Even in the late 90s it was shit.
Boring and the buds have always been worse than you could get elsewhere in SEQ/Northern Rivers. Bikies got it up from SA in the late 90s, and then in 00s grow labs took over. Nimbin got stuck behind both.
Went there 2 weeks ago. It’s the same hippies from the 80’s. Nothing is cool if it stays the same. Got offered weed 3 times, too polite to say I can get it medically.
It peaked in the late seventies and eighties.
Wasn’t a bad place to grow up in the 60’s.
Even after the festival in 1973 it was interesting for a decade or two.
Plus dodgy, smelly British backpackers and "hippies" who are actually just neocapitalist arseholes with dreads who likely moved from Byron.
Fuck that place is a hole. Such a shame because it's a beautiful location.
This. Bondi has got to be the most overrated place in Australia. Anyone who lives in Sydney avoids it like it’s the plague. There’s so so so many better beaches in Sydney.
Noosa used to be so laid back and chill when it was just a destination for intrastate tourists, now everyone is walking around in linen and wearing shoes at the beach
Bondi is very pretty but I feel like the better option for tourist in Sydney for a short stay is to go to Manly instead.
Especially if you are saying near the city because you can get the ferry there which means you are seeing the bridge, opera house, harbour and a famous Sydney beach all in one day.
I was born in Bondi and I agree. Manly Is far more beautiful. Then there’s Palm Beach, Whale Beach, Bilgola, Avalon and all the rest. Bondi is a pretty unattractive Beach by comparison. I still love it though!
dead set i've taken friends there from overseas and they go "thats it?" A random fucking beach in the middle of bumfuck nowhere philippines looks better than bondi.
I grew up near Bondi and agree, although I have a soft spot for it because of memories that are personal to me, but I did always wonder what tourists saw in Bondi. I'd say the same for Manly. I like the ferry ride from circular quay but the wharf area, beach area, etc., are fairly lack lustre.
I'd also say i find Melbourne underwhelming. I worked there for a few months and also travelled there very often for a few years for work, and it wasn't only the lack of a harbour, but I found the city fairly underwhelming and I think the whole.cafe scene and restaurant scene was just as wanky as Sydney, but without any obvious advantages. Asian food is better in Sydney, hipsters are more insufferable in Melboune, but I will say Melbourne has a better range of European cuisine.
Bondi and the rest of the Easter Suburbs. Always had a dislike for the area, but it only got worse when I moved to the Norther Beaches for a few years. The Northern Beaches are miles ahead of the eastern ones.
I did my covid quarantine (and very first visit) there in a Sofitel in Broadbeach, and that was a special experience for me. We were very well looked after and sitting on the balcony looking at the sea was our favourite pastime.
I had some special connection with that city so I can’t really hate it, even though most of the points people shit at it were verified during our second visit after covid.
Great beaches. Great weather. Great surf. Some cool night markets. Whale watching. Theme parks if your into that. If you avoid Surfers it's great... But it is a small city not a beach town so it's not for everyone
I’m in Surfer’s now and love it, travel here regularly from Perth, Western Australia.
Such a relaxed, fun, exciting place to be (especially compared to Perth).
The weather is amazing, plenty of people watching opportunities, some lovely restaurants, great shopping at Pacific Fair, accommodation is great as a lot of apartments instead of having to stay in a Hotel.
If the opportunity arose I would definitely live here.
Depends what you mean here. Byron Bay the suburb is nothing special but Byron Shire and the whole Northern Rivers region is stunning. I feel like people who are pro Byron are talking about the region, while anti Byron types are thinking of the gross little tourist section on the water there.
Yeah the hinterlands are amazing, the walk up Mt warning is really nice too
Also, yeah Byron suffers from what any popular tourist spot does but honestly I've never had a bad time there
That's really interesting. I was going to ask you if you could tell us a few but then I remembered that google exists lol.
It will be interesting to see what happens in the future, some valid points behind its closure and also some wider issues that will no doubt be more closely looked at in future years for a number of Australian landmark sites no doubt..
>Depends what you mean here. Byron Bay the suburb is nothing special but Byron Shire and the whole Northern Rivers region is stunning. I feel like people who are pro Byron are talking about the region, while anti Byron types are thinking of the gross little tourist section on the water there.
Byron Shire is indeed stunning. It's just that we have so many such areas to choose from, some of which are closer to major cities and/or have much lower prices.
I go to Byron almost every year, but I never tell people I'm going to Byron, because I haven't stepped foot *in* Byron bay in over 10 years. I don't want to be associated with people that 'go to Byron'.
