We just came back from Zermatt. The alpine/athletic side is great. The tourist side is terrible. Take a small town in the mountains, subtract all locals (you can't find them, you can only find store or restaurant staff or Matterhorn picture tourists from far far away) and add ultra-expensive watch, clothing, and similar stores. If we went and didn't get to see the Matterhorn, which was touch and go, there are a million better places to go in Switzerland. Berner Oberland, for example.

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Anonymous wrote:Not going back to Zermatt, Switzerland. Except for the service at one restaurant, everything else is a rip off. Customer service is is garbage. Rude taxi drivers think they are the owners of the narrow streets and can run you over.
Never again.

You must tell us more I have yet to hear about anyone disliking Switzerland

same. And I was looking to ski there next winter.

Naples

Didn’t hate it, but didn’t really get San Antonio. The River Walk is nice for an hour, but not much else in the city.

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Anonymous wrote:Not going back to Zermatt, Switzerland. Except for the service at one restaurant, everything else is a rip off. Customer service is is garbage. Rude taxi drivers think they are the owners of the narrow streets and can run you over.
Never again.

You must tell us more I have yet to hear about anyone disliking Switzerland

I just posted about my experience in Zermatt, not the whole country.

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Anonymous wrote:Rio, Sao Paulo, probably all of Brazil. I don't like how the abject poverty abuts the nicest of places. I know this exists, but it destroys my vacation to think about the starving children beggers while I'm trying to relax and enjoy myself or while im buying a nice sundress. The scenery, other than the flavelas, is very pretty, but a culture where that is acceptable is ugly.

Gross that you are saying those kid’s hunger ruins your day out shopping for sundresses. Wow, just wow.


Why don’t you do something so that fewer kids are hungry?

You know that millions of children grow up in poverty, right? This is not about the “culture “ in one country?????

Do you contribute to charities?
Vote for politicians who would pass a living wage bill?

I probably do more than most people here. I donate about 75k to charity a year. I still don't want this in my face when I'm on vacation. So Brazil socks for this! So does Buenos Aires and Lima.

Please don't reproduce. You are a repulsive human being.

You're right. I'm repulsive because I have an emotional response to poverty. I should just ignore it like everyone else.

That's your complaint. You hate places where you cannot ignore it. So yes, you are repulsive. Back to Palm Beach with you.

Anonymous wrote:Not going back to Zermatt, Switzerland. Except for the service at one restaurant, everything else is a rip off. Customer service is is garbage. Rude taxi drivers think they are the owners of the narrow streets and can run you over.
Never again.

You must tell us more I have yet to hear about anyone disliking Switzerland

Not going back to Zermatt, Switzerland. Except for the service at one restaurant, everything else is a rip off. Customer service is is garbage. Rude taxi drivers think they are the owners of the narrow streets and can run you over.
Never again.

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Anonymous wrote:Rio, Sao Paulo, probably all of Brazil. I don't like how the abject poverty abuts the nicest of places. I know this exists, but it destroys my vacation to think about the starving children beggers while I'm trying to relax and enjoy myself or while im buying a nice sundress. The scenery, other than the flavelas, is very pretty, but a culture where that is acceptable is ugly.

Gross that you are saying those kid’s hunger ruins your day out shopping for sundresses. Wow, just wow.


Why don’t you do something so that fewer kids are hungry?

You know that millions of children grow up in poverty, right? This is not about the “culture “ in one country?????

Do you contribute to charities?
Vote for politicians who would pass a living wage bill?

I probably do more than most people here. I donate about 75k to charity a year. I still don't want this in my face when I'm on vacation. So Brazil socks for this! So does Buenos Aires and Lima.

Please don't reproduce. You are a repulsive human being.

You're right. I'm repulsive because I have an emotional response to poverty. I should just ignore it like everyone else.

I agree with you. I feel very badly for people in poverty, and also don’t want to experience that on a vacation. I don’t go to the Caribbean because of this.

Anonymous wrote:Nashville. Atlanta. Dallas. Charlotte. Anywhere in New Jersey.

Unpopular opinion but I was underwhelmed (not hate but not impressed either) Ireland. The people were very friendly and welcoming but it was gray and cold and raining the whole time (summer), there’s not that much to see and do, the food was terrible and overpriced, I guess I just didn’t get the appeal.

I’m surprised, I had a lot of amazing food in Ireland. We stayed at B&B’s and all of the breakfasts were really good. I agree about the weather, but it was a beautiful place.

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Anonymous wrote:Rio, Sao Paulo, probably all of Brazil. I don't like how the abject poverty abuts the nicest of places. I know this exists, but it destroys my vacation to think about the starving children beggers while I'm trying to relax and enjoy myself or while im buying a nice sundress. The scenery, other than the flavelas, is very pretty, but a culture where that is acceptable is ugly.

US culture is no different and in fact, arguably worse as we are so rich yet accept homelessness and poverty as inevitable.

Nah, we are geographically separated so it doesn't ruin my experience.

Vacationing in your bubble. How adventuresome!

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Anonymous wrote:Asheville. Way too many homeless and hippies. Just too crunchy for my liking, but can see the appeal for hikers.

AGREED!! WAY too crunchy- the shops were awful and the food was meh- not high end at all either

White Duck Taco is fabulous
Champagne bookstore so fun
A few very good restaurants

Not high end means you are not in the 1 percent are you.

You didn’t like it because of liberalness.

Asheville has some great views and it’s a lovely get away for a weekend.

Hiking in the area is great, sliding rock so fun not that far.

Please stop pandering such nonsense. Did you not listen to Walz’s convention speech? He is not part of the 1%. Democrats are not supposed to be the party of the 1%. It’s Republican economic policies that harm the middle class. Your desire to be elite is harmful, selfish and very silly. And what gets people like Trump elected. Please sit down.

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Anonymous wrote:Rio, Sao Paulo, probably all of Brazil. I don't like how the abject poverty abuts the nicest of places. I know this exists, but it destroys my vacation to think about the starving children beggers while I'm trying to relax and enjoy myself or while im buying a nice sundress. The scenery, other than the flavelas, is very pretty, but a culture where that is acceptable is ugly.

Gross that you are saying those kid’s hunger ruins your day out shopping for sundresses. Wow, just wow.


Why don’t you do something so that fewer kids are hungry?

You know that millions of children grow up in poverty, right? This is not about the “culture “ in one country?????

Do you contribute to charities?
Vote for politicians who would pass a living wage bill?

I probably do more than most people here. I donate about 75k to charity a year. I still don't want this in my face when I'm on vacation. So Brazil socks for this! So does Buenos Aires and Lima.

Please don't reproduce. You are a repulsive human being.

You're right. I'm repulsive because I have an emotional response to poverty. I should just ignore it like everyone else.

Anonymous wrote:Nashville. Atlanta. Dallas. Charlotte. Anywhere in New Jersey.

Unpopular opinion but I was underwhelmed (not hate but not impressed either) Ireland. The people were very friendly and welcoming but it was gray and cold and raining the whole time (summer), there’s not that much to see and do, the food was terrible and overpriced, I guess I just didn’t get the appeal.

+1 to Ireland
Also, unlike the UK there are very few country walks accessible by public footpaths. Most of the countryside is privatized

Nashville. Atlanta. Dallas. Charlotte. Anywhere in New Jersey.

Unpopular opinion but I was underwhelmed (not hate but not impressed either) Ireland. The people were very friendly and welcoming but it was gray and cold and raining the whole time (summer), there’s not that much to see and do, the food was terrible and overpriced, I guess I just didn’t get the appeal.