{"id":12884,"date":"2023-12-15T23:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T23:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksonvillecelticfestival.com\/?p=12884"},"modified":"2023-12-15T23:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T23:01:38","slug":"solo-traveller-reveals-her-most-overrated-experiences-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksonvillecelticfestival.com\/travel\/solo-traveller-reveals-her-most-overrated-experiences-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo traveller reveals her most OVERRATED experiences in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Solo traveller reveals her most OVERRATED experiences in Thailand<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A backpacker has shared the four things she thinks are overhyped in Thailand<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0I left London to live in a three-bedroom villa in Thailand<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thailand is an extremely popular destination for solo travellers, with over a million backpackers from the UK and Ireland visiting every single year.<\/p>\n<p>With it&#8217;s beautiful beaches, active nightlife and rich culture, it&#8217;s easy to see why so many people take an extended trip there.<\/p>\n<p>However, as its popularity has grown, the places and experiences on offer have become more talked about on social media, and not all of them live up to the hype.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One solo traveller has shared the four things she thinks are overrated in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The video by Chloe, who goes by @chloeroams on the app, has been seen by more than 12,000 people &#8211; read on to find out what she thinks has been wrongly hyped up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/08\/78646591-12832345-One_solo_traveller_who_spent_time_in_the_country_has_shared_the_-a-42_1702195356166.jpg\" height=\"1069\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One solo traveller who spent time in the country has shared the four things she thinks are overrated<\/p>\n<p>Thailand is the besttt country, with so much to do, see &amp; eat.. But here are some popular tourist experiences I found to be a little overrated \ud83e\udee3 #travelbackpacking #travelthailand #travelbali #balirecommendations #budgetbackpackingbali #travelvietnam #travelsoutheastasia #southeastasia #seasia #backpackingseasia #budgetbackpackingseasia #backpackingthailand #budgetbackpackingthailand #backpackingvietnam #budgetbackpackingvietnam #southeastasiatravelguide #hostellife #thailandrecommendations #thingstodoseasia #thingstodovietnam #thingstodothailand #thingstodocambodia #travelvlogs #travelvlogger #travelblogger #welcometotravel #australia #travellingaustralia #australiawhv #workingholidayvisa #eastcoastitinery #australiahostels #australiavisa #australiavisaupdate #australiabackpackers <\/p>\n<h2>7-Eleven ham and cheese toasties\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>First up, is something that&#8217;s not exclusive to Thailand, but has been hugely popularized by inflluencers &#8211; it&#8217;s the ham and cheese toasties from 7-Eleven.<\/p>\n<p>The travel pro told viewers: &#8216;Number one, I feel like I&#8217;m gonna get s*** for this but 7-Eleven ham and cheese toasties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They&#8217;re foul, they&#8217;re not good at all, they were so overhyped on TikTok with people saying &#8216;you&#8217;ll live off them&#8217; and&#8217; they&#8217;ll become a staple of your diet&#8217;, &#8216;you&#8217;re not even a real traveller if you don&#8217;t eat ham and cheese toasties&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She repeated &#8216;They&#8217;re foul. No one I knew liked them&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Another content creator admitted in the comments &#8216;I post about the sandwiches but I don\u2019t eat them myself&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Maya Bay<\/h2>\n<p>Chloe continued: &#8216;Number two is Maya Bay &#8211; honestly, so overrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I mean if you just type in &#8216;Maya Bay overcrowded&#8217; on TikTok, you&#8217;ll see what I mean.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/08\/78694591-12832345-Maya_Bay_Pai_and_The_Full_Moon_Party_at_Koh_Phangan_all_didn_t_l-a-40_1702195355991.jpg\" height=\"542\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Maya Bay, Pai and The Full Moon Party at Koh Phangan all didn&#8217;t live up to the hype for the influencer<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/08\/78646587-12832345-Chloe_continued_Number_two_is_Maya_Bay_honestly_so_overrated_-a-41_1702195356043.jpg\" height=\"1080\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chloe continued: &#8216;Number two is Maya Bay &#8211; honestly, so overrated&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s literally just a beach and because you can&#8217;t swim in the water, it&#8217;s just a beach that you lie on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But then you&#8217;re surrounded by people because it&#8217;s so overcrowded&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic location was made famous by the 2000 movie &#8216;The Beach&#8217; starring Leonardo DiCaprio &#8211; despite being small, it attracts masses of tourists every day.<\/p>\n<p>Before it&#8217;s reopening last year, it was inundated with 5,000 tourists a day and had to close for four months to allow the coral to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new measures, boats are not allowed to enter the bay with drivers having to drop off passengers at a nearby pier and only eight speedboats are allowed to dock at one time.