Honestly speaking, Dubai.
Not because of slavery, poop trucks, questionable government policies, etc.
The real reason to me is that it does not offer anything traditional or historical. Yes it has some five start restaurants. Yes it has some big malls. Yes you can do stuff like desert driving or hot air balloons. These are all stuff that could be done anywhere else for cheaper.
The one thing I liked was going over the creek for a few dirhams and strolling through the historical souk.
That’s literally the only ‘old’ bit, but I was still constantly pestered by people trying to get me to come with them to look at handbags and sunglasses, and I do mean constantly, to the point where I just left because I couldn’t be arsed anymore.
Yeah, but that is typical of a lot of shops in the Middle East.
Dubai. A cultureless fake city in the desert, full of posers.
One of the strange things I saw with Dubai is that the civil-site design is just horrible at the edges of developments. You can tell that the emirate could spend money to make buildings, but the buildings don’t form a city.
Paris
Big deal, they have a tower just like this in Vegas.
*Blackpool
No, they also have one in Vegas that is a replica.
The funnier thing was that they had the Statue of Liberty wear a Golden Knights Jersey when Vegas won the Stanley Cup.
Now that they’re basically banning cars, it might be worth a visit again
They didn’t actually ban cars. Only reduced traffic to certain areas.
I’ve heard Finland is on the up and up with clean cities.
Apparently the popo there are quite heavy-handed when it comes to littering and such.
Wtf? How?? (and I’m not French)
Screenshot of all the interesting places I have been or want to visit in France. Note the lack of dots in Paris. There are far, far nicer places to spend your time in France
What’s the one in Luxembourg? I’m planning on visiting in the next few years.
The Three-point border https://maps.app.goo.gl/SYdbGgHj4oqMBSSn6
And the chateaux Beaufort https://maps.app.goo.gl/UYnYtavcRtzzGnf3A
While there is tons of nice place/stuff to do in Paris, many people see it as a perfect, romantic, ideal whatever city, and a visit there the trip of a lifetime.
Paris is a 10 million inhabitants urban area with all the associated problems,
Imagine thinking you’re in the perfect city and being stuck in a crowded train, then in traffic, and falling in any possible tourist traps, from the barely legal but legal low quality, high price restaurant to the pickpocketsand other petty crime
Went to Europe for my honeymoon and Paris was the first stop since the wife hadn’t been to Europe. She thought it was dirty and underwhelming.
A nice city to see for sure but for sightseeing and museums. Felt like New York City in a way.
It is a good comparison. There is a lot to see in both cities and they have good transit systems, but it can be really disorienting if you aren’t used to city life and the grime of cities is harder to hide.
Paris has been romanticized a lot in media, to the point where the Japanese embassy has to have staff on hand to handle the dispair of Japanese tourists visiting and getting disappointed.
I remember Paris being a pleasant large Western city, but it is still a large Western city with all that it entails.
Soooo dirty
I’d always heard people talk about how dirty Paris is, but it was so clean when I visited last year. Admittedly my point of comparison is San Francisco, but still.
Did you stray further than the tourist center? Like the area around gare du nord I hated the most. Spend a summer working there.
I also don’t get the hype around Paris. It’s not super ugly but also nothing special.
I don’t live too far from it, could easily go there for a week-end or even day trip. Still only been there twice and have no plans to go there again. In many spots it’s very crowded and dirty and the attractions aren’t better than in any other major city.
I think Paris is a great city that I really enjoy visiting every time I go there, but you’re perfectly right that it’s incredibly overrated, anything with that reputation really must be, nothing that exists in reality could possibly come even close to such a myth.
If you’re Australian, Bali.
Thems fighting words, where else can I spend my centerlink on a bintang singlet?!
Paddy’s Market
Florida
Any reason why in particular?
There wasn’t anything to do but theme parks really which gets pretty boring pretty quickly.
Theme parks is really only an Orlando thing. A large chunk of tourist Florida is hotels by the beach.
Doesn’t sound great either. However, fair enough.
disney world
I feel like you need to be in a certain mindset to enjoy a theme park like Disney World. If you aren’t in that mindset, the place is a saccharine place of over-stimulation.
Switzerland. Don’t go unless you’re perfectly happy spending 50+ USD for mediocre food per day. It is incredibly fucking expensive.
It might be expensive, but still worth a short visit. I’ve got a shockingly bad memory, but I’ll never forget the awe I felt waking up to a view of the Alps.
But you can have that in Austria as well or France or Italy. They are all in the Alps. Or even not as tall parts of the Alps in Slovenia or Germany.
