Most disappointing holiday/tourist destination/attractions?

[PurpleTurtle]

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:

Dinlowgoon said:

You've disappointed me on on so many levels,but appreciate the tip. Been to Milan with work but San F is a definite,for sure. Even Rick Stein hired a Mustang and did it - but alas a ragtop for TV. I'd want a classic 289 or Boss 302. Bucket list

If you steer clear of Fisherman’s Wharf you’ll enjoy San Fran. FW really is the pits.

It surprises me when I read that people don’t enjoy visiting Milan. I think that as long as you’re not the type of person who needs to be entertained by tourist attractions and you’re prepared to wander around and find the interesting bits it’s a great city. Much like any large city really.

I like to travel independently, and certainly not a list-ticker for attractions, but Milan just struck me as dirty and boring, in that order. I've travelled fairly extensively throughout Italy and love it as a country, but nothing in Milan really floated my boat.

[schmunk]

PurpleTurtle said:

I like to travel independently, and certainly not a list-ticker for attractions, but Milan just struck me as dirty and boring, in that order.

I've not been to Milan, but that's my understanding - it's the Manchester of Italy.

[bad company]

schmunk said:

PurpleTurtle said:

I like to travel independently, and certainly not a list-ticker for attractions, but Milan just struck me as dirty and boring, in that order.

I've not been to Milan, but that's my understanding - it's the Manchester of Italy.

Mrs BC likes the fashion shops. You need a very big wallet.

[Robertj21a]

schmunk said:

I've not been to Milan, but that's my understanding - it's the Manchester of Italy.

It's not perfect but I always look forward to another trip to Milan. There's a lot worse !

[RammyMP]

Madeira for me. Why people want to go there is beyond me!

[djc206]

schmunk said:

I've not been to Milan, but that's my understanding - it's the Manchester of Italy.

Pretty much. I really couldn’t see the appeal of the place, plenty of nice spots in Italy and in my book Milan isn’t one of them.

[l354uge]

djc206 said:

schmunk said:

I've not been to Milan, but that's my understanding - it's the Manchester of Italy.

Pretty much. I really couldn’t see the appeal of the place, plenty of nice spots in Italy and in my book Milan isn’t one of them.

I was disappointed too when I went there. Lake como and monza made up for it though. Related: Como (the city)is a congested st hole!

[Zod]

PurpleTurtle said:

Three stand out for me:

1) Milan. Expected a beautiful city full of beautiful people. Reality was stloads of graffiti and constantly being hassled by illegal immigrants to buy hooky Loo-ey Voo-ey bags.

2) Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco. I loved the city as a whole, but this appeared to me as a fake chintzy Blackpool with added sea lions. Great to go to Alcatraz but not worth hanging around afterwards.

3) St Moritz. Admittedly only stopped in for 90 mins on a weekday in May on a motorcycle tour, but it just struck me as incredibly dull.

For 3, the mountains are the point of the place. The town is OK, but nothing special. Frankly, the skiing is mediocre too, but it's OK.

[Halmyre]

l354uge said:

djc206 said:

schmunk said:

I've not been to Milan, but that's my understanding - it's the Manchester of Italy.

Pretty much. I really couldn’t see the appeal of the place, plenty of nice spots in Italy and in my book Milan isn’t one of them.

I was disappointed too when I went there. Lake como and monza made up for it though. Related: Como (the city)is a congested st hole!

I thought Como was fine, not much different from any other Italian city. My perception might be coloured by the very nice fishy lunch we had there, and the Europcar signorina upgraded me from a Fiat Bravo to an Alfa Giulietta.

[cerbfan]

Reading all this partially vindicates my opinion that the best place to holiday in the world is Britain. You just can't beat walking up a hill in the Lakes, Dales, Perthshire, Highlands or closer to home for me up Bennachie followed by a pint and some good food in a local pub, plus doing this in Britain means you can take your dog which just makes it even better.

