| Some vacations aren't as good as they are made out | | | | hours standing in line just to check in and to top it |
| to be; maybe it's a case of false advertising or | | | | off, when you do finally get to the desk clerk your |
| maybe the locals just take advantage of you just | | | | room probably won't be ready. Now, you get to your |
| because you have "tourist" stamped on your | | | | room and half the stuff in your room is dirty and the |
| forehead. Or maybe your luggage arrived from the | | | | microwave doesn't work and the remote for the TV |
| airport a day or two after you did? In any case, it's | | | | is missing. So you call down to the desk to report |
| hard to pinpoint the worst vacation destinations | | | | the problems which they assure you will be taken |
| without taking into consideration all the things that | | | | care of. While you are waiting you decide you will go |
| can happen. Most disappointing vacations can usually | | | | down to the pool to distress but when you get |
| be prevented. | | | | there its so crowded you can't even sit down. I've |
| To keep you from making a bad choice twice we | | | | seen better accommodations at a Motel 6. |
| are going to give you our list of the top five bad | | | | 3. Intercontinental Hotel and Conference Center in |
| vacations. | | | | Cleveland, Ohio. Beware: The bed bugs really do bite! |
| 1. A lot of popular vacation spots in the United States | | | | 4. New Orleans, Louisiana. Even before the terrible |
| are suffering from unhealthy smog levels. Ozone | | | | tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has been |
| smog exposure has a cumulative long term effect on | | | | one of the hottest spots in the country, despite the |
| your body especially in the elderly and in | | | | fact that they have one of the country's highest |
| children.Believe it or not these popular holiday hot | | | | crime and murder rates. It will be a long time before |
| spots have high ozone smog: Cape Cod National Sea | | | | it is back in condition to accept visitors, though I think |
| Shore, Boston, Maine's Acadia National Park, | | | | it will be a different city once it is rebuilt. |
| Philadelphia, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, | | | | 5. Iraq. Self-explanatory. You can travel to the most |
| Maryland's Eastern Shore, Washington D.C., Indiana | | | | wonderful vacation destination in the world and have |
| Dunes National Lakeshore, Indianapolis, and Lake | | | | things go wrong. Get complete details in writing about |
| Michigan, Pennsylvania (including the Amish farmland | | | | your vacation arrangements prior to making a |
| and the city of Lancaster). | | | | payment. These details should include the total cost, |
| 2. Orlando looks beautiful when you are looking at | | | | including taxes, service fees, surcharges, port |
| brochures like the ones for the Nickelodeon Family | | | | charges; including the terms and conditions, |
| Suites, but once you have arrived you have to spend | | | | restrictions and cancellation penalties. |