I only know my town but there is a spot at the city dock with some ugly red tents that sells absurdly overpriced food. A shrimp baguette there costs 250 Norwegian Kroner, cross the street and go into the grocery store and the same thing costs 75 Norwegian Kroner. Actually the whole of the touristy area is just one giant tourist trap. You won’t see a single Norwegian buy anything there.
Amsterdam in general. Theres multiple similar cities without weed, sex and drugs museums.
A lot of people will say Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, but honnestly visiting just feels special, since that specific house has A LOT of actual history that happened right there. Its not something Id visit more than once in my life, because after one time you really saw it, but its still impressive to stand on the same spots as where major Dutch history happened
I live in NL currently and I have to say Anne Frank’s house. I mean, she is not even there
Don’t take this wrong, but probably the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Incredibly tragic and important location, but horribly overcrowded with tourists, which ruins the entire premise behind it.
In recent years, they’ve been using time slots, which helps, but from what I hear, it’s still pretty crowded.
Temple Bar, a whole area of Dublin that exists solely to fleece British stag and hen parties out of their money, serving some of the most expensive pints in Ireland in soulless pubs
Barcelona. The whole city became a machine to squeeze the last drop from every tourist and expat.
Fake Mozarts selling overpriced concert tickets in Vienna.
Juliet’s house in Verona.
You’ll spend 9 euros to touch the tit of a statue and take a picture of a ordinary balcony from an ordinary courtyard. You can only stay on the balcony for a minute, then you must leave place to the next person. There’s a very long queue as well.
I would say [The Shambles](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shambles) in York. It’s pretty but always very crowded and all the shops just sell tat (typically Harry Potter themed).
[Neuschwanstein. ](https://www.neuschwanstein.de/) Thousands of real medieval castles in this country but this 150 year-old theater project is the first that comes to people’s minds when they think of one. Opened for tourism when it wasn’t even finished. Never used as an actual seat of a noble house.
Maybe not as much a tourist trap as the Welsh house, as people who visit get the Instagram pics they want and aren’t disappointed, but it still shivers my timbers.
Lots of things in London are expensive. The London eye (wheel) is a good example. But at least it’s honest.
The tuk-tuks cycle taxis are very dishonest and a complete trap.
Manneken Pis in Brussels, Belgium. But it’s free so it’s fine. Just be prepared to be underwhelmed
The Hofbräuhaus in Munich. They solely live off their name. You can get the same experience at a lower price and with better food at so many other places in the city.
Ksamil during mid July- mid August. People be reading keywords of clickbait online “Maldives of Europe” & “Albania cheap” and fall for it.
There’s way better value places or times to do it.
Super expensive stroopwafels.
Also that one gentrified super expensive poffertje shop
I don’t know if it’s the worst trap with all the bookstores that were closed down to be replaced with tourist trap bars and pubs, but the thing that really, truly, positively enrages me are te fucking tuk-tuk tours of Lisbon. I absolutely despise them.
And yes, they are ridiculously expensive and most of the time they flatout give wrong information.
Las Ramblas, specially the restaurants (Frozen paella, sub par tapas, watered sangría, all of them expesively overpriced.). A theme park for tourist with no real life in it.
Sintra, people come here for the Disney land type castles and fairytale places, then are greeted by sweaty guys trying to take them on their tuktuk and/or making them lunch at their commission restaurant.
After that ordeal, people will spend a whole afternoon trying to take pictures without other tourists on the background.
All that if they don’t commit the crime of catching and uber and spend the whole day stoped in traffic of one way medieval streets.
Don’t come, almost no one lives here because all houses were converted to air bnb, and the locals can’t afford spending their lives inside a tourist hotspot. I live here because is the only house that I got. But maybe soon I’ll be on my way.
Las Ramblas, I don’t think anything remotely local remains there, a couple of bakery shops and that’s it, eating there is like asking to be scammed with crappy food ridiculously overpriced, and every restaurant seems sketchy. At night it’s a parade of drug dealers and before covid there was a lot of prostitution.
I have never known any spaniard that has ever eaten in any of those terraces.