Some of the views you can get such as over Buttermere, Derwent Water or Loch Muick are world class and you don't get a load of idiots trying to sell you cheap tat all the way to the view point!!

[Adenauer]

cerbfan said:

Reading all this partially vindicates my opinion that the best place to holiday in the world is Britain. You just can't beat walking up a hill in the Lakes, Dales, Perthshire, Highlands or closer to home for me up Bennachie followed by a pint and some good food in a local pub, plus doing this in Britain means you can take your dog which just makes it even better.

Some of the views you can get such as over Buttermere, Derwent Water or Loch Muick are world class and you don't get a load of idiots trying to sell you cheap tat all the way to the view point!!

I'd agree with that if it weren't for the fact that there will probably be a gang of youths outside the local pub asking 'wot you lookin' at', the bathrooms will have piss stained carpets on the floors and no locks on the doors, the hotel receptionist will greet you with 'evenin' luv, got a reservation, sorry, kitchen closes at nine furtie', the police will have given you 16 speeding tickets en-route that you managed to get before all your wheels fell off crashing through potholes, and you wake up the next morning to find your side window smashed as your wife left a KFC paper bag on the passenger's seat (see kitchen's closed, luv).

Other than that, yeah.

[Pvapour]

Adenauer said:

cerbfan said:

Reading all this partially vindicates my opinion that the best place to holiday in the world is Britain. You just can't beat walking up a hill in the Lakes, Dales, Perthshire, Highlands or closer to home for me up Bennachie followed by a pint and some good food in a local pub, plus doing this in Britain means you can take your dog which just makes it even better.

Some of the views you can get such as over Buttermere, Derwent Water or Loch Muick are world class and you don't get a load of idiots trying to sell you cheap tat all the way to the view point!!

I'd agree with that if it weren't for the fact that there will probably be a gang of youths outside the local pub asking 'wot you lookin' at', the bathrooms will have piss stained carpets on the floors and no locks on the doors, the hotel receptionist will greet you with 'evenin' luv, got a reservation, sorry, kitchen closes at nine furtie', the police will have given you 16 speeding tickets en-route that you managed to get before all your wheels fell off crashing through potholes, and you wake up the next morning to find your side window smashed as your wife left a KFC paper bag on the passenger's seat (see kitchen's closed, luv).

Other than that, yeah.

spot on for most places, south is better but allot more crowded, what a choice the uk has eh!

[The Don of Croy]

Pvapour said:

Adenauer said:

cerbfan said:

Reading all this partially vindicates my opinion that the best place to holiday in the world is Britain. You just can't beat walking up a hill in the Lakes, Dales, Perthshire, Highlands or closer to home for me up Bennachie followed by a pint and some good food in a local pub, plus doing this in Britain means you can take your dog which just makes it even better.

Some of the views you can get such as over Buttermere, Derwent Water or Loch Muick are world class and you don't get a load of idiots trying to sell you cheap tat all the way to the view point!!

I'd agree with that if it weren't for the fact that there will probably be a gang of youths outside the local pub asking 'wot you lookin' at', the bathrooms will have piss stained carpets on the floors and no locks on the doors, the hotel receptionist will greet you with 'evenin' luv, got a reservation, sorry, kitchen closes at nine furtie', the police will have given you 16 speeding tickets en-route that you managed to get before all your wheels fell off crashing through potholes, and you wake up the next morning to find your side window smashed as your wife left a KFC paper bag on the passenger's seat (see kitchen's closed, luv).

Other than that, yeah.

spot on for most places, south is better but allot more crowded, what a choice the uk has eh!

All that and not a single mention of the weather or public transport. Shameful.

[LuS1fer]

Plus the small issue of almost constant rain

[cerbfan]

Pvapour said:

Adenauer said:

cerbfan said:

Reading all this partially vindicates my opinion that the best place to holiday in the world is Britain. You just can't beat walking up a hill in the Lakes, Dales, Perthshire, Highlands or closer to home for me up Bennachie followed by a pint and some good food in a local pub, plus doing this in Britain means you can take your dog which just makes it even better.

