Is Watford a terrible place.

[HarrysPotterer]

Im here in the UK on holiday, staying at Watford to go to Harry Potter world. I hardly slept last night due to all the noise and commotion outside my hotel. It was awful, sounded like someone being beat up / tortured. Wailing and crying, raised voices in foreign accents. I feel scared to go out today, but need to go to the train station to go into London as i have a full day planned. I’m staying in this hotel tonight as well and feel really uncomfortable and nervous. I don’t know what to do.

Watford junction train station is fine. I have used it a few times.
Not sure where your hotel is but if nervous maybe get a taxi to the station.
Enjoy your day in London.

Thank you, I’m at the Holiday Inn literally 3 minutes to walk to Watford junction so should be ok

It will be fine during the day.

Watford is fine, might be a little rowdy at night (as you've found out) but you will be absolutely fine getting to and from the station - especially during the day.

Your hotel is on one of the main roads leading from the town with its bars and restaurants, there used to be (and ma still be) a big music pub next to the station. That’s all the noise is. During the day it’s fine, really not the Wild West at all.

I've never had any issues. I think you have just been unlucky.

Watford is fine during the day. I've walked round as a visitor lots of times (staying for work) and I've never felt any danger or anything approaching it. It's not somewhere I'd choose for a holiday as its quite urban but not because it's dangerous.

It's fine been there loads. It was a hot night and people were out late everywhere. Enjoy your trip.

Areas near train stations tend to be slightly dodgy in most towns or cities. Are you used to a very rural life? Watford wouldn’t be the nicest town in the world but it’s hardly a hot bed of crime or violence.

It’s fine, it’s the weekend and Watford is surrounded by a lot of quiet, leafy areas. People, especially young people, go there to let loose and have a good time! You were just unlucky where you stayed.

Watford can be a bit rowdy at night (although still probably preferable to some of the near-ish places like Hemel or Luton.

As pp have said, it has some lovely leafy areas - make sure you visit Cassiobury park before you go! (It's maybe 15 mins walk from the station, if that.) It's huge and has woods, a canal and a river going through it and is generally just lovely.

Oh no, not foreign accents! 🙄

I understand the reference to foreign accents; if you can’t make out the words, you don’t know what is going on.
Is it football fans/a serious fight/a fire etc.

I know!! Look the screaming etc sounds awful but I don't think foreign accents are anything to be concerned about.

raised voices in foreign accents

I get it OP. Foreigners are scary aren’t they. It’s much safer to be around white people where nothing ever happens…

🙄

That would be a foreign language, not a foreign accent. There is a difference between somebody shouting in Polish language vs in English but with a Polish accent for example. OPs issue was that they are not British, not that they didn’t speak her language.

For the love of God why does everyone pile on and assume the OP is racist because she heard foreign accents .
The not-so-thinly veiled implications and eye rolling

I had to phone the Police one early morning ( about 2am) as I heard loud voices , a woman screaming and a man's voice shouting .
When they asked me "Can you hear what they are saying" I had to say "No I cannot make out words but due to the cadence and volume of the voices (both male and female) and the screaming I knew there was an arguement "

Oddly enough , no-one accused me of being racist , they thanked me for my call and Emergency Services were there .

What does foreign accents have anything to do with the OP? She’s started a thread worried about whether an area is safe with one reason being she’s hearing raised voices in foreign accents. Not just raised voices, which would be understandable, but in foreign accents.

Your example is completely irrelevant and it’s disingenuous to compare the two situations.

So yes, the OP does have racial undertones and I will point that out. Try and defend it all you wish but that says a lot about you.

Sounds like a normal Saturday night in any city or town centre! Town centre hotels are always suffer from outside noise especially Fri and Sat nights. Probably be quieter tonight as most people have work tomorrow.

Saturday nights are generally worse in any town. The rest of the week will be OK - enjoy it.

Your example is completely irrelevant and it’s disingenuous to compare the two situations.

So yes, the OP does have racial undertones and I will point that out. Try and defend it all you wish but that says a lot about you

My example was very relevant , I heard voices , raised , I could not understand what was being said for reasons I explained to the 999 Call Handler .

I'm not defending anything . I am pointiing out that just because someone hears what sounds like trouble and cannot understand them they cannot bloody understand them. It is not racist .

I don't know how you deduce what that says about me .. well I can guess . And in plain English you can naff right off .

@70isaLimitNotaTarget it’s irrelevant because you were trying to describe a situation where you were a witness to something, then accents are relevant as that can be identifiable. In OPs case she was just saying that she felt uncomfortable/scared and the foreign accent was mentioned to explain why she felt scared.

You observing a situation that warranted a call to the police and required you to give a description of events is very different to OP being scared just because she hears foreign accents! Your inability to tell the difference between your situation and the OP is telling.

And “naff right off”? 😂😂😂 Sounds like you’re thinking about Walford rather than Watford!