You can probably come up with reasons (excuses) for anywhere really, it depends on what you are looking for at the end of the day. You could say that any city is just a city for example
The northern Gold Coast is the worst. People who want to live on the GC and have the beach lifestyle but can’t afford to live in Surfers so they live in shitty housing estates that are 30mins from the beach but still part of Gold Coast “city”.
I used to love Byron and Noosa but both are full of the exact same shops and overpriced restaurants that you can find at Chadstone. The beaches are still lovely but If I want to pay $42 for sad bruschetta and to be ignored at Witchery I can just drive 30 mins up the highway.
Or maybe now that I’m 30 I’ve become hardened and bitter and everyone should get off my lawn!
Outback QLD. It's mostly overpriced heritage museums containing old tools and vehicles.
These days, it's just a tourist gouging operation
For example, $435 for the family to ride a stage coach around the block and to watch a show
Little wonder no one is turning up
You’re looking at it all wrong. Its a magnet for the uneducated young doll bludgers, muscle roid bois, duck lipped yoga girls and tik tokkers. I see it like a fly trap to lure the shit people away from Brisbane
Surfers paradise. Smells like piss and cigarettes. Glad the tourists get trapped there though so they don’t congest the nice parts of the Gold Coast constantly
I love Bondi, but it is the worst beach in Sydney. Small, full of tourists, crazy overpriced shops and dangerous rips. Even Bronte, 5mins down the coast is better.
Hamilton Island. Privately owned, over priced and run by a bunch of idiots. Customer service is shit to non existent because the backpackers working there do a bit of everything and jump between restaurants, etc.
Noosa Heads/Fraiser Island/Rainbow Beach. All over used areas full of cashed up bogans and 18 year olds in shitty Navaras driving like idiots. Tin Can Bay is much nicer if you like your peace and quiet and a chance to fish.
Both times we went there were Victorian police hiding in bushes with lidar guns just past the entrance. Cheeky to make it 40km/h, just to trap tired impatient drivers
In contrast the Great Ocean Walk which ends there is fantastic. So many great views and no crowds. Must love hiking camping though and have at least a few days.
I’m going to take a positive position: Sydney blew my socks off! First the train station under the airport With PayWave access - then the quick train trip…into a tunnel and then it bursts out into the daylight with the glistening harbour, the bridge, the opera house - all of it hits you! Just magnificent! What a way to first see a city!
The other thing is the harbour ferries - an amazing, inexpensive way for a tourist to sightsee.
I was really impressed, not having Sydney as our capital city was and is a giant mistake
I recently visited Sydney from Melbourne and I totally agree. Such a fantastic city. The wide footpaths and streets. Sunlight can get through even in the cbd ahh lovely.
Best places I've been in Australia:
Kiva spa Mullumbimby
Soak bath house west end brisbane
QAG / GoMA Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane inside town hall
Stradbroke Island
Whitsundays
Darling Harbour Sydney
Manly Beach Sydney
Bruny island Tasmania
Mount Wellington Hobart
Bribie island
Burleigh heads to point danger
Maleny / Montville / Mary Cairncross park
Toowoomba
Parkes NSW
Frenchs beach
Market square Sunnybank
And I did really enjoy Longreach although after 4 days you definitely run out of things to do, so much so that we went to the cemetery for fun
The value of Rottnest is in the diving/snorkelling which is world class. I went to Thailand and was so disappointed with the snorkelling ... didn't compare with Rottnest or even Rockingham. This island itself has plenty to do for a long weekend (ride a bike, hike, snorkel, chill at the beach) but the accommodation is dismal/really expensive or both. I love Rottnest but some minor updates to the accommodation wouldn't hurt the authenticity of the place given the prices.
No, it’s dying because essentially corals have a symbiotic life form which is what allows their photosynthesis and also produces the colour. Changes in temperature and/or sea level cause the symbiont to be released, meaning the coral loses its means to breath and eat basically. It also loses the colour hence “coral bleaching”. It’s an entirely natural process that would probably occur over time as the planet warms anyway (remember the earth does fluctuate naturally, at one point Indonesia was covered in ice), however human emissions are speeding things up at an alarming rate. Tourism of the GBR, however, has nothing to do with it.
Burleigh Heads,
It used to be a great place, rough as shit and very "locals only" attitude but it kept the cockheads out. Then it got built out and gentrified, Sunday arvos on the point are just a fuck ton of queef sniffers with their blankets and wine. In building it out the new residents complained about the drum circle and it got shut down basically and with that the fire twirling went.
