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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AirBnBs are great for my family.  I enjoy shopping at local supermarkets for fresh and convenience foods.  My kids have a lot of fun memories from this.

Starting with touring Europe in the 1970s as a child, I ate a lot of mediocre overpriced food because we were traveling as a family on something of a budget.  I ate bland chicken in white cream sauce multiple times on my 1982 trip to France.  Each time billed as a local specialty.  After that I tended to stick to croque monsieurs and citron presses.  Some other low-lights include Hawaii Toast in Austria, Italian pizzas literally swimming in grease, and extremely overpriced red sauce spaghetti in Reykavik.

So I don't feel sad for mediocre ripoff tourist cafes.  They were never good.

I'm pretty sure I got sick from a restaurant in Tulum.  Also in Bali.  I felt they had low hygiene standards for food-related issues.  Would not go back to Tulum.  Would go back to Bali because it has a really interesting island culture and it's visually lovely.

What I think is most ruined about Europe is the experience of seeing the largest/most famous art museums.  I tend to avoid them now.  They are too crowded to facilitate learning and enjoyment at peak season.  The second tier museums are a much better experience.[/quote]

Thoughts and prayers for your experiences that "ruined" all of Europe.  I got food poisoning in a DC restaurant, and being likeminded to you, I have now concluded that DC has "jumped the shark."[/quote]

PP.  Come on.  It's not just the food poisoning.  As I understand it the party people who like underappreciated gems have already moved on from Tulum because the cost/value relationship changed.  DC is more interesting to me than Tulum.  Never got food poisoning there and much better museums.  Tulum's ruins are pretty ruined, lol.  After Chichen Itza, I felt Tulum wasn't really worth my time because it's just a few walls and towers and foundations with few architectural features.  It has nice weather for beach people.  But is nowhere as interesting as Bali.  My favorite memories of Tulum were shopping at the Mexican version of Walmart and having cute lizards in our bungalow.  No need to go back.[/quote]

It’s hilarious you say it’s nowhere near as interesting as Bali because everyone I  know who has visited Bali in the last 5 years or so has said it’s so completely overtouristed that they almost regret going. [/quote]

PP.  I went to Bali a fairly long time ago and it was overtouristed BUT the landscape is lovely and I developed an interest in watching gamelan and Balinese dance.  It has something of a living heritage culture.  So I would go back.  The downtown was full of partying Australians.  But my hotel was quiet and pretty.  So, that's what would bring me back.  Something besides just "a nice beach".[/quote]

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