Anonymous wrote:Atlantic City, Orlando, Dover Delaware, Baltimore, Harpers Ferry, Charlestown, Martinsburg West Virginia.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Los Angeles- nothing but urban sprawl with no soul.
New York - crowded, noisy, dirty, garbage piled along streets.
Nairobi - crime ridden so you can’t go anywhere in your own.
India - dirty and polluted.
I expected to hate LA and loved it so much I'd move there. I loved how every neighborhood has a different feel to it, all the historical homes, Koreatown, Downtown, Los Feliz, Griffith Park, the Broad, the Getty, the snowy mountains in the background... I feel like I'd need to go many more times to even see and absorb everything.
Anonymous wrote:Las Vegas - agree with all the PPs who said the gambling, overconsumption, and expensive and/or terrible food was a total turn off. Its the only place I’ve ever showed up to the airport so easy they wouldn’t let me through TSA.
Anonymous wrote:Atlantic City, Orlando, Dover Delaware, Baltimore, Harpers Ferry, Charlestown, Martinsburg West Virginia.
Anonymous wrote:For the Seattle poster, we were just there a few days ago and really liked it. We stayed in Belltown and did the typical tourist stuff. My husband and I liked the whole vibe of the city. We met a friend at Salty’s for an excellent dinner.
We were only there 2 days but really liked it. We could walk everywhere. We had our 7 year old in tow and he liked it too. We took the ferry over to Whidbey Island and had a great day exploring there too.
We are now in the Cascades for hiking and other outdoor activities. So far it has been a nice trip. We would come back in a heartbeat.
Anonymous wrote:I really didn’t like Cartagena. Never have I ever been so harassed by street vendors in my life (and I’ve traveled extensively throughout Latin America, speak Spanish, etc). People just coming up to you, pushing product at you, women on the beach trying to massage my husband and starting after he said no. It was really too much. Also crowded and dirty.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Philadelphia is an utter dump. A dangerous, depressing, dump.
I lived there and really liked it but it was years ago. Has it gotten worse? I think it's a cool city with many interesting neighborhoods. It's walkable, full of History.
Anonymous wrote:Florida in July. Worst vacation ever. All that sargassum seaweed ruined my beach vacation.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not Indian , but if you do 5 star hotels and private transportations, India has lots to offer in terms of sightseeing (Taj Mahal, Jaipur etc and food.
Nobody disagrees with this. There is a luxurious way to do India. But it doesn't sit well with a lot of people and they don't. want. to. go. back. if they don't have to (family). What don't you understand about that?
Oh we understand. Now you try and understand - the luxurious way to do India is inexpensive compared to anywhere else in the world. However, people from rich (western) countries want to do shoestring budget travel in India, making use of infrastructure that is heavily subsidized by the Indian govt for the poorest of its people. Then they complain. Well, why did you go to India in the first place? The domestic market of tourism is so huge that India is not hurting for foreign travelers.
Still don't understand it? It is like some foreigner comes to DC, goes and eats at the homeless shelter soup kitchen and then complains that the restaurant scene in US is pathetic. That soup kitchen is not for tourists.
Who is doing shoestring tours of India? Nobody on here has done that. You are projecting that that is why the bad experience. Every single person on here has mentioned that they have done it the luxurious way and they don't want to go back. No way in hell would I take a train in India. No way in hell.