As someone who lives in a tourist town, no. These are not made up. I worked in a hotel restaurant one summer and got to listen to complaints like:
1. People upset that on their trip to Mt. McKinley they didn't get to see Denali. (FYI, it's the same mountain, it just has two names. You'd think someone going there would bother to look that shit up.)
2. People complaining that they'd packed only winter gear to visit Alaska in the summertime and no one bothered to tell them that it's not snowy all the time! (Clearly, it's our fault and this is a stupid place and should be hated.)
3. People getting pissed off that they didn't get to see the Northern Lights...even though they came in the middle of summer, when we have a solid 24 hours of daylight for weeks.
Also, they never seem to realize that the Northern Lights can't be turned on and off for their delight. It's not a freaking fireworks display.
And this is just what I heard in a restaurant. The stories I hear from tour guides are worse.