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Used to be incredible, made me feel like I was getting in on a secret. Now, the website spams you with booking.com ads and takes hours to load. Clearly stealing your data, and has really fallen from what it once was.

no clear way to delete account, therefore they are stealing my data and breaching GDPR. unethical website

It used to be great but the website has grown EXTREMELY buggy, the app is mildly better but still not good by any standard of operation in 2024. I cannot add things to my "want to go" because I just get error messages. The photos when you try to 'view all' in an area disappear, as do the 'quick add' functions. The community forum was closed in 2022. It used to be great but has since gotten really sad.

I've been plagued,recently,by Scam,spam and blatent rubbish from atlasobscura.com. If any one else is having these issues please block and write a review here.

Their editing team take a long time to respond, and do not even respond to any emails or questions sent on posts written.

If you want to travel without the hassle of dealing with planning minutiae, Atlas Obscura Trips is the way to go. I’ve taken 2 AO food-based trips to bucket list locations (Lisbon, Portugal 2019, Vietnam 2023) and can’t wait to travel with them again. The trips are well-organized, guides are excellent, sightseeing is fun and interesting, hotels are wonderful. Tour group size is small - allowing plenty of opportunity to interact and make new friends. And the food is pretty amazing! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

We took a small-group food tour of Vietnam with Atlas Obscura in March 2023. Easily one of the best travel experiences I've had. From the night we arrived in Hanoi to our departure 9 days later from Ho Chi Minh City, our local hosts/guides Q and Duc took such good care of us and made every step effortless. The itinerary was structured as a survey of the different regions of Vietnam, from north to south, with a mix of urban and rural, resort and hill village, historic and modern, street market and full service restaurant experiences. For example in Hoi An I really enjoyed seeing the small farms where the produce is grown, then then shopping with a local chef an outdoor market where it's sold, then participating in a cooking class with that same chef in the food hall she established, THEN eating the meal we'd just cooked. Our hosts were invaluable. They made sure each day was efficient and well paced - all transportation was figured out for us, hotel transfers were a breeze, and the accommodations were all eye popping and amazing (the bathtubs...sigh!) Basically all the work of planning and navigating is done for you, all you have to do is show up. Plus, our hosts had access to places and experiences that we wouldn't have as normal tourists. I only wish we had more time on the trip! It felt like it was over too soon. I'm saving up for my next Atlas Obscura trip :)

We just returned from an Atlas Obscura trip to Egypt. I was fantastic! Our guide was an expert, and was able to teach us so much. Everything was seemless. All meals included and the restaurants picked were authentic and delicious. The accomodations chosen in Cairo were more like a guesthouse. We felt very much a part of where we were versus being in a "resort bubble". I highly recommend Atlas Obscura. We are already looking for our next adventure with them. Our group of 10 all week very happy. One couple was on the second trip with Atlas and booked a third already.