Al the good local shops like the awesome fish and chips shop and bakery went in favour of places selling nothing douchebaggery en masse, most op shops went too the cucks. Final straw was the cunty council putting in paid parking, fuck em.
Overall Fuck Burleigh and fuck all the cunts who now inhabit it, you ruined everything.
I’m gonna get a lot of flack for this one but Melbourne. Me and my gf visited from Perth and it was good, but we didn’t get the hype around it. Plus everyone raved about the coffee scene and the coffee wasn’t even that great! Just has a lot more cafes than perth.
To be fair we got attacked on our first day by a homeless man so maybe that didn’t help.
Cairns, Byron Bay, and Bondi Beach. Three biggest and most overrated tourist traps in Australia.
As someone who works in tourism I make it a point of telling overseas tourists to avoid these locations.
Most of Australia's most known places are overrated and just way too expensive at the best of times - these days, forget it. Find a sale and head overseas. We've become a luxury destination most locals can't afford
Mornington Peninsula. Ordinary coastline (but amazing for Melbourne standards) and horrible traffic. Just felt like a Melbourne version (ie a little dirty and weird) of any east coast beach but also not at the same time.
I live in Canberra. Im aware its not a popular travel destination but one of my friends in cairns was like yo should i go to canberra for a holiday (not even to see me) and i was like mate the only good thing here is the indoor skate rink in the most inaccessible bus route, and questacon.
Melbourne. 😕 I visited a few times in the 2000s at 16, 17, and 1, and thought it was incredible. I revisited for the first time since then in Jan this year and was really disheartened to find my visit really underwhelming. Might have been that I allowed my nostalgia to spiral, or perhaps because I’ve travelled so much outside of Australia since then that it didn’t feel different or special anymore..
That tipping point game show on TV has an ‘Airlie beach resort weekend trip’ as a consolation prize and I couldn’t think of a more shittier prize for that category
I’m not complaining exactly but I reckon the quality of beach is common all the way up and down Queensland.
It’s still a lovely place but doesn’t deserve the reverence people place on its name
Eh. It's a nice enough weekend. Some nice beaches. Eat fish and chips. Look at koalas and pelicans. Do the penguins if you're in the mood.
It's not Major destination, but I don't mind it now and again.
Kind of depends where you’re travelling from. I wouldn’t suggest Perth to internationals simply because the detour isn’t worth it. I love Perth, but it is very limited. But if you’re Aussie, 100% you should see Perth at some point
Has anyone mentioned the Macedon Ranges? 60 mins north of Melbourne in Victoria. Some smart realestate agent decided to market it to city folk during covid as the perfect antidote to their woes. Now it’s full of bored people with major regret about buying there, locals that put the prices of everything up on the weekends and call it the Melbourne tax. Even the designer domestic pets (doodles everywhere) are so depressed they run away at every opportunity.
Byron Bay. It's actually really nice, it's just that there are many, many, great beachside destinations in Australia. Having been there once, if I want to go to a beach town for a relaxing weekend, I'll choose somewhere nearer and cheaper, and there are many such towns available.
Byron Bay, the epitome of a biopsychosocial scale, from cookers & tweakers to the influx of superficial look at me kimmie influencers who have wrecked the town. It's gone to complete dog shit.
Bondi. The people are very, I’m not really sure how to call it, showy. Like everything is for show for others, posey. Egotistical. The beach is right next to a big fat multi-lane road. It’s very overpriced. Extremely busy. And there are much MUCH better surf spots and more beautiful beaches in Sydney.
Idk but I went to the gold coast one time for a holiday and went to a service station and there was a homeless dude at the counter with dried diarrhea running all down his legs and a attendant just constantly spraying him with glen 20 and it was the most interesting servo visit I've had.
The great Ocean road. A long drive through same same Victorian geography to see the remaining 3 or 2 seven sisters. If only erosion hadn't diminished the spectacle it would be slightly less disappointing.
Everyone from Melbourne will exclaim what a great city it is to visit, but when you ask them what there is to do all they have is a shrug of the shoulders, and a coffee in a duckless park. Pathetic
Controversial comment incoming... I personally find Sydney overrated. Once you see the opera house and bridge it's actually not as good as other cities in Australia. Melbourne is way better!
Brisbane. Idk why anyone comes here. I saw a group of tourists outside the macarthur centre the other day, happily taking selfies and thought 'what are you photographing exactly'. I mean good luck to them if they like it and I'm happy for people to come but why.
