What is your Biggest Travel Disappointment?
Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by Steph in Advice, Where to Go
I try really hard to find the good in every place that I visit. Still, there are some place I’ve been, and experiences I’ve had which were just plain disappointing. The weekend in Prague where it never stopped raining, Saint Patrick’s day in Dublin (which involved absolutely no Irish people) and pretty much anytime I’ve ever spent in Baltimore for starters.
My most disappointing travel experience though was one that crops up on a lot of people’s bucket lists: New Year’s Eve in Times Square.
I’d wanted to participate ever since my grandmother told me she went as a twenty-something back in the 1930’s. I loved the idea of ringing in a new year in such a historic setting with thousands of other revilers. So I convinced my then boyfriend that we needed to ring in 2006 in just that fashion.
Here is what you have to look forward to if you choose to spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square
- You will have to start queuing up for a spot at about 2pm, forcing you to be on your feet for 10-12 hours.
- Even then you will still find yourself a good 8 blocks away from actual Times Square. The sparkly dropping ball, which is surprisingly small to begin with, will be a barely visible white dot on the horizon.
- It will be really, ridiculously, painfully cold. The bright side of that is you will no longer be able to feel your aching feet.
- You will feel this bone shaking cold despite being packed cheek to cheek with other disgruntled strangers.
- You are not allowed to bring in alcohol. This will be a blessing in disguise actually, as there is nowhere you could even think about peeing.
- The New Year’s countdown will last all of 10 seconds. The euphoria of the new year will be nothing matched to the euphoria you will feel at the fact that you can now go home. Of course it will take you another hour to pick your way out of the crowd and walk back to your overpriced hotel.
Can you see the New Year Ball here?
Needless to say it was NOT my favorite New Years. Still, 2006 would be the year I broke up with that boyfriend, found my independent self, studied abroad in England and discovered my love of travel. So it wasn’t a total write off. Nonetheless I will be perfectly pleased never ever to repeat that touristic nightmare.
I spend a lot of time here talking about all the beautiful highlights of the world. While that is obviously important, for a change I’d like to talk about all of the experiences totally worth skipping.
So I want to know…
What has been your biggest travel disappointment?
This could be a place you visited that wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, an event that fizzled or any travel experience that proved to be a letdown. Anytime that a place has dashed your hopes and hurt your soul.
Leave a comment or send your answers to Steph(@)twenty-somethingtravel.com and I will feature the best ones in a post next week!
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Nicole
01. Mar, 2010
I’ll have to think a little more about my biggest travel disappointment, but in the meantime, I’m sad to think you had such a lousy time spending New Year’s in Times Square. I had the chance to do it back in 1996. I’m sure things have changed since then. Security is always tighter everywhere and as the years go by and more and more people want to do it, the crowds get bigger. We didn’t have to line up quite as early as you did (though still very early). We were staying at a hotel right in Times Square which was helpful in gauging how early we needed to go out. It was downright frigid that New Years and we brought the blankets and towels from the hotel out with us (the hotel laundry crew must have loved us!) Sure it was cold and a long time to stand up waiting (I find so many of my “bucket list” activities involve a lot of waiting around), but I thought the whole experience was worth it. The final countdown and all the confetti and balloons and excitement was, well, so exciting! Maybe I just enjoy the anticipation more than most. I’ll think about my most disappointing experience and get back to you.
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Steph
01. Mar, 2010
Thanks for weighing in Nicole. One thing I keep finding is that people can come away from the same experience with very different opinions. A lot of people must find the Times Square thing worthwhile or it wouldn’t be so absurdly popular right?
Candice
01. Mar, 2010
Eeeesh. Yeah, seems like it could be either hit or miss, huh? It’d be a cool experience for a little while. But I hate being outdoors anytime when it’s cold.
