The street gained mass attention and even became a landmark after The Beatles named their 1969 album ‘Abbey Road’, with the album cover featuring the four members crossing the road.
Now, every day, dozens of eager and excited tourists head to the location to recreate the iconic album cover.
However, it seems some of those tourists expect a bit more than just a road when they make the trip to St John’s Wood and often end up disappointed.
Many of those tourists have taken to the online review site Tripadvisor to share their upset.
One visitor titled their review “disappointed doesn’t cover it…” explaining: “On reflection, I think I may have been expecting too much. My disappointment in not finding street sellers, either side of the road, selling cheap t-shirts and merchandise was a surprise.”
They added: “It’s just a zebra crossing and you’d save yourself some money by just standing on any of the millions in the UK and just photoshopping the background in.”
Another upset Beatles fan shared that there’s ‘nothing to see’: "I am a massive Beatles fan, but there really is nothing to see here.
“It’s just an ordinary zebra crossing. It’s busy - crowded with fellow tourists trying to work out if they are even at the right place, and with annoyed drivers trying to drive down a busy main road.”
I’m willing to be literally any amount of money on these tourists being American. who the hell else actually wants a tourist trap?
I would doubt that for any of the ones above saying “zebra crossing”. Never heard that here in the US before. Seems like a big clue to where they may be from.
Yeah, I only know it from Hitchhiker’s Guide, where Oolon Colluphid follows up his famous proof of the non-existence of God with a proof that black is white and gets run down at a zebra crossing. I was a kid when I first read it so I took it literally, haha. It does kinda fit with the other absurd bits of that series.
who the hell else actually wants a tourist trap?
Me, but only if it was an actual trap.
One visitor titled their review “disappointed doesn’t cover it…” explaining: “On reflection, I think I may have been expecting too much. My disappointment in not finding street sellers, either side of the road, selling cheap t-shirts and merchandise was a surprise.”
Wait people actually want the tat sellers?! Did they ever stop to think it would ruin the photo spot if that were the case?
They added: “It’s just a zebra crossing and you’d save yourself some money by just standing on any of the millions in the UK and just photoshopping the background in.”
Why travel and take photos at all? You can just Photoshop anything in
What is wrong with people
Why travel
To bring home cheap souvenirs you can use as proof you went there to your guests, duh
Were they also upset that St John’s Wood isn’t a wood?
Next you’re gonna tell me Piccadilly Circus isn’t a circus 😔
but it is…
It’s better than that.
They’re probably upset that St John’s Wood isn’t Abbey Road.
Because both exist on the London mass transit network, and one of them is nowhere near Abbey Road (the road).
I feel like I’m missing something here, did they not see the big building called “Abbey Road Recording Studio”? It’s probably the most famous recording studio in the world and I believe they occasionally do tours and events.
Found it
One of my favorite past times at places like this is watching people almost get hit by cars not realizing these are active roads. I’ve seen it there and at Dealey Plaza.
Paris Syndrome for boomers
A needed laugh! Thank you!