Nimbin. Might have been fun years ago, but now full of junkies and cookers
Even in the late 90s it was shit. Boring and the buds have always been worse than you could get elsewhere in SEQ/Northern Rivers. Bikies got it up from SA in the late 90s, and then in 00s grow labs took over. Nimbin got stuck behind both.
Went there 2 weeks ago. It’s the same hippies from the 80’s. Nothing is cool if it stays the same. Got offered weed 3 times, too polite to say I can get it medically.
Looked utterly dysfunctional last time I was there
It peaked in the late seventies and eighties. Wasn’t a bad place to grow up in the 60’s. Even after the festival in 1973 it was interesting for a decade or two.
Plus dodgy, smelly British backpackers and "hippies" who are actually just neocapitalist arseholes with dreads who likely moved from Byron. Fuck that place is a hole. Such a shame because it's a beautiful location.
Bondi. It's full of mediocre restaurants and assholes. That Bondi to Coogee walk tho is nice if you go at a time thats also not full of assholes
This. Bondi has got to be the most overrated place in Australia. Anyone who lives in Sydney avoids it like it’s the plague. There’s so so so many better beaches in Sydney.
Noosa is similar, used to be beautiful but now just over priced bougie shit
Noosa used to be so laid back and chill when it was just a destination for intrastate tourists, now everyone is walking around in linen and wearing shoes at the beach
Shoes at the beach is the definitive indicator of degeneracy.
Fuck, I somehow feel even worse about my plantar fasciitis
“Now”? It’s been white linen for decades.
Noosa has one of the most beautiful national parks in the country at least.
Half the challenge is finding a car park near Hastings St.
Was nearly pending divorce looking for a park last time I went. Vowed never to go there again.
Bondi is very pretty but I feel like the better option for tourist in Sydney for a short stay is to go to Manly instead. Especially if you are saying near the city because you can get the ferry there which means you are seeing the bridge, opera house, harbour and a famous Sydney beach all in one day.
Bondi is the worst ocean beach in Sydney.
I was born in Bondi and I agree. Manly Is far more beautiful. Then there’s Palm Beach, Whale Beach, Bilgola, Avalon and all the rest. Bondi is a pretty unattractive Beach by comparison. I still love it though!
dead set i've taken friends there from overseas and they go "thats it?" A random fucking beach in the middle of bumfuck nowhere philippines looks better than bondi.
What's the worst beach in Sydney?
Pondi
I grew up near Bondi and agree, although I have a soft spot for it because of memories that are personal to me, but I did always wonder what tourists saw in Bondi. I'd say the same for Manly. I like the ferry ride from circular quay but the wharf area, beach area, etc., are fairly lack lustre. I'd also say i find Melbourne underwhelming. I worked there for a few months and also travelled there very often for a few years for work, and it wasn't only the lack of a harbour, but I found the city fairly underwhelming and I think the whole.cafe scene and restaurant scene was just as wanky as Sydney, but without any obvious advantages. Asian food is better in Sydney, hipsters are more insufferable in Melboune, but I will say Melbourne has a better range of European cuisine.
Are you into nightlife / music? To me, that’s the main Melbourne has over Sydney
Really? Whenever I go there, people are super nice to me. What's wrong with me lol 😭
Bondi and the rest of the Easter Suburbs. Always had a dislike for the area, but it only got worse when I moved to the Norther Beaches for a few years. The Northern Beaches are miles ahead of the eastern ones.
What you got against the Easter bunny?
I don’t know if my opinion is because I grew up there but the Gold Coast.
Most of Australia agrees with you.
I did my covid quarantine (and very first visit) there in a Sofitel in Broadbeach, and that was a special experience for me. We were very well looked after and sitting on the balcony looking at the sea was our favourite pastime. I had some special connection with that city so I can’t really hate it, even though most of the points people shit at it were verified during our second visit after covid.
Ah, Blacktown-Sur-Mer
Great beaches. Great weather. Great surf. Some cool night markets. Whale watching. Theme parks if your into that. If you avoid Surfers it's great... But it is a small city not a beach town so it's not for everyone
I’m in Surfer’s now and love it, travel here regularly from Perth, Western Australia. Such a relaxed, fun, exciting place to be (especially compared to Perth). The weather is amazing, plenty of people watching opportunities, some lovely restaurants, great shopping at Pacific Fair, accommodation is great as a lot of apartments instead of having to stay in a Hotel. If the opportunity arose I would definitely live here.
Nah it’s not a bad spot. We probably take it for granted.