Some of the views you can get such as over Buttermere, Derwent Water or Loch Muick are world class and you don't get a load of idiots trying to sell you cheap tat all the way to the view point!!

I'd agree with that if it weren't for the fact that there will probably be a gang of youths outside the local pub asking 'wot you lookin' at', the bathrooms will have piss stained carpets on the floors and no locks on the doors, the hotel receptionist will greet you with 'evenin' luv, got a reservation, sorry, kitchen closes at nine furtie', the police will have given you 16 speeding tickets en-route that you managed to get before all your wheels fell off crashing through potholes, and you wake up the next morning to find your side window smashed as your wife left a KFC paper bag on the passenger's seat (see kitchen's closed, luv).

Other than that, yeah.

spot on for most places, south is better but allot more crowded, what a choice the uk has eh!

The speeding tickets and potholes I agree with but not the rest, certainly not in the places I'm talking about. I think your thinking of Rochdale or Easterhouse not Keswick or Kenmore. As for the South being better, maybe as far as the weather is concerned but certainly not for scenery and walking!! Not just my view either http://www.ramblers.org.uk/go-walking/itv-britains...

[forest07]

Anyone been to Cleethorpes? No wonder the adjoining town is called Grimsby.

The place overlooks the river Humber. I've only been on day visit but couldn't believe that anyone would stay any longer.

[Jaguar steve]

The Don of Croy said:

Pvapour said:

Adenauer said:

cerbfan said:

Reading all this partially vindicates my opinion that the best place to holiday in the world is Britain. You just can't beat walking up a hill in the Lakes, Dales, Perthshire, Highlands or closer to home for me up Bennachie followed by a pint and some good food in a local pub, plus doing this in Britain means you can take your dog which just makes it even better.

Some of the views you can get such as over Buttermere, Derwent Water or Loch Muick are world class and you don't get a load of idiots trying to sell you cheap tat all the way to the view point!!

I'd agree with that if it weren't for the fact that there will probably be a gang of youths outside the local pub asking 'wot you lookin' at', the bathrooms will have piss stained carpets on the floors and no locks on the doors, the hotel receptionist will greet you with 'evenin' luv, got a reservation, sorry, kitchen closes at nine furtie', the police will have given you 16 speeding tickets en-route that you managed to get before all your wheels fell off crashing through potholes, and you wake up the next morning to find your side window smashed as your wife left a KFC paper bag on the passenger's seat (see kitchen's closed, luv).

Other than that, yeah.

spot on for most places, south is better but allot more crowded, what a choice the uk has eh!

All that and not a single mention of the weather or public transport. Shameful.

Or the grotty overpriced accommodation or the generally grim mass market food or the price of a round of drinks and the aggravation and cost of parking a car and the outrageous fines is you stay just a moment over your paid time or the endless ques and traffic jams and overcrowding everywhere and the generally grubby and run down and litter strewn UK infrastructure as well as the rapacious greed of the UK tourist industry.

Nobody's mentioned yet if you holiday in the UK you'll be mixing it with Daily Mail readers and hordes of OAP coach parties who refuse to go abroad because of the Terror In The Sky risks of mild turbulence or a robust windy landing and the mucky food and funny toilets and nobody speaks bloody English when you get there either.

Nope - you can keep all of that...

[theplayingmantis]

no idea where all these uk staycationsers go!

[cerbfan]

Jaguar steve said:

The Don of Croy said:

Pvapour said:

Adenauer said:

cerbfan said:

Reading all this partially vindicates my opinion that the best place to holiday in the world is Britain. You just can't beat walking up a hill in the Lakes, Dales, Perthshire, Highlands or closer to home for me up Bennachie followed by a pint and some good food in a local pub, plus doing this in Britain means you can take your dog which just makes it even better.

