What a disappointment

Some of you may enjoy the Panama City Beach of the mountains that is Gatlinburg, Tennessee, but we had a very different experience.  We visited Gatlinburg in the late spring of 2007 for our first anniversary.  Our most memorable part of spending time there was our day trip to Cades Cove in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park.  We stayed for two nights in a hotel a block off the main drag of downtown Gatlinburg.  It was a free stay for the obligation of touring a to-be built timeshare unit.  Before we had gone for our town we agreed to do a second one at another location for $100.  If we had already done the first there is no way we would have agreed to the second.  After wasting what seemed like most the day in this endeavor we walked the strip.  All we saw was cheap tourist trap paraphernalia.  We did go to the aquarium, which seemed to be the most elaborate thing in the town.  My advice is this, if you have the option between visiting Gatlinburg and anywhere else, steer clear of Gatlinburg.