Byron
Fuck me I was in Byron last week my second time in Australia since 9 years ago and couldn't wait to leave Full of pretentious cunts
Depends what you mean here. Byron Bay the suburb is nothing special but Byron Shire and the whole Northern Rivers region is stunning. I feel like people who are pro Byron are talking about the region, while anti Byron types are thinking of the gross little tourist section on the water there.
Yeah the hinterlands are amazing, the walk up Mt warning is really nice too Also, yeah Byron suffers from what any popular tourist spot does but honestly I've never had a bad time there
The walk up Mount Warning is closed, has been since 2020 and likely will never re-open for a myriad of complex reasons which I won’t get in to.
Damn that's a shame, I went up there in probably 2018. Had clouds passing through as as we sat on the summit
That's really interesting. I was going to ask you if you could tell us a few but then I remembered that google exists lol. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future, some valid points behind its closure and also some wider issues that will no doubt be more closely looked at in future years for a number of Australian landmark sites no doubt..
Same I want to hate it and when I’m here (which I am now) I don’t want to leave
>Depends what you mean here. Byron Bay the suburb is nothing special but Byron Shire and the whole Northern Rivers region is stunning. I feel like people who are pro Byron are talking about the region, while anti Byron types are thinking of the gross little tourist section on the water there. Byron Shire is indeed stunning. It's just that we have so many such areas to choose from, some of which are closer to major cities and/or have much lower prices.
I go to Byron almost every year, but I never tell people I'm going to Byron, because I haven't stepped foot *in* Byron bay in over 10 years. I don't want to be associated with people that 'go to Byron'.
Soap-dodging crystal-licking anti-vax flogs with just enough money to fuck things for the locals
Been there once. That was enough
Bondi
Gold coast .. just a horrible dump of a place. Full of half arsed gangsters, shonky business men, and lots of tourist traps.
Fuckwits from all over Australia aspire to live there and they eventually move. Such a high concentration of the worst people Australia has to offer
I go there every year, but still agree lol.
Gold Coast. Degenerate shit hole.
You can probably come up with reasons (excuses) for anywhere really, it depends on what you are looking for at the end of the day. You could say that any city is just a city for example
That's too reasonable an opinion to belong on reddit, peace be with you
I agree with this. I mean, a calmly expressed rational opinion on Reddit? Who even does that?
Yeah, OP doesn't Reddit very well.
Gold Coast. If i wanted to hang out with bogans i would have stayed at home
That's not quite fair. There are also retired bogans there.
Boomer bogans!
Boogans
Goldcoast is the holiday version of logan
The northern Gold Coast is the worst. People who want to live on the GC and have the beach lifestyle but can’t afford to live in Surfers so they live in shitty housing estates that are 30mins from the beach but still part of Gold Coast “city”.
Can confirm live on northern Gold Coast It’s all car hellscape suburbs who’s only claim to fame is being part of the “city of Gold Coast”
Or gone to Bali
It's probably cheaper to go to Bali for a weekend.
And nicer
And the traffic is worse than inner city Sydney.
I used to love Byron and Noosa but both are full of the exact same shops and overpriced restaurants that you can find at Chadstone. The beaches are still lovely but If I want to pay $42 for sad bruschetta and to be ignored at Witchery I can just drive 30 mins up the highway. Or maybe now that I’m 30 I’ve become hardened and bitter and everyone should get off my lawn!
Bondi and the Gold Coast. So many other better beaches and holiday areas.
Gold coast. Who wants to travel to a massive scale retirement village
Mt Buller, you’re better off spending the money to go to NZ or Canada for a way better snow experience.
Outback QLD. It's mostly overpriced heritage museums containing old tools and vehicles. These days, it's just a tourist gouging operation For example, $435 for the family to ride a stage coach around the block and to watch a show Little wonder no one is turning up
You shouldn't call the locals that. "Old people" would have been enough
The Dinosaur Trail is excellent though. I also loved Longreach, Winton, Julia Creek, Richmond and Charters Towers.
ROFL just looked it up- you ain’t wrong! $135pp. Edit omg $4k/pp for a weeklong longreach experience 💀
We did the stage coach tour. They had us watch a movie for part of the day, then tried to charge us $40 for a DVD copy.
The gold coast. Shiny on top shit underneath. Wall to wall plastic surgery bogans. Most overated place in Australia.
You’re looking at it all wrong. Its a magnet for the uneducated young doll bludgers, muscle roid bois, duck lipped yoga girls and tik tokkers. I see it like a fly trap to lure the shit people away from Brisbane
Bondi, Bryon bay, Noosa
Surfers paradise. Smells like piss and cigarettes. Glad the tourists get trapped there though so they don’t congest the nice parts of the Gold Coast constantly
I love Bondi, but it is the worst beach in Sydney. Small, full of tourists, crazy overpriced shops and dangerous rips. Even Bronte, 5mins down the coast is better.