Well, there’s no fee to see the little mermaid in Copenhagen, but l would guess that 98% are disappointed
The entirety of Dubrovnik. People used to live in the old city, now it’s converted into an absurdly expensive burger and ice cream factory for endless hordes of mindless tourists, squeezing every cent from their wallet. Sad seeing history pimped out for quick cash.
The Little Mermaid placed in Copenhagen harbor. A tiny little boring lump of metal. Yawn.
In my country: Transnistria. You can see the same visiting any eastern European city. Ok, you can also see a lenin monument, but is it really worth the risk of being abducted by KGB?
In Romania, which is my second country- Bran castle. Depicted as Dracula’s castle, in reality has absolutely nothing to do with Dracula. Expensive as fuck, enormous queues, bad experience overall.
The Royal Mile in Edinburgh. It’s like Brigadoon and tourist dopamine had a baby.
Our beaches. In the photographs they look almost tropical with just how blue the water looks. But when you step inside it’s fucking freezing.
Copenhagen:
The Little Mermaid statue, incredible disappointing.
Nyhavn. The colorful row of houses on the harbour that everyone takes pictures of. Until like 30 years ago it was an area with historical bars and a few traditional restaurants, now it is totally overtaken by touristy standard restaurants. I dont know of any locals that actually go there anymore.
Västerlånggatan, Old Town. The whole street is filled with touristy nick knacks.
Trdelnik. It’s not even Czech but it’s fucking everywhere, overpriced, and doesn’t even taste good.
Northern lights tours. Complete scam experience since no one can guarantee when the northern lights will be visible due to a variety of factors. Yet travel agencies sell these trips as guaranteed life altering experiences being able to bask in the northern lights when 9/10 times you won’t see shit but your pocket will be just as empty
Abbey Road pedestrian crossing in London. It’s just a crossing. Traffic goes past. That’s it. No Beatles in sight!
(Also there are several other “Abbey Road”‘s across London and occasionally bewildered tourists are seen wandering around!)
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The smallest house in Wales (&GB)
http://www.thesmallesthouse.co.uk/
I only know my town but there is a spot at the city dock with some ugly red tents that sells absurdly overpriced food. A shrimp baguette there costs 250 Norwegian Kroner, cross the street and go into the grocery store and the same thing costs 75 Norwegian Kroner. Actually the whole of the touristy area is just one giant tourist trap. You won’t see a single Norwegian buy anything there.
Amsterdam in general. Theres multiple similar cities without weed, sex and drugs museums.
A lot of people will say Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, but honnestly visiting just feels special, since that specific house has A LOT of actual history that happened right there. Its not something Id visit more than once in my life, because after one time you really saw it, but its still impressive to stand on the same spots as where major Dutch history happened
I live in NL currently and I have to say Anne Frank’s house. I mean, she is not even there
Don’t take this wrong, but probably the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Incredibly tragic and important location, but horribly overcrowded with tourists, which ruins the entire premise behind it.
In recent years, they’ve been using time slots, which helps, but from what I hear, it’s still pretty crowded.
Temple Bar, a whole area of Dublin that exists solely to fleece British stag and hen parties out of their money, serving some of the most expensive pints in Ireland in soulless pubs
Barcelona. The whole city became a machine to squeeze the last drop from every tourist and expat.
Fake Mozarts selling overpriced concert tickets in Vienna.
Juliet’s house in Verona.
You’ll spend 9 euros to touch the tit of a statue and take a picture of a ordinary balcony from an ordinary courtyard. You can only stay on the balcony for a minute, then you must leave place to the next person. There’s a very long queue as well.
I would say [The Shambles](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shambles) in York. It’s pretty but always very crowded and all the shops just sell tat (typically Harry Potter themed).
[Neuschwanstein. ](https://www.neuschwanstein.de/) Thousands of real medieval castles in this country but this 150 year-old theater project is the first that comes to people’s minds when they think of one. Opened for tourism when it wasn’t even finished. Never used as an actual seat of a noble house.