My biggest travel disappointment was the whole city of Dublin…nothing felt Irish about it at all and people were rude as hell. BUT I’m willing to give it a second chance…a lot of my feelings probably stem from the fact I picked up a stomach bug while there and I was miserable. If I do ever make it back to Ireland though, I want to see much more outside the city.
Candice´s last blog ..One Night Out in Halifax, Or Why Newfoundlanders Are Spoiled
Steph
01. Mar, 2010
I was dissapointed with Dublin as well! I found it very drab and expensive- more expensive than london even! I am positive that there is a lot more to Ireland than that though.
ehalvey
01. Mar, 2010
Dublin is much different from the rest of Ireland. It is drab from October to May, though. The museums are wonderful, though!! I studied in Dublin in 04, and I’ve been back 3 more times (my husband’s from Navan, Co. Meath). Go to Galway for a great experience.
ehalvey´s last blog ..Art History Nerd Alert
Candice
03. Mar, 2010
Galway is definitely on my radar. I’m determined to get back to Ireland have a good Irish time! It’s so similar to my province, I can’t believe I didn’t go outside teh city.
Candice´s last blog ..Some Post-Olympics Thoughts…Because You’re Not Sick of Hearing About it Yet
grace b
01. Mar, 2010
I was in Dublin in 2007 and I loved the culture (this was also my first time abroad) and the fact that it was so walkable. However my Mom and I found the early closing time of many things annoying (it was closer to the end of our stay that our patience was wearing thin) and I missed the sun like woah. It was June and felt like March. I have a good friend who is from Dublin and would still love to visit again.
Oh Steph I’m curious–what has disappointed you in Baltimore? My parents live there and I was home over the weekend and spent a lot of time walking around the city. I must admit I have a love/hate relationship with Baltimore even though I haven’t spent a lot of time there (commuted back and forth for work reasons over the winter and now am home sporadically).
Whew sorry that’s a novel of a comment!
grace b´s last blog ..a real live wire
Steph
01. Mar, 2010
Haha, DC and Baltimore have a bit of a rivalry to tell the truth. Baltimore does have some high points (love the Museum of Outsider Art) but I mainly find it dirty, congested and vaguely threatening. Also I always seem to get lost there and can’t find my way out.
grace b
02. Mar, 2010
Yea after living in D.C. last semester I would definitely chose D.C. over Baltimore. You go two blocks in one direction in Baltimore and suddenly you’re in a very unsafe area. But the museums and Inner Harbor are nice. I would like to see more community efforts in Baltimore to get the city out of it’s deplorable crime and drug problems. I observed lots of this in D.C. and while it didn’t completely erase those problems it encouraged communities and the city to do something about it. I think that Baltimore relies too much on the government to create incentives when really charter schools, community programs, soup kitchens (from my experience) could be more effective.
Whew, ok getting off my soap box!
grace b´s last blog ..a real live wire
Chinamatt
01. Mar, 2010
I’ve lived near NYC most of my life and never even wanted to go to Times Square for New Year’s Eve. I’ve only been to the city once on NYE, and that was painful enough with the crowds in bars.
My biggest disappointment was probably Vancouver. Mostly because I didn’t find anything really interesting in the city and we didn’t have enough time to go anywhere outside it, which would’ve been much more fun.
Chinamatt´s last blog ..End of the Festival
Becs
01. Mar, 2010
Rome, Italy
It was my first time to Europe and I had been away from home at a high school art program for 3.5 weeks before we even left. Was home for one night and then left for my first trip to Europe for another 3.5 weeks. Rome was the last stop and at that point, I just wanted to get home already. So I’ll give it another shot. Just not anytime soon.
Steph
01. Mar, 2010
Go figure, Rome is one of my favorite cities! Guess it just proves the point we were discussing above.
ehalvey
02. Mar, 2010
I loved Rome as well. Even though it was super hot. I’m a bit biased since I took about 5 Roman (ancient, Renaissance, Baroque) architecture classes.
marta
04. Mar, 2010
Noooo, Rome is just amazing you have to give it another shot Becs
marta´s last blog ..Snapshot of the week: let’s fly away
ehalvey
01. Mar, 2010
Toronto, Canada.