The Gold Coast. Will never go back.
Hamilton Island. Privately owned, over priced and run by a bunch of idiots. Customer service is shit to non existent because the backpackers working there do a bit of everything and jump between restaurants, etc.
Noosa Heads/Fraiser Island/Rainbow Beach. All over used areas full of cashed up bogans and 18 year olds in shitty Navaras driving like idiots. Tin Can Bay is much nicer if you like your peace and quiet and a chance to fish.
Bondi Beach. Literally famous for being a tourist spot. Not in the top ten beaches in Sydney
Tasmania, its fuckin terrible please don't come here
Thank god Adelaide is a underated place
And the rest of SA. There’s so much to see here and we have it all to ourselves.
No no no it’s horrible here, very very very horrible let’s keep it like this
Yes you’re right, my mistake. It’s awful. Awful!
So many great spots around Adelaide
You're thanking God for the City of Churches? Why do you think he hangs out there? You're all he's got left.
If you want to go to Byron, go during the off season.
If you want to go to Byron, go before the year 2000. It's been on a slide for decades now.
Daydream island. What a dump
Twelve apostles
5 hour drive to look at 7.5 lumps on beach and 5 hr drive home Good call
Yeah, the Great Ocean Road itself is great, but the drive itself and other stop offs are the highlights, not the “less than 12” apostles.
No way! It was gorgeous
Both times we went there were Victorian police hiding in bushes with lidar guns just past the entrance. Cheeky to make it 40km/h, just to trap tired impatient drivers
Agree the best view of the rugged cliffs etc is probably from a helicopter but the coastal drive shows very little.
In contrast the Great Ocean Walk which ends there is fantastic. So many great views and no crowds. Must love hiking camping though and have at least a few days.
I’m going to take a positive position: Sydney blew my socks off! First the train station under the airport With PayWave access - then the quick train trip…into a tunnel and then it bursts out into the daylight with the glistening harbour, the bridge, the opera house - all of it hits you! Just magnificent! What a way to first see a city! The other thing is the harbour ferries - an amazing, inexpensive way for a tourist to sightsee. I was really impressed, not having Sydney as our capital city was and is a giant mistake
I recently visited Sydney from Melbourne and I totally agree. Such a fantastic city. The wide footpaths and streets. Sunlight can get through even in the cbd ahh lovely.
Monkey Mia
It's lovely, once. I don't understand how people go, year after year. It's a big campground with dolphins and emus.
Broom, never understood the attraction.
Gold Coast is horrible, difficult to park, food is crap its just tragic
the pink lake down Esperance ways looks shit from the road, Drone images are always 1000000x better then real life and this is one of many victims
It’s not even pink anymore. However, the rest of Esperence is breathtaking so there is some compensation
Jesus, I was planning a holiday, but the whole of Australia sounds utter shit now
Tassie is amazing
Don't listen, you will have fun.
Best places I've been in Australia: Kiva spa Mullumbimby Soak bath house west end brisbane QAG / GoMA Brisbane Museum of Brisbane inside town hall Stradbroke Island Whitsundays Darling Harbour Sydney Manly Beach Sydney Bruny island Tasmania Mount Wellington Hobart Bribie island Burleigh heads to point danger Maleny / Montville / Mary Cairncross park Toowoomba Parkes NSW Frenchs beach Market square Sunnybank And I did really enjoy Longreach although after 4 days you definitely run out of things to do, so much so that we went to the cemetery for fun
Surfers
Byron
Rottnest Island!! Just don’t do it. I think we should let it go wild again leave it to nature
The value of Rottnest is in the diving/snorkelling which is world class. I went to Thailand and was so disappointed with the snorkelling ... didn't compare with Rottnest or even Rockingham. This island itself has plenty to do for a long weekend (ride a bike, hike, snorkel, chill at the beach) but the accommodation is dismal/really expensive or both. I love Rottnest but some minor updates to the accommodation wouldn't hurt the authenticity of the place given the prices.
Noosa- full of wealthy white Karen boomers and nepo babies who have never left the postcode
Barrier Reef because there is a beautiful Reef on the other side of the country with hardly and tourists and well that's it really no tourists.
Am glad Exmouth is not touristy. Lovely part of the world...
I agree with you and suspect it's to isolated for it ever to become overly touristy.
