13 Tourist Traps: Destinations Most Travelers Secretly Regret Visiting

4. The Blarney Stone, Ireland: A Kiss, a Queue, a Crowd

Expectation: A charming, ancient ritual bestowing eloquence. Reality: An incredibly long queue, often lasting hours, just to awkwardly lean backward to kiss a damp stone covered in countless other lips. The surrounding Blarney Castle is beautiful, but the "stone" experience itself is a brief, unsanitary, and unglamorous moment. Many tourists leave feeling that the legend vastly outweighs the actual, rather unhygienic, and time-consuming physical act.