It felt so run down in much of the downtown area. I was staying next to the harbor near the convention center and felt like 2 blocks in any direction quickly became sketchy. The museums were nice. The rest, not so much. Windy and rainy didn’t help.
ehalvey´s last blog ..Art History Nerd Alert
Steph
01. Mar, 2010
So we have Vancouver and Toronto on the list now…
Kit
05. Mar, 2010
Nooo, not Toronto! I loved it there a couple of years ago. September. Very pretty main downtown area (not harborside). Interesting North American history. But at the same time, I would not tell you to return immediately.
Joya
01. Mar, 2010
Madrid didn’t impress me that much. I was able to visit a friend there which was good because she took me to places devoid of tourists but I guess since it was more of a bustling city I didn’t get that authentic Spanish feel like I did in Barcelona.
Joya´s last blog ..My 3 Best Kept Travel Secrets
Steph
02. Mar, 2010
I’ve only been to Madrid in Spain, and I’m longing to check out the rest of the country.
Kelsey
03. Mar, 2010
I’ve heard similar things about Madrid.
Kelsey´s last blog ..Travel Tuesday Photo: Me & the Jindo
Steph
03. Mar, 2010
I actually really liked Madrid! Although I see how it could pale in comparison to the rest of Spain.
Kelsey
02. Mar, 2010
I’d have to say that it was probably my vacation with Marc while I was living in South Korea.
Marc and I had planned for him to come visit me at some point during my year of living in Korea, probably during the summer, since he was still in grad school at the time. I arrived in Korea on May 25th in 2008, and sometime in late June my school informed me that I would have two weeks off at the end of July. I quickly made ticket reservations for Marc to come and see me. Unfortunately, after the tickets had already been booked, my school told me that they wanted me to teach an English camp and that I would only get *one* week off. That was disappointment #1. Marc came over and at least I got to show him around the island I lived on for a week before we could start our “real” vacation (it also let him sleep while I was at work so he could get over jetlag). Unfortunately, disappointment #2 was that since I had only been in Korea for a month and half by the time he arrived, I still couldn’t communicate very well, and I didn’t know the island all that well, and I didn’t have my motorcycle yet to take him around and show him the cool stuff. When I finally had my vacation days, we planned to go up to Gangwondo, the forested, mountainous province up north that is famous for both its beauty and its history from the Korean War. Unfortunately, what we didn’t know is that the buses run so rarely up there that we couldn’t really get to any of the small villages that are where all the beauty and the history are. Then, we went to Seoul, and since I had never been to Seoul, neither of us knew where anything was, and it also rained most of the time.
At the end of the vacation I felt as if I had really disappointed Marc after having expended so much time, effort, and money to get him all the way over to Korea. He really just cared about seeing me, but I still felt badly about it.
Kelsey´s last blog ..Motorcyle Monday: Chang Jiang Girls
Steph
02. Mar, 2010
I feel like when people come to visit me abroad there is a lot of pressure which makes it easy for things to turn disappointing.
Kelsey
03. Mar, 2010
Yes, I definitely agree. That’s also one of the reasons I tend to travel solo – since I’m usually the one leading, there’s a lot of pressure.
Kelsey´s last blog ..Travel Tuesday Photo: Me & the Jindo
Shannon OD
02. Mar, 2010
Although I know that tons of people lately have been raving about Croatia, I found it lacking. I don’t know what it was about the cities I visited there, but the people were just not that friendly – I thought it was a cultural thing until I went to Bosnia and absolutely loved it…gotta say, I have no plans to head back to Croatia…it was disappointing.
Shannon OD´s last blog ..A Little Quandary…When do you Donate?
Steph
02. Mar, 2010
Although I didn’t have any problem with all those warm adriatic beaches, I liked bosnia better too!
