Most Overrated Vacation Spot/Resort/City

[maveric]

Palm Springs CA. Hot, and Hotter. I was there once and it was 114 degrees! There's not much to do there if you dont enjoy playing golf in 114 degree heat! And dont give me that dry heat line! 114 is 114!

[chelsea0011]

1. Cape Cod

Traffic, crowded, awful food, and dirty. What fun.

[swag]

2. I agree.

Palm Springs sucks. Is shit boring. A bunch of rich old boring golfing fucks taking breaks from smearing cooling jellies on their own sadly chafing rims.

But PS is near Joshua Tree and 29 Palms, both worth looking into (for vastly disparate reasons).

My own nominee: Las Vegas such rubber donkey dicks.

[xray s]

3. Vegas

The definition of American excess

[Zomby Woof]

4. Virginia Beach, VA

My gawd, what a freeper/fundie armpit (home of Pat Robertson, the ACLJ, and the 700 Club). Unbearably humid and hot in the summer; thin, eroded beaches, stupid tourists, and just plain shitty and dirty.

Lived there for over 12 years, so I don't want hear any whiny posts about far off the mark I am. THE PLACE SUCKS.

But fuck Virginia in general.

[billbuckhead]

6. Virginia Beach I was only ever there once and it did suck

Even Erie was nicer.

[DemBones DemBones]

10. DId you go to high school in VB? I mean, you were

there 12 years. . .

[Zomby Woof]

12. Green Run, Class of '85

[DemBones DemBones]

18. Aw, you're just a young Woof.

I went to Cox, a lonnnngg time ago. I didn't like Va. Beach much, either, though it probably got worse (i.e., it wasn't THAT bad when I was there; never heard of Pat Robertson back then.) I think Cox and PA were the only high schools when I was there.

[Zomby Woof]

22. My sister graduated PA

I didn't live there in one block of time. I started in 1972, and ended in the very late 80's.

My high school was the 7th and newest one at the time. There are 9 now.

One thing that was probably the same: The place is BORING. Flat and ugly. What can one say about a town that celebrates its landfill as the highest altitude in the city?

[DemBones DemBones]

29. Didn't live there in one block of time, hmm? Are you

a Navy brat, too? We were in Norfolk once, Portsmouth once, Virginia Beach once.

I don't remember the landfill, may have been built later. I remember the Dome, the boardwalk, that sort of thing.

[Zomby Woof]

32. Yep, Navy brat

The landfill became a park called Mt. Trashmore. The only place to sled in the winter.

Norfolk... ugh! I went to college my first 3 years at ODU.

Had surgery in the Portsmouth Naval Hospital when I was 6.

I remember the Dome, and the Boardwalk is still there.

Remember Pungo? Locals used to think the t-shirt with the traffic light that said "Downtown Pungo" was cute and funny.

I couldn't get out of there fast enough.

[DemBones DemBones]

34. Twilight Zone time. . . I had surgery at Portsmouth Naval Hospital

when I was 7. . . It seems to me I took the ACT at ODU (and the SAT at PA) and also spent a lot of time in the Old Dominion library doing research for my senior English term paper and world lit term paper.

But I don't remember Pungo. :shrug:

[Zomby Woof]

35. If you go down Princess Anne Road

Far south enough, you enter Pungo, which is a locale within Va Beach. Farmland, mostly. Although by now it is probably strip malls like the rest of the place. :shudder:

[DemBones DemBones]

40. Kind of like Poetry, GA. Or Philomath, GA,

immortalized by REM.

[driver8]

54. Pungo has a "strawberry festival" every year, don't they?

I seem to remember going to it one year.

[driver8]

53. Mt. Trashmore, right?

I drove by that "hill" many, many times.

[driver8]

52. Green Run?

Do you know Sean Bourgeois or his sister, April?

I lived in Va. Beach for 3 years...Sean was my roommate.

[Zomby Woof]

55. No, didn't know them

I found April in my senior yearbook... same graduating class. Didn't know her though, face does not look familiar.

There were over 2,000 students (largest public high school in the state at the time), and homerooms were arranged alphabetically.

[Jara sang]

14. Hey!!!! I was born and raised in Virginia Beach!

...and I agree with you whole heartedly.

[Catchawave]

21. I live in VB and I agree....

...nice place to live, but we go to the Outer Banks for the BEACH :)

[Zomby Woof]

25. I used to surf the Outer Banks near Hatteras

Quit after I got caught in a riptide and nearly drowned. Lucky for me, I watched late night TV as a teen and knew from the PSA's to swim parellel to the shore. :-)

[davsand]

5. Las Vegas, Baby!

One of the biggest ripoff places on the planet. Also one of the most visually crass cities in existence.


Laura

[devilgrrl]

50. Oh! You got that right!

It's the Mall of America with slot machines. Sorry Vegas fans. :-(

[flvegan]

7. Disney in Orlando.

I hope you like traffic, ignorant cops, overpriced everything, long lines...

The clubs and everything else in Orlando is cool though. Just that damn Disney!

[maveric]

30. I was never so hot in my life than at Disneyworld Orlando.

It was about 97 degrees and 100% humidity.
MISERABLE!

[smbolisnch]

39. Me too....last summer.

I thought I would die in that heat.....

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

8. Myrtle Beach!

Everyone goes there, and if you have the same vacation time as every other student in your town... then you're not really escaping anything.

[Zomby Woof]

13. Trust me

I was just in Myrtle Beach in April, and no matter how you slice it, it is STILL 1,000,000 times better than Virginia Beach, if only for the cleaner, bigger beaches, palm trees, and the fact that it isn't infested with the presence of Pat Robertson.

[Tsiyu]

17. I will grant you, Pawley's Island is cool

cuz they have those little plankton that glow when you walk on them. But I had an absolutely horrid time in Myrtle not once, but twice.

