{"id":100323,"date":"2025-07-28T21:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T21:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100323\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T21:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T21:05:10","slug":"famed-nyc-neighborhood-one-of-worlds-worst-tourist-traps-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100323\/","title":{"rendered":"Famed NYC neighborhood one of world’s worst tourist traps: poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Times Square is in a time out. <\/p>\n

NYC\u2019s Crossroads of The World sits close to the top of a new naughty list that aims to shame the globe\u2019s worst tourist traps \u2014\u00a0with just two other spots ahead of the infamous intersection.<\/p>\n

According to a new poll conducted by Nomad, an eSim provider popular among travelers, the Big Apple\u2019s beating heart is simply too crowded, expensive and underwhelming to actually enjoy.<\/p>\n

Times Square fared poorly in a worldwide poll of the worst tourist traps. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

To compile the list, the data dealer sifted through thousands of online reviews of tourist attractions, filtering for mentions of \u2018tourist traps\u2019 by real travelers for the world\u2019s top 50 most visited countries.<\/p>\n

Third place isn\u2019t a bad shake for the the buzzy, billboard-laden district<\/a> \u2014 which in the past has found itself at the top of these types of lists.<\/p>\n

Apparently, this time around, aggrieved adventurers appeared to hate Fisherman\u2019s Wharf in San Francisco and Wall Drug Store in South Dakota more. <\/p>\n

The allegedly dastardly duo tied for first place, while Hawaii\u2019s Dole Plantation landed in second.<\/p>\n

Chief complaints shared among the \u2018tacky,\u2019 sourpuss-causing spots included high prices, poorly maintained facilities and unmanaged crowds<\/a>. <\/p>\n

One recent visitor dubbed the iconic Bay Area spot a \u201cwashed-up wharf,\u201d while a Wall Drug wanderer said it was \u201cjust okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hundreds of visitors to the country\u2019s most famous pineapple farm, meanwhile, didn\u2019t find it very sweet at all. <\/p>\n

One reviewer slammed the locale as Exhibit A of tourist traps, saying: \u201cYou are in Hawaii for goodness\u2019 sake. Do something else. Anything else. ANYTHING ELSE.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rounding up the terrible top 5 were Chicago\u2019s Navy Pier and Charleston, S.C. restaurant Hyman\u2019s Seafood.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Fisherman\u2019s Wharf is mostly beloved by tourists for the sea lion viewing areas it boasts. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The drug store opened in the early \u201930s as a humble pharmacy, and has since expanded to include a coffee shop, museum and an 80-foot dinosaur statue. Bo \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

Top tourist traps in the U.S.<\/p>\n

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  1. Fisherman\u2019s Wharf \u2014 San Francisco, Calif. and Wall Drug \u2014 Wall, S.D.<\/li>\n
  2. Dole Plantation \u2014 Wahiawa, Hawaii<\/li>\n
  3. Times Square \u2014 New York, N.Y. <\/li>\n
  4. Navy Pier \u2014 Chicago, Ill. <\/li>\n
  5. Hyman\u2019s Seafood \u2014 Charleston, S.C.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The study also examined data from top vacation spots across the world, and it seems Fisherman\u2019s Wharf and Wall Drug were really that bad, because they also snagged the top spot globally.<\/p>\n

    On a list of global shame, overtouristed Barcelona inched near the top. peresanz \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

    Fortunately for Times Square, a handful of other spots were hated enough to crowd it out of the top 5 \u2014\u00a0including Barcelona\u2019s Las Ramblas, the Temple Bar nightlife district in Dublin, and others. <\/p>\n

    Top tourist traps in the world<\/p>\n

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    1. Fisherman\u2019s Wharf \u2014 San Francisco, Calif. and Wall Drug \u2014 Wall, S.D.<\/li>\n
    2. Las Ramblas \u2014 Barcelona, Spain<\/li>\n
    3. Temple Bar \u2014 Dublin, Ireland<\/li>\n
    4. Checkpoint Charlie \u2014 Berlin, Germany<\/li>\n
    5. Royal Mile \u2014 Edinburgh, Scotland<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Times Square is in a time out. NYC\u2019s Crossroads of The World sits close to the top of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1165,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,9307,5331,5268,1164,30908,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,33348],"class_list":{"0":"post-100323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-lifestyle","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-times-square","17":"tag-tourism","18":"tag-tourists","19":"tag-travel","20":"tag-travel-secrets","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-vacations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114932896512100927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}