<\/p>\n<p>Only one visit per hour is allowed and numbers are capped at 300 people per &#8217;round&#8217;, from 10am to 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>Commenters were in agreement, writing &#8216;100% agree with Maya Bay don\u2019t get me wrong it was beautiful but I couldn\u2019t get my head around paying nearly a tenner just to walk on a beach&#8217; and &#8216;I thought i was the only one esp maya bay it was packed!!&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/08\/52525495-12832345-Maya_Bay_The_iconic_location_was_made_famous_by_the_2000_movie_T-a-45_1702195357967.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Maya Bay: The iconic location was made famous by the 2000 movie &#8216;The Beach&#8217; starring Leonardo DiCaprio &#8211; despite being small, it attracts masses of tourists every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Pai<\/h2>\n<p>Third on the TikToker&#8217;s list is Pai, a small town in the Mae Hong Soon Province of northern Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>She said &#8216;The next overrated thing is Pai. I feel like I&#8217;m gonna offend some people cause some people love Pai so much.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I did not rate it, none of the activities apart from tipsy tubing really stood out for me and let&#8217;s be honest, tipsy tubing isn&#8217;t the most cultural of activities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We also found Pai to be quite cliquey as well. I think because people end up staying there for months at a time, people kind of form their own groups and stick to them&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She concluded &#8216;It&#8217;s just not really my vibe,&#8217; which some commenters agreed with.<\/p>\n<p>One traveller wrote: &#8216;FINALLYYY someone else who disliked Pai!!!! I didn\u2019t rate it either&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Another chimed in with, &#8216;Pai is overrated, I\u2019ve just come back from Pai and I\u2019ve got to say that it depends on the hostel\/ the people you meet,&#8217; meanwhile someone else penned &#8216;I HATED pai!! I thought I was the only one, 0 culture in that city it was like I was in a backpacker resort in Europe&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else agreed: &#8216;Completely agree with your thoughts on Pai! Unsure if I went with high expectations but it was so disappointing for how much people seemingly love it&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>The Full Moon party\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/08\/78648131-12832345-Finally_Chloe_wasn_t_a_huge_fan_of_the_Full_Moon_Party_another_e-a-43_1702195356565.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Finally, Chloe wasn&#8217;t a huge fan of the Full Moon Party &#8211; another experience that&#8217;s very popular among tourists<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/10\/08\/78648149-12832345-It_s_one_of_the_worlds_biggest_parties_and_is_attended_by_more_t-a-44_1702195356657.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the worlds biggest parties and is attended by more than 30,000 people &#8211; revellers dance to electronic music, with DJ&#8217;s from across the world performing<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Backpacker warns against travelling to these &#8216;expensive and overrated&#8217; popular holiday destinations &#8211; but does she have a point?<\/h3>\n<p>Finally, Chloe wasn&#8217;t a huge fan of the Full Moon Party &#8211; another experience that&#8217;s very popular among tourists.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the worlds biggest parties, which began in the 1980&#8217;s, and is attended by more than\u00a030,000 people &#8211; revellers dance to electronic music, with DJ&#8217;s from across the world performing.<\/p>\n<p>The festival like extravaganza takes place on the island of Koh Phangan and is notable for it&#8217;s buckets of booze and neon theme.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chloe advises, &#8216;\u00a0Don&#8217;t get me wrong it was good, I dunno,\u00a0 I&#8217;ve just had better nights out in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Everything was just so overpriced: the accommodation, the drinks, the food prices, there are definitely better nights out in Thailand&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She also warned &#8216;I know that spiking is really prevalent at the Full Moon party as well so just from a safety concern as well, it&#8217;s just not that good&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The solo traveller concluded the clip by asking &#8216;Let me know if you agree or disagree with any of these and are there any other experiences in Thailand that you find overhyped?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Viewers chimed in with &#8216;Full Moon party has to be on the list&#8217; and &#8216;yess I think I\u2019m not gonna spend too much time in Pai, and skipping the full moon parties, just don\u2019t seem too much like my thing&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>However, some people disagreed, adding: &#8216;I love the toasties\u2026&#8217; and &#8216;We left for Maya Bay at 5:50am for the sunrise and were the first ones there&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/article-12832345\/Solo-traveller-reveals-OVERRATED-experiences-Thailand.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solo traveller reveals her most OVERRATED experiences in Thailand A backpacker has shared the four things she thinks are overhyped in Thailand READ MORE:\u00a0I left London to live in a three-bedroom villa in Thailand Thailand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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