Some of the views you can get such as over Buttermere, Derwent Water or Loch Muick are world class and you don't get a load of idiots trying to sell you cheap tat all the way to the view point!!

I'd agree with that if it weren't for the fact that there will probably be a gang of youths outside the local pub asking 'wot you lookin' at', the bathrooms will have piss stained carpets on the floors and no locks on the doors, the hotel receptionist will greet you with 'evenin' luv, got a reservation, sorry, kitchen closes at nine furtie', the police will have given you 16 speeding tickets en-route that you managed to get before all your wheels fell off crashing through potholes, and you wake up the next morning to find your side window smashed as your wife left a KFC paper bag on the passenger's seat (see kitchen's closed, luv).

Other than that, yeah.

spot on for most places, south is better but allot more crowded, what a choice the uk has eh!

All that and not a single mention of the weather or public transport. Shameful.

Or the grotty overpriced accommodation or the generally grim mass market food or the price of a round of drinks and the aggravation and cost of parking a car and the outrageous fines is you stay just a moment over your paid time or the endless ques and traffic jams and overcrowding everywhere and the generally grubby and run down and litter strewn UK infrastructure as well as the rapacious greed of the UK tourist industry.

Nobody's mentioned yet if you holiday in the UK you'll be mixing it with Daily Mail readers and hordes of OAP coach parties who refuse to go abroad because of the Terror In The Sky risks of mild turbulence or a robust windy landing and the mucky food and funny toilets and nobody speaks bloody English when you get there either.

Nope - you can keep all of that...

I really think you're just picking the wrong places or the wrong times of year to go. Either way carry on as the less people overcrowding where I like to go the better!!

[anonymous-user]

cerbfan said:

Jaguar steve said:

The Don of Croy said:

Pvapour said:

Adenauer said:

cerbfan said:

Reading all this partially vindicates my opinion that the best place to holiday in the world is Britain. You just can't beat walking up a hill in the Lakes, Dales, Perthshire, Highlands or closer to home for me up Bennachie followed by a pint and some good food in a local pub, plus doing this in Britain means you can take your dog which just makes it even better.

Some of the views you can get such as over Buttermere, Derwent Water or Loch Muick are world class and you don't get a load of idiots trying to sell you cheap tat all the way to the view point!!

I'd agree with that if it weren't for the fact that there will probably be a gang of youths outside the local pub asking 'wot you lookin' at', the bathrooms will have piss stained carpets on the floors and no locks on the doors, the hotel receptionist will greet you with 'evenin' luv, got a reservation, sorry, kitchen closes at nine furtie', the police will have given you 16 speeding tickets en-route that you managed to get before all your wheels fell off crashing through potholes, and you wake up the next morning to find your side window smashed as your wife left a KFC paper bag on the passenger's seat (see kitchen's closed, luv).

Other than that, yeah.

spot on for most places, south is better but allot more crowded, what a choice the uk has eh!

All that and not a single mention of the weather or public transport. Shameful.

Or the grotty overpriced accommodation or the generally grim mass market food or the price of a round of drinks and the aggravation and cost of parking a car and the outrageous fines is you stay just a moment over your paid time or the endless ques and traffic jams and overcrowding everywhere and the generally grubby and run down and litter strewn UK infrastructure as well as the rapacious greed of the UK tourist industry.

Nobody's mentioned yet if you holiday in the UK you'll be mixing it with Daily Mail readers and hordes of OAP coach parties who refuse to go abroad because of the Terror In The Sky risks of mild turbulence or a robust windy landing and the mucky food and funny toilets and nobody speaks bloody English when you get there either.

Nope - you can keep all of that...

I really think you're just picking the wrong places or the wrong times of year to go. Either way carry on as the less people overcrowding where I like to go the better!!

And if you think that view is 'world class', you clearly haven't travelled much!