Madrid. Everyone there were complete assholes and I got sick from drinking the water.

Dublin. Thought it would be full of beer and fun friendly Irish. Instead, it's a dirty shithole. And it rains every day.

The goddamn space needle in Seattle.
I remember driving north on the 5, once you round this bend the city comes into view... and I'm like "where the fuck is the space needle?" it's fucking tiny compared to all the other buildings in the city, every single one of those bullshit photos you see with the Space Needle towering over the city is a fucking LIE!

>>357605


>implying Seattle has a COMPLETELY level landscape

WAfag here.

Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco. Ages and ages to get there and then it was smaller than than the bridge in my home town. The bay bridge was better.

Vegas sucks bawlz

>>357584
I could have told you that before you came here, bro.

I hate London. So depressing. Too big. Too expensive.

Rome, worst people in the world

Italy, as a whole country, was disappointing.

>>357584
lol american stereotypes

Vegas really is a shithole. Glad I got it out of my system
while I was in the area rather than making a special trip.

>>357622
ELABORATE

>>357667
Vegas is fun if you are passing through, but there is no way I am booking airfare, hotels, etc for slot machines I can play at Foxwoods. I mean the Grandcanyon is right next door and you are going to sit in a shithole with retirees playing mahjong or some shit like that.

If you are between 21 to 39 and spend your time on slot machines in Vegas, you have failed. Vegas is all about trying to get laid by the dumb cattle that congregate there. Hell, I've even seen people in their 40s, maybe 50s, score with 20 somethings over there.

>>357667

You're right on the money with that, outside the Vegas strip the rest of the city is a complete shit hole and there's jack shit to do. What's worst is that I actually live here :(

Vegas does suck big dicks. Fucking hate that place. It used to be cheap - cheap hotels, cheap prime rib. Now it is an expensive, plastic tourist trap with nothing worth doing.

Hey, if you go there with your boys, booze it up and pretend to be high rollers and pick up girls you can have fun. If you're 21, hit it up, go to clubs, fuck some random chick in the bathroom.

Otherwise, it sucks ass.

I was disappointed with London as well.

>>357584

>fun friendly Irish

I don't think you know the Irish very well. As was normal for most of our history, the economy is fucked and everyone attempts to drink enough quickly enough to incapacitate themselves before they lash out and hurt someone at that middle-drunk stage.

Volubilis, Morocco

I never go to places with expectations.
Most of the times I dont even know where the fuck I am or going to.

Most of Egypt. And I'm only saying "most of" to be fair to the parts that surely must not have been a letdown that I can't remember right now.

If you thought Big Ben was really that big, how big did you think the London Eye was?

Whatever, it's still one of the tallest clock towers in the world and the attention to detail on the building is amazing. Best to see it all at night when it's lit up, along with many other landmarks along the Thames.

>>357857
>>357622
Faggots in this itt thread.

Worst was probably Jamaica. It was a spur of the moment thing I didn't put any thought into, my friend just found a deal and I was like fuck it, might as well go I'm just out of high school and have nothing else going on.

The resort was fun and the people working there were cool, but you can't really go anywhere outside unless you feel like being robbed. Would've been better if I spent 3-4 days there, not a whole week.

Halong bay in vietnam pretty much everywhere in south east asia is better.
Vietnam as a whole wasnt very good compared to the rest of Asia and the poeple wouldn't fkn leave you alone

El Sobrante. I thought it was going to be great, maybe stop by the casino and eat at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles and it's named after my friend Al Sobrante. Then I find out that Roscoe's is in Oakland and that Roscoe's rip-offed their name from the LA Roscoe's.

Find out Al doesn't even live there. Fuck El Sobrante.

England was a huge disappointment. I thought I would go there and meet a couple cool Brits and whatnot but I was swarmed by Pakis, plus there is nothing to do there.

Ukraine.
Shittiest country on earth.

>>358102

If you stay in any resort, anywhere it will be the exact same experience the only thing that differentiates on resort from another is the climate in which is resides.

You have to grow a pair of testicles leave the resort and experience the real country where the locals live if you want to experience anything at all.

>>357564

THIS!

>Thought Mexico would be fun.
>Went to Tijuana.
>'Nuff said.

Anyone have any experiences with Japan, good or bad? I speak enough to get by with the general public, I'd just like to know what I'm in for by going alone for about a week.

