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Most disappointing tourist attraction?

At the weekend I took my niece to Battersea Park Children Zoo. This "zoo" consisted of some pigs, snails, mice and a few token emus and monkeys. That was it. I knew it'd be small but when my niece was more interested in a pigeon, I knew something was amiss.

What's been your biggest let down?

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Original post by Captain Jack
At the weekend I took my niece to Battersea Park Children Zoo. This "zoo" consisted of some pigs, snails, mice and a few token emus and monkeys. That was it. I knew it'd be small but when my niece was more interested in a pigeon, I knew something was amiss.

What's been your biggest let down?



:lol: Gutted.



Personally it's still the Grand Canyon. We drove for hours out into the middle of nowhere only to get relatively near it; and find out it was recently privatised and you needed to pay to see it unless willing to drive another 6 hours to get to the other side. Nope.
The Moeraki boulders in NZ.

They are just boulders.
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Thinking about the UK, Stonehenge has got to be one of the worst.

Cyprus,, The Tombs of The Kings,, a dump of a demolition site made for ripping off tourists. A series of holes in the ground where no kings were ever buried. They just made it up !
Paris

(all of it)
Um, Canada, lousy place.
The torture museum in Amsterdam. It was about 2 rooms with a few torture devices in. We were expecting bigger and better.

Especially since the day before we'd been to the awesome science museum.
The Needles, Isle of Wight. The actual chalk stacks are OK (not that you can really see them that well unless you get on a boat).

But there is an awful mini "fun-fair", a horrible beach with special "coloured sand"...which have all been taken and popped into glass tubes to be sold to tourists, so the remaining sand is just brown :frown:
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Everything in NYC
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Omg omg Disneyland in Florida is awful too.
The Mona Lisa. It is the same as the photos apart from you are surrounded by sweaty tourists at the height of the french summer and it is behind super thick glass.

The rest of Paris is pretty awesome.
All of Dublin. I have never been anywhere so dull in my life. It was like the Aberdeen of Ireland.

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For me it was Manchester City. People seem to love it but I found it ugly and unfriendly too.
Original post by Limpopo
Thinking about the UK, Stonehenge has got to be one of the worst.

Cyprus,, The Tombs of The Kings,, a dump of a demolition site made for ripping off tourists. A series of holes in the ground where no kings were ever buried. They just made it up !


Haha I went there and it was really depressing. In fact the whole island is a bit run down.
Stone Henge. I mean what is all that about ?
Original post by iamintorture
Haha I went there and it was really depressing. In fact the whole island is a bit run down.

In the right circumstances a year in Cyprus is like going to paradise.
Keswick Pencil Museum.

Our Dad took us there as kids. He was so enthusiastic about it beforehand, but when we got there and found out it was nothing but pencils.
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Falkirk Wheel, Edinburgh Dungeon and Stonehenge were really boring.:nothing:
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Original post by iamintorture
For me it was Manchester City. People seem to love it but I found it ugly and unfriendly too.


I agree but people believe everything they hear. I've been to Manchester about 8 or 9 times and the first thing that got me was how small the city centre was, outside of it it's a complete dump as well, 'scallies' everywhere.

Also you are spot on about it being unfriendly, that's not a dig at the Mancs on here, just the Liam Gallagher-esque stereotype is pretty accurate. So many moody knobheads up there. Scousers on the other hand, are generally excellent.
The Niagara falls.

I expected them to be bigger and more imposing. Honestly I was disappointed seeing how commercialized the area is with casinos and children's theme parks.

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