This American TikToker Is Mad That Getting To The Amalfi Coast Involves Travel

If you’ve scrolled Instagram lately, you’re probably under the impression that everyone you know is in Europe.

You’re also probably aware of the many Americans at large on that same continent, many of whom are making TikToks about how crazy things are outside of the US. 

TikToker Lexi Jordan is one of them, and she has drawn the internet’s ire after posting a TikTok in which she complains about how “hard” it is to get to Italy’s Amalfi Coast. 

“Every single influencer and TikToker who put the Amalfi Coast on my FYP over the last two months deserves jail time,” she starts, “because while they showed you the gorgeous coastlines and the cute little towns — what they didn’t tell you were the disclaimers.” 

What disclaimers, you ask? Well, according to Lexi, the first one is that it’s “impossible” to get there. “You have to fly into Naples, then you have to take a train from Naples to Sorrento, then you have to stand in 90 degree weather [32°C] waiting for a ferry to get on a ferry with all of your luggage – mind you we’ve been in Europe for two weeks – lug it onto the ferry, get to Amalfi Coast finally,” she explained. 

So, she had to travel to get to a place she was travelling to? Sounds like a horrible experience. 

But this wasn’t Lexi’s only beef: she added that in order to get to the hotel you’re staying at which is on the side of a mountain, you actually have to walk up stairs to get there. 

Every one of these complaints, I fear, deserves gaol time.

Let’s also talk about the text on the video which reads, “dont [sic] get me wrong I love it but be serious this is literal manual labor [sic] not vacation”. OK, well having to carry your own luggage and make your way to an antique Italian town is not literal manual labour, but go off I guess.  

She also included the hashtag #dying on her caption, which immediately made me recall that timeless Kourtney Kardashian line, “Kim, there’s people dying.” Somehow, I don’t think this is who Kourtney was referring to. 

Obviously, because the internet is the place where videos like these get roasted to a crisp, people had some thoughts: 

americans when they discover 200 year old european towns have the infrastructure of 200 year old european towns and are made for the people who live there and not rude lazy tourists who can't walk for more than 10 minutes https://t.co/4KSEJ8bLXM pic.twitter.com/3lrEg0vExQ

— carmen ? (@shoujopolice) July 13, 2023

Stay home, the Europeans are tired! 

On my knees begging you to keep these kinds of Americans at home! Stay in Florida where you can drive door to door to Starbucks! I promise you, literally nobody wants you here! https://t.co/7Pe2bjg2ZC

— Camilla Blackett (@camillard) July 12, 2023

This one made me see The White Lotus in a whole new light. 

a few months ago, some dim people couldn’t fully grasp what it meant that the white lotus guests ate at the hotel restaurant every night and thought it was a plot hole … https://t.co/9DshukUvPW

— alex (@alex_abads) July 13, 2023

there has been an epidemic of americans in europe embarrassing themselves on tiktok https://t.co/beHpoOCqVH

— David Mack (@davidmackau) July 13, 2023

I’ve also had a good giggle at the comments under the original TikTok video, most of which point out that in order to travel somewhere in Europe, you’ll generally have to actually, you know, travel.  Move your arms and legs, propel yourself forward. That kind of thing. 

Get her, Bobby.

Turns out, you actually can be driven around the Amalfi Coast.

Or if you want really want to travel to the Amalfi Coast in comfort, just be rich! 

Anyway, Lexi still recommends going to the Amalfi Coast, gushing in her TikTok comments that it’s “absolutely gorgeous”. What? So what was her TikTok even for, then? My God… we give up.