Atalaya is awesome, though, and I really didn't see EVERYTHING so i will not say the mean, ugly things I was going to say about Myrtle Beach.....:hi: only cuz it's you, Zomb......

[Zomby Woof]

23. I am speaking relatively

That is, in comparison to Virginia Beach, Myrtle Beach is fine.

This is about overrated places, and I think Myrtle Beach receives its fair share of like and dislike in proportion to its popularity.

California beaches kick the entire mainland US's ass.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

48. I have a student from Pawley's. He loves it.

Myrtle beach used to be a decent place to go about 25+ years ago and then only if you were young.

[Pool Hall Ace]

28. Oh yeah, I agree

Craptastic gift shops, tacky miniature golf parks, tatoo parlors & body piercing on every freakin' block.

[dbonds]

9. Orlando

I lived there for 7 years. Hot with 100% humidity. You walk outside and feel like you have been slapped in the face with a hot steamy cloth. And you are instantly soaking wet. When you get a bit away from the parks and out you realize it is all built on swamp, and the land stinks like it. There are a few good rides in the parks but they are mostly just ways to seperate you from your money. If you are poor, Orlando is not for you.

[Texasgal]

11. Cozumel.

Nothing "native" about it. Too Americanized....too damn hot and too damn expensive.

[Lindsey]

15. Palm Springs in the Fall and Spring is wonderful (IMHO)

However, I totally agree with you about the summers - OMG it's miserable.

[maveric]

20. What is there to do there? If you dont golf....

When I was there it was 114. We were having lunch at a restaurant. The table next to us were three Euro's, speaking German, having lunch and cocktails. When paying my check at the counter they announced on the speaker that the owner of the black mercedes plate # ***** please go out to your car. The Euros ran out to the lot where the cops were there. Apparently they left their two pit bulls in the car with the windows rolled up, no water, in the sun-baked parking lot! We were leaving and saw that the dogs were dead, slow roasted, and the driver was being cuffed and arrested.
A very depressing scene.

[yellowdogintexas]

42. you should have stayed at Alicia's Bed and Breakfast!

$35 a night for 3 with full breakfast every morning. Wonderful family feel, great evening and morning get togethers on the patio with the other guests, a dog to pet and delicious food.

Deep in town, not on the beach. Worth taking a taxi to the places we wanted to go. Would stay there again in a heartbeat.


not to mention the east side of the island

[njdemocrat106]

16. The Southern Jersey Shore

Pretty much all of Cape May County (Cape May, Wildwood, Ocean City, Sea Isle City). The traffic is awful, everything is overpriced, not much to do if you're not a beach goer. I also have a theory that the further south you go in New Jersey, the worse the food and restaurant service gets.

[Aristus]

19. The Cayman Islands.

If you're not there for the diving, snorkelling or banking, it's boring. :boring:

[Canadian Socialist]

24. Banff

too commercial and expensive. They've ruined a beautiful natural setting with all the building. Thank god they've put a moratorium on further development.

[obxhead]

26. VB takes it for me

spend 2 extra hours drivin to see the obx. :)

[maveric]

27. Disneyland Anaheim is lame too.

Bad traffic, cheesy motels with pretentious looking facades and a decaying theme park with the same old shit and terrible food! Well the Monte Cristo sandwiches at the "Blue Lagoon"(Pirates of the Carribean) are awesome.
Moonwalk burgers and dry chicken patty sandwiches are really bad.

[Skinner]

31. Key West.

T-shirt shops and chain restaurants. No beach. And the key lime pie isn't even as good as the stuff I can buy here in DC.

[yellowdogintexas]

43. but from Key West you can take the catamaran to

the Dry Tortugas...which was a blast.

Admittedly, we did not stay in Key West when we went to the Keys..we stayed on Grassy Key in a modest little mom and pop place. But went down to Key West, toured Hemingway's house (full of cats), did the kitchsy tourist thing, ate fish and spent the rest of the week snorkeling and hunting down cool little places to eat

[DS1]

33. Disney In California

Holy shit it sucks

[Lindsey]

37. I agree, Disneyland really does suck -

I do not for the life of me see the appeal.

[Scout1071]

36. Cancun.

Cheezy. Filled with Home Depot, Office Max, Papa John's, Sam's, Wal-Mart and all the comforts of home. Might as save myself $1000 and visit Florida. I get to speak Spanish there too!

[bertha katzenengel]

38. Ocean City MD. It's great if you like narrow, overcrowded ATLANTIC

beaches (which, for a lifelong beach bum, SUCK), or nonstop drinking and clubbing, or a cheesy little sucky boardwalk, or being crammed into three million cheap motels with ten times as many other humans trying to eke a real vacation out of the only thing you think is available to you.

People who go to Ocean City and think it's all that: Try the Outer Banks. OFF-season.

[no_hypocrisy]

41. "The Hamptons" hands down.

All you can do there is shop, go to the beach, and then go to a restaurant.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

44. It's NYC with a nice beach

crowded, overpriced, snooty.

[Left Is Write]

45. When people say to me, "But it's a dry heat!"

I say, so is the inside of an oven, but I don't want to spend time there either.

[pfitz59]

46. Branson MO

Nash-vegas
etc etc

[XNASA]

47. The Wisconsin Dells

[ovidsen]

51. I'll second that

The Dells are fun if you're a little kid, but otherwise it's just a bad water park run amuk. And the water's cold to boot.

[sasquatch]

49. Crawford, Texas

Yeah the Saudi Royal failies like it and they say it's an awesome place to score an 8-ball of Coke, but there's just too many religious fundamentalist and too much heat for my liking.
:silly:

[leftofthedial]

56. Aruba