Where's somewhere you've visited but wouldn't want to go back to?

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Positive and negative!

I went to Las Vegas, glad I went, but no desire to return! :)

Would never return to Warwick Castle. It's quite over rated...and not much even happened there, it just looks the part! :)

Vancouver. Maybe because we were there at new year, but there is very little for tourists to actually do. Incredibly dirty and loads of homeless people.

In the U.K. it would be Liverpool. The whole place just feels menacing.

Also Sterling, or at least, I wouldn't go there in October

Do you mean Stirling? It isn’t that cold in October.

New York

Not just us then. We really didn’t enjoy it.

Beamish Museum.

Yep. I loved it as a child, but went as an adult and found it really crap. Very bad for accessibility too.

Paris - but I'm not sure if that was because the weekend was so rushed but I can't say I'd want to go back.

As a child Oxford and cotswold- as parents would drive there and walk us around and I rememeber it being pretty but that's it. Plus my parents often ended up going through Oxford coming back off holdiay and getting stuck and having words.

Redwood National Park - might have been the company - work collegues - but after 5 minutes of wow that's a big tree after driving for couple of hours there I was over entire thing- the forest walk was a trial as collegues were winding each other up and having fights.

Paris

@comebacksunshines

Bristol. Deadly dull. Everything was shut in city centre on Sunday evening when we passed through, no obvious night scene - as in bars and restaurants, not pissed up louts.

Lanzarote. Boring and soulless. Can’t see the attraction.

You should come down today - 28 degrees, there's a beach bar, helter skelter, slush bar, Mexican band and chair-o-planes (I love chair-o- planes!!) and that was just on a 15 minute walk in my lunch hour.

I must not fit the Mumsnet mould, most of the places you all hate are ones I really like! Which also gives me hope because I’m going to Bath next month and the amount of hate it’s getting here was making me worry. Mind you, I’m a very glass half full type of person, I mainly find something to appreciate and enjoy everywhere I go.

@BabyFartsDoStink
I think we may live in the same southern seaside town
All the estate agents call it little Brighton or Shoreditch on sea
Chock full of pretentiousness

@AwaAnBileYerHeid

In Japan I felt so unsafe because of being followed by sinister looking men. Happened every time I went out I genuinely felt sick and like I was going to be abducted or something.

Never felt like that anywhere else and have travelled extensively in Africa alone - never felt as scared as I did in Japan.

Kuala Lumpur. Smelly, busy and cockroches everywhere.

the other place was Sheffield as soon as the sun went down it was like a scene from the Michael Jackson video Thriller

Reminds me of a day trip I took to Sheffield once...when I got back to my car it was black with dust and dirt! I couldn't believe it - the air must have been so dirty.

Disneyland Paris. We have taken our children there twice and both times it was a mistake. Terrible eating places (so few, so busy and so expensive), little shade, long queues for the rides, and when you get to the front, they close the ride.

Prague. Such a beautiful city that has been completely ruined by tourism. We were hassled constantly. Really would have loved to have seen it 20 years ago.

We went a couple of years ago, it was early March and we were there from Monday until Friday. We saw a much different city from Monday until Thursday, on Friday stag parties started to arrive and I could’ve wept. Already drunk as they arrived in the city, shouting and ‘singing’ in the streets. We’d met lovely locals during our time there and I felt so awful for them to see what they had to deal with at weekends.

@TheHuntingOfTheSarky

Uh-oh, whats wrong with Salcombe? I've never been before but booked for September now!

Cannes - horrible, dirty place, with exorbitantly expensive hotels, and rotten restaurants.

Everywhere in the entire world except for the north-western part of Abersoch

Mexico - people trying to rip us off evrywhere we went, and hacked our cards even though we only used them a couple of times.

Paris - charmless and felt unsafe

Turkey (mediterranean coast) - dirty, brash and we ended up with serious food poisoning despite being very careful what we ate and drank

Oh also Bali! Really pretty but so much poverty and scamming and I was the sickest I’ve ever ever been!

Bristol City Centre is shit on an evening or weekend. You need to come further out to Gloucester Road or down to North St for some action.

Which takes me to how I felt about Milan. We could not find a place to eat, which was stressful, would have been fine with a local.

Also Bilbao. Once you've been to the Guggenheim there's really nothing to do, and also nowhere to eat at all. Even the hotel restaurant was closed!! So we had to eat snacks from the supermarket. Totally relate to countong down until coming home!

Slough.
Back in the day before sat nav and mobile phones I had a job that involved visiting people to discuss their insurance claims. Most towns layout and geography I got to grips with cos I do have a decent sense of both direction and logic. Everytime I went there I thought "this seems familiar but the last time I saw it I was lost as well."
From the moment i left the job I have never been back and indeed have taken detours to avoid it.

It's interesting to read about Beamish Museum.

IL keep on it's great - so we keep saying we'll have to try and go.

I grew up near Black country Musuem and went many times and been back with our own children - it's pricy as canal trips are now seperate and have to pay again to do - and we regularly go to St Fagins and have taken IL but they keep on about Beamish.

Brighton ....dirty run down seaside resort but with a weird hipster vibe.

Shrewsbury ❤️😍 you never hear about to but what a lovely place. Gorgeous big parks with lots of history.

Paisley. everything was boarded up or closed on a Saturday afternoon. Even DH felt unsafe and he's a big bloke. Glasgow felt much safer!

Plenty of others too:
Watford
Selsey
Stourbridge
The whole of Cornwall
A very dodgy motel in Cincinnati
San Francisco

Hay on Wye. An armpit. One bad pub open selling rubbish roasts.
Overseas, I like most of the places I've been (I will defend Lisbon and Paris) but I don't much like Marrakesh; seedy, grubby, unfriendly IME. Nothing much to do culturally either.

Was underwhelmed by Rome too, TBH. TBF I went years ago when I was young and on a shoestring, but I thought it was quite scruffy and grubby. Found people largely unfriendly. Bad food (I've been to Italy only twice but can honestly say I've eaten badly there far more than I've eaten well). I would quite like to go to Rome again with a bit more money to spend though. And maybe a friend or guide who can find me a nice dinner

Nearly forgot:
Colwyn Bay
Betws-y-Coed
Tenby

@Tay1980

Bath, thought it would be beautiful but Harrogate (10 minutes up the road) is far nicer 🤷🏼‍♀️

Bath is nowhere near Harrogate???!

Milan - nightmare place to drive through and people are so rude.

Belgium.