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Favourite and least favourite holiday you have visited?

305 replies

Ellabella989 · 06/10/2019 11:25

Love travelling and always looking for recommendations. Where has been your favourite and least favourite holiday you have ever visited and why?
So far my favourite has been the Canadian Rockies - amazing scenery.
Least favourite has been Benidorm - got terrible food poisoning and was a bit too “Brits abroad”

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formerbabe · 06/10/2019 11:28

Best...LA, Barcelona, Berlin, Cyprus
Worst...South of France

MaidofKent78 · 06/10/2019 11:32

Best: Iceland and Slovenia
Worst: New York and Naples

Spidey66 · 06/10/2019 11:35

Best....Cornwall
Worst....tenerife

Shopkinsdoll · 06/10/2019 11:36

Best Canada
Worst kavos awful awful awful

PooWillyBumBum · 06/10/2019 11:38

Worst: New York, both times. And a cruise I took around India, Sri Lanka, Thailand etc

Best: Travelling around France for 3 weeks with my husband and daughter last year! We stayed in B and Bs and eurocamps and I enjoyed it more than pre-kid visits to Relais & Château hôtels.

Or a trip we took to Amsterdam where we crammed loads and loads of fun things in a short space of time.

I’ve learned that cost doesn’t seem to correlate with enjoyment much.

80sMum · 06/10/2019 11:39

Ooh that's a tricky one, as I always choose very carefully and usually get it right. But if I have to pick two places, a) one that I would love to revisit and b) one that I have no wish to ever see again, they would be:

a) Scotland
b) Las Vegas

chemenger · 06/10/2019 11:49

Best - Costa Rica, South West National Parks of USA, east Neuk of Fife

Worst - Las Vegas, Madrid, St Bees

AgeLikeWine · 06/10/2019 11:55

Best : South Africa, California. Beyond amazing.

Worst : Singapore / Malaysia (fascinating countries, lovely people, but hated the climate), Paphos (way too ‘Brits abroad’ for us).

Zebraaa · 06/10/2019 11:57

Best- Iceland, Japan, LA, Dubai
Worst- Thailand

SweetSummerchild · 06/10/2019 12:03

Best: California - especially San Francisco and Yosemite.

Worst: Tenerife. What should be a lovely island has been ruined by horrible resorts.

GetMeOffThisCycleOfMisery · 06/10/2019 12:07

Best - Croatia (Split, Brac, Dubrovnik), Budapest, Mayan Riviera, Miami.

Worst - Prague, Gumbet (although Bodrum was lovely), Berlin and the absolute worst of any holiday was Sharm El Sheikh.

Chickenwing · 06/10/2019 12:08

Best - Orlando, Florida. Expensive, but for a good reason.

Worst - Lanzarote. No grass, everything looked dead and the bars/restaurants are v tacky.

Basilandparsleyandmint · 06/10/2019 12:08

Best - Atlanta / Utah / Perpignan/ Rome
Worst - Barcelona

Ffsnosexallowed · 06/10/2019 12:10

Best - Kephalonia, most beautiful island
Worst - sunny beach in Bulgaria. Hellish place,

Stompythedinosaur · 06/10/2019 12:10

Best was Costa Rica.

The worst was the second time we went to Disneyland Paris and happened yo pick a very busy weekend (we had a lovely time the first time we went though).

GetMeOffThisCycleOfMisery · 06/10/2019 12:12

@MaidofKent78 interested in your views of NYC. I enjoyed it, yet it was a massive let down for me too. Not sure if I just built up my expectations too much.

I'm looking to go back next year as my DP wants to go for his 40th. Hoping to enjoy it more next time.

GetMeOffThisCycleOfMisery · 06/10/2019 12:15

I also hated Crete, Salou and Paris.

Love Barcelona, Amsterdam and Southern Cyprus.

Icantthinkofanewname87 · 06/10/2019 12:18

Best - Uganda, Ghana, Vietnam

Worst - Delhi... never go to Delhi!!!

Icantthinkofanewname87 · 06/10/2019 12:19

Agree I found NYC to be mediocre too.

crosser62 · 06/10/2019 12:19

Worst Turkey. Harassed constantly, dirty, had raging diarrhoea during the holiday and for 2 weeks when we returned.

Best, Florida.
Egypt..the pyramids and the museum are fantastic but was bitterly disappointed by the graffiti on the walls of the smallest pyramid. Really really upsetting.

IggyAce · 06/10/2019 12:22

Best: loved New York, both holidays to North Wales a stunning place.

Worst: Dublin over priced and boring.
Blackpool found it to be grim and shit parking for such a popular tourist destination. Will not visit either place again.

bluebeck · 06/10/2019 12:27

Best:
Rome - so much to see, so beautiful
Kenya - staggeringly beautiful and wonderful welcoming people

Worst:
Japan - got followed by a group of local men once and then a lone man. Really frightening and sinister.

Pontins Somerset - I genuinely do not know why I agreed to go on this trip that the inlaws organised but it was HELL. FILTHY everywhere. Small children smoking in front of their parents and being bought pints.

LesLavandes · 06/10/2019 12:27

Best - Oman, Kenya, Sicily,

Worst - I can't think of one!

Pieceofpurplesky · 06/10/2019 12:29

Best Iceland, Fuerteventura, Cephalonia and New York

Worst Tunisia - food in the hotel was making people ill and going outside was constant hassle

TENDTOprocrastinate · 06/10/2019 12:29

Best- Florida, Caribbean cruise, Singapore, Isle of Wight .

Worst- Gran Canaria, Costa del Sol