>>358170

If you're white, male, and American, you're a god there. But if you look like you're military they won't let you into some bars/brothels. Go for the really sleazy looking ramen shops, those are the best, no ultra-clean shit. Spend your time mostly in the Kansai region (Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto). Try an onsen and all that other stuff.

>>358172
I'm Canadian, however, I'm young (not 19 until December). Would it be worthwhile to try to obtain a fake ID before my trip? I'm a smoker, and would like to be able to pick up cigarettes while in Japan, but legal age is 20 there. :/

Egypt


/thread

>>358172
have you even been to Japan?

>>358180
No, I haven't. I have friends I've met who are from Japan (Miyazaki, Tokyo, Yokohama) who have been asking me to come visit. I also just graduated, so my parents were kind enough to foot the bill for my trip too, so I'm really not losing anything.

England.
We saw all the basic stuff.
The palace is so ugly. The gates look like they painted them gold with cheap home depot paint.
and yeah big ben wasn't very impressive either.
All in all a very meh trip.

London

I'm a Northern Englishman, went to London & expected great things considering how talked about it always is & how much Londoners brag.
But Jesus Christ it was shit, I should have just stayed on Merseyside & had a day trip to Liverpool, Chester or Manchester.

I dont want to sound sappy
or gay
or lame
or anything
but

any place is nice when im with my girlfriend.

Manila

There was some good shopping there, but the city wasn't too enjoyable. Everyone I met seemed to only care about money.

>>358176
Nobody fucking cares about shit like that in the rest of the world

where do i find blank pics of this wolf so i can make half assed OC?

>>358161

I've done that in other places. But Jamaica was just a shithole outside of the resort with nothing to offer.

>>358228

you sappy gay lame anything.

>>358232

truth.

I went to japan when i was 18 and was never once carded at bars

>>358228
Then why bother traveling?

Anyone that says London only has themselves to blame for going to the wrong places.

Fair play to OP for being specific and saying Big Ben, but all these people just saying countries or cities in general are just bad travellers.

>>358228
Good man/lesbian. I'm the same.

>>358226

a true northerner comparing merseyside to London i mean what the shit

Speaking of which Manchester was a craphole. there was literally nothing there. Worst city in the UK

ITT: Ignorant Americans. Big Ben is the name of the bell, not the tower you dumb fucks. It's like people who think Frankenstein is the monster, when he's the fucking doctor.

Anyway, I thought the Giants causeway was a huge (or should I say small) disappointment.

Munich during Oktoberfest sucks balls....its crowded as hell and crazy expensive.

>>358176

i doubt it would be a problem to buy some there but i'd suggest to bring your own cigs anyways

>>358310
Britfag here. Shut your mouth and stop making the rest of us look bad.

Most of us don't know that Big Ben is the bell, and besides lolsemantics.

>>358310
I'm english and I didn't know that. I know that a lot of others don't know that as well.

Either I have low expectations or I just happen to find every cool place on Earth, but I can't say I've ever been anywhere that I wish I had just skipped. That includes India and Fujairah, both third world countries.

Though, I will say, don't plan on spending the night in Key West unless you are rich or don't mind sharing a non air-conditioned room with nine other dudes. I went to one motel and asked how much for the night. Asshole writes a number on a piece of paper and hands it to me. Motherfucker, I'm looking for a bed for ten hours, not an engagement ring.

Barcelona. Flew there with all these expectations and...
Nah I'm fucking with ya'll, Barcelona is great!

Never once been disappointed. I guess that's because I don't care much for looking at big buildings just because they're big.

Buckingham Palace is rubbish. However if you go there (and it is in central London so hard to miss) you've just not done your research properly. There are much better palaces in and around London (Hampton Court Palace).

Some people will always just buy into hype. After all the Great Wall of China is still just a wall.

Wawel Castle, Krakow.

London is amazing I've lived here all my life you're just looking at the shit things

>>358318
>>358321
jesus... school standards must have really slipped

Amerifag who went to London out of high school. Got tailed out of the tube by a bunch of skeezy guys who heard my accent. Spent the day having to duck in and out of shops trying to lose them. London is one of the filthier cities I've been to but it's no Philly or Detroit. Other than that had a great time. Ventured out in to the countryside and now I want a home in Bath.

