Describing places

The hotel pool is always ______________. (= with too many people)

• desbordating

• overcrowded

• superpacked

• abarrotated

The souvenirs were all plastic Eiffel Towers and key rings, really ______________ stuff. (= cheap, badly made, and / or lacking in taste)

• cutring

• cheesy

• dodgy

• tacky

I think that restaurant's ______________. (= with a better reputation than it really deserves)

• overrated

• overvalued

• overestimated

• overreputed

The seafront has been ______________ by all the new hotels. (= changed for the worse)

• damaged

• spoilt

• ruined

• harmed

It's a lovely city, almost completely ______________ by tourism. (= beautiful because it has not been changed).

• disharmed

• changeless

• inaltered

• unspoilt

The view is absolutely ______________. (= very impressive, spectacular)

• sobrecogeing

• heartstopping

• breathtaking

• speechsuppressing

We found a tiny café in the back streets of Venice, right ______________. (= away from where people normally go)

• off the beaten track

• where Jesus Christ lost his hat

• aside from the world

• away from the noisy road

The museum's pretty ______________, but the café's good. (= boring)

• unlively

• soulless

• dull

• unsalted

We went to a very ______________ little fishing village yesterday. (= pretty, especially in a way that looks old-fashioned)

• cosy

• impressive

• bucholic

• picturesque

The shops are quite ______________, but we bought some nice things. (= designed to attract a lot of tourists)

• touristracting

• touristy

• tourist-trapping

• touristic