Have you ever been anywhere on holiday that was like the emperors new clothes?

[Cheeseandlobster]

I did. Last year I went to a very small hotel in Greece. 16 rooms only with pages and pages of great reviews.

When I arrived all the tables were pushed together and everyone was sat together pissed as farts getting louder and louder. One woman was drunker and swearier than the rest and it turned out she was the owner.

It was expected that you socialise and drink at the hotel even though the entire pool had no sun from 1pm and the surrounding area was beautiful. The owner would bark at you if you asked for food from the menu and would openly slate other guests for making reasonable requests. And the interrogation you got if you went out of the hotel was crazy.

Luckily I met another lovely solo traveller who felt the same as me so we paired up and left the hotel at the same time each day to share the interrogation. I will never stay at another small hotel again because of this.

Anyone else?

London - best thing about it is that it’s really easy to get home. Busy, dirty and full of pretentious entitled rude wankers. We visit maybe 1or 2 times a year… every time wonder why we bothered!

Disneyland Paris. Really crap. Yet people act like they must take their kids there or they are somehow deprived. We’ve been to lots of places with ours and often reminisce with our now teens no one ever mentions DLP.

My friend went to CP with extended family and mortifyingly they had a family row in the restaurant she went to apologise to the waitress who said don’t worry it’s CP it happens every other shift!

I've been to Lucerne many times. I love it. Only had good experiences.

Lipsanslashes Boston is probably my favourite city. I think you’d have been there around the time of the Big Dig, which really messed up the city for years. If you’ve not been since, you’d barely recognise the area between the North End and the Financial District/Quincy Market areas, it’s all so much nicer and easier to get around.

Barcelona has some fabulous sights, but evenings around the marina (lots of great seafood restaurants) felt really unsafe, also on the metro.

I liked Sydney, but aside from the opera house and bridge, it felt like we could have been pretty much anywhere. (Great food, though at eye-watering prices.)

I must have just been very unlucky. 😆

I actually can't think of anywhere much that didn't live up to the hype.

I was surprised I liked Vegas. I was also surprised I liked Tenerife and Lanzarote.

New York - can't wait to go again.

Paris - what's not to like?

London - love it

Never been to Dubai, Melbourne or Lapland.

If you say so. I thought it was magical. Went in April so not too hot, didn't smell, met no beggars, night time illuminations were perfect.

OMG! This was one of the most amazing places I ever visited. Yes, it's hot ( in summer) - it's Jordan!! So you go early morning and evening. GOing through the wadi and opening up into El Khazneh. Wow! It's stunning. Admittedly I went 25 years ago so it may have changed but given that the whole atraction is the Nabatean city, I doubt it!

Venice is incredible. We went in summer 2020 so was basically empty of tourists - we will never forget it. Can never go back now as it will never be that good! St marks square mostly deserted walked in every where no queues. Best trip ever.

Centre Parcs here, too. Been a few times and cannot find a reason to go again especially when it is soooooooo pricey.

It is.

Limassol. Hot, ugly, crap beaches, nowhere to go in the evening to just sit and have a drink. Felt like the 1950s with a few dodgy tobacconists, a petrol station and half finished buildings everywhere. I would rather never go on holiday again than go back there.

Byron Bay. Full of smelly wierdos pretending it was still the 1960s. Even as a Glastonbury and rave loving 23 year old I didn't get the appeal at all and got the hell out of town after one night.

Butlins in Minehead - a giant seagull breeding centre. They were all triggered by the sunrise each day and started squawking at 5am, waking up the kids. Happy holidays 😡

I'm either easily pleased or mumsnet is not the place for me. Love center parcs, going again in just over a month. Love Florida, off there again next year. Love Paris and Rome.

Capri, I can agree on... was a street of shops, expensive ones. With some excursions to a mistyhill or a watery cave, expensive too.

Can someone please go into a bit more detail about the Florida weird vibe thing? I don't get it?!

Sanfransisco. Went there in 2001. An absolute shithole. Cold, full of drug addicts, prostitutes and homeless. Would never go back.

Went on a day trip to Rhodes when we went to Turkey. Noisy, smelly, like a building sight. I always fancied Greece but after that I would never go there.

I've experienced this in an Italian restaurant in Berlin, but I think they just thought the Americans were worth sucking up to because of more generous tips!

Very pleased there are others who are shocked at the Petra reference as 'Emperors new clothes' too!!

I haven't been to Amsterdam since approx 1990. Do you still get pestered to buy drugs every 100 yards or so in the city centre?

I'd quite like to go back, it has some lovely areas and fantastic museums.

Loads mentioned here: SF, NY (actually I’ve lived in NY and still don’t really like it) DLP and most especially Malta. The others I can see the appeal of even if they’re not for me.

But weirdly enough I really liked Center Parcs. I have no idea why as on paper it should be everything I hate. Yet I found it oddly uplifting. I cannot explain it.

@romdowa I can’t stand Cornwall. I always get this vibe from the people that live there that
it’s the best place in the UK and everyone should be jealous of them. Except those same people tend to be really wealthy ‘in comers’. The poverty is horrendous but all neatly hidden away.
Plus, we have way better beaches, way less traffic, way kinder people AND proper hills up here in Scotland. 😉

Ah i love vegas but i like slot machines and buffets-although i went to a great posh returant there on top of the stratosphere highly recommneded

Paris both time smelt of piss everywhere and everyone was really rude

Dublin overrated didnt see the point and they hate the english

Hollywood about 10 years ago. Seedy, seedy, seedy. We went into a fast food place to get a cold drink at a reasonable price and if you wanted to use the loo, they gave you a code to access it so they could keep the drug addicts out. We were on a road trip and nowhere else we visited was like that.

I quite liked Rhodes but Rhodes Town was the one place that was like Turkish tourist resorts for pushy sales people outside every restaurant and bar.

Oh and Lake Havasu City was shit. Totally caters to Spring Break students. Shame because it has London Bridge and the lake itself is attractive.

New York! It just didn't do it for me.