Recent research by Which? has found Bangor, North Wales, is the UK’s worst seaside town.
In a survey of 4,700 Brits, the Gwynedd city scored just 42% based on factors like food and drink, tourist attractions, and shopping, and was described by participants as ‘drab’ and ‘run down’.
Reviews online aren’t much better either, with Google users slamming the promenade in particular.
‘The place is meh’ commented Athanasia, adding: ‘When the tides change, the beach looks gross.’
On Tripadvisor, trinapalmer91 called the pier ‘boring’, while HMS1979 wrote: ‘Absolutely nothing to do in Bangor… Wouldn’t come back.’
Wales’s oldest city isn’t the first British beach destination to fall out of favour with tourists – Aberaeron on the Ceredigion Coast was one of the ‘least visited’ places in the UK last year, and Skegness, Lincolnshire, previously made a list of the world’s worst holiday spots alongside Syria and North Korea.
But despite needing some TLC, …