When you’re on vacation, nothing can ruin a day like one long and poorly managed queue for a tourist attraction. If you want to visit the most popular sights, admire the most famous works of art, and access the most spectacular theme parks, you have to consider that hundreds of visitors have the same idea every day.
At that moment, some reluctantly prefer to give up, and those who are not so easily intimidated by kilometer-long queues inevitably end in negative emotions such as boredom, frustration, and impatience.
Only the tourist complaints on the Internet, are in the middle of the ranking compiled by the website the Hawaiian Islands which looked at a total of 10.74 million reviews on Tripadvisor referring to 100 tourist attractions, which will rather arouse protests from vacationers due to endless queues. The list also includes the famous Italian venue, which finished on the third podium.
Attractions with the longest queues: Italy is third
The Eiffel Tower in Paris tops the list of attractions most criticized for long queues, with almost 4800 reviews who complain about long queues. The experience depends a lot on the time you choose to go, with the wait at the top reaching 3 hours when the rush of people is at its peak.
Second, is the iconic London Eye in the British capital, p 4756 reviews that contain the words “long tail”. Although London’s huge Ferris wheel can hold 800 passengers at a time, tourists can wait up to 45 minutes to board.
In third place in the ranking of places with the longest queues at the entrance is our Colosseum, p 4262 complaints of visitors waiting to enter the amphitheater, to admire up close one of the most sought-after tourist attractions in the world.
In fourth place, we find the Theme Park Legoland Windsor Resort in Windsor, England, and subsequently Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and from the Empire State Building in New York. The British amusement park closes the top 10 Alton Towers Resort between Birmingham and Manchester Siamese Park from Adeje in the Canary Islands, Paris Disney land they Universal Studios in Singapore.
The worst queues in the United States in New York
New York is home to seven of the 20 most criticized tourist attractions in the United States, led by the Empire State Building (2,842 mentions of long lines in reviews). As a jewel of the city’s skyline and the country’s number one attraction, it’s no wonder it attracts more than four million visitors a year, all of whom have to contend with grueling queues. Nightmare queues reserve them too Top of the Rock (1,305 mentions), a spectacular observatory at the top of Rockefeller Center. The ranking also includes four theme parks in Orlando, Florida, led byUniversal’s Islands of Adventure (860 mentions), where you can wait in line for up to 93 minutes and try adrenaline rides.
Ranking of 20 attractions with the longest queues
- Eiffel Tower, Paris
- London Eye, London
- Colosseum, Rome
- Legoland Windsor Resort, Windsor, United Kingdom
- Sagrada Familia Basilica, Barcelona
- Empire State Building, New York
- Alton Towers Resort, Alton, United Kingdom
- Siam Park, Adeje, Spain
- Disneyland Paris, Marne-la-Vallée, France
- Universal Studios Singapore, Sentosa Island, Singapore
- Tower of London, London
- Victoria Peak, Hong Kong
- Louvre Museum, Paris
- Burj Khalifa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Thorpe Park, Chertsey, United Kingdom
- Madame Tussauds, London
- Chessington World of Adventures Resort, Chessington, United Kingdom
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- Top of the Rock, New York
- Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, Watford, United Kingdom