American vacationer slams Italian journey hotspot for chaotic crowds

This traveler gave this charming Italian vacationer city the boot.

Las Vegas resident Regina Simmons, her husband and their two teenage daughters hung out earlier in the summertime seeing the sights across the Southern European nation — and evidently, they had been removed from the one ones who peeped Positano on social media.

They visited Rome, Florence and Sorrento, however throughout a day journey to Positano, Simmons stated she encountered crowds that had been “like a horror movie,” per The Mirror.

She stated that on social media, town seemed positively idyllic, however as soon as she set foot within the seaside city, it was a completely totally different story.

“In the videos, you see everything looks completely empty and calm. In real life, there were far too many people.”

“It was just bananas… We were overwhelmed by the amount of people,” she stated. “We had to look for a restaurant to hide in and make a game plan.” 

“Positano is all these tight little streets and everyone is walking together. Half the people are going up and half are going down. It was complete chaos. Everyone was touching, shoulder to shoulder,” Simmons stated.

She added that regardless of being a smaller city, nearly every part was in English — so she didn’t have the prospect to make use of the Italian she discovered for the journey — and the streets had been flooded with different Americans.

 “If it’s trendy on social media, everyone wants to do what everyone else is doing, myself included… Don’t believe everything you see on social media,” she stated.

Despite the crowds in Positano, Simmons appears to have loved the remainder of the household’s Italian trip.

The city, positioned alongside the Amalfi Coast, has lengthy been a well-liked trip spot, however this 12 months’s crowds have been significantly colossal. Southern Europe, normally, has suffered from overtourism, with Vatican City billed by Go2Africa as the highest overcrowded journey vacation spot of 2025.

Simmons’ Southern European slip-up marks the newest in an extended line of American antics throughout the pond this summer time.

One mother was mercilessly mocked by Europeans after she posted a video to TikTok stating how totally different the tradition round kids and parenting is from the United States.

She was eating outdoors at a restaurant in Portugal, and observed a bunch of multilingual youngsters taking part in soccer whereas their dad and mom loved a bottle of wine on the desk.

A Londoner additionally lately expressed frustration with the throngs of American vacationers traipsing throughout the continent.

The Brit stated that that they had observed an obvious sample of Americans abbreviating locations when talking about them, which they proposed results in confusion and delay in getting instructions from locals.