Travelers of Reddit, what place did NOT live up to the hype?

1. Montego Bay, Jamaica. Everything looked like it was about to fall apart, and there was garbage everywhere. People who say they enjoy Jamaica only do because they stay in a resort. I drove by one of those resorts and it looks like a military compound from the outside.
   — cyborgratchet


2. Plymouth Rock. When we were children, we were told of the story of the first Thanksgiving and how the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. Every children's book illustration and elementary school teacher made it seem like it was a giant rock protruding out into the ocean like a lovely natural landmark. I saw the damn thing when I was 13 - My dinner table is bigger than it.
   — ProfessorGigs


3. The Bahamas, especially on a cruise. When I visited, they dropped us off in an industrial area where there were just some shops and the beach was dirty. Everyone just goes to the Señor Frog's and gets drunk. You're pressured to buy trinkets and shit you don't want. There are a lot of con artists looking for money from cruise passengers; we had one follow us around asking for a "donation for the school" which was surely bullshit. But it just makes you feel bad, because you're surrounded by poor people, and most people who go on cruises are not that rich. It's actually one of the cheaper vacations you can take, but the people who live on the island see a big boat of Americans and automatically assume their pockets are fat.
   — catching_signals






4. Los Angeles - more specifically, Hollywood. What a fucking pit.
   — Mace55555


5. At first, Los Angeles. Virtually every city I've ever traveled to has been a place bustling with enough life and vibrancy that you can simply step out of your hotel and walk around, getting sucked into the city life like a moth to a flame. Los Angeles is a terribly, terribly unforgiving place to a tourist hoping for this kind of experience. The pedestrian infrastructure is downright dismal. The architecture and urban design and infrastructure are horribly unattractive, cold, and poorly maintained. Public transit is horribly lacking as well. The buses go everywhere and are frequent but take like 5x as long as driving. The trains only go a fraction of places you'd want to see, and using them to get from place to place only works in the most esoteric of circumstances. So driving or Uber/Lyft it is - and as a result, you'll need to know exactly where you're going and when if you want to see interesting things. Hollywood is a bad neighborhood full of litter, malls, and homeless people. Santa Monica is like a really cheezy reality TV show come to life, but again, with lots of homeless people. Downtown has interesting businesses in some areas but doesn't hold a candle to downtowns in other major cities. And again...droves of homeless people. After several visits to Los Angeles for various reasons, typically things like weddings, I slowly learned that in order to experience Los Angeles, you _MUST_ know someone who lives there already and is well connected to interesting communities. Because everyone who lives there spends nearly 100% of their life moving from private place to private place in a private car, the social scene in LA is _extremely_ insulated. Strangers don't meet each other. It's like high school cliques if they were extrapolated onto an entire city. As a result, you need to meet someone who's in the right clique. If you do, then you might discover that Los Angeles is indeed a major cultural mecca. Your friend will take you to a shitty-looking taco truck in a dangerous neighborhood and show you the best tacos you've ever had. (S)he'll take you to a nondescript warehouse with no signage and you'll go inside and find an underground punk rock concert or dance party. (S)he'll take you to a strip mall in the suburbs where, next to a nail salon, you'll find the best Pho or Ramen you've ever tasted. (S)he'll take you to a record store hidden behind a Wal-Mart where a world-renowned photographer is hosting a secret gallery. If you find that side of Los Angeles, it's one of the greatest cities on Earth. But you will _never_ find that part of Los Angeles as a disconneted tourist. It's not like San Francisco or New York where the chaos of the city swirls around you and sucks you in. It's unlike any other city I've ever visited in that regard. And in that sense, if you're visiting as an uniformed tourist with a camera around your neck and a city map in your rucksack, you will be _sorely_ disappointed.
   — 4152510


6. The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia is the most disappointing thing I've ever been forced to travel to.
   — HernandoB






7. Memphis, TN. I went for the blues music and southern food. Crime ridden, shithole of a city. It was very disappointing.
   — good_at_life


8. I had a stupidly bad time in India - I went there for work at some oil refineries around Dehli (all within 10 hours by car, so like 40 miles). - Piles of Trash with Kids and Cows living in them. - The Taj Majal was full of rich indian people climbing all over the monuments to get selfies. We then got chased out after my coworker Oleg saw someone beating people with bamboo sticks and decided to join in. - Everywhere I went assholes would try to shake me down for tips, like I would wash my hands and someone would try to turn off the sink and demand I tip. I soon became an asshole to them! - My business partner was an ass and would go to the back of the restaurants and scream at the staff about too many spices. Old Oleg had to eat nothing but white rice by the end of the trip. - My hotel was next to a river full of trash and dead bodies. Outside of the hotel was a giant pile of dead dogs that were piled up, it looked like photos from WW2 but with dogs instead of humans.... - My other hotel had a pissed off monkey that would bang on my window at 5 in the morning. The good is that I got to stay at some bad ass hotels in Delhi, and I got deported. I also caught a tape worm that made me obsessed with eat chipotle when I got home, and lost like 60 pounds until we killed it.
   — ooo-ooo-oooyea