• Welcome! The TrekBBS is the number one place to chat about Star Trek with like-minded fans.
    If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

What's the most overrated and annoying attraction where you live?

trekkiedane

trekkiedane

Admiral
Admiral
Do you live near a theme park, a museum of curiosities, some ancient ruins, a public beach or any other so-called attraction?

Is it overrated: just another example of it's kind, has no exceptional exhibits, wouldn't it be mentioned in even a ten-volume history of the world, is it only of interest to the locals?

Is it annoying: do convoys of buses leave hordes of tourists to roam your neighbourhood streets, is it noisy or smelly?


In my case it's the Hans Christian Andersen Museum

Sure it does have the poet's trademark hat on display and he did live part of his childhood in part of what is now a museum (the little yellow corner-house in the image).

It only holds local interest and is mostly visited by school children and hordes of tourists whose buses leave to roam the streets for a couple of hours per load, sometimes making it almost impossible to go to the shops without appearing in hundreds of holiday snapshots :rommie:

HCAshus-forr.jpg

The empty street makes me believe this photo was taken very early in the morning.​
 
All the tourists who stop me in town for directions during the peak seasons always want to know how to get to "the lighthouse", which is at the tip of the peninsula and, for some reason, wildly popular with the tourists. I went there on a school outing once. It was boring, and we spent half the time ripping ice plant out of ground (it was called a lesson in the dangers of non-native and invasive species, but we all concurred it was really a loophole in the child labor laws). I may be a bit biased, but I hate that place, regardless of its historical significance, and don't get its popularity one bit. Oh well.
 
My entire city (Oxford) is one massive tourist attraction and often full of visitors. I don't think it's an overrated city, but then again, I like living here so I'm biased. Visitors naturally visit the more famous attractions (which are worth visiting too) and miss out on some of the more subtle pleasures, but that's good since those places stay less crowded.

The tourists are an especial nuisance in height of summer, due to their sheer numbers clogging up the streets, dawdling & not looking where they're going. They're made all the more noticeable because they're significantly less attractive than the students they've replaced in the city during those months.

But they bring a lot of money into the local economy, and one learns to benevolently point them in the right direction when asked. So on balance, I can't complain.
 
The nearest attraction to me would probably be the British museum, although I don't find it annoying or over-rated at all. It's an astonishing place. I have been about a half dozen times, if not more, and yet I've still not seen most of what's there.
 
An Officer said:
The nearest attraction to me would probably be the British museum, although I don't find it annoying or over-rated at all. It's an astonishing place. I have been about a half dozen times, if not more, and yet I've still not seen most of what's there.
Click to expand...

Entirely different kind of attraction there :rommie: :rommie: :rommie:
 
The Canadian Museum of Civilization. It's kind of neat, I suppose, but it seems to generate a ton of praise while being far from the best museum in the city. I don't understand it.
 
I really can't think of any off the top of my head. Oregon is a big state with a small population so most of our "attractions" are works of nature and it's pretty difficult to find fault with those.
 
King's Island.

When it was Paramount King's Island, with the Star Trek on Ice and the simulators and the history of Star Trek walkway, it was awesome. In the past couple of years it's become more of a run of the mill theme park, but it is constantly crowded, and there are always people passing near who stop and ask us where the theme park is. I wonder how they miss it, considering you can see the Eiffel Tower from 20 miles away, but hey. It happens.

J.
 
There are a lot of attractions around me now that I think about it, but I think that most of them aren't really overrated. A few of them are one-time-only things though...like once you go on a Jelly Belly factory tour or spend a day in Old Sacramento, there's not really any reason to go back again. Which is why I haven't done those things in quite a while even though I've always lived near them. I work very close to the state capital and I see lots of people visit there, but mostly they are protesters of some sort. I think that's kind of overrated because after being intimately connected to the state government for a while now I've seen just how useless it turns out to be. I think that writing letters to congressmen/women is more effective.

I still visit the capital building occasionally myself though, even ended up seeing the Governator last time I was there as he was walking to his office.
 
Anything to do with the Univeristy of Texas (namely their football team), and the Bob Bullock "Museum," which is actually an exhibit hall. :rolleyes:
 
I never go to them to find out how overrated they are.

Cedar Point is probably overrated, unless you like rollar coasters...I can't say...as I don't like roller coasters.
 
RIM, the manufacturer of the Blackberry, is here.

I mean, I appreciate what having them here has done and can do for the area, but man, I am sick of that logo and the fact that everyone seems to work there or know someone who does.

It's like Cypress Creek and the Globex Corporation.
 
PKTrekGirl said:
The Coke Museum (as in, Coca Cola)

What an adventure into snoresville THAT is. :lol:
Click to expand...

This.

Whenever my girlfriend's family visits us, they always want to do all the tourist things. In this fashion, I've become pretty familiar with the different sites in Memphis. The Coke Museum is one of the most boring.

I also think Beale Street is a bit overrated. It's a lot of fun, but it's nothing more than a row of bars. I like going there sometimes, but I see people who travel hours to hang out there, and it's just not worth all that fuss.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
If you are not already a member then please register an account and join in the discussion!

Sign up / Register


Back
Top