littlesheep

You dreamed for years to go to X, and then you went, and...

Tell your tale.

LeviFlight

United Lounge, SFO.

And...to that I would add Seoul. Always thought it would be interesting but What I found was despairing. Getting out of Seoul to the south coast of Korea was much more interesting.

paul4040

Bucharest, Romania. Always wanted to see "Little Paris".

It's a dump and nothing works; the public transport is beyond infuriating. Don't go. Ever.

Pulley

Here's 33 pages of opinions. Mine would be Venice Beach, CA.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...e-visited.html

flyer121

Dubai

camsean

I hated South Korea, but seeing as I had never looked forward to going there, I guess it doesn't count for this thread.

waygora

I lived in Korea for two years. It's an amazing place to live, but not the most exciting place to visit.

LAXbear

Djibouti - the hands down winner.

lhrsfo

Las Vegas. I thought it would be glitzy and exciting. Instead it was tacky and crowded with obese people and life's losers.

camsean

I lived there as well. But hated it.

HomerJ

Korea, Dubai, and LV where all underwhelming.
Was also rather meh about Berlin, and to be honest, while I quite like it and it does have a lot to offer I don't think Paris lives up to the hype.

Teflon6

Mumbai was nearly an open sewer and if you take a morning train, you can watch people defecate the whole way

Gamecock

Vegas.
Brussels.

backprop

What were your expectations? Not knowing much about that part of the world, I can't say mine would be very high.

littlesheep

For years and years I had wanted to go to Arches national park. I thought I'd be sleeping amongst red rock and getting up to watch sunrise through an arch and watching stars through arches and so on. Never quite made it there. Till I did.



Once there, I tried for several hours to maintain a positive attitude. It's popular because it's beautiful, I said to myself.

That can't excuse the masses of screaming humanity that scream their way through every nook and cranny. I saw one arch, well a double one actually, count them, and that's that. Screaming. People. Adults.

I tried again the next day, but it was no better. I tried hard to enjoy it.

Oh, and the main concentration of arches, Devil's Garden, was closed.

I could have gone back at night, but I was too worn out and never wanted to go there again.

I saw one arch outside the park. Guess what. People. Hundreds. All screaming.

Of course, it was very hot too, which didn't help.

I now hate arches as a natural phenomenon and never want to see one again.