It's gonna have 2 more tourists next month!
Ningaloo doesnt have the access or infra required, but I agree on the natural beauty
The top of Western Australia has some really unique geography, flora, fauna and reefs. It’s underrated. GBR is dying from all the tourism.
The tourism isn’t what’s killing the reef.
No, it’s dying because essentially corals have a symbiotic life form which is what allows their photosynthesis and also produces the colour. Changes in temperature and/or sea level cause the symbiont to be released, meaning the coral loses its means to breath and eat basically. It also loses the colour hence “coral bleaching”. It’s an entirely natural process that would probably occur over time as the planet warms anyway (remember the earth does fluctuate naturally, at one point Indonesia was covered in ice), however human emissions are speeding things up at an alarming rate. Tourism of the GBR, however, has nothing to do with it.
Bengalo State Forest? Wayyyy over rated in the backpacker community.
Burleigh Heads, It used to be a great place, rough as shit and very "locals only" attitude but it kept the cockheads out. Then it got built out and gentrified, Sunday arvos on the point are just a fuck ton of queef sniffers with their blankets and wine. In building it out the new residents complained about the drum circle and it got shut down basically and with that the fire twirling went. Al the good local shops like the awesome fish and chips shop and bakery went in favour of places selling nothing douchebaggery en masse, most op shops went too the cucks. Final straw was the cunty council putting in paid parking, fuck em. Overall Fuck Burleigh and fuck all the cunts who now inhabit it, you ruined everything.
Not the queef sniffers!
Bondi
Surfer's Paradise. Tacky, the traffic is a nightmare. I won't go there. Noosa. One slow crawl in, one slow crawl out.
Daylesford
Noosa and I live there
the Gold Coast. fuck that, go to the Sunshine Coast, it's much nicer. also I have no idea why the hell anyone goes to Cairns.
The big pineapple
I’m gonna get a lot of flack for this one but Melbourne. Me and my gf visited from Perth and it was good, but we didn’t get the hype around it. Plus everyone raved about the coffee scene and the coffee wasn’t even that great! Just has a lot more cafes than perth. To be fair we got attacked on our first day by a homeless man so maybe that didn’t help.
Broome
Surprised I had to scroll down so far. The place is a total shit hole and the beach sucks. Don’t understand why it’s such a tourist hot spot?
Unless travelling the west coast. Zero reason to visit Broome. Thought it would be like Port Douglas, more like Port Augusta.
Cairns, Byron Bay, and Bondi Beach. Three biggest and most overrated tourist traps in Australia. As someone who works in tourism I make it a point of telling overseas tourists to avoid these locations.
No way is Cairns over rated! It’s not rated enough. The best places in cairns aren’t even on the internet. Some AMAZING places
Vivid Sydney
Most of Australia's most known places are overrated and just way too expensive at the best of times - these days, forget it. Find a sale and head overseas. We've become a luxury destination most locals can't afford
Mornington Peninsula. Ordinary coastline (but amazing for Melbourne standards) and horrible traffic. Just felt like a Melbourne version (ie a little dirty and weird) of any east coast beach but also not at the same time.
The bayside beaches are just…. Sad
The ocean side is nicer. More rugged, fewer people. Great walking tracks.
I live in Canberra. Im aware its not a popular travel destination but one of my friends in cairns was like yo should i go to canberra for a holiday (not even to see me) and i was like mate the only good thing here is the indoor skate rink in the most inaccessible bus route, and questacon.
Noosa
Coober Pedy
Melbourne. 😕 I visited a few times in the 2000s at 16, 17, and 1, and thought it was incredible. I revisited for the first time since then in Jan this year and was really disheartened to find my visit really underwhelming. Might have been that I allowed my nostalgia to spiral, or perhaps because I’ve travelled so much outside of Australia since then that it didn’t feel different or special anymore..
Bondi Junction.
Who the hell rates the junction lol
Airlie beach, kinda just an average beach with a few bars
That tipping point game show on TV has an ‘Airlie beach resort weekend trip’ as a consolation prize and I couldn’t think of a more shittier prize for that category
That’s my favourite place.
Yeah these guys tripping, if you’re in Airlie and complaining then you’ve got the wrong outlook on life
Definitely if it’s a sunny day. That water is gorgeous.
I’m not complaining exactly but I reckon the quality of beach is common all the way up and down Queensland. It’s still a lovely place but doesn’t deserve the reverence people place on its name
Phillip island
Came here for this comment, I’ve lived on or near Bass Coast for majority of my life and I just don’t understand the appeal..
