Worst Reviews of Scottish Landmarks

[cessna152towser]

Pulled together by Buzzfeed from Trip Advisor.
Some are very muchg tongue in cheek and quite funny, although sadly #7 Edinburgh Castle and #9 Edinburgh's Royal Mile are very close to the truth.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/hilarywardle...ces#.cdn7nw8GM

[Jock Scot]

I am afraid that "Tourist Board hype" is coming back to haunt us all in Scotland. I am not in the least bit surprised at the comments and of course those are not everyone's view, but------. Please don't mis-understand me, I am very proud of much of Scotland and it does have much to offer the visitor and without a doubt it is a very beautiful place. However, Scotland has become an over-sold, over-priced disappointment for many which is sadly the inevitable result of cynical mis-selling for well over a century. I have been hearing mutterings from visitors in this vein for too many years now, to be surprised.

[sailortats]

After looking at all those beautiful pictures, ruined by adding the comments in the middle of them, I must say that I totally disagree with each and every comment.

[neloon]

The readers' comments put things in a better perspective.
Alan

[Geoff Withnell]

Some of the comments say more about the commenters than the sites.

[Richrail]

I think people have forgotten or never learned to take in the history or beauty of places. I believe that is because today's society wants constant stimulation and to be entertained. I live in Nevada a high desert, but people hear "Nevada" and they think Las Vegas. They never get out and explore the desert and learn to appreciate it. There are ghost towns, The ruins of Fort Churchill along the Pony Express trail, Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I believe travelling is a great learning and teaching experience.

[Peter Crowe]

You're making me a little homesick there, Father Bill. My Grandpa kept a wooden yacht (sailboat) called the Mairi Bhan on Loch Lomond when I was a boy and we often ate at the Inchmurrin Hotel. One summer when I was eight or nine we camped for weeks on Inchmoan (another of the islands), going home on the odd weekend to clean clothes and resupply. All within 25 miles of where I grew up.

[MacCathail]

Read the right way, there are some very useful descriptions given there. The tone is derogatory but what is often being described in fact is something in pristine condition without the unfortunate load of plastic "amenities" so many places have been defaced with. (And not just in Scotland, either.)

But some other comments say more about the commenter's powers of comprehension than they do about the landmarks. They went to see standing stones, a ruin, a mountain, and a lake and they complain because when they got there it turned out to be standing stones, a ruin, a mountain, and a lake. And they were disappointed. Can't help wondering what they were expecting.


"What were you expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sidney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeests sweeping majestically . . . . ?" -- Basil Fawlty https://youtu.be/tcliR8kAbzc

Cheers,

-John-

[The Wizard of BC]

WHAT!, Now wait just one minute. Your telling me that there is no restaurant at the top? Why would anyone climb up a hill but to sip a Starbucks frappe latte while looking out the windows at all the silly people who are still climbing to get where you already are?

Any do you really mean to tell me that I can't get a t-shirt with those silly stones on it to take home to my grandkids so they will know where their inheritance just went?

And I'm totally shocked that they would let all those castles just go like that. My computer showed castles with wooden beams and tapestries and the those people in the funny hats serving those really good turkey legs things. Don't those people have any pride in showing us their heritage? Not one person was there the greet me with a hearty "Well Met", and there was not one jousting tournament. I guess all the local yokals want to do is sit at home and watch their two channels of TV.
You would think that the least they could do is go down to Home Depot and get some cement to put the rocks back, and roll a can of paint on them to make us feel more welcome.

And that valley, what was up with that? Not a single bagpiper playing Amazing Grace or guy in a kilt with that long hairy thing in the front. Haven't those people ever thought of putting a sound system up on those hills? That would look and sound so cool on my new phone.

Well at least we finally made it to our hotel. I was able to score a kilt from that shop in Edinburgh just before our flight left. Only $30.00. That will look really nice on my wall next to my Gordie Hull memorial Hockey Jersey.

[MNlad]

Mt. Everest: Too steep . . . too cold . . . air is too thin . . . Sherpas charge a bloody fortune . . . and when you get to the top all you see are more damn mountains. What a waste.

For some folks, expectations can never be met.