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Places you've never been to that everyone else has

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reallifeboogie · 12/06/2024 10:29

What places have you never been to that everyone else seems to have been? Either shops, restaurants, tourist attractions or actual towns/cities/countries

For me..
London
Manchester

Anywhere abroad other than Orlando and Benidorm.

John Lewis
Next.. been in but never bought anything

Nandos
Starbucks
Costa coffee
Wagamama

Alton towers

OP posts:
ManilowBarry · 12/06/2024 14:56

Disneyland, Disneyworld or Disneyland Paris. Does not appeal to me and thankfully never appealed to my children.

vix3rd · 12/06/2024 15:01

Blackpool

GasPanic · 12/06/2024 15:09

I have not been to Ireland, the Isle of Wight, Lazerote, Liverpool or Majorca.

I have however been to the Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility and Hawaii.

LuluBlakey1 · 12/06/2024 15:15

Anywhere in the Middle-East
Turkey and Egypt
Any Spanish holiday resort
Lanzarote
Tunisia
Florida
Eastern Europe
China
India/Pakistan
Portugal
South and Central America
Asia/South-East Asia/Indonesia
Africa
(I have no intention of going to any of those places).

Manchester and its surroundings
Birmingham and the whole of the West Midlands
Stoke, Derby, Nottingham
Bristol and Bath
Essex
Hull
Leicester and Loughborough
Luton
Croydon
(No interest in visiting any of them)

MacDonalds or any fast food place
Costa
Wagamamma

Disneyland Paris - not interested

Places I have been and wouldn't go back to
Greece
Romania
Rome
Liverpool
Wigan

Paces I Would Like to Go to/Go Back To
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Australia
New Zealand
US
Canada
Japan
Iceland
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
Most of Western Europe
Alaska

Zoflorabore · 12/06/2024 15:17

I live in Liverpool so have been there a fair few times 😉 I have never never been to Dubai, anywhere in Africa, Iceland, The Caribbean and depsite spending 3 months in New York I never got to see The Statue of Liberty which I really want to see!

I unfortunately have been to a few places I would never visit again, Amsterdam and Benidorm being top of the list.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 12/06/2024 15:20

Major places in the UK:
Cardiff
Durham
Most of Scotland apart from Glasgow and Edinburgh

Popular places abroad:
Dubai
Las Vagas
Thailand (but have done other Far East countries)
Balearics

BardsAreAssholes · 12/06/2024 15:21

Why do people think it’s a thing not to a have been to Dubai? I don’t know anyone who has been there.

TheChosenTwo · 12/06/2024 15:21

Dubai, Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey, Mexico - just not countries I’ve ever been bothered about going to.

Centre Parcs - my idea of absolute hell.

Taylor Swift and the Mama Mia thing with holograms everyone’s been banging on about recently - neither of these things could appeal to me any less!

RoseBucket · 12/06/2024 15:22

Fifthtimelucky · 12/06/2024 12:27

Abroad: Spain, Thailand, Dubai

British cities: Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Bradford, Coventry, Belfast, Hull, Stoke on Trent, (plus lots of smaller ones)

Days out/holidays: Alton Towers, Thorpe Park
Centre Parks

Eating and drinking: Nando's, Costa, Starbucks

No doubt lots of other places too!

I’m not sure many people have been to those UK places 🤣

TheChosenTwo · 12/06/2024 15:22

BardsAreAssholes · 12/06/2024 15:21

Why do people think it’s a thing not to a have been to Dubai? I don’t know anyone who has been there.

Loads of people I know have been to Dubai! Probably about 20 off the top of my head.

PiggieWig · 12/06/2024 15:24

Glastonbury festival

Anonym00se · 12/06/2024 15:24

I’ve never been to the Trafford Centre, despite living reasonably close by.

Ive also never been to any country outside of Europe, and never will because I won’t fly and I get terribly seasick.

cheezncrackers · 12/06/2024 15:31

Center Parcs
Devon/Cornwall
Alton Towers
Majorca
Dubai
Thailand
Only went to Ibiza because our friends have a place there. It was nice, but SO expensive to get there. Flights in the summer are insane prices.

haddockfortea · 12/06/2024 15:47

A football match
Edinburgh
Ireland (the island of)
Blackpool
Legoland
Disneyland
A nail bar
A gym
A hot tub
A cruise

KimsInconvenience · 12/06/2024 15:52

Greece. Cornwall. Surrey.
Centreparcs. Skiing. To a beauticians.

Abracadabra12345 · 12/06/2024 16:03

haddockfortea · 12/06/2024 15:47

A football match
Edinburgh
Ireland (the island of)
Blackpool
Legoland
Disneyland
A nail bar
A gym
A hot tub
A cruise

Many things on your list - hot tub, gym, cruise, nail bar. Also spa or had a massage - body or head

Windsor Castle (want to)
Hampshire
Hull

Spain
Italy

Lillieloola · 12/06/2024 16:12

Centreparcs
Nandos
KFC
Maldives
Dubai

cholmondleywalker · 12/06/2024 16:22

Dublin- everyone I know seems to have spent a long weekend there for birthday or stag/ hen do but I've never been.

Paris- I've been to Disneyland but never actually seen the city itself.

Any music festival. The whole thing just doesn't appeal to me one bit.

Barcelona- not that I wouldn't go, just never actually done it.

2orangey · 12/06/2024 16:30

France
USA
Disney anything

the80sweregreat · 12/06/2024 16:38

Dublin
Madrid
Barcelona
The Maldives
( .. in fact loads of places tbh !)

IBegYourBiggestPardon · 12/06/2024 16:43

You definitely aren't missing much, having never being to Hull!!

DogInATent · 12/06/2024 16:51

BardsAreAssholes · 12/06/2024 15:21

Why do people think it’s a thing not to a have been to Dubai? I don’t know anyone who has been there.

Basically, anyone with a glass coffee table seems to have been to Dubai. And if they've got a glass dining table they probably go every year.

Brexile · 12/06/2024 16:54

I've never been to Wales, Ireland, mainland Spain, or a theme park.

the80sweregreat · 12/06/2024 17:02

I know someone who lives in Dubai !
They love it.
I've never been myself.

emmetgirl · 12/06/2024 17:18

Paris.

But I'm going in a few months....

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