Ben Nevis: Read these hilarious negative TripAdvisor reviews for the UK’s highest mountain

Some visitors were upset to find there is no pub at the top of the 1,345 metre-tall mountain.

Disappointed travellers have left a series of hilarious negative reviews on the TripAdvisor page for Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest peak.

While the overwhelming majority of reviews for the 1,345 metre-tall mountain rate it as “Excellent”, a small group had a variety of complaints, including about how steep it is, and the poor 4G signal.

Overall, Ben Nevis’s TripAdvisor page has so far received 1,869 “Excellent” ratings, and 443 “Very Good” ratings - compared with just 17 “Poor” and six “Terrible”.

Disappointed travellers have left a series of hilarious negative reviews on the TripAdvisor page for Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest peak.

In a review titled “Walking up hill”, TripAdvisor user mbh5488, from Bury St Edmunds, wrote: “Read reviews of a cafe at the top and thought it sounded like a nice place for a cup of coffee.

“After making it to the top in about 2.5 hours,” they went on, ”we were ready for a nice hot drink and a view.

“There were clouds all around,” he said. There isn’t, of course, a cafe at the top of the Inverness-shire peak either.

“In all,” mbh5488all concluded, “a waste of time really.”

In a review called “Very steep and too high”, GrimTraveller, from Sulgrave, said he had forgotten “just how high some mountains can get.”

“Basically this mountain summed up Scotland as a whole”

Meanwhile, user Jimmy L, writing in 2016, said the Ben Nevis ascent was “was boring and unimaginative,” and complained that the route “lacked 4G signal in many places”.

Jimmy, who supposedly travelled up Britain’s highest mountain “on business”, complained that he couldn’t see anything from the top either.

“Basically this mountain summed up Scotland as a whole,” he added, “A big disappointment!”

In a review called “Very steep and too high”, GrimTraveller, from Sulgrave, said he had forgotten “just how high some mountains can get.”

Grim complained that the climb took almost a “full day”, and was “particularly steep and difficult”, adding that his girlfriend “was crying at one point.”

Once at the top, things only got worse for the pair when they realised there is no inn or restroom.

“Mount Snowdon has a pub, restaurant and toilets at its top,” Grim bleated.

“I honestly couldn't imagine anyone - and I mean anyone - paying to climb this,” he concluded.

Luckily it’s free.

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