Garrett
02. Mar, 2010
My biggest travel disappointment was easily my hungover adventure to Rio de Janeiro. I was spending a month living with my Brazilian friend in Belo Horizonte and we stayed up until 6 AM after a long night of drinking cachaca. We fell asleep only to be woken up 30 minutes later for our trip to Rio.
We arrived tired, hungover and distracted. We were only there for 2 days and I spent most of it sucking on a bottle of life-giving H2O. Needless to say, next time I’m in Rio, I’ll do it in a much better state of mind!
Steph
02. Mar, 2010
oh gosh hangovers make everything seem horrible! I tend to just get sick when I travel, which puts a similar dismal fog over things.
Nicole
02. Mar, 2010
Ok, I’ve got one now. Austin, TX. Everyone keeps raving about it. It’s supposed to be such an up-and-coming city. Well, maybe if I were 21 again and into the whole clubbing/bar scene. We did see the giant bat flight at twilight which was cool (though again with the long wait in uncomfortable…this time HOT…weather). But basically to me Austin was just another city with nothing particularly memorable about it. A college town that might be cool if I were still in college.
Steph
02. Mar, 2010
I haven’t been to Austen but I usually hear good things so that is interesting to know!
Kelsey
03. Mar, 2010
It’s a cool town, but only in comparison to the rest of Texas/the South. The rest of Texas is incredibly boring, so Austin with its parks, Barton Springs, good restaurants, and great bookstores is quite a treat. Austin is also definitely one of those places that strongly benefits from getting a personal, local tour. The best parts of Austin are the places where the locals are, in my experience.
Kelsey´s last blog ..Travel Tuesday Photo: Me & the Jindo
grace b
04. Mar, 2010
Austin has been on my to-go list for awhile now but I guess it isn’t that exciting all the time!
grace b´s last blog ..a real live wire
Kit
05. Mar, 2010
Ok so the Austinite has to chime in – Austin definitely requires a plan and that includes outdoor activities. Canoeing, seeing the 5 highland lakes, going west into the hills for camping/cookout, seeing the music and food anchors in the city, the French legation, TexMex, all 5 campuses, various spas, the bookstores and coffeeshops, the local stores…as some one mentioned, maybe Austin now requires a tourguide. I’d say try again another time, but not in college mindset. It would be disappointing if yer not 21 and trying to drink on 6th street.
Alouise
02. Mar, 2010
I’d always wanted to visit Paris, so I was really excited when I took a Europe tour a couple years back and there was a one night stop in Paris. But I got sick and spent the entire time sleeping, my foray into French cuisine was crackers and bottled water. In the evening I finally felt okay enough to go to The Louvre for an hour, I rushed by everything just to see The Mona Lisa. It didn’t really live up to the hype, but maybe if I had time to savor everything I’d feel different.
I thought Switzerland was beautiful but taking the train up The Jungfrau was a let down. This was on the same trip and I had a cold at this point. Let me tell you an increase in elevation is not a good thing if your sinuses are already plugged up. It was pretty at the top, but quite expensive. For people who don’t experience snow and the mountains, I’m sure it’s a wonderful new experience. But I live in Canada, where there’s lots of snow and I’m only 4 hours away from the Rockies. So the dog sledding and tobogganing and winter activities at the top weren’t anything new and exciting for me. Although it was fun to watch the people who’d never walked on snow or ice before trying not to fall.
Alouise´s last blog ..Everything I Ever Learned I Learned From The Amazing Race, Kinda
Steph
02. Mar, 2010
I said this above but it is funny how your health can affect your opinions of a place! I coughed my way all over western europe and definitely didnt appreciate it.
I have an article back in the archives about how I’ve never been to Paris and don’t really have any desire to go. guess that means I wont be let down at least when I actually make it!
Kelsey
03. Mar, 2010
I’ve been to that region of Switzerland several times, and have never yet gone up the Jungfrau. The weather has to be perfect for it to be worth the money, and I usually just end up hiking instead.
