Honestly I thought Miami beach was pretty shit. It has its nice sides, but it's full of show offs, rented super cars and crazy people. And obviously really expensive.
Going to predict a lot of big cities appear in responses here. What a lot of people haven't worked out is that unless you're rich (i.e. your local purchasing power is multiples the destination you're travelling to), most cities are pretty miserable to experience as a tourist. They're designed for living in and for locals.
Going to predict a lot of big cities appear in responses here.
agree.
i.e. your local purchasing power is multiples the destination you're travelling to
correct - if you are earning USD or Euro, even better in BTC, generally you are fine traveling to many countries - I once lived in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam and realized how much money I've save from living there.
most cities are pretty miserable to experience as a tourist. They're designed for living in and for locals.
it depends on what kind of tourists you are and what you are traveling for, short term is usually fine, but long term is definitely miserable because you would get to see way better options in the same country! and I think most big cities are actually designed for people that focus on making money ( not necessary for locals, many big cities trying to attract more foreigners than locals ) not really for living.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s a place replete with culture n tradition, the views are amazing, but my wife n I were stuck in this horrendous traffic jam after watching a mountainside performance. Two-lane road, cars crawled, and wife wanting to pee don’t make for good travel memories
the last straw was when you spend all that money to enter the louvre museum just to discover that the Mona Lisa is about the size of a standard 8'x11' sheet of printer paper. They pack you like sardines into a tiny room and threaten to whip you with baguettes if you disturb her with flash photography behind her 15 inches of bullet proof glass. And if you sound even remotely foreign, forget it.
Their outdoors scene makes me envious, but Lord knows that they'd find a way to bone me for any number of my political, religious, sexual, and cultural opinions that don't line up with their woke shit.
Jamaica. As soon as you leave the tourist areas (hotels, private beaches, harbors...) you're swarmed by scammers. Like dozens of people holding plastic trash they sell in your face and maybe pickpockets. A real bummer since the island was pretty. I guess most people there are nice people but the small number of idiots are doing their best to destroy the tourist industry
This might be the worst place I've ever seen in my life, I went there out of curiosity and can't wait to leave the next day!
That's like a living hell there - you have women ( even ladyboys ) from different ages selling sex there and trying all they can to get attention from men, even showing you certain part of organs, and in the street 🤮 and the crazy part is there are many men going there for that.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Not only it have the worst airport I've ever seen, and with such cold weather, average food but for such high prices, and the most turn off part is people is quite distant.
Being a Scandinavian I find the Dutch refreshingly direct and open. 😁
Their ability to claim land from the sea so long ago was a real feat of engineering.
But Amsterdam itself - a nice river with older buildings, otherwise just the average western European big city + a smell of weed & red light district.
Baltimore. I know I'm not going out on a limb here, but the place has really gone down hill the past few years. I have spent time there on and off over the past 40 years. It was never great, but the Camden Yards and harbor development brought an economic revival for a while. Those days are over.
I don't know that I definitely won't visit NY City or Las Vegas ever again, but I really disliked both cities. I found them to be dirty, crowded, expensive, and (in very different ways) they have very uncomfortable climates. NY at least has some amenities I've enjoyed, but it's not enough to make me want to return.
I wouldn't rule anywhere out, but one interesting observation for me has been that the USA used to be at the top of my list to visit, now I don't have much appetite to visit at all.
I lived in Birmingham for several years, a bit more central so much better than these towns. We still had drug dealers and gang violence along our street though.
On second thoughts, my least favourite place in New Zealand is Rotorua (probably won't be a popular opinion haha). Went once and decided it was not my place! Don't like the lake area, mozzies everywhere, not to mention the rotten egg fart smells :D haha. We went back a few times after that but only to visit the Fat Dog cafe and take the kids on the luge, on the way through to Taupo where the lake is sooo much nicer! :D
I love travelling and travel a lot but I rarely go anywhere and think OMG that was total crap. You can usually find positives and learning experiences anywhere. That's said, I think the only place I truly hated was Vienna. I did go in 1997 though lol. I must have been shit as I did a European backpacking trip, visited many places and still remember it from all those years ago! haha Big city, no heart and soul, incredibly rude and unhelpful civil servants. It might have changed since then. I did go to Montpellier last year and I wasn't super impressed. Extremely busy to drive around, really stressful trying to get parking around the beach areas - probably won't go back there in a hurry.
Koh Phang Ngan, Thailand
A formerly beautiful island turned into a shitshow as it has become the global "Full Moon Party" destination. Ruined by hordes of drunk Eurotrash and drug dealers.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
All the negative elements of a poor big city with none of the redeeming qualities: Crime, pollution, poverty. Things can improve. Look at El Salvador.