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! :)

@YesItsMeIDontCare

This country? Kidderminster. I'd also avoid London unless there was something specific I really wanted to see.

Abroad? France.

I grew up in Shropshire, bit Kidderminster was our nearest town with big shops in - so when I was a teenager, it seemed like paradise. Now - not so much!

waterlego "there are some really sweet little towns and villages along the coast to the north of the city."

Can you remember any of their names, please, waterlego? I'd love to "visit" them via Google maps.

Blackpool - really, really didn't like it

Yes, I hated it. I went for a work conference and it turned out our hotel had featured in one of those Worst Hotels EVER type of TV programmes. It was gruesome and walking around the town made me feel really on edge.

@CatherineAragon

Madeira. Why do so many people go there every year? It’s so incredibly dull.

Some of us prefer dull, though it’s really not. I go for the wonderful climate, stunning scenery and terrific walking.

@MuckyPlucky I know of that campsite you’re talking about and that owner is well known locally for being a complete and utter miserable bastard twat.

Malta - the hotel was awful and we got ripped off by a very dodgy (and scary) taxi driver so the whole place felt horrible after that.

Other than that I can't think of a place or country I wouldn't go to again. Some have been lovely, others a bit so-so but I'd give them another chance.

I wouldn’t go back to China.
It was somewhere I had always been fascinated by, but I found it such an alien culture. While this interested me, it was also quite sad. Our female tour guides were only allowed to tell us what they had been told we should know. Their lives were dictated and insular. One was amazed that we had our own house in England with a shower, as accommodation there for poorer people is communal. They lived in one room with three generations. They had never heard of most major European cities, and the most that our young guide in Beijing aspired to was to visit Shanghai. We were shoved aside at times to make way for male ‘party members’, who were feted and celebrated. The contrast in excessive wealth and poverty was extreme in a communist country. Manners are unheard of. -
We were only allowed to go to ‘tourist’ restaurants and given what they thought we should eat.
The air was thick and yellow, and you could taste the pollution.
I’m glad I went though.

Bangkok.
Hated it.

Marseille is the one place I’d never go back to. We felt unsafe even in the taxi queue at the train station - the taxi drivers gave off a really nasty vibe.

We found a restaurant on the quayside, because Dh wanted to have bouillabaisse - he had had it before, and raved about it - and I love seafood, so was looking forward to trying it. When it arrived, this restaurant’s version was tired-looking, tasteless fish in thin broth more akin to dishwater than anything else.

In this country: Oxford, Birmingham and Manchester.
Abroad: Casablanca, Prague, Hamburg

Whitley Bay. I'm local to it and cannot understand the appeal at all. It is extremely run down, I can't believe the prices of the houses.

The Norfolk Broads, including that weird town where everything is owned by the same guy.

Hastings, Burton, Stoke, Derby and Isle of Bute lots of potential but very run down

People writing off whole counties - you can't possibly have seen the whole thing on holiday so it is only fair to be more specific,espeially huge countries like Turkey or USA! Imagine writing off the UK because you only went to Milton Keynes on a wet Sunday in January.

Mine are:

Jerusalem - weird vibe with an undercurrent of unease (probably unsurprising but I didn't expect to feel quite so on edge the whole time) and having male Ultra-Orthodox Jews persistently begging (female) tourists for money was just bizarre and hugely hypocritical.

Great Yarmouth on a wet Bank holiday weekend - bloody hell, this is meant to be the British idea of a seaside holiday? Jesus wept. Also stayed in the filthiest B&B I've ever seen in all my travels.

Vienna - had great expectations of culture and beauty, found it soulless and boring, other than the Hundertwasser museum which is really interesting

Kusadasi in Turkey - just an unpleasant, noisy, dirty giant ferry terminal to take you somewhere else. Absolutely love other parts of Turkey but not this place.

@Sobriquet As for Las Vegas - not sorry I went but never again. Three days but more than that and Id have gone mad. Very hot, in & out of the heat and freezing cold aircon, breakfast buffets were like feeding time at the zoo, The Strip is very tacky & glitzy and replica plastic - a scaled down Eiffel Tower, the Venetian hotel with actual gondola's and a fake canal, the Bellagio fountain as entertainment.. Gave off a strange adult-Disneyland vibe. Go into a casino (which all have an atmosphere that feels like depression and desperation personified) and lose all sense of time and space. And its HOT outside.

Gosh I've just summed up nearly 20 years of shit holidays in one post!

Legoland- absolute rip off, crap rides and weird rules around one child one adult per ride so more than one kids and you have to abandon them in the queue.

Bangkok- hot, crowded and chaotic

San Diego- I felt really unsafe, lots of obvious drug use in busy areas.

@NannyAndJohn

The Algarve.

I always thought those trashy "Brits abroad" documentaries were over exaggerated, then I visited the Algarve.

Have you visited the Eastern Algarve ? Places like Tavira and Olhao. Very, very different to the Western Algarve.

@lovescats3

what is New Brighton ?

The bad bit of the Wirral 🤣

Edinburgh

Florida. Either raining or boiling

Fuerta Ventura. If Only I'd known it meant 'strong wind'

ALDI. didn't really get it.

And I agree with Bath. It's nice enough. But don't need to go back.

Ingoldmells. Ugh shudder.

I haven't been, but my friend hated Goa. She came back and said "All my friends recommended it....I thought they liked me!"

I think sometimes one's experience of places depends hugely on who you are with and whether you're only doing tourist stuff.

I went to Hong Kong and stayed with a Hong Kong Chinese family - it was brilliant because they took me about and to lots of places I probably wouldn't have been able to access as a standard tourist - I'd happily go back there to see them, but I don't think I'd go just as a tourist.

I'd never go to Kavos again - went there with a group of girls, and while we had fun at the time, it was really not great.

Other than that, I don't think there are any other places I'd not want to re-visit.

I'll say one thing about Oxford though - if you just drive through it, it IS a bit shit - but if you get out and walk round the bits that aren't so easily accessed by roads unless you know the place really well, then it does have some amazing and really beautiful parts. I lived and worked there for about 5 years and really liked it.

Birmingham is my home town. And it is really really rough in parts, lovely in others. I also will no longer go into the city centre. Don’t feel safe at all and that’s from someone who went to New York alone for 5 days.

Hate London, dirty ugly and overrated in my opinion, last went when I was about 18

New Orleans was great once I relaxed, but it was a big culture shock. Lots of mental illness and addiction and when I arrived I was really quite frightened. We went to the closest supermarket and there were several very mentally ill people on the streets who were quite frightening. The next morning the news had reports of a tourist being murdered by a lady with severe mental health issues a block away. It just felt so on edge but when we were exploring the french quarter and bourbon street etc I felt a little safer and enjoyed it, it was more on the outskirts.

@CustardySergeant, we went to a place called Gibsons for a few days. The locals are very proud of it because it apparently featured in a soap opera or Sitcom or something like that. It’s a sleepy little place and there’s hardly anything there- a few cafes, a bookshop, maybe a couple of those ‘concession’ stores (never really worked out exactly what they are…charity/thrift shops I guess?) Lovely little place though with deserted beaches and friendly locals. We also visited Bowen Island which is up that way and that was a similarly sleepy, but lovely place. A bit like stepping back in time. Of course they’re all fairly affluent places which I suppose helps to make them feel pleasant.