I’ve been to 76 countries – beat these overrated nightmares, including a major US city

He doesn’t love LA.

Los Angeles has been named one of the worst places to travel on holiday, according to a well-traveled critic who has visited more than 76 countries.

“No doubt if you’ve got the big bucks you’ll have a good time,” Daily Mail travel editor Mark Palmer sniffed in a quick takedown of the City of Angels.

“Otherwise, you can easily feel lost and disconnected. “A city with highways running through it is never the most relaxing,” he said.

Palmer dismissed the local bus tour “where you’re shown where the big names in Hollywood live,” which actually include “high walls of barbed wire” and called Venice Beach “a mecca for poseurs and the “Island of “wanted” Love.

Also on the no-fly connoisseur’s list is Dubai – a place he would “only go to once” and never again, despite the “amazing feat of engineering” that is building a metropolis in the middle of a desert.

Dream honeymoon destination Maldives, he said, wasn’t even worth the trip – he doesn’t “get” the hype.

“Those ‘idyllic’ atolls have no culture; at night you don’t care about anything; the sea is often only waist deep; there’s nothing in the way of a lager at a local bar; you see the same people for breakfast, lunch and dinner,” he wrote, adding that the cheapest price of wine is still too high.

Next on the chopping block is Mykonos – a destination that has been criticized by fellow avid travelers as being too expensive.

“It must have been great 20 or 30 years ago. Now it’s all style over substance,” wrote Palmer, criticizing luxury lounge chairs that cost a pretty penny.

“The main city is occupied and made impregnable when a cruise ship comes calling. All this is a far cry from what a traditional Greek island should be.”

He would also avoid Barcelona – too many tourists, he said, and Malta – too developed.

Instead, some of his choices are the “lush Caribbean island” of Grenada, for its “gentle, open, warm and infectiously cheerful” people, or the Italian city of Lecce.

There, Palmer said, visitors can marvel at its “magnificent courtyard palaces, grand squares, grand amphitheater” and more, adding that “it’s no wonder people call it the ‘Florence of the South,’ without the crowds.”

He also recommended Morocco, Rwanda, Iceland, Japan, Venice during the winter and Stockholm.

“The streets of Sweden’s capital are exceptionally clean; parks and forests are easily accessible from the city; water is everywhere,” Palmer gushed.

“It has one of the most beautiful opera houses in the world; the grand boulevards, the fine narrow streets in Gamla Stan (the old town) and the constant swaying of ships of every seaworthy kind.”