>>358382
I'm sure you scored very highly on your Pointless Trivia GCSE.

>>358341
Most of the major tourist attractions are shite (actually, this is a pretty national phenomenon; I think someone already mentioned Stonehenge) but the museums are awesome and mostly free entry.

My and my wife stayed in a hotel in Devon and it was just awful. We arrived late and the chef was about to leave and we had to pay him (on top of my bill) to stay and cook a meal... but he coudn't even fix us up a waldorf salad. Not only that the orange juice was just squash.

Turns out the hotel owner let the chef go, even though I paid him so I threatened to bust his ass and paid for all his guests to stay at another hotel

/test

>>358407
I'm terribly sorry but we were all out of waldorfs that day.

>>358293

butmad

Manchester, when it was being hyped as a sort of 'london of the north' about a decade ago. Half of it was abandoned, grey and rotting, and the city centre was just depressing. there was one really good japanese restaurant though so it wasnt a total waste of a few days

>>358773

of what?!
Manchester is so dull there's nothing there.

Nice. Even in October that shit was overrun by idiot tourists with gigantic suitcases. It's also just that size where it's too big to be charming but too small to have a lot to do.

>>358236
meme generator, newfag.

>>358172

also, you may want to leave before august. Just a thought

>>357584
>>357584
>>357584
herpderp, "everything i see on tv is the truth."

San Fran and LA

ben isn't the actual tower, just the clock.

>>358373
-No nature
-Pakis/muslims, niggers, chavs...
-Bad weather (no seasons, just endless fall)
-Depressive architecture (not talking about the old stuff, suburbias and shit like that)
Etc. Sure is great.

The White House.
Finally went to see it 2 years ago. They make it look so fucking big in the movies but in real life is small as shit.

paris france, the people are rude, the city smells like fucking cigarettes and shit, and it's dirty everywhere

Barcelona. nothing of interest.

>>359611

welcome to Every Big City on Earth.

>>359580
have you even been to London?

>>359906
different guy, i live in texas but i've been to london and everything he said was true.

minorities (or should i say majorities) everywhere, mostly blacks and indians and arabs. its like spot the white person. its a crowded, dirty and expensive urban as fuck metro where you have to travel like 40 miles to find any countryside or nature. polluted, loud, high crime rates, gangs, faggoty 'chav' kids, annoying as hell accents. its just fucking digsusting. why anyone would live there is beyond me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EkxebsumAw

video (and pic) related, its set in manchester, but it sets the tone for all big cities in england.

watch it and weep.

why the fuck did you guys let the situation get so bad over there?

>>359915
oh and also shit weather most of the year.

pic related.

I don't know about the rest of you guys but I fucking love London.

>>359915

>he's never been to London and it shows

pic related

I'm in London now. It's been sunny almost every day for almost a month... I guess I've just been lucky, well in fact I know I have, but I don't get why London has this stereotype of being that bad for weather. I can't imagine it's so much worse that Paris or Berlin.

I think these people talking about no nature, gangs and 'minorities' must have just been hanging out around Leicester Square and Oxford Street.

1) Parks. London has a shit load of massive public parks. Hyde Park, Regent's Park, Victoria Park, Clapham Common... not to mention the massive forest that is Hampstead Heath or Richmond Park which is almost three times the size of Central Park and has free roaming deer inside.

2) Gangs. You get them in all cities. I'm not racist, so have had no problem going to places like Edgware Road or Brick Lane. Sure there are guys that think they are gangsters, but they wouldn't last 5 minutes in Rio or New York.

Otherwise, I go to places like Marylebone, Hampstead, Bloomsbury, Farringdon and Clerkenwell, the City, Spitalfields, Greenwich... all these areas are very nice to visit and have nice people.

If you use public transport there are some not so nice people, but that's the same with every city. I think London is very safe and you should stop worrying and being scared of other ethnicities.

>>359915
so you post a video of moss side in Manchester, one of the worst areas in the UK. Every country has 'ghettos', but these guys mostly just stay in their little bubble of 'safety' and the rest of the country doesn't give a shit.

Whenever people go on about knife crime in London in makes me rage. As far as tourists are concerned, it happens on housing estates which you would never need to visit or go anywhere near. Crime in central London is actually pretty low, you only really have to watch out for drunk people late at night, otherwise you're pretty safe if you don't do anything stupid.