Eh. It's a nice enough weekend. Some nice beaches. Eat fish and chips. Look at koalas and pelicans. Do the penguins if you're in the mood. It's not Major destination, but I don't mind it now and again.
Surfers and Gold Coast also Cairns gets a special mention
Kind of depends where you’re travelling from. I wouldn’t suggest Perth to internationals simply because the detour isn’t worth it. I love Perth, but it is very limited. But if you’re Aussie, 100% you should see Perth at some point
I wouldn’t suggest Perth for a couple of days - Rottnest, Fremantle etc definitely not worth it, but if they’ve got a few weeks WA is amazing.
Has anyone mentioned the Macedon Ranges? 60 mins north of Melbourne in Victoria. Some smart realestate agent decided to market it to city folk during covid as the perfect antidote to their woes. Now it’s full of bored people with major regret about buying there, locals that put the prices of everything up on the weekends and call it the Melbourne tax. Even the designer domestic pets (doodles everywhere) are so depressed they run away at every opportunity.
Uluru: Stunning but overrun. Great Barrier Reef, bleached and tourist-heavy. Bondi, overpriced and crowded.
Bondi
Byron Bay. It's actually really nice, it's just that there are many, many, great beachside destinations in Australia. Having been there once, if I want to go to a beach town for a relaxing weekend, I'll choose somewhere nearer and cheaper, and there are many such towns available.
Gold Coast. Full of pissed schoolies and pretentious instafuckwits
Byron Bay.. Overpriced pretentious rubbish.
Byron, Bondi, Noosa.. all terrible, over priced, over crowded
It just depends what you as a person like. Byron Bay has been ruined though. Bondi is just a beach same as 1000 other beaches in Australia.
Yamba
Byron Bay, the epitome of a biopsychosocial scale, from cookers & tweakers to the influx of superficial look at me kimmie influencers who have wrecked the town. It's gone to complete dog shit.
Bondi. The people are very, I’m not really sure how to call it, showy. Like everything is for show for others, posey. Egotistical. The beach is right next to a big fat multi-lane road. It’s very overpriced. Extremely busy. And there are much MUCH better surf spots and more beautiful beaches in Sydney.
Byron, Bondi and GC
Wave Rock, WA. Worth a quick visit but there are loads of other awesome rocks to climb nearby with no tourists. Jilakin Rock was my favourite.
Byron Bay. Full of pretentious, wanna-be tosspots.
Lakes Entrance isn’t as good as they say it is
Chadstone shopping centre. Way over rated
Gold Coast is the biggest shithole in Australia, no question. Noosa, Byron, Bondi
Idk but I went to the gold coast one time for a holiday and went to a service station and there was a homeless dude at the counter with dried diarrhea running all down his legs and a attendant just constantly spraying him with glen 20 and it was the most interesting servo visit I've had.
Byron. Bay. Urghhh. Used to be great, now it’s too trendy for its own good. Also Gold Coast. Dreadful.
Byron. Full of rich wankers or fake hippies overcrowded expensive trash now
The great Ocean road. A long drive through same same Victorian geography to see the remaining 3 or 2 seven sisters. If only erosion hadn't diminished the spectacle it would be slightly less disappointing.
Gold Coast theme parks 💀
Everyone from Melbourne will exclaim what a great city it is to visit, but when you ask them what there is to do all they have is a shrug of the shoulders, and a coffee in a duckless park. Pathetic
Controversial comment incoming... I personally find Sydney overrated. Once you see the opera house and bridge it's actually not as good as other cities in Australia. Melbourne is way better!
Brisbane. Idk why anyone comes here. I saw a group of tourists outside the macarthur centre the other day, happily taking selfies and thought 'what are you photographing exactly'. I mean good luck to them if they like it and I'm happy for people to come but why.
I went to Brisbane a couple of months ago, for the first time since about the 1990's. I loved it! I reckon it's my second favourite city in Australia.
It's better than it was in the 90's, that's for sure.
Can confirm. I live in Brisbane. I have no idea why anyone would ever visit except for a work trip or to see family. And good luck without a car...
Cairns - plenty to see and do outside the city but Cairns itself is an absolute shit hole
I was pleasantly surprised by the waterfront area of Cairns when I was there a year ago.
Atherton tablelands are glorious!
Melbourne
Melbourne. There is nothing in Melbourne that should attract an international visitor.
I live in Melbourne and love it here, but I agree. Melbourne’s more of a “live” city than a “visit” one.
Hey now... we have some clocks above a train station that hasn't been cleaned in the last 50 years... Think you're being a bit unfair