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Review of Sedona, Arizona

Go Home Tourists!
Star Rating - 9/21/2020
Sedona was a great place to live back in the 90's. Its still very good but has now been ruined by tourists. Most of the tourists come from Southern California and Phoenix. They rent ATV's and try to sneak on to the trails to ruin everyones hiking experience. The tourists also drive up the canyon to go to Slide Rock and other parts of the creek. They park everywhere, in the middle of the road, in the middle of passing lanes, everywhere, and then they walk in the middle of the highway to get to their destination. They stand in the middle of the highway to take stupid family pics, these idiots. Go home!!! They leave their beer cans all over the creek, they deficate and urinate in the creek and all over town, they leave dirty diapers, condoms, and maxi pads floating in the creek. These tourists are disgusting and need to stay in their own city. Don't come to Sedona, we don't wan't you! But its not just the tourists that are ruining Sedona, it's also the city of Sedona. City council permits huge hotels and resorts on every street corner in Sedona. They approved the stupid Marriott hotel to have TWO hotels on one lot near the high school. How stupid can you possibly be? City of Sedona is constantly messing up neighborhoods and roads with useless drainage and sidewalk projects, hiring horrible construction companies that take years to complete a simple task. The third thing that has ruined Sedona are the stupid idiotic ROUNDABOUTS!!! Get rid of these stupid pieces of junk!!! NO MORE ROUNDABOUTS, NO MORE RESORTS, NO MORE HOTELS, NO MORE E-BIKES, TOURISTS GO HOME!!!!! Other than that, Sedona is a great place to live.
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Tadestal Nillan
Tad | Flagstaff, AZ
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I very much agree with this. The Sedona Mayor and Council members need to do more to protect the Sedona community from being over run by tourists. Right now Sedona is being influenced by very greedy business owners.
Betty | Sedona, AZ | Report Abuse
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I totally agree with this review. Sedona is not a tourist attraction. If you are a tourist and you come to Sedona, the first thing you need to do is bow down and pray. And when you see a local resident put your hands together and bow your head in respect.
Betty | Sedona, AZ | Report Abuse
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I’ll just make this comment re tourists: We live in Telluride in the summer. Last year was horrendous. I think the same tourists that were mentioned here made their way to Telluride. I think the larger question is “when will this end”? Is it a pandemic phenomenon and if so will it end when we have herd immunity? I guess we have a choice, live in a place that no one wants to visit, or live in paradise!
John | Austin, TX | Report Abuse
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Couldn’t agree more. Tourists have ruined this beautiful place. Even 2 years ago it wasn’t this bad. So disappointing how tourists have overwhelmed this place and ruined its natural places. They keep trashing natural places. Disrespecting them. To the point where rescue workers spend a lot of their time rescuing inexperienced hikers who were just fat bored couch potatoes 2 days ago, from places they shouldn’t be hiking in the first place. Hiking on once secluded trails only locals new just so they can take their dumb repeat Instagram photos. Stopping in the road to take family pictures. Tourists are great for the economy if you support the greedy big business but terrible for the locals and the environment.
Kara | St. Petersburg, FL | Report Abuse
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Tad is a bit over the top, but makes some valid points. The city is largely responsible for this mess; too many hotels and VRBOs for the infrastructure to handle. When you have only one main road going north and south, and only one going east and west, there's only so much volume of traffic they can handle. Keep adding hotels and more people are going to come and clog the roads and restaurants. The other problem is having enough service workers to support the throngs that come. They need to STOP adding more rooms until there is adaquate infrastucture.
Steven | Belleville, IL | Report Abuse
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Even though my wife and I have only visited Sedona (Stayed in Oak Creek) as tourist, I respected the people and the land no matter what I did. I would call us more as "vacationers" than tourists. We live in a tourist area ourselves, and know exactly the type of people you refer to. Rude, self-entitled, and disrespectful to the land, people, and oblivious to everything around them and focus only upon their selfish wants. The last time we stayed in Oak Creek was almost 10 years ago, and we were complaining about the obnoxious tourists, even though we weren't locals. I recall them unloading from buses like so many herds of cattle, then aimlessly wander in the middle of trails and paths with cameras hanging from their necks, and blocked hikers, cyclists and horses. When they'd finally move to give some room for others, they'd give the most stupid look...like a deer in the headlights. And hey, if people can't read or speak English, they can expect some angry looks when doing foolish things. They shouldn't be there. And those vile idiots who litter and foul the land? I hope they get jailed, and banned from ever returning to Arizona. The truth hurts sometimes, but your primary offenders are from foreign countries.
Donald | Sequim, WA | Report Abuse
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