TripAdvisor reviews across November, December and January, <\/a>scouring reviews for words including \u201covercrowded,\u201d \u201cbusy,\u201d \u201cpacked,\u201d \u201clong wait,\u201d and \u201cchaotic\u201d \u2014 and, sure enough, tourists were ticked off by how busy the Rockefeller rink can be. <\/p>\nNew York\u2019s most beloved holiday destination is also the world\u2019s most overcrowded, according to a new study sure to bother Big Apple natives notoriously defensive of their city. Getty Images<\/p>\n
A staggering 41% of reviews from November, December and January mention crowd-related issues there, making it the most overcrowded place on earth over the festive season, per the study.<\/p>\n
According to Holafly, tourists complain about lengthy lines, limited skating space, and a constant stream of spectators lining the edges of the ice. <\/p>\n
The Rockefeller Center rink is right below the building\u2019s famed Christmas tree, which is lit on the first Wednesday after Thanksgiving and taken down in mid-January. An estimated 125 million people stop by to see the tree during those six weeks alone. <\/p>\n
And while locals love to complain about the masses of festive sightseers in midtown, they don\u2019t take kindly to tourists talking smack about their city. <\/p>\n
According to Holafly, tourists complain about lengthy lines, limited skating space, and a constant stream of spectators lining the edges of the ice. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Rockefeller Center rink is right below the building\u2019s famed Christmas tree, which is lit on the first Wednesday after Thanksgiving and taken down in mid-January. An estimated 125 million people stop by to see the tree during those six weeks alone. Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The rink was the only American attraction mentioned on Holafly\u2019s list of overcrowded places. <\/p>\n
Winter Wonderland in the U.K. came in second place, with 37% of reviews on TripAdvisor moaning about the masses who flock to London\u2019s Hyde Park to enjoy the fairground rides, market stalls, ice skating and live entertainment.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Nuremberg Christmas Market in Germany rounded out the top three most overcrowded attractions, with 34% of TripAdviser reviews annoyed by the sheer number of people there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Rockefeller Center rink, people\u2019s patience is skating on thin ice. New York\u2019s most beloved holiday destination…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":409140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,192601,1165,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,66772,5331,5268,1164,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-409139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-christmas-in-rockefeller-center","10":"tag-lifestyle","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-rockefeller-center","19":"tag-tourism","20":"tag-tourists","21":"tag-travel","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115623674812004842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409139","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=409139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}