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! :)

I was reduced to bewildered tears by a rude waiter in Paris. It wasn't a one off, all the other service staff we encountered were either blank and unengaged or openly hostile. One lady in a pastry shop in the Montmartre gave me a warm, beaming smile and I wanted to hug her and ask her to come with us everywhere.

In the Corte Ingles department store in Barcelona a shop assistant wouldn't let me browse the beauty department. Every time I picked something up she tried to hustle me to the checkout. I had a shopping basket but she wouldn't let me put anything in it. Truly bizarre.

@Lemonmelonsun

Marbella and Puerto banous, I couidnt believe it! So built up and tacky and pb!! Nothing there, I was expecting nature's beauty or drama and its the most boring Bay stuffed with fancy ish cars.. On the tacky side and men with large wrist watches but no class. One of the least attractive places I've been too.

Did you go to marbella old town? It is so lovely!

Cushion in amazed to see Chester in that list but I agree with lamzarorr

I love some of the places others dislike!!

Love Rome, Paris, Nairobi. Also like New York, Bath, and Budapest.

The place I would not return to is Osaka Japan. I felt threatened the whole time and had some pretty horrible experiences with local men. Maybe it's different if you aren't a single western woman but all any of us can do is report on our own experiences.

Mine is Las Vegas. I'm glad i have seen it but i wouldn't want to go again. I hated the downtown area with a passion.

@ArabellaScott

Scottish Highlands/west coast are genuinely awful. I would hard avoid. Weather terrible, midges unbearable, nothing to do, scenery unremarkable.

Mine is Las Vegas. I'm glad i have seen it but i wouldn't want to go again

I find "going back" is where it can all go wrong. Everyone should see it once in a lifetime for the sheer display of excess and greed, to walk round with their mouths hanging open, gorge on the buffets and so on, but repeats visits tend to bring "My god, is this really IT??"

Thessaloniki. A searing, grimy, street-urchin infested, graffiti-covered dump.

A point on the street urchins. It wasn't only threatening but heartbreaking. They homed in on DH, swarming all over him, he couldn't touch them or try to hold them off so all he did was continue moving along whilst holding his hands firmly over his pockets. They were well-seasoned in their approach and there were clearly adults hiding somewhere in the vicinity and waiting to come to their aid if necessary. Terrible that such poverty exists, that adults can exploit children in such a way; not least it was a threatening, intimidating and all-round unpleasant experience.

Odessa - another place I felt like that. Not wise to go even slightly off the beaten track. We did and saw a large party of people in a blacked out limousine, very formally dressed, exchange something with passers-by that looked very like a consignment of drugs.

There were open manholes everywhere that you could easily fall down if walking without paying 100% attention.

Scary !

I dread to think about of what women in these countries are subjected too behind closed doors

It's a fair point, but worth remembering that local women tend not to be regarded as a bunch of whores - that's reserved for westerners, and it shows all too easily in the attitudes

Interesting, though, to visit parts of Egypt and watch half the population disappear in places where every single staff member is male because the women are shut away at home
It is of course their country and entirely their business as to how to run it, but it's a bit hard to sympathise with stories of poverty when 50% are effectively disenfranchised

I've found this thread really interesting for the reasons people give for not going back to places.

There has been nowhere I have ever felt unsafe, including stopping in the Pigalle region of Paris many times in my 20s on my own, a photographic holiday on my own to Detroit.

Places I have done and I am pleased I have done but would not go back - Israel, Tunisia, South Africa, New York, Egypt, Rome, Spain, Austria, Las Vegas, Texas and Germany. I tend to plan our holidays so I get to tailor my holidays to our tastes.

But I would go every year to Florida (not done Disney in over 10 years) and Paris if I could

Isle of Wight, awful place.
Great Yarmouth, ditto.
Wasn't really impressed by France.

Isle of Wight, awful place

Why? I had lovely holidays there as a kid and we used to go when our kids were small year after year.

I don’t understand how anyone could dislike Venice 😳 it’s in my top 3 favourite places in the world

Because they don't do any research and go when it is hot and busy. And they just don't get it. Their loss.