Kelsey´s last blog ..Travel Tuesday Photo: Me & the Jindo
alexis
08. Sep, 2010
Paris was a big let down for me also! I also got sick upon arrival and was non too thrilled. there was a big pile of poop on the ground, and being sick, this was the last thing i wanted to see. the people were also not very nice. there was a long line to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower, so I didn’t go. The only good thing about Paris was the Sacred Heart and also their crepe and nutella.
I did love Switzerland though! I went to Zermatt to go snowboarding with my boyfriend and the view while on the train was amazing. Switzerland was beautiful and we definitely had a blast. =)
JoAnna
02. Mar, 2010
Fortunately, no particularly bad travels come to mind, which I guess is a good thing, though I imagine I’m bound to have a crappy experience eventually.
JoAnna´s last blog ..Where to Go? 8 Ways to Choose Your Next Travel Destination
AdventureRob
03. Mar, 2010
I feel for you about the waiting. I spent this new years in Sydney, got down there at 11am to get a good spot. At least it was warm though! Disapointment is no-one in my area saw the countdown, so the actual cheer was completely missed!
I don’t have a specific disapointment that stands out though. I’d say the cost of being in Australia was the most biggest ‘thing’ although I’m not sure that it counts. I’m coming out of here not so financially well as I thought I would.
AdventureRob´s last blog ..Mid-Week Photo: Royal National Park
Kelsey
03. Mar, 2010
I’ve definitely heard bad things about the expense of Australia.
Kelsey´s last blog ..Travel Tuesday Photo: Me & the Jindo
Steph
03. Mar, 2010
I think that 90% of the time New Years plans end up being a HUGE let down- at least for me!
Joel
03. Mar, 2010
I’m never really disappointed when I travel because the sheer act of traveling is always a thrill.
I would like to give Tokyo another chance, though. I was only there for a day and a half for meetings, so I only had time for a quick night tour around some of the nightlife areas. Definitely interesting, but not something I found appealing.
Someday I’ll go back and check it out a bit more in depth.
Joel´s last blog ..Guest Post at “A Pair of Panties and Boxers”
Steph
03. Mar, 2010
Yeah I have tokyo as one of the first stops on my big trip itinerary and I got really intimidated just reading about it. I’ve heard mixed things on whether it’s awesome/skippable. Will be interested to find out for myself!
Unbravegirl
03. Mar, 2010
My biggest travel disappointment was when I went to Detroit (from Japan) for a weekend (yes, that’s right…. my flight time combined was longer than I had on the ground) to visit a man I thought I was in love with. Turns out, I wasn’t in love with him, he wasn’t in love with me… and I was in Detroit. Uggh. Oh, and some Taiwanese woman stole my cookies (Mint Milano cookies, mind you!) on the flight back. Bad, bad, bad trip!
P.S. As for Tokyo, I say skip it! I lived in Japan for 4 years & dreaded going to Tokyo every time my friends would visit & insist on going there. Head to Osaka instead… it has all the bright lights/big city but a lot less intimidating & the people are cooler & more down-to-earth. Plus it’s close by Kyoto, Kobe, Himeji & even Hiroshima.
Steph
03. Mar, 2010
That DOES sound pretty dissapointing from all angles.
thanks for the Tokyo input!
Lilian
03. Mar, 2010
For me, it would have to be my trip years ago to Shenzhen, China. I felt that it was wasted time and I could have spent more time in Hong Kong instead. Besides the “miniature famous buildings” park with fake Niagara Falls and all, and shopping, there wasn’t much to do. At that time, the pollution was really bad too…..
I hated it with a vengeance!
Steph
03. Mar, 2010
a vengeance?! eek!
Cornelius Aesop
03. Mar, 2010
Aww you just killed #36 of my Bucket List Oh well I still gotta try it. I don’t have any major travel disappointments, other than I’m not Round The World traveling or location independent……yet.
