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mahatmakanejeeves

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Fri Aug 23, 2019, 04:47 PM Aug 2019

The best 1-star reviews of the Seven Wonders of the World

The best 1-star reviews of the Seven Wonders of the World

By Natalie B. Compton August 19
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Here are the best of the worst reviews posted on TripAdvisor of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

“NOT worth it. … The tour guide on the bus was rude to me and not funny, in fact he made the bus ride longer with his mono toned unfunny dialog, the radio thing they gave us to listen to the guide on the tour stopped working half way. They were supposed to offer us soda OR beer on the ride back but they didn’t offer beer at all. Vendors kept shoving things in my face and following me to try to sell me things to the point of harassment and the overall experience was awful. The sights were ok but the people made it so terrible I will never return to Mexico again. It was NOT WORTH THE MONEY! People said its because its a poor country but so is Jamaica and Jamaica was nothing like this. Jamaica was wonderful, Mexico was TERRIBLE!” — undeadbeauty

Reviewer undeadbeauty is right here. If you visit a country’s most popular tourist attractions and it sucks, you should definitely never go back to the country. Rude waiter at an Eiffel Tower restaurant? Au revoir, France. Nothing to see here. An unfunny tour guide at what UNESCO calls the site of “masterpieces of Mesoamerican architecture” is absolutely reason enough to never visit the entirety of Mexico ever again.

“Creepy place … Don’t like to see the persecution of Christians. Creepy place. The pain and suffering here was beyond imagination.” — jehorne

Reviewer jerhorne has a point. The Colosseum is a creepy place. Of the 324 one-star reviews of the Colosseum, most focus on the abhorrent lines and scams going on out front — not the fact that the 50,000-person amphitheater was a real bloodbath in ancient times. That being said, jehorne probably saw “Gladiator” (2000) or at least the trailer, so why show up to the nearly 2,000-year-old structure in the first place?
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[Sitting on Rome’s famous Spanish Steps can now cost you a serious fine]

“Looks better in the pictures. … We visited here from Dehli and were honestly disappointed. The building is not as big or elaborate as we thought. there were lots of people making veiwing difficult. The actual tombs are below ground so you are only looking at copies of the tombs and the other visitors were disrespectful by taking pictures etc despite the notices saying not to. Aggra itself looked a little rough around the edges. We opted to pay extra to go on the toll road/motorway which was almost deserted and the journey still took 3.5 hours each way.” — califon



The Taj Mahal was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his late favorite wife in perhaps the grandest gesture of love in history. But it was built too small, if you ask reviewer califon. Talk about a waste of nearly 20 years, 1,000 elephants and the labor of 22,000 people to construct this white marble token of his affection.
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Natalie Compton is a staff writer for the Washington Post's new travel destination, By The Way. Follow https://twitter.com/natbco
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The best 1-star reviews of the Seven Wonders of the World (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2019 OP
There's no evidence that Christians were put to death in the Colosseum. Aristus Aug 2019 #1

Aristus

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1. There's no evidence that Christians were put to death in the Colosseum.
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 05:17 PM
Aug 2019

The Circus Maximus, OTOH, likely saw immense suffering by persecuted Christians.

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