@lockdownalli

I love some of the places others dislike!!

Love Rome, Paris, Nairobi. Also like New York, Bath, and Budapest.

The place I would not return to is Osaka Japan. I felt threatened the whole time and had some pretty horrible experiences with local men. Maybe it's different if you aren't a single western woman but all any of us can do is report on our own experiences.

I lived in Tokyo for a number of years and only visited Osaka once, it has a hostile vibe for sure, really unwelcoming. Shame though the food is great 🙂

Turkey. We went as a family, with three teenage daughters, two of whom were young teens.

Honestly it was awful, everywhere we went they were pestered by men asking their ages, trying to touch them. My eldest was groped. It was very very unpleasant, the whole experience was marred by the attitude of those men.

Horrible. I wish with all my heart I had never set foot there.

Overseas Greece. I'm sure many would not agree with this me I have probably just been very unlucky, but every time I have been it's just been awful on many levels. That's 3 times, so enough, no more.

In the UK. Many SE coastal areas. Love it inland such as the downs but not crazy about the coast by the SE.

Wildwood New Jersey - we got there at 11pm after a really long day watching a rocket launch in cape canaverel in the early hours followed by an internal flight into Washington and with 2 kids in the car. We were so disappointed with the place and the accommodation when we arrived that we wanted to drive somewhere else (we didn't because of the kids).

Bitey fly things on the beach on day 1 and terrible smell in the air on day 2 - never ever again!

Toottootdrivers I went on the train to Sorrento from Naples (and back) with my (adult) daughter and it was fine. We were out of season though. The other passengers were mainly surprisingly short Italian men, often with big hairdoes, presumably to make them look taller.

I met a man on my travels years ago who had been to more than half the countries in the world by that point, over 100. He was fascinating and I asked where he wouldn’t go back to. The answer was a very definite Jamaica and Pakistan and that was it, everywhere else he had embraced and had good points, but he had really disliked those two.

Interesting, though, to visit parts of Egypt and watch half the population disappear in places where every single staff member is male because the women are shut away at home
It is of course their country and entirely their business as to how to run it, but it's a bit hard to sympathise with stories of poverty when 50% are effectively disenfranchised

DP and I remarked on this on a holiday in Morocco (and I've seen it elsewhere too). Not so much the fact that staff are all men but what my DP called the 'culture of male idleness', which I think is spot on: the place was full of men chatting, smoking, playing cards, reading papers, while women presumably run the show at home, look after the children, probably entertain and look after the men's families...

I was reduced to bewildered tears by a rude waiter in Paris.

I like some aspects of Paris and would go again for the shopping, but the rude waiters are astonishing! I once went to a restaurant with a large group of 10 or so, we were spending plenty of money, and spoke french, we were really not difficult. The waiter was the grumpiest fucker ever and so sneery at us for not being sure what we wanted from the menu. One person chose a steak and asked if it could be done medium, and the waiter totally went off on one about how no it could not, you had your steak rare or you could fuck off! For some reason we put up with it and didn’t walk out, though I would have done if it was just me.

But that is like judging all of Spain based on Malaga.
Christ, I’d forgotten about Malaga. A three day visit, carefully researched.
Good reasons for forgetting!

Marbella and Puerto banous
The folks inland call it Puerto Anus.

In the Corte Ingles department store in Barcelona a shop assistant wouldn't let me browse the beauty department.
God created Corte Ingles to punish people who’ve done bad things in a previous life.

Nearly always deserted, I’ve no idea how they survive financially.

Another here who didn't like Rome. I've been 3 times and always thought it would be better- nope. Sicily, Capri and northern Italy though are beautiful
I will not go back to Morocco. I was assaulted for not buying a lamp, my husband was offered a girl no older than 10 for the night, a man got stabbed outside the restaurant we were in and we witnessed the police accept money and walk away from it. Horrendous experience

I assumed the customers in El Corte Ingles were all tourists. I quite enjoyed the experience - Debenhams with Spanish signage.