People Share What Travel Destinations Are Absolutely Overrated (30 Pics)

And can be appreciated at leisure, closer to the works and without the sea of phones in your face

Yes! From a business travel point of view, it was great as everything was easy and you can get anything you might be missing from home, but anything to do for leisure or tourism just feels completely synthetic.

For the way women have been treated here in the past and recently as well (foreign women, though I'm sure that the ones who live there are treated even worse), I don't want to go there. As a woman, if you're assaulted, then you're thrown into jail for it. Extramarital sex is frowned upon, and you CAN be jailed for that just as well (a year!!!). Don't go to Dubai honestly.

This place is a good example of all what is bad in human kind.

I haven't been to Dubai but my brother has and he said it's like Singapore on steroids in that it's a lot of malls you access underground and flashy expensive stuff. He liked it but said it was very vast and hot. That said I think as long as you can make it sustainable and not damage the environment then flashy places like this have their place in the world. I love Singapore and even though it's a little clinical feeling, I imagine I'd enjoy Dubai. I don't get people that 'hate' certain places. I've enjoyed some countries /places more than others but I have never ever hated anywhere I've travelled. There are good things and bad things about every place.

I’m sorry you had a bad experience. I hope you come in better weather when we don’t need ACs so much and go see the desert (non-touristy parts). Don’t stay in more flashy parts like all others and you might begin to see the real character of this small but large-hearted emirate. Xx

Arms trade, sexism, worker and sex trafficking, environmental stress... Yeah the heat is the least of my problems regarding Dubai.

Ever live in thee South Eastern US...

With everyone hating on UAE I'm an Indian who lived in UAE my whole life. I had the best time. Both my parents had good jobs, we had a home, we went to a good school. Our church was fully funded by the government. Our communities were always invited to their festivities and are always happy to attend ours. We never had a feeling of alienation. We had moments where Americans and Europeans tries to bully us around and the local authorities stood up for us. The authorities are very hospitable. I enjoyed travelling a lot. I can't think of a single weekend we did not go out as a family. There so many places and I don't mean malls. Sanctuaries, mangroves, oases, farms all of which barely cost a dirham to enjoy. Lots of public programs and festivities freely open to the public. We never feared for our life be it in our homes or outside. I was in tears when I left the place :(

Ac is nice...

you could not pay me enough to go to that place. terrible human rights. immigrants are treated as slaves. their laws are barbaric.

Perhaps, a bit unfair, as they failed to mention that the average temperature range from May to about September is between 35 deg. C (7AM) up to 54 deg C. (peak at 2PM). It is very difficult to manage those temperatures even if you grew up there. Not a native of that area, but grew up there. We used to play football all day - so many kids used to pass out and/or have nose bleeds from the heat.

So basically Houston in summer

Best part is the ski field in Dubai.

I hate hot weather,plus the city is ugly,definitely a no for me.

Correct

I went to Dubai in 2019, very odd place but really enjoyed the beach and swimming pool. Plus the hotel we stayed in had several restaurants. The mall was meh. The architecture is quite something but some of it is very over the top

However, I would like to see it

Plus, they leave tons and tons of waste, plastic bags and garbage everywhere, it's awful and sad.

This is true. Pisa is wierd and kinda cool but very much a tourist trap. That said, I had one of my best Italian meals in a tiny restaurant in Pisa. I asked my taxi driver where he takes his wife for thier anniversary. It was reasonably priced, really nice atmosphere and amazingly good food.

And... you are going there to see a walkway with people's names on it

not to mention the rubbish and dog s**t in the streets.

I have been there 23 years ago, and than you had at least HUGE pools in the morning for you all alone and delicious food for little money. Didn’t spend a single dollar at gambling.

So true! Cairo is horrifying. All the pics you see of the pyramids are taken from this side, if you’re standing on the other side, shithole Cairo is right there in all it’s dirty glory. Whatever you do don’t drink the water!! I forgot on my last day and rinsed my toothbrush under the tap. Never been so ill in my life. The museum is incredible, but full of people trying to scam you.

Most new year parties are awful all over the world... the best I have had in the past few years is a bit of alcohol, a fire outside, music and friends. (December is full on summer here)

Same with most famous nature spots on earth. I recently saw a picture of a mountaintop where people stand in a line to get THAT one picture. It’s a pity.

I went there in the mid-90s and I was very disappointed (probably served me right as I should've known). It's a bunch of standing stones in a field. Don't get me wrong, it is incredibly important historically, but ... stones in a field. Plus, Britain is littered with stone circles. This one just happens to be more famous.

I lived in Munich for a decade and haven’t ever been there. For a reason.

I have been there, and I like it. As I like beers, Dublin, and Ireland, in general. Btw, I'm from Balkans

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I agree completely. It was like they went out of their way to make everything as generic as possible.

photoshop is quicker and easier. One I've put together in just 2 minutes- bean-60813...33d598.jpg

The history of Taj Mahal is also dark.

Brussels is actually really nice, especially in the spring. But Bruges is simply magical.

This one has always baffled me as surely it's just a random balcony that just happens to be in the town where someone in England wrote a fictitious story that also had a balcony in it.

I can almost see will smith getting s**t while racing martin lawrence

German here. The island itself is gorgeous and should not be confused with that one place on Mallorca called "Ballermann".

I dunno if it's true or not but my mum says Six flags is heaps better than Disneyland.

So “Paul” lied to us? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1092026/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_53

and in all the pics, they show just what we see above and fail to show that the hill is about 3 times what you see here and when you're on the observation deck, you're far. (I spend way too much on google earth finding places I see on TV)

To me the purpose of Bourbon Street, just like the Red Lights District in Amsterdam, is to host all the loud bachelor/birthday destination parties, letting the others chill in any other bar in the city.

Malls are a temple to capitalism.

Been there, done that; tourist trap indeed...

Seeing as Bondi Beach is the most famous beach in Australia, what do you expect. I wouldn't even bother to go there, especially when we have sooooo many amazing beaches that don't get anywhere as busy.

I disagree, I climbed Fuji-san (in September) on a longer but less crowded track. We started at 20:00 to catch the sunrise at 05:30. The view was breathtaking and only the last part on top got crowded. I wouldn't do it twice, but wouldn't have missed out on the experience either. IMG_201909...f3697d.jpg

don't mind my question, but: Why would you want to go there?

Wait, that's an actual "travel destination"?!

she has had her head sawed off a few times.

Is it in a zoo? Is it a... pet rock?

The White House seemed small to me. But then we do have Buckingham Palace, The House of Parliament and such

Still love it, but there's WAY too many Australian bogans there now (I'm Australian).

Bugger, my dream was to go to the Maldives, but hubby had been to Seychelles and said it had everything I wanted but cheaper.... I guess not anymore....

You wanna try living here....

That's the problem with so many cool things... they have priced themselves out of what local's will pay. It's the same as the C.N. Tower here. If it was half the price we would probably go up more often, but at $35 we leave it for the tourists...

I went and had fun doing bridges and taking pictures. Also, the crafts are handmade and beautiful. We bought a magnet in New Mexico and still have it today.