I have been to pigeon forge where some of the worst places are. Just write off pigeon forge, period. Dollywood is ok, the island was fun for my son with the multistory zip lines but the rest can suck an egg as they just suck your money badly. I did want to stop at the smoke mountain knife works but the misses did not want me spending the gas money to get home.
We used to go to a truck show in Pigeon Forge and the host hotel (Grand Hotel) won the title of the worst maintained hotel in the country. In about 1999, a chunk of concrete sloughed off the side and landed on the promoters wife’s brand new car that still had the paper plates on it.
“... the island was fun for my son ...”
The article must mean ‘boring for adults’.
In any event, boredom has been described as the root of many evil deeds.