Two of my least favourite places I’ve visited have been Cancún and Phuket. Both were minor stops in larger journeys, and I had fairly low expectations, but hot damn these places truly sucked ass. The countries they reside in have some truly great stuff, but you won’t find them in these places.
Phuket, I’m leaving.
Pronounced “poo-ket”, messing the pun up somewhat
If you’re from the Midwest, anywhere in the Midwest. It’s all exactly the same.
Source: Went on crazy long road trips as a young adult looking for something new; ended up moving somewhere completely outside the region later.
I’m from Canada, only been to Minneapolis once but absolutely loved the city. Would certainly consider moving there, but it being smack dab in the middle of buttfuck nowhere is so sad.
Good food man. One of the best designed cities in the U.S. imo.
Sparse, but underrated.
People hog the left lane and don’t respect flashing to pass. Fuck is up with that? Some of the most inconsiderate, yet slow drivers in America.
Flashing your lights or highbeams to pass is seen as quite agressive in the US. It isn’t taught in drivers ed, and the general interpretation I hear most people have of it isn’t “Hey, could you let me pass?” but instead “Hey! Fuckface! Stop driving so goddamn slow and get out of the damn way you shithead!”
Doesn’t help that in my experience, the only people flashing to pass are aggressively tailgating me when I’m already 10 mph or more over the speed limit.
Better to just pass on the right if there’s room. And if there isn’t room, fuck off telling someone to get out of your way. Not like they can get over anyway.
I’ve never heard of flashing to pass, the only thing I’ve seen it used for is to let a car in the right lane trying to get into the left lane know it’s safe to do so (as a driver in the left lane). I’ve only ever seen it used by truckers.
As far as Minneapolis goes, I’m quite the opposite. Having lived on the west coast I dread going to Minneapolis — everyone seems to be in a bad mood whenever I go there.
I hate to say it, but when traveling in Tucson the Canadian drivers make me absolutely crazy. It’ll be 100°F out and they’re driving as if there’s ice all over the roads.
I’ve never heard of flashing to pass?! In Australia that’s straight up road rage antics. You might want to check whether your local customs apply to the places you travel. That kind of misunderstanding could get you hurt.
Minneapolis is a great place to live, but I’m not sure I’d want to visit as a tourist. Which I’m totally cool with, I grew up in Orlando and I’ve had enough of living in a tourist town.
Please don’t go to Salem MA in October. It is a gorgeous small city and my favorite place to be, but during October it becomes so insanely overcrowded that it poses a huge problem for the locals.
Go during summer instead, it’s a little cooler than most of the US
Isn’t the actual Salem Village called Danvers now anyway?
Egypt
Egypt is great for diving. The nature on the Sinai peninsula is at least interesting, if not gorgeous in places. Political instability and the general culture do mean that you can have a bad time there, especially as a woman.
Egypt is the kind of country where I want to see things in it, but I kind of want to get the sanitized experience if I go there.
Went 2 weeks there:
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First week was only about diving and was probably the most beautiful thing I will ever see in my life.
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Second week was about visiting the monuments and while they are astonishing cultural and historical bangers (except the pyramids which are impressive from the outside but just some dull stones in the inside) people living there (even those running restaurants or hotels) are invasive as fuck and not worthile your time…
However we also rentend an airbnb for 2 days and even if the room was clean it looked a bit gloomy but the guy was very nice and friendly we even ate a pizza with him and watched a local TV movie (some sharknado rip from their country XD). It was a way better experience than In a stared hotel with all commodities…
In general, going the tourist way is mostly a bad experience in every country.
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Never go to a place because it’s popular, if you wouldn’t go there if nobody else was there, you probably won’t enjoy it when other people are there.
If you have a deep and strong interest in a place or a thing, it’s great to visit no matter what. Low season might be better
Ohio.
No, Ohio is appropriately rated, which is why it is no one’s vacation destination.
I took a trip to Cleveland and Cedar Point for an extended weekend and found it to be alright.
Cedar Point is an easy concession 🙇🏽♂️
Kashmir.
Why Kashmir?
Too many tourist traps. It’s annoying.
What kind of tourist traps?
Venice. Smelly, super crowded and everywhere is a tourist trap trying to extract $$$.
Disagreed. I loved Venice. Was crowded but was very pretty and interesting, and had great food. You don’t need to go to the expensive tourist places for good food. As always, see where locals eat.
Yeah. The best idea of eating in Italy is to eat in areas without good views. A hole in the wall place that looks a run down diner served amazing squid ink pasta. Also, a lot of bars will sell snacks that are real food; three of those is enough for dinner.
Agreed
