What is the worst place you have ever visited?

[Washingforweeks]

I saw a thread on instagram about this and found it really interesting and wanted to hear more. What is the worst place you have visited and why?

Beijing Zoo. Concrete everywhere and people banging on the enclosures to get animals to look at them. I cried at a miserable wolf kept in a box and left.

Launceston is horrible. Creepy vibe to it. Couldn’t wait to leave.

Not a lot, we stayed overnight as crew. Sadly a really impoverished city, it was an eye opener

Where did you go in the algarve, we've been going for 20 years and love it

Dubai
The Gambia
Florida
Tunisia

Yeah this for me too.

We once, 1989, got a parking ticket in, I think, Tybee Island, South Carolina and I sent OH to the office with a $100 travellers cheque to pay it. He came back with a big grin, the $100 TC in his hand. He said he had apologised for not having enough change, apologised for over staying but he thought we still had a few minutes and said how lovely the town was. The woman swooned a bit, told him he looked just like Eroll Flynn and talked beautifully, she then tore up the ticket, told him that the machines were very unreliable and said enjoy the rest of your visit! He could be very good in those situations.

That's why you go in term time! I went once in summer hols a decade ago and vowed never again. Not going to make any difference to kid's results to do it for one day every other year. Having fun is just as important as an education.

Hartlepool is pretty bleak.
I hated Naples. Felt very unsafe and I’ve travelled quite a bit.
Gibraltar was very underwhelming.

Skegness. In laws live there and I hate visiting.

Nidri, the most un-Greek place we have ever been. Could not even buy a gyros there! Shops full of absolute tat. No boat trips even you wanted to sit rammed like a sardine in a pulsating party boat. Pedestrianised front literally like a race track on an evening eith scooters running people off the road, you had to constantly be on high alert. Did not meet a single Greek person the whole week.

"Peterbrough-the place reeked of farts"

Was this a little while ago?

British Sugar used to have a factory there where they processed sugar beets into sugar and, during the harvest, you could smell the factory all over the city depending on which way the wind was blowing.

The factory has since shut down.

Oh yes. Universal should be good. I recently heard that Denmark Lego land is way way better than the UK one.

Where did you go?

I have the crap jobs book too! Love it.

Waterloo in the 1980s, the experience of walking through cardboard city as a child has stayed with me.

Ellsmere port, we were staying on the canalside at the national waterways museum, it was lovely, nice Holiday Inn with a pool, however--- out of the hotel and turn the corner it made the wild west seem tame, it was feral 😁

The old town is lovely

Sadly, I bet that the new Universal park ( if it ever gets built ) will end up like all the other parks in the UK , with lack of investment and nowhere as good as the American ones are. I hope I’m wrong for those who like theme parks though. Ds2 can’t wait to go to it!

Puno on Lake Titicaca but it was many years ago. A freezing shithole with no decent food. I believe it's more developed now.

All of the midlands. Just cut it out, send it out to sea and glue the north to the south. It’s pointless.

Abroad - Dubai and Phuket (loved rest of Thailand - well the places I’ve been to).

UK - most city centres have some dodgy parts

I can't get away with Amsterdam, sick and tired of dodging bicycles

Nashville, so disappointing full of tacky shops. The bars were o.k. but nothing wow.

Niagra falls was no better than blackpool.