Best of/ Worst of Awards – ATTRACTIONS

Favourite Attraction(s)

A: Warner Brothers Studio Tour. Underground Naples. GRIMMWELT. Universal Studios Hollywood.

B: Warner Brothers Studio Tour and Pompeii.

F: Universal Studios. The Gunpowder Plot. Warner Brothers Studio Tour.

J: The Gunpowder Plot. Warner Brothers Studio Tour. Universal Studios.

Warner Brothers Studio Tour in London... the only attraction that made it onto everyone's favourite attractions list!

Least Favourite Attraction

A: Cat cafe ($142.77 for four drinks and one hour sitting in a room with cats).

B: Singapore walking tour (hot and not good with kids).

F: Singapore walking tour.

J: Singapore walking tour.

The guide on our doomed Singapore walking tour.

Cheapest Attractions

Dresden Military Museum ($11.45) and Shin Yokohama Ramen Museum ($11.36). Not counting all the free things we did, of course!

We invented our own instant noodle combinations at the Shin Yokohama Ramen Museum in Japan!

Most Expensive Attraction

Universal Studios Hollywood ($428.80).

Hogsmeade Village, Universal Studios Hollywood.

Most Unusual/Unique Attraction

Fish spa in Singapore.

Fish spa, Singapore.

Most Underwhelming Sightseeing Experience 

Walking tour of Oxford (“Harry Potter filming locations” = glimpse of top of tree under which Malfoy was turned into a ferret, plus “pay what you want” = pay the amount suggested on the website).

This was a cool sight on our Oxford walking tour though!

Favourite Museums

A: Estonian Open Air Museum. Titanic Belfast. GRIMMWELT. But it's really hard to narrow it down; we went to so many great ones!

B: Lucerne Transport Museum. Estonian Open Air Museum. Tobu World Square (miniature world in Nikko, Japan).

F: Military History Museum in Dresden.

J: Leonardo Interactive Museum in Florence.

Military History Museum, Dresden.

Best Live Performance

A: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

B: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

F: Tournament of Kings.

J: Mac King, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Tournament of Kings.

Tournament of Kings, Las Vegas.

Favourite Workshop

A: Glass art workshop on Murano Island.

B: Glass art workshop. I love my cufflinks; they're awesome.

F: Sushi-making.

J: Glass art and sushi-making.

Glass art workshop on Murano Island, Italy.

Would-Most-Like-To-Revisit Attraction 

A: Universal Studios Hollywood, to see the rest of it!

B: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and Lucerne Transport Museum, to see what we missed.

F: Warner Brothers Studio Tour and Tournament of Kings.

J: Universal Studios, Warner Brothers Studio Tour and Tournament of Kings.

Lucerne Transport Museum, Switzerland.

Most-Disgruntled-To-Miss-Out-On Attraction

A: Edo Wonderland.

B: Edo Wonderland and Ghibli Museum.

F: Edo Wonderland and Ghibli Museum.

J: Edo Wonderland and our second day at Universal Studios.

At least missing out on Edo Wonderland meant we had time to do this cool (but frustrating!) maze in Nikko, Japan.

Countries With The Best Attractions Overall

A: The UK, Italy and France.

B: The UK.

F: England, America and Japan.

J: America and Japan.

We may have dissed England's toilets in our last post, but it also had some of our favourite attractions (and people!) on the entire trip.

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