Where did you absolutely hate?

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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.”

Nice humblebrag, douchebag.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think I've hated anywhere, but I wouldn't return to Bali.

Same about Bali. Glad I went but see no reason to recommend it.

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Lake como. Tourist trap. Unbelievably busy. Super expensive

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Anonymous wrote:Lake como. Tourist trap. Unbelievably busy. Super expensive

Ugh hate to hear it. We’re debating spending a night or two en route from Switzerland to Austria but I’ve heard this a lot lately.

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Anonymous wrote:Lake como. Tourist trap. Unbelievably busy. Super expensive

Ugh hate to hear it. We’re debating spending a night or two en route from Switzerland to Austria but I’ve heard this a lot lately.

Go to the smaller lakes. You can do day trips to Como.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think I've hated anywhere, but I wouldn't return to Bali.

Same about Bali. Glad I went but see no reason to recommend it.

I've been to Bali many times because I work in Jakarta. It is a fantastic cultural experience if you stay away from the South for a single trip. But as a beach / resort / party destination, it is horrendous.

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Miami Beach. Awful. Spent $12k that was a total mistake. What a waste.

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Anonymous wrote:Miami Beach. Awful. Spent $12k that was a total mistake. What a waste.

Yes huge waste. LOL

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Anonymous wrote:I am never setting foot in the Orlando area again. It's like Yogi Berra said: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

Go to Japan Disney right now it is cheaper to fly there and go.

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Anonymous wrote:Lake como. Tourist trap. Unbelievably busy. Super expensive

Ugh hate to hear it. We’re debating spending a night or two en route from Switzerland to Austria but I’ve heard this a lot lately.

Go to the smaller lakes. You can do day trips to Como.

Lake como is awful

We also went to lake Maggiore and stayed in stresa. Go there, 1/10 the tourists and just as beautiful.

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

Me too!

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Absolutely hate is overboard, but I found Palm Springs very skippable. Particularly coming from the east coast it required a transfer and in the end the payoff wasn't there for me.

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Anonymous wrote:Lake como. Tourist trap. Unbelievably busy. Super expensive

We also didn’t love Como. The village, lake and surrounding mountains are beautiful, but the crowds were too much for us. I thought part of why we didn’t like Como is because we did it as a day trip. We came with hordes of other daytrippers, on the train from Milan. We could never escape the crowds.

I wonder if maybe we would have liked Como more if we stayed off the beaten path and had more time? We were also in Venice and Florence, which were plenty crowded, and we really enjoyed our visits there.

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I didn’t hate it, but San Antonio was pretty dull to me. The Riverwalk is pretty and takes about an hour and there is the Alamo, but not much else. I am glad my trip there was for work and not on my own dime.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t hate it, but San Antonio was pretty dull to me. The Riverwalk is pretty and takes about an hour and there is the Alamo, but not much else. I am glad my trip there was for work and not on my own dime.

I agree completely. We went there from Austin and Austin has so much more to do.