>>358172

I live in Japan and you are full of shit.

>>359915
>i live in texas
>why the fuck did you guys let the situation get so bad
hypocrite much?

The reflective pool in Washington DC.

JESUS CHRIST WHY IS IT SO FUCKING DIRTY AND THERE'S GEESE SHIT ALL OVER THE PLACE.

Egypt, didnt think it would be awesome though and it fucking sucked durka dicks.

Japanfags do you like Americans?
I get the feeling the americans are obsessed with japan and japanese culture and japanese are just uninterested in America and americans

>>359947
You don't think they're obsessed with American culture?....
Not sure if troll

>>359947
Young japanese are obsessed with american culture. When krispy kreme opened, people queued for hours to get one, only to then wrap it up and put it in their bag because eating in the street is bad manners.

Older Japanese don't give a sit about America. That's why you must go to Japan within the next decade before the youth start to replace the older generation in positions of power. It all depends on whether these american obsessed young people grow up and fall into the traditions of the older generations or continue their desire to break from tradition.

The Red Light District in Amsterdam was such a tourist trap that I was immensely disappointed. It was like the same crappy souvenir shop, pot store and bar copy and pasted over a few blocks.

Not to say I hated everything though. There were some neat things though like the vodka museum and Amsterdam is otherwise a great city. But god damn tourist trap if you don't look around a bit.

>>359940
texas:

- freedom, lol at your nanny state
- sunny hot weather 90% of the year, i can wear shorts and t-shirt pretty much all year round
- clean
- not crowded at all, something like 80% of the state is uninhabited desert
- nice cheap real estate, all big detached houses for less than $200,000 (pic related)
- cheap gas
- cheap food, massive portions for little money
- safer than london
- i can walk around the suburbs i live in without seeing hoards of people in turbans and ghetto blacks, they are all in the city.
- my state alone is like twice the size of the entire uk.
- great sense of community

england(london):
- blacks, blacks everywhere
- everyone speaks in some sort of retarded ghetto slang, when i went there everyone was like "alryite fahckin mayte, owyadoin mayte fancy brla reh hurr?"
- your country has shit weather, rainy and cold most of the year with a couple of sticky humid days in the summer .... great.
- no freedom nanny state. i enjoy shooting at the range, but i would need to jump through a million hoops to own a gun in the uk, and i still wouldnt be able to buy anything cool. it seems like its an expensive niche sport that only manics, crazies and upper class hunters enjoy over there.
- everything is expensive as hell.
- london is dirty, loud and crowded. in texas, becuase everyone drives, even if you go into the middle of the city, the sidewalks are all empty, no litter, hardly any people, its clean as hell.
- knife crime, gangs (yeah i know we have that in texas cities as well, but we have laws which enable me to use deadly force to defend myself if a criminal ever attacks me, and i won't even need to go to court. in the uk if someone tries to stab you and you hit them over the head with a brick or stab or shoot them in defense, you go to jail.)

america > uk
texas > london

>>359967
continuted.

>>359969
continued.

>>359967
>cheap this, cheap that
= nothing of value

>>359970
continued.

>>359971
you just jelous that i can get a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom detatched home in a perfect neighborhood for the same price that you can get a shitty 1 bedroom appartment in london.

also, protip. gasoline is gasoline. its the same stuff in america as it is in the uk, except like 1/8th the price.

enjoy your no freedoms and expensive shit. i will enjoy having a higher standard of living than you for less money.

>perfect neighborhood
>bland cookie-cutter suburbs

oh, so you don't actually like to travel, you're just on /trv/ to troll. cool beans.

>>359973
Actually American gas is inferior to European gas. Their standard gas is the same as our premium.

>>359971
pic related, house in texas i just found on a real estate website.

261,000.00 USD = 169,079.78 GBP

ok, now i shall find a house in the uk for that same price.

oh u mad.

>>359973
you forget that everyone in London could easily move somewhere like Texas for a cheaper life, but choose to pay more to live in London to live a more fulfilling life (in their opinion).

Same goes for any major city. People choose to live there because it offers them something that the suburbs or middle of nowhere can't.

>>359976
ok, take a long hard look at that texan home, now compare it to this for the same price.

>nothing of value

yep, pretty much. lol you britfags, just give up.

