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! :)

My daughter lives in Bath. We were there last week. Beautiful place but can see how frustrating it is living bang in the middle of a tourist hot spot. This is in response to a PP saying they don't like Bath x

Hope this counts as a place I would never go back to -

A Bingo Hall. I went once with two work colleagues and one of their mums. It was hell on Earth.

South Africa and more specifically Cape Town and the Garden Route. Amazing physical landscape environment with much natural unspoiled beauty, wonderful food and wine and friendly locals with some less friendly remaining semi wild animals. However this is years and years ago before all the terror and violence plagued much of this nation. This used to be the but conducive to international tourism and relatively peaceful but in recent years it is unrecognisable and unsafe to go not just because of the deadly South African Beta Covid plague but also because of the civil unrest and lawlessness that has plagued this land where murders are commonplace but massively unreported in global media.

Hever Castle - So over commercialised it felt fake, like Disney had built it

Carmel in California
So clean and organised, and every street looked like each other so also felt fake

Brussels - boring

Norwich - just loved it, the market, the Cathedral - I would move in a heartbeat

New York - haven't been in a while but I loved it about 20 years ago!

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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! :)

Totally agree re Warwick Castle, a real rip off and sad to see such a magnificent building wasted.....

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Spent whole time panicking everyone would get lost and the bloody cost of everything!!! (Made memories as they say, kids blown away so hold it dear for that but had taken our first foreign holiday with the kids the year before to Germany and it was Amazing!!!

Oh another one sorry. Skegness. Sorry to those that live there or love going. Spent childhood holidays there so went back as an adult a few times and came away utterly depressed. Also Portland made me feel odd too 🤣

Marrakesh, well the main market. Hassle central and really very rude vendors. I asked one young chap if he spoke to his mother like that.

I loved Bath so much. We were there in February, though.

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My kids loved it, I think our record was thirteen times on the boozy barrels in the driving rain (because everyone else was too sensible to want to go on it)[/quote]
@ineedsun yes!!! Boozy barrels are awesome. My kids loves that Robin Hood ride and it was the tractors that they think they're driving and go round the plastic farm that they made us go on 700times per visit. I can smell the sickly scent of storybook land as i sit here. I might suggest one last hurrah to my kids over the summer hols.

Hunstanton. Shit hole!!

Lanzarote. Grotty, windy, and there's not much to do.

I also hated Rome but went in the middle of summer so it was just too busy and stressful.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. It’s fine for a surreal short break but it’s possibly the pinnacle of western capitalist excess. An adult playground in the middle of an arid desert where anything goes and there are no rules as money talks and walks.

Macao is the true global mecca for gambling and all the entertainment and excessive uber luxury.

Dubai is similar but without the gambling.

All three of Las Vegas, Macao and Dubai are worth a visit to experience the true capitalist excess where money can pretty much buy most things at the right price as it’s the ultimate supply and demand excessive environments as all man made and each with a distinct favour attracting a particular type of punter.

New York. Most overrated place on earth IMO. Its just so dull. When you're actually there its just so brown or grey.

Kind of cheating to say York as we still go, but not to the centre. We still have family there, but once my parents and MIL are no longer with us then I really can't see us ever going back TBH.

Now going to skim the rest of the thread to see if the Bath/Harrogate was cleared up by the poster.

Another vote for Las Vegas - once for a night to see what it was about was enough. I've no idea what the attraction is.

Barrow in furness. - grey, depressing

We loved Lanzarote. Very unusual beautiful landscape and some of the most stunning deserted beaches I’ve seen. Would definitely go back. We had a lovely house and car there though weren’t in a resort.

Fuerteventura. I hated it. Didn't like Lanzarote much either.

Cyprus... I just didn’t like it....I can’t even pin point why...it just wasn’t my cup of tea

Thanks everyone, after reading this thread, I feel so much better about having to stay at home this summer....😂🤣😂😉

I have such negative memories of Istanbul that I wouldn't go back there. The place itself is awesome to look at but the men were just a fucking nightmare so I felt stressed. I don't want to feel stressed on holiday.

South of France - so many fucking mosquitoes and everything cost a fortune. And I got stung by a jellyfish. Not really France’s fault that one, but still.
Drank a lot of excellent rose though, which helped.

Disappointed in Paris, would never go back.

Not getting the Bath comment at all. Bath is beautiful, but never been to Harrogate.

Disappointed in Oxford, imagined it would be like Cambridge.

Blackpool, I know lots of people love it, but once it got to about 4 o'clock it just had an air of 'its all going to kick off at any minute' about it.

Liverpool, same feeling as Blackpool.

Went to Rhyl once, that is enough, but God love them they have really tried, if you stand looking out to sea, its not so bad !

Nequay, went once, that is enough. Some lovely places in the local area though.

Tunisia. Hated everything about it.

I didn't mention Paris is my earlier thread because I'm a bit more ambivalent about it, but reading comments here reminds me how much it smells of wee. Every corner smells of wee.

Interesting about Japan. I went backpacking there solo at 22 and loved it. Went all over the place, never felt unsafe and learnt to embrace the craziness of trying to find places to eat, order food and even just work out where I was when I couldn't even read a street sign. I did crack and hit McDonald's but only twice in a month! If it wasn't so expensive, I'd go back any day.