full taste of the country. We are going to Munich and German Alps this summer.

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I hated Paris. It was crowded, dirty, and I didn’t enjoy the food.

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Anonymous wrote:We didn't like Vienna in August. It was basically a big tourist trap with all the locals out of town. Actors in Mozart costumes, Sound of Music tour hawkers, and bad schnitzel at tourist traps. The local restaurants were closed for summer vacation.

That was not our experience at all in Vienna in August! We didn’t see a single Mozart costume and there were no tour hawkers. The Sound of Music tour is in Salzberg, so not sure why you would see them in Vienna? Are you confusing Salzberg with Vienna? Mozart is also big in Salzberg.

We used Rick Steves guide for Vienna. For an afternoon snack/dessert one day, we ate at the amazing Cafe Demel. We saw nothing closed at all. We did a self guided walking tour and a horse drawn carriage one day. We went to the Hapsburg palace in the city one day and we went to a palace outside the city on another day with some beautiful gardens. Both were absolutely gorgeous.

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Anonymous wrote:We didn't like Vienna in August. It was basically a big tourist trap with all the locals out of town. Actors in Mozart costumes, Sound of Music tour hawkers, and bad schnitzel at tourist traps. The local restaurants were closed for summer vacation.

That was not our experience at all in Vienna in August! We didn’t see a single Mozart costume and there were no tour hawkers. The Sound of Music tour is in Salzberg, so not sure why you would see them in Vienna? Are you confusing Salzberg with Vienna? Mozart is also big in Salzberg.

We used Rick Steves guide for Vienna. For an afternoon snack/dessert one day, we ate at the amazing Cafe Demel. We saw nothing closed at all. We did a self guided walking tour and a horse drawn carriage one day. We went to the Hapsburg palace in the city one day and we went to a palace outside the city on another day with some beautiful gardens. Both were absolutely gorgeous.

Same. We spend 1-2 weeks in Vienna every July or August to see family. Everything is open whether it’s touristy or a local spot.

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen Germany mentioned a couple times. What is bad about it? I’ve been there once for work. It was kind of on an industrial area and was fine. Since my trip was short, I didn’t get a full taste of the country. We are going to Munich and German Alps this summer.

No idea. We loved the entire Hesse area.

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I have not read all 61 pages, but will never return to Myrtle Beach. It's just kitsch n every direction, everywhere you look

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Anonymous wrote:Disney
Isle of palms (what were we thinking??)
India
The coliseum
The safari (way too much money and a terrible experience (

Tell us more about the safari… did you go mid-range (which is still thousands and thousands vs $20K+, so it’s all relative). What country?

I’m not the pp. I loved the safari I went on in Kenya and Tanzania, and it was very budget-friendly. The lodges were fine. Our guide was excellent. The people in our group of 8 were wonderful. Then I met up with a friend at a very nice lodge in Kenya (from which most people were headed out on an expensive safari) for 2 nights and I was miserable. Other guests were crazy rude—got in fights with each other. There was a group of Chinese tourists, and Australian and German tourists used racial epithets. Every person working there was constantly trying to upsell us on every single thing. And for the money this place cost, nothing was really that nice. It was miserable. I’d hired one of the drivers from my first, cheap safari to pick me up from this place and take me to the airport and I’ve never been so happy to see anyone. So, it’s not all about money you spend.

Weird. Sounds janky. Never heard of upselling at a reputable luxury lodge and I’ve been to multiple Botswana, Rwanda, and South Africa luxury lodges (Londolozi, Wilderness, Great Plains, etc).

It’s absolutely the norm, but it’s subtly done usually and if you aren’t money conscious you might not even notice it’s happening. Sometimes it’s via texts or emails you receive right before your stay notifying you of experiences or things that, wow luckily, have become available. At restaurants, it might be a special tasting you hadn’t asked about. Transportation options you hadn’t known about. Spa treatments that are similar to but better than the one you requested. But it’s not like the ladies in your salon upselling you—it’s gentle. Luxury lodgings of all types around the world are upselling every minute.

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Anonymous wrote:We didn't like Vienna in August. It was basically a big tourist trap with all the locals out of town. Actors in Mozart costumes, Sound of Music tour hawkers, and bad schnitzel at tourist traps. The local restaurants were closed for summer vacation.

I didn't like Vienna between Christmas and New Year's! Maybe Baroque architecture is just not my thing?

A travel forum I used to be on years ago had numerous Vienna fans, and they were always promoting the place -- if someone asked a vague "where to go in Europe?" they'd always recommend Vienna. I didn't hate it, but I'd never go out of my way to go back.

Went to Vienna over Thanksgiving and loved it. So much history, and the Xmas markets were fun. We did our research beforehand and were able to skip the tourist trap restaurants.

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Anonymous wrote:Vegas
India
Ohio
Germany

I would have pretty low expectations for Ohio, thus I couldn’t see hating it that much.

No matter how low your expectations for Ohio, it will still fail to meet them.

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Anonymous wrote:The DR. Ocean water was terrible, resort was good.

Same experience

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Anonymous wrote:Disney
Isle of palms (what were we thinking??)
India
The coliseum
The safari (way too much money and a terrible experience (

Tell us more about the safari… did you go mid-range (which is still thousands and thousands vs $20K+, so it’s all relative). What country?

I’m not the pp. I loved the safari I went on in Kenya and Tanzania, and it was very budget-friendly. The lodges were fine. Our guide was excellent. The people in our group of 8 were wonderful. Then I met up with a friend at a very nice lodge in Kenya (from which most people were headed out on an expensive safari) for 2 nights and I was miserable. Other guests were crazy rude—got in fights with each other. There was a group of Chinese tourists, and Australian and German tourists used racial epithets. Every person working there was constantly trying to upsell us on every single thing. And for the money this place cost, nothing was really that nice. It was miserable. I’d hired one of the drivers from my first, cheap safari to pick me up from this place and take me to the airport and I’ve never been so happy to see anyone. So, it’s not all about money you spend.

Weird. Sounds janky. Never heard of upselling at a reputable luxury lodge and I’ve been to multiple Botswana, Rwanda, and South Africa luxury lodges (Londolozi, Wilderness, Great Plains, etc).

It’s absolutely the norm, but it’s subtly done usually and if you aren’t money conscious you might not even notice it’s happening. Sometimes it’s via texts or emails you receive right before your stay notifying you of experiences or things that, wow luckily, have become available. At restaurants, it might be a special tasting you hadn’t asked about. Transportation options you hadn’t known about. Spa treatments that are similar to but better than the one you requested. But it’s not like the ladies in your salon upselling you—it’s gentle. Luxury lodgings of all types around the world are upselling every minute.

Idk how I could be upsold at Londolozi or Singita. Every single thing (including all activities, multiple course meals, top shelf liquor and reserve wines) was included in the $2500-3000+ per person / per night rate except the spa which was never promoted to us. Even the minibar in our room with top shelf alcohol was included and technically “endless.”

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Las Vegas and key west.

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Athens. It's a dump. But went to see the Parthenon and other sites. Would not go back.