>>359974
>perfect neighborhood
>bland cookie-cutter suburbs

>bland cookie-cutter suburbs

clean, safe, cheap, big houses, high standard of living .. the list goes on. leave it to travel elitists to hate the 'norm' and think they are better than it.

oh, and its not trolling if its the truth faggot. its just something you dont want to hear.

u so mad.

>>359977
>you forget that everyone in London could easily move somewhere like Texas for a cheaper life

good luck. our immigration policies are pretty tight. if you aren't a master in your field of work with qualifications up the ass, you won't get in.

>more fulfilling life

care to tell me whats so great about london and list some stuff you can do there that i can't do in texas for 1/2 the price in a clean spacious environment with nice weather?

An all-inclusive resort in Mexico...full of Canadians.

>>359976
>>359978
lol, those 2 houses cost the same? sure is inferior british round here.

inb4 samefag.

i am well aware of the fact that i was the one that posted those 2 pictures.

lone texan: 1
butthurt brifag hoard: 0

status: told

y'all take it easy, gonna go enjoy my freedoms now.

peace.

>>359978
you are such a retard

Texas is cheap because there is shitloads of land and not many people want to live there. A home comes up for sale and there aren't peope queuing up to buy it.

Lots of people want to live in the UK, even more so in London. Property prices are higher because of demand. New York propery prices are higher because of demand.

I'm happy that you enjoy living in the suburbs. But can you...
1) go to world class restaurants and eat pretty much any cuisine from around the world any night of the week?
2) go to a wide range of theatres any night of the week?
3) choose from hundreds of bars, cinemas, cafes?
4) find a shop for pretty much anything?
5) get on a train and be in other country in a matter of hours?
6) fly to a wide range of different countries for under $200 return?
7) meet tourists from all over the world who come to visit your neighbourhood?

I could go on...

>>359982

jesus christ texans are even stupider than I thought.

I could pretty much build versailles palace in Somalia if I had about $200k, doesn't mean there would be any point in doing so.

texas can suck my sweaty balls

>>359986
Not that guy and not even an Amerifag but the core of your argument seems to be that london has better attractions.

That is true, and yes, it's a great fun to visit.

I wouldn't want to actually live in that pisshole for a second, though.

>>359986
While your point is true, 5 and 6 just show how fucking retarded you are lol. Learn some geography! Texas is a fucking border state, it takes a few hours at MOST to be in Mexico. And you can easily fly to many central and Caribbean countries for a few hundred dollars round trip. Though you are totally right about there being nothing good in texas. The texasfag is still mentally incompetent.

Oh this is not the texasfag. No one wants to live in mexican over run texas. Use logic next time dumbass!

>>359986
umm, i don't think you realize what suburbs are. "sub-urban" sprawls usually surround big cities. you can enjoy a high standard of living in the suburbs and its only a short commute to the city where you can enjoy all the stuff you listed. thats what suburbs are. you have the best of both.

learn2suburbs.

also, all that shit you listed isnt exclusive to london, you can do that in any big city. only difference is, that if you do it in london, you have to do it in the rain and it costs 10 times as much.

>>359986
>3) choose from hundreds of bars, cinemas, cafes?
>4) find a shop for pretty much anything?

bitches don't know 'bout my 400 store shopping mall.

>>360003
no, we know what it is, and that picture represents hell. most people on /trv/ either like dense urban areas or rural wilderness--or both. we would say suburbia is the worst of both worlds, not the best, so why don't you kindly fuck off because nobody is going to agree with your idea of a "good community"

japan derp

>>360003

>>360003
As someone that used to commute every day from the suburbs, I can tell you that the only people suburbs are good for is the stay at home wives who don't have to commute, but still get to go and play in the city whenever they want.

>>360004
shopping malls are cancer

temple of 10000 monkeys (hong kong) - walked up a mile of steps in 100 degree weather and never saw a monkey

>>360003

The irony of that picture is that it's fucking South San Jose. Enjoy driving 45 minutes to downtown San Jose where there's what. Pawn shops, a couple of movie theaters, and a whole lot of dull bars occupied by a handful of bored SJSU students.

2 hours to drive to San Francisco and maybe find parking? Shit, that's almost as long as it takes to get from London to Paris. Of course, in London it might rain, and in Paris someone might fail to smile at you. Pic related.