Worst tourist trap/attraction you've been sucked into?

[Duck Rodgers]

The Subway topic reminded me of mine because it's a people mover too. It's called the Bund Tunnel in Shanghai:

You pay 7 or 8 bucks, pack into that little people mover and are assaulted with by moving lights(with bizarre light outages on the panels everywhere making it seem cheap and rundown which adds to the madness) and the corniest narrative ever blasting through the speakers. I think it's only 5 minutes, but it doesn't end soon enough. Hell on Earth. Worse than It's a Small World.

You? Can be anything. Doesn't have be something you payed to do, just at least spent a little time at. Could be UGLI sitting in LES watching The Beach Boys/Little 10 year girls tumbling around at Stadium of Fire. Could be a Moab outdoor adventure. Times Square(or the 100 other "Times Squares" around the world that seem to be universally hated by the locals). Giza Pyramids. Anything.

 

[Hartsock]

Fishing on a cruise in the Bahamas. Paid like $50 a person to stand in the water and get our hook caught on the rocks every single cast. Didn't catch anything, didn't see anyone else catch anything. A bunch of BS.

 

[franklin]

Tijuana.

 

[candrew]

The Alamo - San Antonio Texas.

Basically nothing more than the oldest garage in the South.

 

[Stoked]

My ex wife. Hundreds a month for 18 years.

 

[jimmy eat jazz]

The Alamo - San Antonio Texas.

Basically nothing more than the oldest garage in the South.

While I was disappointed in the Alamo because so little of it was left (basically just the chapel and some barracks), it was, nonetheless, an interesting historical sight. I learned a lot about the local history when I was there and overall enjoyed it.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Tijuana.

That you actually called it by its name and not "TJ" is heroic in my eyes. Thank you sir.

 

[Scat]

A "booze cruise" in Honolulu. Pay an exorbitant amount of money to ride around the harbor for 2 hours, waiting 20 minutes for a watered down drink and not getting plastered. Oh, and there were none of the hot, scantily clothed women present throwing themselves at you as shown on their flyer. There were however lots of guys that looked like a modern day Ron Jeremy hitting on every middle aged, single woman present. I'm sure some guy got lucky... if you could call it that.

I was only 19 so I don't feel too bad. I'd never do it again however and I'd never recommend it.

 

[Revolution 9]

Dino World in Kentucky

 

[One Brow]

Pigeon Forge, Tennesse. This was pre-Dollywood.

 

[Jazz Spazz]

Jazzfanz

 

[MoreFeasts]

Lots of bad memories going to the beach.... sand in every orifice, worrying about where to hide your stuff when you are in the water, swallowing salt water , sunburns, hot, sweaty, sticky, hours of traffic getting there and back, and let's face it, the ocean is basically the toilet for 7 billion people.

 

[Stifle Tower]

Salt Lake and Park City during Thanksgiving week.
Everything is CLOSED!
My daughter and I spent last Thanksgiving in Utah. Olympic Village in Park City: "open" but no athletes training; tour bus runs, but not the complete circuit. Took us to the top of the bobsled run. Big deal.
Hoogle Zoo: a ton of exhibits shut down. Heritage Park: closed except for the museum and Brigham Young's house. Next time I head to Utah, maybe I'll just stop in St. George and knock on PKM's door!

 

[UGLI baby]

Salt Lake and Park City during Thanksgiving week.
Everything is CLOSED!
My daughter and I spent last Thanksgiving in Utah. Olympic Village in Park City: "open" but no athletes training; tour bus runs, but not the complete circuit. Took us to the top of the bobsled run. Big deal.
Hoogle Zoo: a ton of exhibits shut down. Heritage Park: closed except for the museum and Brigham Young's house. Next time I head to Utah, maybe I'll just stop in St. George and knock on PKM's door!

Where you live Mo?

 

[Chris-L]

STG>SLC. not even close.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Pigeon Forge, Tennesse. This was pre-Dollywood.

didn't think anyone here would know this, this.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Another one:

La Bufadora in Ensanada, Mexico. 20 or 30 miles outside of the city, then once you park you have to walk this long tourist trap street to get that geyser spot:

Full of beggers and fake Rolex dealers and whatnot. It's actually not too bad when you're in the moment sucking up the food vendors' vapors, haggling with the shops, etc.....but since you were just driving...thinking you were getting away from that kind of stuff and heading to the boonies a bit...you're kind of bummed when you realize the city came along for the trip.

 

[One Brow]

didn't think anyone here would know this, this.

That was the year of the Knoxville World's Fair. Has Dollywood improved the city at all?

 

[Dr. Jones]

That was the year of the Knoxville World's Fair. Has Dollywood improved the city at all?

Just more contrived. I hate a town that is 'created' with little to no respect toward how nature had intended. There was ZERO organic growth to Pigeon Forge.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Salt Lake and Park City during Thanksgiving week.
Everything is CLOSED!
My daughter and I spent last Thanksgiving in Utah. Olympic Village in Park City: "open" but no athletes training; tour bus runs, but not the complete circuit. Took us to the top of the bobsled run. Big deal.
Hoogle Zoo: a ton of exhibits shut down. Heritage Park: closed except for the museum and Brigham Young's house. Next time I head to Utah, maybe I'll just stop in St. George and knock on PKM's door!

When stuff is closed isn't it your fault for not looking up stuff to see what was happening? Unless they falsely advertised I don't think this qualifies as a tourist trap.