To ask which country you would not visit again and why?

[travelcat]

I love hearing about travel experiences and am interested in knowing about places you have visited that you wouldn't go back to.

AIBU to ask which country you'd avoid in the future and what specifically made your experience less enjoyable? Was it due to culture, safety, or something else?

We like Belgium - Antwerp very cool Ghent and Bruges are lovely. Moules frite. Great beer. And you can walk down the street without being called a whore unlike Cairo.

@TheaBrandt yep- I like those places too.

Dubai.

So many reasons. Boring shopping malls. Built by people treated awfully. So superficial.

Australia is too far away. I'd feel too isolated there.

Think we (UK and Ireland), being in the centre of the world, literally (well, London) are perfectly located from a longitude perspective, but latitude we are too far north.

1000 miles south would be the sweet spot...southwestern Spain basically.

Egypt specifically Sinai (Cairo was fine). It is very fake and the Nile Valley people have taken advantage of the bedouins and ruined the landscape and reef for the tourism without sharing the profits fairly with the locals.

I’m not sure I’d write off the whole country based on this but Lucerne in Switzerland was dire. So overpriced, I paid about £12 for a Malibu and coke in one restaurant (single, not double either)! We went on a little cable car train thing trip up Pilatus (not sure if I’ve spelt that correctly) and half way up the driver got out, walked about 20ft to the side of the train and then proceeded to have a wee in front of all of us, like it was part of the journey every day for him. He then wiped his hands on his trousers, got back in and continued to drive us up the mountain. We paid £150 each for the ride.

Every single person who served us everywhere was brisk and rude. Really unwelcoming.

@Flandango - ha, ha- nice quote from Blackadder!!!

Yep. That's what I will do.

You'd have to be some sort of Kung Fu Bruce Lee expert to fend off the hoards of men in Tunisia though. It simply wouldn't be possible.

Tunisia - never again

Dubai and Las Vegas.

Just hotels and too much heat.

Considering only 30% of Welsh people can speak Welsh, that seems a bit odd that you were spat at. Where abouts was that?

Tunisia... very scary as a woman would not go again.
Naples in Italy- was not prepared for the men constantly staring on public transport and the smell of urine was overwhelming at times. Shame because the food was amazing.
Australia is great... (if you are white) and they can be very misogynistic be prepared to stand up for yourself.
I really enjoyed Japan, but Tokyo is overwhelming huge, and Kyoto is overrun with tourists. I wouldn't necessarily go back to those places.
San Francisco... some nice areas but mainly a lot of very unwell people shouting on the streets (this was 10years ago)

The entire US??? So many wonderful places to see, especially in the South West, my favourite part.
Personally, I've never had a problem at the TSA counters, maybe I've just been lucky though I have been through numerous airports.

Egypt

Wouldn't rush back to Cuba- we were robbed at one point, and just felt we were constantly being hassled for money. Also terrible veggie food. Was very interesting and beautiful, but wouldn't rush back.

Sri Lanka also not on list to go back to. Everyone seemed to follow the same tourist route, endless traffic jams, just didn't enjoy it (though was dampened by many dp, and might enjoy it more with someone else).

China was quite stressful. Obviously a huge country and I would go and visit new parts, but it was hassle, everyone on the make, hard to eat food I like, and not a regime I'd like to support.

Of the other popular mentions, I loved Turkey and Morocco, no hassle in either, though I did go in a guided group.

I’m not sure there’s any country I wouldn’t go back to. Animal cruelty/neglect is very difficult to stomach, but I’ve seen it in so many countries that I fear it’s the norm, not the exception. I have a particular issue with blood fiestas in Spain - there are thousands of them and they are sickening examples of pointless, gratuitous cruelty. That said, some regions are better than others and I’ve met Spaniards who really care about animal welfare.

Morocco -horrible atmosphere in Casablanca, people unfriendly unless they thought they could get money off you. Men staring.
Barbados - run down and dirty. Saw a women being followed by a group of men catcalling and making lewd comments
Czechia - people openly racist and I felt unsafe

however I really liked Belgium, Netherlands and Israel and would happily return to any of those places in times of peace.

@SpanThatWorld my H was in Rio tour managing a band and he saw a favella kid just ran over on the road like a piece of litter and the attitude by their driver was awful too as they were all upset- driver just shrugged. Husband totally hated it , said not what he expected at all and food is just one big badly cooked carbfest plus meat- guns everywhere , felt really dodge city

Egypt. Felt so unsafe when out of the resort hotel. Never again

Parts of the USA are appalling, poverty-stricken, awful.
Many other parts are not. I live in a small village in rural Maine. There is no crime. Doors are left unlocked, no poverty.
Please be aware that the USA is a HUGE country. It's really 8-12 different countries under one flag. Compare Brooklyn to Casper, Wyoming. Compare Santa Fe, New Mexico with North Dakota. Compare the Berkshires in Massachusetts with Miami.

Agree, very manufactured. Hollow culture basically.

Regards London, I visited for the first time this year and loved it. The history of the place is incredible. Being a history nerd I was I heaven, and that blue plaque scheme is an amazing concept as every place where a notable person was born or a notable event occurred is commemorated.

It is teeming with culture. Dubai in all its cleanliness has no culture.

Yep another who likes Belgium. Particularly Ghent and Ypres.
Now live in Southern Europe and to be honest there is nowhere in Europe I would say I wouldn't travel to. But I don't think I will ever go outside of Europe again, not that I dislike the places I have been to just feel there is enough in Europe to keep me happy

Anywhere and everywhere in the USA. It's literally third world!

It literally isn't.

When will people actually learn what literally means? Does my head in.