Comments on: What is your Biggest Travel Disappointment?

By: alexis

alexis — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:00:31 +0000

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. =)

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:55:45 +0000

That’s very true, even the rottenest experiences usually have a silver lining!

By: JR@TheDriftersBlog

JR@TheDriftersBlog — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:20:12 +0000

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.
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By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:48:11 +0000

that DOES sound like a huge disappointment!

By: J.K.

J.K. — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:15:21 +0000

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.
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By: aisha

aisha — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:14:29 +0000

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.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:38:58 +0000

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
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By: Emily @ Maiden Voyage

Emily @ Maiden Voyage — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:27:51 +0000

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!

By: Steph

Steph — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:46:45 +0000

Oooh called out!

Yeah that snowstorm definitely cause a lot of headaches for anyone traveling on the east coast…

By: Cari

Cari — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:30:06 +0000

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

By: Cari

Cari — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:21:45 +0000

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

By: Abhi

Abhi — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:13:29 +0000

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.
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By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:20:30 +0000

interesting… Vietnam War Disneyland is a great description!

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:19:51 +0000

I’ve heard that about the Mona Lisa before. Very tiny.

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:19:27 +0000

that’s two for vancouver I think!

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:29:14 +0000

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.

By: Kit

Kit — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:56:07 +0000

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.

By: Kit

Kit — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:52:00 +0000

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.

By: brian

brian — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:07:06 +0000

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.
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