Maybe not as much a tourist trap as the Welsh house, as people who visit get the Instagram pics they want and aren’t disappointed, but it still shivers my timbers.
Lots of things in London are expensive. The London eye (wheel) is a good example. But at least it’s honest.
The tuk-tuks cycle taxis are very dishonest and a complete trap.
Manneken Pis in Brussels, Belgium. But it’s free so it’s fine. Just be prepared to be underwhelmed
The Hofbräuhaus in Munich. They solely live off their name. You can get the same experience at a lower price and with better food at so many other places in the city.
Ksamil during mid July- mid August. People be reading keywords of clickbait online “Maldives of Europe” & “Albania cheap” and fall for it.
There’s way better value places or times to do it.
Super expensive stroopwafels.
Also that one gentrified super expensive poffertje shop
I don’t know if it’s the worst trap with all the bookstores that were closed down to be replaced with tourist trap bars and pubs, but the thing that really, truly, positively enrages me are te fucking tuk-tuk tours of Lisbon. I absolutely despise them.
And yes, they are ridiculously expensive and most of the time they flatout give wrong information.
Las Ramblas, specially the restaurants (Frozen paella, sub par tapas, watered sangría, all of them expesively overpriced.). A theme park for tourist with no real life in it.
Sintra, people come here for the Disney land type castles and fairytale places, then are greeted by sweaty guys trying to take them on their tuktuk and/or making them lunch at their commission restaurant.
After that ordeal, people will spend a whole afternoon trying to take pictures without other tourists on the background.
All that if they don’t commit the crime of catching and uber and spend the whole day stoped in traffic of one way medieval streets.
Don’t come, almost no one lives here because all houses were converted to air bnb, and the locals can’t afford spending their lives inside a tourist hotspot. I live here because is the only house that I got. But maybe soon I’ll be on my way.
Las Ramblas, I don’t think anything remotely local remains there, a couple of bakery shops and that’s it, eating there is like asking to be scammed with crappy food ridiculously overpriced, and every restaurant seems sketchy. At night it’s a parade of drug dealers and before covid there was a lot of prostitution.
I have never known any spaniard that has ever eaten in any of those terraces.
Well, there’s no fee to see the little mermaid in Copenhagen, but l would guess that 98% are disappointed
The entirety of Dubrovnik. People used to live in the old city, now it’s converted into an absurdly expensive burger and ice cream factory for endless hordes of mindless tourists, squeezing every cent from their wallet. Sad seeing history pimped out for quick cash.
The Little Mermaid placed in Copenhagen harbor. A tiny little boring lump of metal. Yawn.
In my country: Transnistria. You can see the same visiting any eastern European city. Ok, you can also see a lenin monument, but is it really worth the risk of being abducted by KGB?
In Romania, which is my second country- Bran castle. Depicted as Dracula’s castle, in reality has absolutely nothing to do with Dracula. Expensive as fuck, enormous queues, bad experience overall.
The Royal Mile in Edinburgh. It’s like Brigadoon and tourist dopamine had a baby.
Our beaches. In the photographs they look almost tropical with just how blue the water looks. But when you step inside it’s fucking freezing.
Copenhagen:
The Little Mermaid statue, incredible disappointing.
Nyhavn. The colorful row of houses on the harbour that everyone takes pictures of. Until like 30 years ago it was an area with historical bars and a few traditional restaurants, now it is totally overtaken by touristy standard restaurants. I dont know of any locals that actually go there anymore.
Västerlånggatan, Old Town. The whole street is filled with touristy nick knacks.
Trdelnik. It’s not even Czech but it’s fucking everywhere, overpriced, and doesn’t even taste good.
Northern lights tours. Complete scam experience since no one can guarantee when the northern lights will be visible due to a variety of factors. Yet travel agencies sell these trips as guaranteed life altering experiences being able to bask in the northern lights when 9/10 times you won’t see shit but your pocket will be just as empty
Abbey Road pedestrian crossing in London. It’s just a crossing. Traffic goes past. That’s it. No Beatles in sight!
(Also there are several other “Abbey Road”‘s across London and occasionally bewildered tourists are seen wandering around!)