Cornelius Aesop´s last blog ..New Brew Tuesday: Warsteiner Lemon
Stephanie
03. Mar, 2010
When I looked at your list I accident read 39 instead of 36: “39. Spend a whole day making love without every leaving the house.”
Would hate to discourage anyone from that!
Stephanie´s last blog ..What is your Biggest Travel Disappointment?
leslie
03. Mar, 2010
My worst travel experience was visiting London for a week in 2009. I was disappointed by the lack of late-night public transportation and spent much more time walking than I was accustomed to. The London Eye was terrible and the weather was gloomy everyday. To make matters worst, bed bugs came back with me which just completely ruined the entire trip.
leslie´s last blog ..Starting the Journey to Financial & Physical Health
Steph
03. Mar, 2010
It is annoying how early the tube closes. There’s actually a pretty extensive night bus network but you kind of have to know what you’re doing.
thalia
03. Mar, 2010
i visited turkey recently (it’s my complete favorite country- been there twice) with my friend. she had gotten some advice from another friend of hers that lived in istanbul for a while that cappadocia was not a place to miss and to not overlook it. our trip was planned for 10 days- i had flown in from canada. we spent the first four days travelling all the way to goreme (in cappadocia)- making stops on the way. then we spent four days in the tiny town of goreme. with all the momentum of the first four days, i had a really hard time just slowing to a stop. the hostel owners were strange- we stayed in a cave, which as cool as it was, the novelty wears off after a few days. not to mention my asthma, which came back from living in a damp cave. we also ran into a sketchy guy on a beautiful trail walk. all in all, a great trip (it was a great escape from the office!!) but goreme was a bit of a disappointment.
Steph
03. Mar, 2010
I’ve heard good things about cappadocia. It’s funny how many of the things people have listed are really about external factors.
thalia
03. Mar, 2010
cappadocia is beautiful, i’ll give it that! but there’s only so much awesome volcano rock to see before it all looks the same. (and i grew up in saudi arabia!)
Cari
05. Mar, 2010
But what’s an external factor to an experience? There’s no such thing as a place unto itself…unless it’s a postcard. The underwhelming food, cloudy views, and boring people are still essential to the journey. It’s taken quite a few trips, but I’ve finally been able to just GO and experience without holding on too tightly to how I think everything should be. Not ALL travel is sublime. In a way, that’s sort of the point. You just do and take it for what it is. It’s never the place or the weather or the circumstances that disappoint, it’s the expectations that you bring to it.
Cari´s last blog ..My Lady Syria
Jess
03. Mar, 2010
The Cu Chi Tunnels in Vietnam is surely my biggest travel disappointment. They have been transformed into a little Vietnam War Disneyland, complete with firing range and what our guide termed “VC KFC” – aka a place to eat the cassava plant that Viet Cong soldiers lived on for months at a time. At least the tour only cost $5…
Jess´s last blog ..Long-Term Travel and Why It’s (Probably) Not For Me
Steph
05. Mar, 2010
interesting… Vietnam War Disneyland is a great description!
marta
04. Mar, 2010
i think hong kong was not a real disappointment but really kinda a boring, maybe cause we spent 5 days stuck in the city center
marta´s last blog ..Snapshot of the week: let’s fly away
brian
04. Mar, 2010
I was lucky. When I went to Times Square for New Year’s it was in the 40s/50s F with a slight rain. Warm enough that we hardly felt any cold since we were penned in like cattle by the NYPD.
I loved Paris, but the Mona Lisa was underwhelming. It’s so small, everything you see makes you think it is a 10 foot tall portrait.
Ruins at Chichen Itza was my most disappointing travel experience. I was expecting them to be bigger. The Pyramids of Giza lived up to all my expectations and more.
brian´s last blog ..Best Travel News and Deals – March 2, 2010 – Most Traveled Man, Beat Your Travel Slump, Expert Travel Tips, Travel and Get Paid for It, Backpacker Acts of Kindness, Arthur Frommer
Steph
05. Mar, 2010
I’ve heard that about the Mona Lisa before. Very tiny.
