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?

I can understand where you're coming from. I had a similar experience and found Belgium to be quite disappointing in terms of value and excitement.

Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.

They done exist any more

I'm literally by your side on this one!

US immigration staff are notoriously awful

US cities I don’t rate but I don’t rate cities in general, but to slag off the entire country is incredible considering how vast and varied and beautiful the many national parks are, for example.

Interesting you put Serbia. I went to visit a friend there before heading to Montenegro and had a phenomenal time. Nightlife was amazing, food great and people were so welcoming.

Being in the supermarket checkout queue and noticing that the couple in front are both carrying weapons in their belts can be a bit disconcerting!

@Pigeonqueen I don't like Switzerland much either and I've been quite a few times with work things over the years, including about 10 months ago , very expensive, dull, mediocre , often surly poor service and very keen on shutting for several hours at lunch etc- nice scenery and obviously good skiing and Zurich's reasonably attractive and ordered but on the whole I wouldn't rush back -

Re USA - you have not spent time in the right places, then. Unless you are not white, in which case I know your experiences will be very different to mine.

I had a challenging experience there myself, including some racism, which definitely affected how I feel about the place. It wasn't a positive experience for me either.

You would think Israel would be super developed and comfortable but a few have said they wouldn't go back. Do you mind me asking what you didn't like?

I would like to see the sites in which Jesus' life played out but it seems very expensive.

If you thought Barbados was bad, never go to Jamaica or the Dominican!

I was expecting a lot when I went to Barbados but I just don’t get what all the fuss is about. It was ok but just like Mauritius, overhyped

I can't see myself going back to Paris.

Visited with a very pretty blonde friend and she was constantly harassed by gross men trying to touch her and chat her up. They didn't want to take no for an answer. We had some French guy try and tell us off for not speaking French. He said we should be speaking in his language in his country, even when we were talking amongst ourselves. He was really aggressive about it.

Plus Paris itself is filthy, smelly, overcrowded and expensive.

Cape Verde. Nothing really there except for the resorts
If you only go to Sal which is a desolate sandpit then yes. Some of the other islands are lush and there is some good walking.

USA has some amazing scenery but the politics, drugs issue, bad food and awful towns put me off. Las Vegas is dreadful.

Someone mentioned Oman - we had a good trip there, epic scenery in one part, forts, culture etc. You do have to get out of the capital. Whereas UAE is devoid of any charm whatsoever.

The Gambia is not inspiring. There are much more interesting countries to visit in Africa.

Thanks for that, thought I had a bad case of deja vu!

Yep, similar experience here.

I enjoyed the art galleries but that was about it.

I loved our brief time in Marseille! Our rustic hotel in the Vieux-Port was beautiful and the people we met were friendly. We strolled around the harbour in the sunshine, acquiesced to the locals’ recommendation that we must take the little tourist train up to the cathedral and later, we found a great perfume shop in the outskirts where I tried on Jean Patou’s Joy.

I admit that the city was a bit edgy. Emergency sirens wailed day and night and once as we returned to our hotel, we saw about 20 police officers standing outside a nearby building preparing to launch a raid.

Too many English people in Barbados. It was just like being at home but with a better climate. Very underwhelming
Other Caribbean Islands such as St Lucia are more beautiful

@NonsuchCastle got to admit California is one of my favourite hols- we've been 4 times now - Laguna, Santa Barbara - love it!! I like LA too but I'm just really specific- we stay in West Hollywood or laurel canyon , walk in that sunset and Melrose Ave area or use the car, drive to studio city area or Griifiths park or the Grove or Santa Monica or Burbank or Pasadena etc - I stick to really specific areas all the time and specific places.

I think plenty of US is awful- land of freeways and strip malls - but lots of it can be a great holiday too -my H really liked Chicago and Milwaukee too and Austin, Texas and phoenix etc -

I haven't been to New York City, but I have no real desire to as the twin towers was such an iconic part of the skyline I think its lost something.

My brother was on the top of one of them earlier in the year they were destroyed and I'm forever envious of him.

As much as I loved my first visit to London, there is one elephant in the room. What on earth have they done to Big Ben? Looks like a big cheese slice around the clock face. You don't change an iconic landmark regardless of "that's how it looked 150 years ago". When it was built the statue of liberty was a different colour than it is now, with the weather changing the tint....you don't see it being "restored to it's original colour".

Idiots!

Thailand. Not because I didn’t like it, but I just had a strong sense of what could go wrong, and don’t want to roll the dice again.

I didn’t get up to anything dodgy but equally I don’t think that was a guarantee of no problems.

We’ve just come back from Scotland. I was absolutely blown away by how really lovely almost every single person I met was. Genuinely.

Seems to be one that some people go to every year. I don’t get it either.

I've had similar experiences with unfriendly behaviour and also experienced racism there