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! :)

Have been to Thailand and India and Egypt and while I appreciated the history and culture the constant hassle, the sexual overtones and the awareness of there being terrible poverty, corruption and sex-based violence make them places I don't want to return to.

Agree about Oxford. I've been for several days out there and am always stunned by the traffic, the way in which the colleges are so spread out and the lack of what feels like a centre. Cambridge, with its busy market surrounded by colleges and the river practically in sight is so much lovelier. You can walk to practically everything you'd want to see — the Fitzwilliam, the colleges, the backs, the shops, theatres etc.

The Cotswolds. We went for a week's holiday there a few years ago. Pretty villages, lovely scenery but many very touristy. Lovely pubs and restaurants full of pushy, braying public-school-types. The locally-born farmer's wife who ran a B+B from home in said most of the village was holiday homes, some of them only used a couple of times a year. It was the same sort of feeling I get in Cornwall.

Well either I am not very fussy or I just see the best in places as just about all the places mentioned that I have been to I liked.

I love London. Never ever get fed up with going there. Before covid we would go about every 2 months. Hoping to go in September for a week and can't wait.

Can't believe a poster said Stockholm felt dangerous. Me and DH loved Sweden and Stockholm.

The only place I have ever been that I didn't like and could not wait to leave was Glasgow. On the day we were due to fly home it was very very windy and it looked like our flight was going to be cancelled. I cried at the thought of staying longer and was willing to pay over £100 each to get the train home.

We didn't find the people there particularly friendly and the cab drivers are something else. We got 3 cabs and each time the driver asked for directions! How the hell would we know?

All the places we got a taxi to in Glasgow were well known places. Two Rennie Mackintosh places and the other was to our accommodation which was almost opposite Yorkhill Hospital. Our driver first of all said he could not understand us and asked if we spoke English!!! Then when I wrote it down he claimed he had never heard of Yorkhill Hospital. I have only lived in London and Essex and I had heard of it.

Malta, not much there..dull
Sunderland, bleak
Folkestone, just grim

The Eden project, over priced and the advertising photos make it look bigger so found it very underwhelming, Gardens of Heligan are better.

Barmouth and Bridlington, to much like Weston Super Mare for me...

Turkey, felt intimidated and vulnerable.

Vegas, but I'll probably have to go back.

Central London, but ditto.

Casablanca.

Kent.

Luton.

Padstow.

Brighton.

@pussycatlickinglollyices, it certainly is.

It seemed to be made up of little towns that were 'a local town for local people'.

I wasn't keen on Russia but we had a rubbish tour guide, so that probably clouded my judgement. I'm not keen on theme parks and hated the Blackpool one; it was dirty and so downmarket. Having been to several in the USA, in comparison, which had very superior rides and was so clean and didn't tolerate rowdy behaviour. I agree about Hastings but it was nearly 40 years ago that I went there so it may have improved a bit, I guess.

Marrakesh, didn’t feel safe, so dirty and polluted and got food poisoning

Gibraltar. Filthy.
Also Tunisia. Hotel did Western European food cooked by people who’d clearly never eaten any. It was so frustrating because I love southern Med food.

Puerto Pollensa. That interminable beach walk, every bloody day, back and forward in the blazing heat.

Nope.

Pakistan.
We met lots of lovely people, but I was so sick of being ignored and all questions being directed to my husband. It was so frustrating.
I have visited lots of other Islamic countries but have never felt so irrelevant.

@Mommabear20

Manchester and Hull! The only reason I would return to either is to leave the country via the airport or ferry port! 😂

Putting in a word in defence of northern cities here. You want to see Hull right now. As of last year - beyond city of culture. The Marina area is still undergoing extensive renovation but it's now wonderful - real formerly run-down, slum areas now stunning - and the footfall there is totally different. I think that's a city that could be great in the future, albeit it's still in transition.

The Marina area there isn't quite as impressive as what's just been done with L1 in central Liverpool - that city looks really fantastic right now and has a great vibe too. But on a smaller scale, it's not a bad effort at all.

I also quite like Manchester, the Northern Quarter in particular.

Not sure I'd want to holiday in any of those places, but to visit and have a good night out or shopping trip there, all three are great!

Thailand

Ditto @00100001

Vegas is a once in a lifetime place and 2 days is plenty

Madrid and San Francisco - didn’t feel safe at all

I'd definitely go back to Tunisia and loved the food, but I didn't eat the 'western' food.

I wouldn't hurry back to the Canary Islands.

I just thought Sydney was meh apart from the harbour bridge/opera house. Much preferred Melbourne.
Me too! Sydney seemed provincial; small, a bit grubby, things closing at 5pm. Liked the Botanic Gardens though.
Melbourne was much more lively and characterful.

@Tay1980

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

Bath is not 10 minutes up the road from Harrogate ... more like 200+ miles

Marrakesh
Barcelona (had my bag stolen)
Orlando
Saltcoats
Barrow-in-Furness
Durban (felt very unsafe)
Widnes
Bradford

PS. Ireland? What, all of it?

The people are lovely and I've never managed to have a bad meal there yet. West Coast, especially the Ring of Kerry, are spectacularly beautiful. I understand why people might find Dublin uninspiring but as big lover of Irish literature it feels like a bit of a Mecca to me - and Belfast is a wonderful up-and-coming city which unfairly still gets a bad rap because of the troubles. Strangford Lough I've never been to but I want to, it looks simply beautiful.

(Got images of Father Jack in my head now chuntering 'I'm still on that fekin island!)

@DisgraceToTheYChromosome

Paris again. Once was great, a second time would be dreadful. The beggars were dreadful, and the police response flipped between indifferent and brutal. If he temperature goes over 20c the stench of urine along the quais is horrendous. The Arc du Triomphe is very far out, and not at all Wacky Races. Worst of all, everything looks the same. In London the architecture changes every 400 yards.

"The Arc du Triomphe is very far out, and not at all Wacky Races"

Please tell me this is a joke? It's so hard to tell nowadays.

Orkney. Beautiful windswept landscape, sweet FA to do. I was there 5 days, that was more than plenty.

Create, but mainly because of the overcrowded, sweltering, literal shithole which is Heraklion Airport.

I always find these threads funny.
Turkey!
Malta! What a dump
etc

I mean, what the whole entire countries lol?!
Or are you meaning the little resort you sat on your sunbed at and as a result wrote off the entire country
It'd be like someone coming to the UK and saying "the UK's a dump, I ain't going back" and turns out they'd just spent a weekend in Blackpool before flying back home lol
not saying Blackpool's a dump, in fact I like going there! Just first place I thought of

*Crete