Rick
05. Mar, 2010
I’d have to say Vancouver. Sure the harbor area is nice, and the mountains are pretty, Granville Island is nice. But Gastown is a letdown. Three blocks in from the water, you’re in the middle of a pretty rough-around-the edges harbor town.
Steph
05. Mar, 2010
that’s two for vancouver I think!
Abhi
05. Mar, 2010
Not meeting someone I had planned to, on my trip to DC, was disappointing!
On a more serious note, the recent snowstorm in Northeast wiped out my NYC trip with flight cancellations. That was disappointing.
Abhi´s last blog ..A quick update
Steph
06. Mar, 2010
Oooh called out!
Yeah that snowstorm definitely cause a lot of headaches for anyone traveling on the east coast…
Cari
05. Mar, 2010
This post is hilarious. Maybe the reason everyone seems so happy to see the ball drop is that they are relieved to finally get to go home?
Cari´s last blog ..My Lady Syria
Emily @ Maiden Voyage
07. Mar, 2010
I was actually quite disappointed with Rome. Maybe I had built it up way too much in my head. While the history and architecture was grand, I felt like the city was really dirty. It was also a very hot summer, and the heat really got to us. I had trouble finding good food (crazy, I know), and people weren’t very friendly. I had expected so much, but was overall very underwhelmed. I went to the small town of Perugia next, which I hadn’t been too excited about, and absolutely fell in love — it was the idyllic Italy I had always dreamed of. That made up for any prior disappointment!
JJ
08. Mar, 2010
To me, going on a cruise was a big disappointment. At the time, I was in my 40′s and was chaperoning two 18 year olds whose parents had given them the trip as a graduation present, and I was asked to chaperone. I didn’t mind the chaperoning, I was honored to have been asked. However, I didn’t like having to eat at a pre-selected time and having everything “scheduled.”
That’s why I like traveling in my RV
JJ´s last blog ..CONTENTS
aisha
10. Mar, 2010
i live in new york and you know what’s weird? every year when new year comes i always contemplate going to Times Square to see the ball drop…for all of about 1 minute. Same with everyone one I ask…we figured that most of the people that are there happen to be tourists because no one i know wants to stand that long outside in the freezing cold to see a shiny ball drop. especially when you get a much better version right at home watching it on a television. but at least you can say you did it.
J.K.
11. Mar, 2010
My husband and I traveled from Vietnam to Cambodia. We went all that way but missed the chance to see Angkor Wat. Because I became very ill, we had to stay in Phnom Penh. So instead of taking a boat to Siem Reap to see the ancient temple, we had to return our tickets. It was a huge disappointment.
J.K.´s last blog ..Craft of the Week: Making a St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Garland from Yarn
Steph
11. Mar, 2010
that DOES sound like a huge disappointment!
JR@TheDriftersBlog
21. May, 2010
i tried and tried and thought so hard to find an answer to your question and thought, for the life of me i cannot remember a single disappointing trip. like you said about yourself, i try to find the good in everything and everywhere. but hten i remembered a trip i took over 10 years ago (yes, im that old) to the bahamas, and perhaps it was my fault, but i managed to get on the wrong bus and headed for the wrong part of the island. needless to say i got worked over by one of the locals. i managed to get back on another bus and get out of there, but it surely left a disappointing mark on my memory for years to come. the only thing that saved me was a young couple that witnessed my escape, and they actually took me in, showed me the resort that they worked at, got me in on all of the activities for free, and fed me a conch feast to remember. so i guess even during some of the most negative or disappointing parts of your trip, you will find something positive that can cover up the negative.
JR@TheDriftersBlog´s last blog ..Of Pixels & Personalities
Steph
21. May, 2010
That’s very true, even the rottenest experiences usually have a silver lining!