Most disappointing destinations

[Pushka]

I disagree with Kuala Lumpur. Cheap food, cheap shopping, cheap five star hotels.....

And none of these would be of any excitement to me. And Paris is.

 

[Cynicor]

Really liked Paris but I didn't have much time there.

Was disappointed in my 8 hours in Barcelona. Probably need to have longer, but couldn't quite see why it was so hyped up. It's the only disappointing place I can think of, really.

 

[codash1099]

Really liked Paris but I didn't have much time there.

Was disappointed in my 8 hours in Barcelona. Probably need to have longer, but couldn't quite see why it was so hyped up. It's the only disappointing place I can think of, really.

8 hours is hardly enough to make a judgement of anywhere. I liked Barcelona but I didn't quite get the Gaudi worship.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

We had 2 nights in Hanoi at the Sofitel Metropole back in 2009 - a Friday night & Sunday night on either side of an overnight cruise onboard the Annam Junk in Ha Long Bay. The hotel itself & the staff were great however the city itself struck me as a police state & still felt very much like Communist North Vietnam.

We were walking down the street & a guy walking on the other side of the road towards us immediately crossed the road & approached us trying to sell us drugs. It happened a second time to SO when we were in an internet café & SO popped out to buy a can of drink at a nearby shop. One of the shops on a street corner was selling headstones for graves which I thought was downright creepy in the middle of the city.

We walked into one clothes shop but the sales assistance was too busy on the internet to even acknowledge the fact we were even in the stop.

As for the taxi back to the hotel, the cabbie didn't say a word the entire trip even when I queried whether he was taking us to the Metropole Hotel. We were driving down all these unfamiliar backstreets & I was convinced we were going the wrong way yet he didn't utter a word until we did get to the right hotel then with the taxi meter showing 290,000 dong he uttered in perfect English "just make it 300,000!" We paid him exactly as per what the meter said.

A lot of people say that Hanoi is heaps better than Saigon but I'd have to say I thought the opposite. We weren't there on a weekday so didn't have time to explore the museums however culture aside, I just didn't like the feel of the place & it's certainly a place a wouldn't feel safe wandering around at night alone whereas I felt the opposite in Saigon.

rosebud caravan park!

You can't have been that couple I once saw on TV who had 'holidayed' there 26 years in a row. :shock:

 

[Pushka]

Ozbeachbabe, that kind of experience in HaNoi is exactly what we experienced in HCM.

Plus the fact my bag was slashed off me in HCM by a cyclo passenger didn't endear me to HCM. As for the police station where we reported it (with our hotel concierge) . And I'm a former cop and still found that dreadful.

So Vietnam isn't on my revisit list. We were there for a fortnight. Just found it a bit sinister.

 

[drross]

8 hours is hardly enough to make a judgement of anywhere. I liked Barcelona but I didn't quite get the Gaudi worship.

apart from a bout of food poisoning we really enjoyed Barcelona. Took a fat tyre bike tour of the city..great, you should try it next time you're there. Easy enough for over 50s to do.

 

[RooFlyer]

I was disappointed by the Pyramids. It didn't have the wow factor I was expecting probably because it was just there in the middle of Cairo.

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Funny ... I thought it had even more wow factor because you drive out of the chaos that is Cairo on al Ahram road and are suddenly confronted with the Pyramids set in the open. (That was about 20 years ago, when the pyramids were on the edge of Cairo. Maybe the suburbs have engulfed them now.)

 

[Anna Joseph]

Byron Bay is not disappointing! There are lovely places there and it depends on what you choose to do. So many activities. We stayed here at Wategos beach the last time we went and it was wonderful! We got a great deal through Byron Bay Accom dot net.

 

[sampson]

Byron Bay is not disappointing! There are lovely places there and it depends on what you choose to do. So many activities. We stayed here at Wategos beach the last time we went and it was wonderful! We got a great deal through Byron Bay Accom dot net.

Pfft. you sound like my mum when she said the fat chick had personality. I'd rather go to 'Jen Hawkins" destinations lke Eildon Weir. Ahh the Serenity.