Two popular Dublin attractions have been put in a list of the top 10 tourist traps in the entire world.
Dublin has a reputation for being an expensive spot for tourists to visit, with a recent report by the Irish Mirror showing that a single hotel room on St Patrick’s Day was reaching into the thousands, and that’s not before you put a couple €9.50 pints on top of that, you are in for a costly evening in the capital.
Experts at the vacation rentals and Property management site Casago put together a ranking of the top 10 biggest tourist traps in the world, a tourist trap being a place that attracts many tourists and that charges high prices, ranking them based on the number of TripAdvisor reviews that mention the term.
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Within the worldwide top 10, there are four spots from the USA, two from Germany and Ireland, one from Iceland and one from Spain.
While no Irish spot made the number one spot, Dublin’s popular Temple Bar ranks fourth - attracting TripAdvisor reviews with titles like “The Tourist Trap to kill all Tourist Traps” and scathing write-ups of the district’s “overpriced, terrible Guinness.”
This wasn’t the only spot to get people riled up on TripAdvisor, with the Guinness Storehouse landing a spot at number 10. One person on TripAdvisor said about the storehouse: “The worst experience we had in Dublin.”
Another added: “At 35 euros per person it was a pure rip-off and I'm from Dublin. Much better places to visit.”
With one more comment saying: “The view is admittedly incredible and the drink was solid, but neither of these things could wash the bad taste out of my mouth that I had just become a victim of an enormous (and bad) tourist trap.”
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