30 People Are Sharing The Worst Travel Destinations That Are 100% Not Worth The Hype

It's the Las Vegas of the Arab world - a soulless desert city focussed solely on cars and money.

For me, an additional issue is that I'm on medication and could get arrested for it. There may be workarounds their very strict laws, but I'm not motivated to check.

My FIL lives in Dubai. It's pretty cool. I'm sure it's got it's dark side, but dang. My FIL says he feels far safer there than back in the US. All the buildings I was in, including the airport, were clean AF. Our airports are a dirty joke.

Who would go to a country where you're likely to be arrested, abused, and tortured just for existing?

It was built by slave labour. Technically the people aren't slaves but they are basically trapped there and paid peanuts. Also, if you're a woman and get s*xu*l*y a*s*u*t*d they will arrest YOU. But it's fun and feels safe, so it must be a great place! Because you're a Westerner with money and if you don't see the dark underbelly that must mean it doesn't exist or worse - you don't care.

Hollywood was definitely the lowlight of our visit to the LA area.

If we're talking "Hollywood" specifically, I don't disagree. But if you're using "Hollywood" to mean "Los Angeles", then that's a completely different take. Like any major city, there are good parts and bad parts to LA. Unfortunately, the touristy areas (such as downtown Hollywood) tend to not be the best parts. But there's a lot of awesome places in the greater LA area. Find a local and have them steer you away from the ones that will be either disappointing or dangerous.

I feel the same way about NYC. Can't believe a place that smells like exhaust and garbage that is riddled with rats, roaches and criminals is such a tourist attraction. There are nice places there if you're rich, but you have to be rich rich.

I made the mistake of requesting to be stationed in California when I was in the Marines. LA in general is a shithole. Most people who have never been there don’t realize that when someone says that “they’re from LA”, the person means the county, not the city. They live in the suburbs of the city.

Can be fun to visit if you know a local. But definitely not a place I’d want to live.

Did Egypt solo, obeyed all the rules, covered, hair tied back and under hijab - still got harassed and also then spat on by women. Yeah, won't be back.

ANY middle eastern country if you are a woman travelling alone

There are a lot more on that list! Italy for one...

Add Turkey

I ❤ many different Asian/ Middle Eastern men when they're here in the USA. Totally different on their turf...

I adore cruises. You go to sleep at night and you wake up at a foreign destination, how awesome is that? I've been all over the world on cruise ships, places I never would have gone if I had to fly. No stress getting to the airport on time or being there 3 hours early, no lugging baggage from one hotel to another. Once on the ship you can have every minute filled with activities or you can do nothing, just sit outside and stare at the beautiful ocean.

I crossed the Pacific on an aircraft carrier four times. You couldn’t pay me to go on a cruise ship. Trapped on the ocean with thousands of people you don’t know or possibly like? Nope.

I'd qualify that to "...when they dock". I visited Dubrovnik off season. It's well worth the visit. That day there was only one "small" cruise ship there. I had a vision of a dumper truck unloading in slow motion with people flooding the nearby streets. The old town is quite confined, so I shy from the thought of several cruisers or a really big one "drowning" the city.

Every country in the world by the sea is capable of docking those. Did you perhaps means the ships themselves are places to avoid?

Thankfully my town skirts that rule by having to be tendered in.

The language part depends on the country. Not necessary if you go to Norway where everyone speaks excellent English and would switch to English if you spoke to them in broken Norwegian.

OK but it has nothing to do with this list.

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Good advice that benefits the tourists AND the locals, keeping visitors and destinations off of the negative lists.

Regarding the crowded street part. In London it's Oxford Street in New York it's around Times Square and in Amsterdam it's the one that goes straight off in front of Centraal Station. All worth avoiding.

Or an atheist. Many of them will send you to prison. Saudi Barbaric imprisoned and repeatedly tortured a Canadian.

If you are openly gay, officially in Lebanon (though stick to certain areas), in Israel, in the UAE, and if you are a foreigner in Baharain and in the tourist parts of Jordan, you will be ok. Rest of the region, good luck, with different levels of it being criminalized.